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  Serena Williams admits to being possessed by demons?

  by Dis-Member in

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  ala beyonce & lady gaga?.

  http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/05/serena-williams-explains-multiple-personalities/47701/.

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/serena-williams-reveals-split-persona-tequanda-is-not-christian-102329/.

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  @ LisaRose..

  Er.. when a fully grown adult that's meant to be a witness hears distinct individual characters with seperate voices in their head talking to them and taking over their personality.. you call that normal??

  Sorry but not in my books. And psycologists are often total loony bins themselves with some of the theories they come up with every month insuring they get their salaries paid.

  But I guess if you don't believe in a God anymore then it must mean the darker side of things is also a non-reality for you. Fair enough.
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  Where Do I Go Now?

  by individual in

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  with all the problems in the 'truth' and all the things that we know are wrong with it there seems to be aspects of their theology (i.e the sequences of the world powers, statue in daniel, the promise of world restoration again found in daniel) that to me still make sense.

  although i cannot follow a religion that believes in the destruction of all humanity barring those that respond to their own preaching work i still believe in a creator and cannot accept the teachings of other religions that have no purpose for the earth and believe that mankinds only destiny is in heaven.

  my mind keeps telling me that if god was behind a religion it would be so much better than that of the jws.

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  I am in the same postion as all those that commented in this thread 12 years ago. Mine is quite fresh.. just over 6 months that I began to see through the whole society sharade and now it has put me off religion altogether.

  Just allowing time, distance and separation to do it's own healing work. Still trying to work out what I do and do not believe.
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  TTATT in a can

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. friends

  so... i have been working on an excel spreadsheet that has "ttatt in a can"... i have it both in spanish and in english.

  here's a preview:.

  category / year1879188018901891name?bible studentsbible students "time of the end" starts in the year?17991799 "parousia" (presence)?18741874 jesus enthroned?18781878 end of the harvest?19141914 earthly resurrection?

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  My goodness Splash!! This is just superb. Thank you!! Copied and saved.
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  A House Divided Against Itself Falls-Luke 11:17

  by Stand for Pure Worship in

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  that text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.

  second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.

  you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.

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  Badly treated by a few individuals? How about badly treated by 4 congregations over a 30 year period?

  Yet still I don't make personal attacks on individual witnesses. I just don't believe any more that they are God's chosen people, and what parts of truth they do have, (and every religion on earth is part truth by the way) is spoiled and ruined by over a century of false teachings flip flops, old light, new light, poor light, dull light, wrong light, bad light, lights on the blink and often complete darkness.

  Even putting aside all personal experiences (and I could tell you horror stories of the behaviour of the witnesses) it's the teachings themselves that have caused me to lose complete respect and any reverence I had to the organisation and society as a whole. They are no better then anyone else in the word. They drink, they smoke, they lie and steal and lust and covet and abuse and rape and molest and deceive yet they strut around with a air of importance and an arrogance that has become quite unsettling to behold.

  There is no true love. There is no true humility. There is no true compassion.

  What respect I used to have for the witnesses has dissipated. In my eyes they have the status of dishonest and repugnant second hand car salesmen. .. and before you attempt to label or tag me as some bitter apostate, You should know that I am neither disfellowshipped and neither am I disassociated. I just left one day and did not go back. I was looking for the truth.. I was looking for God, I was looking for Jesus, I was looking for love.

  I found none of them there.
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  A message for Stand For Pure Worship

  by SloppyJoe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first welcome to the board for whatever reason you are here.

  if you are here to criticize us, so be it, if you have doubts then look around.

  i just want you to do some research on a member who used to be here named "you know".

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  Perhaps he is just 'mentally diseased'.
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  What color is your bible?

  by Faithful Witness in

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  what a great way to divide the sheep and goats, both within and outside the great flock!

  jehovah has given us new light.

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  I tried to order a new Bible at the hall once and waited for 6 months but it never arrived. When I asked the literature servant why not he told me that one of the elders cancelled my order without ever telling me. They let me line up at the counter twice a week for months and no one told me it had been cancelled.

  When I found out I was livid. I went home and stacked up every single piece of literature I had.. about 20 books and Bibles, brought them all to the hall and dumped the lot on the literature counter with he words: "if you don't want me to have a Bible then take all this back too.. I want none of it, you can keep your books"

  I stopped reading the societies literature that day.

  I used to use an American Standard Bible that my mother gave me to meetings. Reading that one made me feel closer to God than ever the NWT did.

  A short while after I quit meetings entirely. I dis-fellowshipped them all with a single axe fell.
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  The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society’s Publishing Buildings Caption in Brooklyn, New York, is STATING A LIE!!

  by The Truth Shall Set Us FREE! in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower deceiving statement being: read the bible, the word of god, every day!

  the watchtower bible and tract society states, with every fiber of its organization and publishing house, that you should not read the bible (not even everyday), without the holy bible additionally being accompanied by and explained by the watchtower bible and tract societys own publications.. the watchtower society and its witnesses claim that one can not understand the holy bible without the guidance of the watchtower publications.. the statement on the watchtower publishing building in brooklyn is therefore at best deceiving, lacking an under-title stating that one should not read the bible without the watchtowers additive writings.

  thus the watchtower publishing house is deceiving (lying to) those who read this statement on their building... the watchtower publishing house is already familiar with explanatory subtitles to what they publicize, among others, the subtitles to the watchtower magazine.. the governing body of the watchtower witnesses (whom abuses g-ds holy name), excluded 4 out of the 7 members of the governing body in 1919, with the double vote by their president rutherford, when the watchtower magazines underscore shifted its wording from preaching the kingdom of jesus christ to preaching jehovahs kingdom.

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  Wow what an entrance! Welcome to awareness.
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  Serena Williams admits to being possessed by demons?

  by Dis-Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ala beyonce & lady gaga?.

  http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/05/serena-williams-explains-multiple-personalities/47701/.

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/serena-williams-reveals-split-persona-tequanda-is-not-christian-102329/.

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  Ala Beyonce & Lady Gaga?

  http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/05/serena-williams-explains-multiple-personalities/47701/

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/serena-williams-reveals-split-persona-tequanda-is-not-christian-102329/
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  I was wondering why did they pick a gray color on their new bibles?

  by Iamallcool in

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  if i was on the committee to choose colors, i will definitely turn down that really ugly color!.

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  Grey is the cheapest kind of ink colour to mix.. It's all the left over colours slung together in the same pot§ and stirred to produce this kind of grey.
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  A House Divided Against Itself Falls-Luke 11:17

  by Stand for Pure Worship in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.

  second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.

  you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.

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  "along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters. (John 13:35)??"

  Did I just read correctly?

  I spent over 30 years involved with the JW's and I can tell you from extended and deep persoanal experience that they catergorically do not have genuine love among themselves. The love is totally conditional, artificial and fake. The friendships are a sharade and a great false act, an empty pretense and an insult to the concept of true love that Jesus spoke of.
  
  As an organisation they do nothing for anyone.. not orphans (I know because I was one) or widows as Jesus commanded. The society does no charity or community work what so ever.. they clothe and feed no one. Not even their own.
  
  Jesus identified his true followers by the love they would have for all including neighbours and even enemies, but it's well known that the witnesses teach and practice malicious shunning and hate which is the very opposite of love. All things Jesus never did ot taught.

  How do you know an organization is up to no good? When it opens an in-house Legal Department.