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  Scriptures that now seem to apply to JWs

  by Magnum in

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  in the last year or so, many bible passages that i used to strongly and confidently apply to non-jws, began to seem to apply to jws.

  this change in my thinking was shocking and disturbing.

  i can best describe the feeling by comparing it to the feeling i got in 1981 when i watched the movie dead and buried starring james farentino.. in that movie there are murders committed in a small town by dead people reanimated by a doctor doing experiments.

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  Zoos

  Oh, to be sure they apply to JWs. They apply to all religions.

  1 Corinthians 10:12 STILL applies to anyone who has left "JWdom". It's a process.
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  It's my 25th yr anniversary of freedom

  by rebel8 in

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  approximately 25 yrs ago today, i left the borg forever.. .

  thank you jwn/jwd for helping me heal by listening to me.

  there are not many greater gifts than freedom..

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  Zoos

  Congrats and thank you for all your contributions here.
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  Do You Think That Animals Truly Understand Human Language?

  by minimus in

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  they say horses communicate with their ears.

  mr. ed talked, though.

  pet owners, do you think that your cat or dog or goldfish really understands you?.

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  "Go outside?"

  "Nite! Nite!"

  "Sit on my lap."

  "Cuddle."

  "Get down!"

  ... and

  "No!"

  My feline beast knows every one of them and responds.
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  Have you ever heard Jehovah's Witnesses Praying for Non JWs Getting Killed by Islam?

  by BucketShopBill in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard of jehovah's witnesses praying for the christians and non christians in the middle east and western asia during the slaughter of islamic radicals?

  how many prayers did/have you heard for non jws while attending the kingdom hall?

  the prayer for the city council man or woman to grant their permit to build a kingdom hall or assembly hall?

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  Zoos

  losingit: I remember getting offended when I finally noticed that all prayers at the kh were for elders, their wives, and the pioneers. I actually approached an elder about that.

  You should start a thread and tell us about this... if you haven't already.
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  Have you ever heard Jehovah's Witnesses Praying for Non JWs Getting Killed by Islam?

  by BucketShopBill in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard of jehovah's witnesses praying for the christians and non christians in the middle east and western asia during the slaughter of islamic radicals?

  how many prayers did/have you heard for non jws while attending the kingdom hall?

  the prayer for the city council man or woman to grant their permit to build a kingdom hall or assembly hall?

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  JWs praying for non-JWs? Are you drunk?

  Non-JWs are of this world. Deserving of death. A proper JW would never waste prayer on buzzard food.
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  United Nations churches.

  by Ignoranceisbliss in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it must of been around 1992. i remember all the chatter among local wirnesses was about how the united nations was setting up there own churches around the world.

  it seems like there was even a newspaper article to back this up.

  it was obvious that this is how governments would finally turn on religion.

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  Zoos

  I remember the bird story. I even thought the reason we had so many bugs was to give all the new birds something to eat in the meantime.

  i never heard the un church story.
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  JW.Org Blitz

  by Theredeemer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've noticed, partilcularly on instagram, a advertising blitz for jw.org by the dubs.

  primarily its the younger ones 35 and under vs older ones.

  i dont know if its just my friends or everyone but they are obsessed with jw.org.

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  DocHouse, you've been naughty. Go say 10 Hail Faithful Slaves and 5 Our Websites.

  
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  Gay for only 11 years...

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "when i was 14, i made the decision to present myself to the world as a homosexual.

  i stayed that way for the next 11 years, even living with several different men during that time.".

  -watchtower april 1, 2011 page 28.

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  "After that I went back into the closet where I continue to suppress and deny my true nature in order to live in harmony with the opinions of others. My internalized homophobia is irrelevant. The depth of my pain and emptiness is irrelevant. The length to which I must spin a story of how I became a heterosexual with the help of God is a burden I carry so that my family and their approved friends will like me."
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  Watchtower Memorial Day makes local UK newspaper

  by TableForOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a tragic, but honest, story.

  well written, in my opinion.. i'd like to see how the local jw's would handle this being mentioned to them this saturday morning in the ministry.. it's just a shame it's only a local newspaper, not a national.. www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/more-news/former-jehovah-s-witness-leaves-memorial-to-family-who-shunned-her-1-6206648.

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  NewYork44M: Stories like this... may embarrass the organization sufficiently to change

  Vidiot: ...any outside pressure to reform is met with further entrenchment and increasingly hard-line policies.

  I realize there is a fine line in approach here, but NewYork44M is referring to change in response to an embarrassing situation as opposed to (what I perceive to be) Vidiot's position of direct, outside pressure for policy change. Any effort to directly confront the WTS to force policy change will absolutely fail. The GB is too haughty to bow before anyone.

  However, they have certainly proven they are aware of the extensive reach of the internet and proactive in their efforts to develop a good reputation amongst the common folk. Like any business, corporate image is everything to them. While stories like this one might take a long time to wear them down - if they ever work at all - I don't think it is unreasonable to hope that public embarrassment piled on top of public embarrassment might someday illicit a change for the sake of public image.
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  "the Walking Dead" special tract campaign in August!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i obviously have an active imagination.... i can just see the parallels between "the walking dead" and the masses of witnesses hyped up during the august campaign!.

  big crowds of slow walking witnesses with no logical brain function, moving en-mass towards non-witnesses....with only one combined thought "must leave tract".....as they mumble to each other......dragging feet......like zombies..... when one person in the community accepts a tract, they are then the target of every witness who smells their 'interest' and is swamped with more and more visits...big crowds pile on top of them, stripping away at their very individuality and being....until they become one of them!.

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  Zoos

  The screaming in horror and ultimate blood loss will be about the same.