Posts by Question_Mans_interpretation

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The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

by Generation Me in

so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

Question_Mans_interpretation

I loved your story generation me! Any chance you live in California and can drop in on one of my relatives congregations, lol.

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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

by stuckinarut2 in

what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

Question_Mans_interpretation

The whole 1914 thing is so wacky to me and secondly the whole 2300 day period from the Daniel book that they try and apply literally to Rutherfords imprisonment.

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Abortion?

by Protarded in

scenerio.

your daughter gets pregnant.

your little girl whom you've invested your life and love.

New to all of this

by Ghiagirl in

i was raised in the truth my whole life, my immediate family are jws and my moms mom is a witness as well as my fathers mom.

other than that the rest of my family are non jws.

i was raised very balanced, my parents never forced the truth on me or my siblings like most of my friends parents did getting baptized at ridiculous ages!

Welcome to the forum. You are spot on in your assessment of the them, it's all show and no love. I was raised in a fairly strict jw family, got baptized at 16 and didn't start questioning things till a few years ago. I had a difficult time wirh the congregation when I was dating my husband too. We were 18/19 when we first started seeing each other and many didn't like it because he was newly studying and only an unbaptized publisher. Anyways I was prevented from pioneering(blessing in disguise) because he wasn't baptized and yet he had tried to get baptized and had even started going over questions but the elders stopped him in the middle of it because he was dating me. Talk about a catch 22, it was such a horrible time. It didn't push us away but it certainly didn't endear us with the organization. He eventually got baptized and we got married at 19/20. Now we've been married 12 years and have exited together as a family. Best thing ever.

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Why attack?

by newqatarjob in

as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Whenindoubt, after reading all your posts, i must say you come off as a rambling fool. Magnum made very valid points. Maybe you should reread his posts and come up with logical rebuttals.......if you can. Then maybe we can take you seriously

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The Secret is out....but nobody cares

by MrTheocratic in

i've been looking on this site for some time but never posted.

i'll give a little about myself, but not too much.

i'm a ex-bethelite ( brooklyn )and currently serving as an elder (10 years) (thinking about stepping down) on the service committee.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Welcome, I truly appreciate when new ones share pieces of their stories. It gives me hope that maybe some day members of my enormous JW family will wake up to ttatt

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Help needed: Written material regarding shunning of DF'd and DA'd individuals

by EdenOne in

i would like this to become a permanent thread, because i think there are grounds - at least in europe - to take this matter up to the european court of human rights.

not sure we'll ever get there, but one must start somewhere.

objective: force, by legal means, the watchtower society and the jehovah's witnesses to stop the practice of shunning ex-jehovah's witnesses, on grounds that it constitutes a violation of human rights.. what is needed: all written material ever published by the watchtower society, especially since 1940's, concerning the practice of shunning.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Well said eden.

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Help needed: Written material regarding shunning of DF'd and DA'd individuals

by EdenOne in

i would like this to become a permanent thread, because i think there are grounds - at least in europe - to take this matter up to the european court of human rights.

not sure we'll ever get there, but one must start somewhere.

objective: force, by legal means, the watchtower society and the jehovah's witnesses to stop the practice of shunning ex-jehovah's witnesses, on grounds that it constitutes a violation of human rights.. what is needed: all written material ever published by the watchtower society, especially since 1940's, concerning the practice of shunning.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Any Mormons on here who can elaborate? The witnesses will disfellowship members who associate with ones who have been DF'd

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Help needed: Written material regarding shunning of DF'd and DA'd individuals

by EdenOne in

i would like this to become a permanent thread, because i think there are grounds - at least in europe - to take this matter up to the european court of human rights.

not sure we'll ever get there, but one must start somewhere.

objective: force, by legal means, the watchtower society and the jehovah's witnesses to stop the practice of shunning ex-jehovah's witnesses, on grounds that it constitutes a violation of human rights.. what is needed: all written material ever published by the watchtower society, especially since 1940's, concerning the practice of shunning.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Also she said they don't discipline by shunning those who do associate with a shunned member.

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Help needed: Written material regarding shunning of DF'd and DA'd individuals

by EdenOne in

i would like this to become a permanent thread, because i think there are grounds - at least in europe - to take this matter up to the european court of human rights.

not sure we'll ever get there, but one must start somewhere.

objective: force, by legal means, the watchtower society and the jehovah's witnesses to stop the practice of shunning ex-jehovah's witnesses, on grounds that it constitutes a violation of human rights.. what is needed: all written material ever published by the watchtower society, especially since 1940's, concerning the practice of shunning.

Question_Mans_interpretation

Jehovahs witnesses have a much different shunning policy then some other religions. I talked to a Mormon at a birthday party last year and she admitted they practice shunning but it's not a complete shut out apparently, or so she claimed. She said they are stilled allowed to associate but didn't elaborate how.