Topics Started by Mandrake

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Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany
by EdenOne in
1. social
2. current
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
14
10 years on and I’m still indoctrinated
by joe134cd in
1. jw
2. experiences
this experience highlights the level of my indoctrination, after 10 years of been a pomo.

a few months back my gf was hinting to me about what we could do for my birthday.

to be honest i just had no idea, that i even had a birthday.
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Did becoming a JW influence you to give up something you enjoyed ?
by smiddy3 in
1. jw
2. experiences
when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.

which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?

sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
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What's Wrong with the Watchtower?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
not sure who wrote this list a while back but i think it is worth a repeat....to be added to or subtracted from or modified...whatever.. what's wrong with the watchtower.

"overlapping generations" - this teaching makes no sense.

the word used by jesus is in the singular, not plural form.. .
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2020 Convention- Worse fear-mongering propaganda video
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://youtu.be/p7jx8sbghck .
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Hello!
by Caedus in
1. jw
2. experiences
been reading here for a few years.. 4th gen jw, born and raised, served for a few years which was the catalyst for me.

the politics, backstabbing, slandering and coercive tactics in particular caused a constant internal struggle.

i started researching and focused only on the stories of ex-elders/servants to see if i was the only one - i wasn't.. the rest is history..
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Did you enjoy some of these back then?
by Mandrake in
1. social
2. humour
i was bored to death this sunday, and suddenly i remembered that it could be worse if having to attend the public meeting on a sunday, even worse, not being assigned to the sound department, accomodating, being the mic guy, or reading the wt at the platform... then i realized that i hated just "attending" and sitting at meetings, those "privileges" were the only thing i enjoyed and made my last months inside bearable.... did you enjoy these assignments?
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When did WT lose the spirit?
by Smiles in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
at what time would you say that the watch tower schema lost the spirit?.

like the ancient nation of israel which struggled maintaining divine blessing due to a long series of grave errors that eventually culminated in definitive loss... how and when did watch tower lose the spirit?.

can we pinpoint a time or event?.
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3 ExJWs in the News
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
getting the truth out efficiently via news report.

https://youtu.be/pjoor9e77g8.
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why did jehovah create corona virus?
by stan livedeath in
1. watchtower
2. medical
why did jehovah create the strains of corona virus ?.

is it part of the great tribulation that is closer than ever now ?.

what if lots of his people die from it ?.