I have not celebrarted this holiday in 34 years. Not because of what JW's teach but just down to my own research. Today I'll just relax, watch movies, play my guitar, tinker about. How about you?
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Is my mind still controlled???.....Is yours????
by KateWild inwe are all set for a lovely xmas week and nice holiday, but this image is indellably printed in my brain and i cannot erase it.. .
it's from the bible teach book, chapter 16 para 11. i did that many bible studies and trained them how we need to make a stand for true worship and not ever return to pagan practices.. so now over this season of good will, and fun i have a literal bitter taste.. are you having flash backs?
how can we remove these images from our brain?
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Is my mind still controlled???.....Is yours????
by KateWild inwe are all set for a lovely xmas week and nice holiday, but this image is indellably printed in my brain and i cannot erase it.. .
it's from the bible teach book, chapter 16 para 11. i did that many bible studies and trained them how we need to make a stand for true worship and not ever return to pagan practices.. so now over this season of good will, and fun i have a literal bitter taste.. are you having flash backs?
how can we remove these images from our brain?
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Glad your doing OK Kate and being positive..
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Is my mind still controlled???.....Is yours????
by KateWild inwe are all set for a lovely xmas week and nice holiday, but this image is indellably printed in my brain and i cannot erase it.. .
it's from the bible teach book, chapter 16 para 11. i did that many bible studies and trained them how we need to make a stand for true worship and not ever return to pagan practices.. so now over this season of good will, and fun i have a literal bitter taste.. are you having flash backs?
how can we remove these images from our brain?
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Can't see the image..
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JWDEFENSE youtube channel
by wannaexit inwondering what to make of this youtube channel.
looks like it could be put out by wachtower.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/ucn6uoc8oxbgrhqqazu6unsq/videos.
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Just had a quick look. Even the sound of the magazine readers makes me ill. Condescending garbge.
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Why are there no black angels?
by snare&racket injw literature is racist as hell.
jesus looks like an american folk singer, the governing body look like a corrupt version of an enron luncheon.. the jw's literally print different magazines for africa with african pictures, black people instead of white, to make it 'more appealing' to them.... just to be clear that means they think the opposite is true too!.
....and then there is the lack of black angels..... .
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Why are there no black angels? You mean in heaven? Or in the witness literature written by poeple who have never seen heaven or been there and don't have a clue what it's like ion such place but in their racist arrogance they assume God and his team to be white like they are? Is that what you mean?
To be made in God's images means to be white does it?
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Interview with an Apostate: Simon
by Simon ini had an idea for coming up with a standard(ish) set of interview questions which members of the ex-jw community could use to provide insights into their lives as a kind of series (yeah, i was thinking of "interview with a vampire", lol).. anyway, this is the result to show the sort of thing i'm thinking of (applied to myself) and i'd like feedback on the format and the questions as well as who you'd also like to see "interviewed".. feel free to provide your own life story as a separate topic or ask any additional questions that i've missed.
it's not meant to be rigid so questions / themes can be adapted as needed and split / joined as appropriate.
the common questions will hopefully apply to everyone for some consistency and to guide the writing process with additional questions asked that make sense to each subject.. well, here goes .... tell us a little about yourself and your family.. im an independent software developer who grew up in manchester (uk) but now lives in calgary (canada) with my wife angharad and two boys, liam and dylan.
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A great and fascinating read Simon. Thank you for sharing this.
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is all religon crap?
by thesaint inlike jw are crap is there any religon dat is atally conneced to god?.
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After 34 years of searching for God in almost every faith you can name.. I personally have never ever found him in or even remotely connected to any religious organisation. Or Jesus for that matter. The only times I have ever felt anything that could be called 'feeling God', I have always every single time totally been alone and separate from any type of group or society.
Acts 17:27 says it all for me.
New International Version
"God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us."
Nothing about any organisation or group and society and gang or what ever. It's all individual. If God can be found at all.. then it must be done alone. You need nothing and no one. -
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World Powers my backside..
by Dis-Member inwhat ever happened to this half of histories and so called prophecy of historys greatest ever and final world power?.
http://rt.com/news/cameron-china-trip-britain-645/.
the other half are not doing to well either.
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What ever happened to this half of histories and so called prophecy of historys greatest ever and final world power?
http://rt.com/news/cameron-china-trip-britain-645/The other half are not doing to well either
http://www.westernjournalism.com/u-k-paper-u-s-longer-superpower-thanks-obama/Were these two not meant to go out in hail and brimstone and not a steady but slow self-caused internal and non dramatic collapse and implosion?
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How Jehovah's Witnesses benefit those humble enough to study the Bible with them.
by Stand for Pure Worship inexcellent material can be found within the reasoning book, page 328, para.2, 3. occasionally, i see posters make presumptuous comments like, "all you need is the bible", or, "i'm born-again, so there's no need for spiritual assistance from another christian", or,"i'm saved", or my favorite, "jesus talks to me directly.
" on one hand, i can't be overly critical of such ones because they do attempt to read and understand the bible on their own.
(acts 17:11) not to mention they're generally peaceable folks, just self-misguided when erroneously believing that they can go it alone.
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This is absolute rubbish.
There are many well documented cases where individuals of faith have been incarcerated and spent decades in jail and even solitary confinement. They had no organisation, no society, no meetings, no books, no association, no magazines, nothing. Yet they happily and firmly maintained and remained loyal to their faith the entire time.
So SFPW you are lying.
And does not the society and God himself list Job as one of the moist faithful men that has ever lived. Yet he too lived and exercised his faith in complete isolation. Not even his close friends or wife supported him.
You are very, very wrong SFPW.
Nothing is needed to maintain faith but faith itself.
On the other hand to maintain 'faith' in a false religion such as then one mentioned in this thread an entire array of complex, contradictory and false ideas and fake belief systems some serious brain washing is required.
To achieve this you need a Society, an organisation, endless repetitively mind numbing, thought process killing meetings where both the questions and answers are provided to you in what is falsely termed 'study', a steady stream of extremely rigid, narrow and seriously dumbed down literature that insults and abuses your intelligence, endless petty and ridiculous stifling man-made rules designed to keep you in a constant state of guilt, inadequacy, failure and worthlessness. Add to that nothing but association and contact with hundreds of other moronic, conceited, self satisfied individuals at various levels of robotic brainwashed behaviourand you have the perfect recipe for faith in that false religion.. not to mention some very serious mental health issues.
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Pecking Order in the Millennium
by Cold Steel inokay, the smoke has cleared.
everyone's dead who had it coming and the remainder find that their bodies have been changed.
no more disease, no more aging, no more human weaknesses and the weather is perfect.
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Lead us? Why do people need to be led? The society is obsessed about leading people and organising their lives for them. Sounds like communism.
I would not want to be 'led' by anyone. My thoughts about the new system have always been to get as far away from people as is possible. I'd dissapear up a mountain, build my own shack, grow my own food and leave humanity well alone for a good while.