Posts by EverApostate

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Strange stalking from JW's...Please help

by Toshibabadu in

i just recently stopped attending.

i keep getting messages, emails, texts and voice mails asking if i'm ok. they all say the exact same thing.

it's creepy and a bit scary.

EverApostate

When I was fading, I experienced the same. Dubs would come to my home and would try to figure out what was wrong with me. I would tell them that I have lost my faith in this WT religion due to a number of reasons. I would take that opportunity to tell them the TTATT. And finally they stopped coming

Finally I wrote the letter of disassociation. All this I did because I was immensely confident that my wife and mom (Still JWs) won’t ditch me, due to my disassociation. It’s again a culture thing and your repercussions may be different. I am from India.

And I am happier now after leaving the cult. Your situations may be different. Proceed with caution.

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Christopher Columbus makes ISIS look like a bunch of hippies.

by marmot in

here's an excerpt from the account of bartolome de las casas, the priest who accompanied columbus on his conquest of cuba, in his book 'the devastation of the indies':.

"and the christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them.

they attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house.

EverApostate

I had always Wondered why they give such an Importance to Christoper Columbus who just came in as a nomad. He didnt really discover Amercia. This country was already there, with its native inhabitants. And I have also read that CC brought in diseases along with his people, which were entirely new to the native Indians here. And more important CC and his team plundered and Massacred in this land. What is the need for a day to be observed in his name then ?

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Recent WatchTower article about Witch Hunting

by EverApostate in

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this is about an article in may 2014 awake that was published about witch hunting.

it is a 2 page article on how evil the catholic and protestant inquision was, how wickedly they killed the witches and so on.. .

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102014166.

EverApostate

The last known Witch hunt and greusome hangings, were of the Salem witch hunts in the americas.

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Terminology the Society Hates?

by toweragent in

in my most recent talk, i got counseled for using some terms that were not prefered.

for example i said "new testament" rather than "the christian greek scriptures".

i also used the term "gospel", but even worse, i made reference to the "synoptic gospels" and the "gnostic gospel".. i guess i never thought of it before, but when i looked at the societies information on the matter they always say things like, "the so-called new testament..." or "the so-called synoptic gospels..." why with all the "so-called?".

EverApostate

Preaching - Field Service

Preacher - Publisher

Hierarchical Positions - Priveleges

Preaching time limits set - Pioneer

Cant remember more, as I am out for more than 4 years :-)

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Did Jehovah program us to have a free will? If so, how free are we?

by I_love_Jeff in

since the jehovah's witnesses believe we have no indwelling immortal spirit, are we like robots programmed with a special code called "free will"??

since robots have no indwelling immortal spirit, they can be programmed to do whatever man wants them to.

nice control tactic.. .

EverApostate

If Jah truly respects free will, why did he punish Adam and Eve for making their own decisions, based on Free will?

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Do we know for sure what happens after death?

by Yondaime in

christian denominations say we go to heaven, witness say we stay alseep until ressurection.

quran says when we go we grt 72 virgins, unless we blow some people up.. .

i'm not really concerned with death atm, i'm not dead.

EverApostate

What happens when I die.... Well Everything goes on as usual, excpet me.

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Did it bother you that they taught, "miss a meeting and you'll fall away?"

by Wasanelder Once in

how many times did we hear that if we dont attend meetings we will leave the truth because satan will get ahold of us?

that always bothered me.

i thought, "if my faith isn't able to stand alone what good is it?

EverApostate

There was once an elder who attended the meeting when his father was dead. And everyone praised him for his integrity.

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When and where is the War in Heaven, supposedly?

by jam in

1)when did this war breakout or did i miss it.. many commentators conclude that the battle between michael.

and the dragon occurs roughly at the start of the church age.. some even argue that the battleground is the church itself.. others say this scene describes the dispute between michael.

and satan for the body of moses (jude 9) or the long-ago.

EverApostate

Hindu Mythologies have numerous accounts of these wars between gods and demons. The Christian Bible is no different. The Almighty god, in a moment, can make the demons powerless. Then why the need for a war ? Religion defies common sense and if we take some time to think about this we won’t waste time in determining the logistics and timeline of these.

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Debunking the Bible

by Coded Logic in

there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

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EverApostate

Read the Bible to become an Atheist. That was how I became one.

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Want to get JW friends' thoughts on their "new" preaching methods.

by compound complex in

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the subject of jw.org and its tentacles reaching everywhere has already been discussed at length; however, jw kith and kin are going gangbusters on social media.

i lost it when i saw da vinci's most famous lady wearing a jw.org button as a brooch.

in hand, she had a tract, which i assumed had not yet been perused (she was distracted, apparently, while posing for the real master).. my dear and otherwise studious jws -- many very good at preaching and in human relations -- are obeying wt directives and just handing out the tracts in service and advertising up a storm on the internet.

EverApostate

When I was in, I asked about this to my dear good friend (Now he considers me as his worst enemy coz I left). He proudly stated that Jah is spreading the good news through the Internet, to places where the preaching work is banned. I got that as a very silly explanation. You mean , the Almighty god has to rely upon mans technology to sneak in his good news? Can’t he lift the ban in those countries?