Corny as it may sound, it's up to us as individuals to create our own lives and futures. That is/will be difficult for many who now have ttatt because we were trained to be lazy minded and to be led by others. Life is not bad outside of the WTBTS, just different. If you only had vanilla ice cream all your life, does that mean that chocolate is bad? Try some chocolate or even strawberry. It's good.
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Surviving 2014
by Defianttruth insometimes i get stuck in the "ruts of my past".
i worry about the family i have lost and the pain i live with because of this cult.
this is my plan for 2014. i'm going to do things out of my comfort level.
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Found out about my 'marking'.
by Oneoutallout inyesterday we met up with an old ex witness friend after four years.
it was great to drop all the barriers that have stopped us all meeting recently.
apparently, it turns out that i was marked as an apostate some time ago.
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eyeuse2badub
No one in the borg really knows what 'marking' is all about. Hell, I was an elder for 20 years and didn't know much about it. Just another stupid catagory invented by the WTBTS to make themselves "special".
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Do you feel guilty?
by Justmenthedogs inso while i was out hiking with the dogs today i got to thinking about this forum and was wondering how many of you still feel guilty from time to time for leaving?
i do, i miss my family at times but then i think about the life that i have created and i have a good one, i have good friends and i am happy, happier then i ever was as a jw.
i was just wondering if others feel the same way sometimes..
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eyeuse2badub
No guilt just sadness for staying so long after 1975 and then 1995.
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WT ain't going out of business.
by joe134cd ini've heard this said in other posts, so now i'm going to combine it in one post.. the $28 million awarded to conti is only drop in the bucket for what they are worth.. there would have to be 100 s of successful sex abuse law suites before they would feel it.
quite frankly i don't reckon there would be enough with the right circumstances to have a successful case against wt.
having a dozen or so cases isn't going to break the bank.
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eyeuse2badub
"There,s no business like snow business." As long as they can make snow, they're in business.
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THE ULTIMATE BIBLE-CHAIN???
by DATA-DOG inhas anyone come up with a great chain of scriptures to teach ttatt?
you know that dubs love that method, well pioneers do.
regular dubs just knock on a door and hope that no one is home.. .
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eyeuse2badub
Been chained to the Bible too long now. I'm singing the "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers now.
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The "Christian Greek Scriptures"
by Doug Mason infrom 1950 to 2013, the watchtower and bible tract society has been releasing its new world translation of the scriptures.. my study considers the christian greek scriptures (new testament).. http://www.jwstudies.com/why_does_wts_accept_christendoms_scriptures.pdf.
i have also provided the pictures that i created for the study.. http://www.jwstudies.com/pix_for_study_wts_accepts_scriptures.pdf.
please accept the fact that i have no idea whether colours clash or if they match.
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eyeuse2badub
Ya gotta love the way all religions 'cherry pick' the "ancient documents" that support their particular dogma and discredit all others as unreliable.
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Elders/Ex-Elders: Question about Blood
by JWdaughter inafter many years of objecting to the wt teachings on many levels, blood being one of them, i recently started to wonder (ok, i am slow!
) : what exactly does the wt think that the early non jewish christians were abstaining from in the blood abstention bit.
while i understand the context of the request that the apostle sent to the brothers, i do not understand what jws think they were abstaining from.. meat slaughtered improperly?.
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eyeuse2badub
Any blood left in meat bought at a regular supermarket or butcher shop is only the blood "fractions" that are now permitted by the WTBTS; don't ya know!
Just saying!
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Yet another problem with GB = FDS
by leaving_quietly ini was pondering this teaching yesterday.
the claim is that jesus and jehovah came and inspected all the religions and in 1919, chose rutherford as the fds.
today, the claim is that the governing body is the fds.
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Jehovah and Jesus evidently had "overlapping" opinions of just who the FDS should be so apparently they decided to allow succession among the GB/FDS you know kinda how big J allowed polygamy among the Israelites, knowing that "soon" all this would become brighter and brighter.
Just saying!
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Reading Captives of a Concept: Interesting what i read in CH3
by DS211 insurely jesus would have noticed what they had been teaching about his second coming, or invisible presence as they prefer to call it.
matthew 24:3 37 .
today they teach that he returned to begin his second coming in 1914. but the proclaimers book explains that this was not what they were teaching before, during and for many years after jesus' inspection in 1918-1919. on pages 46 and 47 it explains that in 1876... .
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eyeuse2badub
The teaching of Christ's return naturally seperates (fractionalizes) itself into 4 basic concepts over time. While a JW cannot accept the WHOLE teaching (for fear of being DF'ed) they can accept FRACTIONS of this teachings (if their conscience allows.)
Just saying!
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Holy Spirit in new NWT
by hamsterbait inin johns gospel jesus refers to the "helper" "the spirit of truth" saying "when he arrives he will etc".
the wt justified their use of he in this instance, because in greek the word is masculine gender.. (aside from the ludricrousness of this argument - english does have neuter pronouns).
have they changed he to it inthese passages?.
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eyeuse2badub
Holy Spirit has to be male, otherwise the WTBTS would have to give real recognition to women!
Just saying!
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