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  Suicides

  by new boy in

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  i have been on the phone the last to two weeks calling people i've known over the last forty years most of who are still jehovah's witnesses.
  

  some of these people who didn't know i was "out" talked to me and some who knew i was "out" still talked to me.
  

  some of the those people are even elders.
  

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  London Protest 2018

  by josephus in

  1. Jehovah's Witnesses
  2. Friends

  well today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.
  

  we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..
  

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  FYI- Some KH Annoucements Aug 2018

  by stumbledbyothers in

  1. Watchtower Society / JW.org
  2. Beliefs, Doctrine & Practices

  some of these kh letters may have been mentioned already:.
  

  starting sept - $14 per publisher toward taking care of the needs of the co in us.. love never fails 2019 regional conventions.. memorial april 19, 2019.. there will be jw contact cards with blank space to write notes..
  

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  Creation, evolution, ???

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. Watchtower Society / JW.org
  2. Beliefs, Doctrine & Practices

  was on the bus today and got into a discussion somehow with the driver and ok be ood his work colleagues about whether there's life in other planets, evolution and creation.
  

  the driver believes there must be other life out there, i agree with him that life can't be unique to this planet out of the billions that exist.
  

  his colleague who i think might be a jw by his attitude and reasoning skills thinks we're the only planet with life on it and it was made perfect and exact purposely for humans.
  

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  Do You Think President Trump Will Be Impeached?

  by minimus in

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  whether you like him or not.... it doesn’t matter.
  

  do you think he will be impeached?
  

  ?.
  

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  1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me

  by NotBlind in

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  my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.
  

  about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!
  

  magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.
  

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  Funny ex-jw memes

  by Apostate Anonymous in

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  2. Jokes & Humour

  backstory:.
  

  so my born-in cousin who recently left the org is looking to start an ex-jw / group instagram based in socal.
  

  he asked me if i had any ideas for a photo that can used for the instagram page and this is what i made for him:.
  

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  Teenagers fascinated by the military

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  2. Family & Parenting

  they seem to be rebelling by studying every aspect of the military behind their mother's back.
  

  i tell them to keep their noses clean and become coasties if they must trod that path.
  

  is this par for the course?.
  

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  Why are they announcing 2019 conventions so early?

  by Richard_I in

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  2. Friends

  i was just told there will be international conventions in canada in 2019. .
  

  so i looked at jw.org and i see that there's a whole bunch of conventions now listed on the site for 2019.. isn't this odd?
  

  normally we were told the location of conventions during the first week of january.. did they realize there was less in attendance in the 2018 conventions, and want to give ppl more time to make travel arrangements??
  

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  Is the blood doctrine idolatrous?

  by Fred Franztone in

  1. Watchtower Society / JW.org
  2. Beliefs, Doctrine & Practices

  i'm not a god-fearing individual, but when i was still a believer, many suns ago, it occurred to me that the blood doctrine had an idolatrous foundation; it was one of the initial anti-wt thoughts in my mind that eventually led to me leaving the religion and ultimately (and somewhat ironically) to atheism.. the bible says that one should 'abstain from blood', and putting aside whether this is a mistranslation of bloodshed (which i've never bought), the wt are quite picky about which commandments they follow; they don't observe the sabbath, and they've even provided justifications for lying, so why the preoccupation with the blood commandment?
  

  and why is it so serious a matter that it's a disfellowship-worthy offence?
  

  the justification i was always given by elders was that blood is sacred, it's a symbol of life, and whilst the commandment to abstain from blood clearly meant that one shouldn't eat it, it's not unreasonable on the surface to extrapolate it to include transfusions (although some would disagree).. the problem with this reasoning of course is that by abstaining from blood transfusions, death from massive blood-loss is a possibility, unlike with abstaining from eating it.
  

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