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A new member
by LP97 ini'm a 17 year old from scotland.
can i just say this site is absolutely brilliant.
finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.
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Members of the writing department has resigned
by hardtobeme inthis is what i found at anointedjw.org.
i don't know if it's true.
on august 25, 2014, we received the following comment and inquiry: .
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You ever notice how personalities change when CO comes around?
by dugout inisn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you.
but when the co visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you?
then as soon as he leaves back to normal.
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I can relate. We have the C.O. this week. The C.O.B.E held the front door of the KH open for me, said hello, using my first name, with the most welcoming and exciting voice. Normally, he is rude and doesn't speak.
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Rapper-Actor Ja Rule Talks Jehovah Witness Upbringing, Getting Saved at Hillsong NYC and 'Confusion' Over Pastor Mason Betha's Explicit Lyrics
by KiddingMe inhttp://www.christianpost.com/news/rapper-actor-ja-rule-talks-jehovah-witness-upbringing-getting-saved-at-hillsong-nyc-and-confusion-over-pastor-mason-bethas-explicit-lyrics-121794/.
rapper-actor ja rule talks jehovah witness upbringing, getting saved at hillsong nyc and 'confusion' over pastor mason betha's explicit lyricsby nicola menzie , christian post reporterjuly 11, 2014|4:55 pm(photo: ignition pr)"i'm in love with a church girl" movie still with ja rule and adrienne bailon.
ja rule, rapper and i'm in love with a church girl star, shares in a recent radio interview how his early experiences as a jehovah's witness left him disenchanted with religion, why he and his wife decided to get saved at hillsong nyc church, and why he finds pastor mason "ma$e" betha's explicit rap lyrics "very confusing.".
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Rapper-Actor Ja Rule Talks Jehovah Witness Upbringing, Getting Saved at Hillsong NYC and 'Confusion' Over Pastor Mason Betha's Explicit Lyrics
BY NICOLA MENZIE , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER July 11, 2014|4:55 pm
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"I'm in Love With a Church Girl" movie still with Ja Rule and Adrienne Bailon.
Ja Rule, rapper and I'm in Love With a Church Girl star, shares in a recent radio interview how his early experiences as a Jehovah's Witness left him disenchanted with religion, why he and his wife decided to get saved at Hillsong NYC church, and why he finds Pastor Mason "Ma$e" Betha's explicit rap lyrics "very confusing."
Ja Rule, born Jeffrey Atkins, appeared on the popular radio show "The Breakfast Club" on Thursday to promote his new memoir,Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man, a new MTV reality show with his family, and other projects. The bulk of the interview, however, centered around religion.
Ja Rule, who previously shared being raised as a Jehovah's Witness, revealed that what turned him off from the religion was how his family members shunned his mother once she was disfellowshipped from the faith community.
"I found that rather odd," he said. "I was living with my grandmother at the time. My mom would get me on the weekends and stuff like that. And then they were like, 'You're not gonna be able to go with your mom on the weekends anymore.'"
"I didn't understand it like that. And I was like, 'Well that's not gonna fly, and I'm leaving here and gonna live with my mother,'" the rapper said. "We were kinda like the black sheep now. Nobody was dealing with my mother, and that was crazy."
He explained how the familial breakdown affected him in the long run, saying that seeing how much his mother was hurt by being shunned by her own mother and brother gave him a "sore taste" in his mouth about the religion.
"But then ironically, when I blew up (with his rap career in the 1990s) and started making money and became Ja Rule, everybody could come and speak to my mother," said the multi-platinum recording artist.
"Instead of me being bitter about it … I was just happy to see my mom happy again to have her family, her mother, back in her life, her brother back in her life," he added.
When asked by one of the DJs if the Jehovah's Witnesses teachings he was raised with affect him today, the 38-year-old rapper said, "Not really."
"You know, when I went to jail and came home, I kind of reconnected with God by doing the I'm in Love With a Church Girl movie. So I was going out to different churches, like a church tour. … I kind of reconnected with God in a different way, because I was going to these churches. ... " Ja Rule explained. I'm In Love With a Church Girl was released in December 2013.
"They were great churches, but I didn't feel like they were talking to me. Until I went to Hillsong right here in the city, and a pastor named Carl Lentz came out on stage and he started preaching. The rapper went on to share how surprised he was to see the Irving Plaza concert ballroom transformed into a worship setting.
"You walk into the church and it's dark in there, the disco ball is still in there and you see the lights and you're like, 'This is different.' And you get in there and start to look at everybody around you, and they look just like you," he said. He added that what he witnessed convinced him that the leaders are sincere when they tell people to come as they are.
"Then the pastor comes out, Carl Lentz … tatted up. When I saw him, he had some (Jordans) on, jeans, a T-shirt. He came out and he started preaching, and I felt like he was talking to me," said Ja Rule.
"I got saved at that church, me and my wife," he revealed, adding that he encouraged his wife to take the step with him. "We went up on stage, we got saved and it just gave me a good feeling."
Ja Rule said he eventually sought guidance from Lentz about his new commitment, and how he was not going to suddenly start producing Gospel records. "He told me, 'Ja, take baby steps, walk in your path," said the rapper.
Ja Rule, who dropped a few expletives during the interview, was then asked for his opinion on Ma$e, the rapper born Mason Betha who retired from the industry on more than one occasion to pastor a church, still rapping about "the stuff he raps about."
Ma$e released a new single titled "Nothing" in May for his upcoming album, Now We Even, and left a few fans confused with his sexually-suggestive lyrics.
"I'm confused. He's confusing me," said Ja Rule. "I don't know how to take it because I'm like, 'Is that allowed?' I don't know."
"I'm not sitting here saying I'm … the great godly man. I'm not the authority to really speak on these situations," he continued, admitting that what he has been witnessing from the rapper-pastor doesn't "feel right." Ja Rule repeated that he found it confusing, and that he "wouldn't play with the Lord like that."
The Queens, New York, rapper went on to admit that although he made a decision to get saved, he was not yet "ready to go all the way" and was still going to make his music in a way that feels good to him.
He went on to point to Jamie Hector, popular for portraying Marlo Stanfield on the hit HBO series The Wire, as an inspiring example of "a church dude" that navigates his professional career without jeopardizing his Christian faith.
"I'm not knowing what's cool and what's not cool," Ja Rule admitted of his new faith walk. "I just want to make sure I do the right thing. I don't want people on my Twitter being like, 'Man, I thought you were a holy roller.' I don't want people to misconstrue what I'm doing here. I'm taking baby steps and I want to get closer to God. I feel it's something that you should do in life."
He went on to say, "I'm a very spiritual dude and I feel you should have your one-on-one with God."
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Last Reminder for TV Program Witness To Murder, Wed., Aug. 20th @ 9PM ET/8CT
by AndersonsInfo inlast notice for a new documentary produced for television on id discovery channel, based on jim kostelniuk's book, wolves among sheep: the true story of murder in a jehovahs witness community.. .
deadly devotion season 2:.
witness to murder.
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Some in my home felt very uncomfortable watching this, saying, they felt like this is something they shouldn't be watching, that it had an apostate feel to it. One even reasoned early on before knowing the story, that every religion has a few crazy people. Eventually, about halfway through they found something else to go do. I stayed and watched and when another person came into the house, they jokingly said to them that I was watching a JW bashing show.
I believe the negative background of the JWs upfront (i.e. 1975 being wrong) was too much for them without knowing where the story was going. It was perceived as an attack or a story from someone that got caught up and fell away because of 1975. I think if somehow this could've been pointed out after the main story point, they would've been more receptive to hearing and maybe considering the other information. It was like they were trying to guess the story so that they could decide whether or not to keep watching. If that makes any sense.
We watched the other story last week on CNN about McNeal, and that went over ok.
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Can anyone disprove 607 BCE date using only the NWT and WT literature?
by Bart Belteshassur ini haven't come across any arguement that does not involve secular history and external references.
in fact the wt can not get to 607 bce without using external sources as in knowing that they need to get back from 1914 ce to 607 bce, and botching an argument using an external date as reference to create their start point at 537 bce.. i realize that to get the final date we must provide a fixed figure from somewhere which can only be a historical source, but the objective would be to disprove the wt flim flam.
once that is achieve we can use which ever fixed historical point they wish to chose.
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JEHOVAH WITNESS PEDOPHILE COVER-UP ON CNN SUNDAY NIGHT! FREDRICK MCLEAN!
by BucketShopBill inhi everyone, this has been what i have waited for, fredrick mclean is up next on cnn's "most wanted" and "hunted show", so far two of their topics are dead!.
last sunday's "the hunt" blew his head off monday morning!
let's hope cnn get's jehovah witness fredrick mclean!
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Integ- I can understand the feeling your mom had and the feeling of embarrassment bought on by this type of scandal. I'm not sure of your mom's background but as for me, I was just beginning to study with JW's when the scandal came out about the catholic priest. My mom tried to convince me to reconsider catholicism but it did not sit well with me. I remember talking about it with my study conductor, hearing comments at the hall about it, and maybe reading the JW critism on paedephiles within the magazines. this is part of what lead me to believe that the witnesses had he "truth". so for JWs hear about this type of scandal within the organization is heartbreaking.
I just hope the CNN story touches on the internal coverup across the organization, so that it doesn't come across that there only a few bad apples.
Also, I imagine the excuse that, we are getting close to the end and, times are getting to be so bad that it's now starting to affect JWs. They did something like this at the convention when they mentioned how years ago, you would rarely hear about JWs getting a divorce but now it's happening more often.
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JEHOVAH WITNESS PEDOPHILE COVER-UP ON CNN SUNDAY NIGHT! FREDRICK MCLEAN!
by BucketShopBill inhi everyone, this has been what i have waited for, fredrick mclean is up next on cnn's "most wanted" and "hunted show", so far two of their topics are dead!.
last sunday's "the hunt" blew his head off monday morning!
let's hope cnn get's jehovah witness fredrick mclean!
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Can somone put this video on YouTube so that it can be watched with a mobile device? Its a flash video on the nbc website which most mobile phones cant stream.
SG098 - in case it doesn't go up on YouTube, there is a web browser that you can download at your App Store that will allow you to stream flash videos. I think it's free. I just watched the video above on it from my apple device. its also available on Android. It's called Photon Flash Player & Browser. you have to make sure the lighting bolt in the browser bar is highlighted yellow before the video will play.
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JEHOVAH WITNESS PEDOPHILE COVER-UP ON CNN SUNDAY NIGHT! FREDRICK MCLEAN!
by BucketShopBill inhi everyone, this has been what i have waited for, fredrick mclean is up next on cnn's "most wanted" and "hunted show", so far two of their topics are dead!.
last sunday's "the hunt" blew his head off monday morning!
let's hope cnn get's jehovah witness fredrick mclean!
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Who Really Profits from the WTBTS?
by Freedom77 inlike they say in the movies, "follow the money.
" the thought occurred to me the other day - the wt scam rakes in billions of dollars, and yeah some of that goes to operations and equipment.
but bethelites at farm and factory get only a bare little dorm room and a monthly pittance.
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"I'm in Love With a Church Girl" movie still with Ja Rule and Adrienne Bailon.