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  Is The Person Who Helped You “Get Into The Truth” Still Around?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i helped, unfortunately, many people to become baptized jws.

  recently, over the last few years, i saw many of my students who were still “ in the truth “ lament that i was no longer associating or active in the faith.. i do feel bad that i did such a good job that most of them still are in the cult.. are your teachers still around or did they wise up and leave the lord’s organization?

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  Black Sheep

  They all died of old age without seeing me get 'The Truth'. They were expecting to be part of The Great Crowd and had to watch that promise never come into their reach,
  
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  Navigating Sec.gov

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  can anyone explain exactly how to navigate sec.gov in order to find records of watchtower's investments?

  i saw the video called why i left jehovah's witnesses from exjw analyzer where he talked about this.

  i'm never able to find anything when i go there.

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  Black Sheep

  It's better to be knowing how to direct them to their own literature from their own website or WTLib on their own hard drive and what questions to ask about problems with that.
  
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  Navigating Sec.gov

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  can anyone explain exactly how to navigate sec.gov in order to find records of watchtower's investments?

  i saw the video called why i left jehovah's witnesses from exjw analyzer where he talked about this.

  i'm never able to find anything when i go there.

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  Black Sheep

  Try searching the site for keywords, e,g, site:sec.gov/ watchtower
  
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  "No more than 40 years"

  by dynamiterose77 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in another corner of the internet someone stated that witnesses are proclaiming that this system will be no more than 40 years now... that "gog of magog" will start the great tribulation.

  can anyone confirm this latest "prediction"?.

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  Black Sheep

  If a JW makes any sort of outrageous statement, make them promise to back it up, promising a time and place when they will do it.

  When they 'forget', take a Worldly audience with you when you go to remind them of their promise.
  
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  Baptised 52 years today!

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  january 29th - my baptism date.

  can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.

  i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.

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  Black Sheep

  I'm about your age, Phoebe, so got the same lecture from my Dad, but I knew that the Ancient Worthies hadn't shown up in 1925 so their track record wasn't squeaky clean. I also knew that leaving without getting shunned was unlikely so baptism didn't look all that inviting.

  Deciding to get baptised was the best decision I never made. I'm not shunned by any JW family members. Relationships are stunted and are not what they should be and I'm careful what I say around them but, because I'm unbaptised, I do have some semblance of a normal relationship with my JW family and old JW friends even though I haven't been in a KH except for weddings and funerals since the 1975 debacle.
  
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  Df'd minor thrown out of home

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever heard of a jw minor getting disfellowshipped and their parents then throwing them out of home?

  i know of 1, 14yr old, df'd for smoking and the very same night it was annoced his mother kicked him out of the family home on to the streets!.

  unsurprisingly as an adult he's never returned to his mother or the wt .

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  Black Sheep

  Any Dub who does that has gone beyond what is written in their litteratrash and should be challenged to provide official WT documentation that supports their actions.
  
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  Do You Ever Wonder Where Certain Posters Are?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?

  are they now infrequent lurkers?.

  did they go back to the watchtower?.

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  Black Sheep

  There have a been a few Kiwis here that I sometimes wonder what happened to, but I don't spend much time here myself either.
  
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  Rick Fearon - Six Screens of the Watchtower

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so a friend today asked me what his deal is and i honestly don't know.

  i saw someone post about his accusations that the doj is investigating watchtower and people seemed down on the guy, as well has johnny the bethelite or whatever his name is that claims to leak stuff.

  i don't know rick fearon, don't watch his show, but his site just seems a little crazy, and he seems to get into occult conspiracies and the jws, which never lends credibility.. so for those of you who have been around a while, what's the deal?

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  Black Sheep

  I've always thought that there is a better than even chance that RF and JTB have been funded by the WTBTS. The only other explanation for their behavior that I can think of is that they are complete nut jobs.
  
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  Overwhelmed

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone else feel overwhelmed on what to believe?.

  i've been doing lots of research on beliefs, evolution, creationism but i feel no further forward about what i truly believe.

  for example i looked at the fossil record and tiktaalic and thought great it proves a lot but then i've seen counter arguments on youtube of people basically saying its a load of rubbish and doesn't prove anything.

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  Black Sheep

  If you have been born or sucked into a cult, everything you inherited from it is suspect, Gods, reference materials, science, the whole lot. You have to cut it off at the roots and start over, admitting to yourself that everything that came from its quoted source material could be tainted, even if it did 'tickle your ears' at the time. Trying to hang onto the bits that you liked could lead you into being sucked into another cult, in which case, you may as well have stuck with the one your friends and family are in.
  
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  1980s Brochure/magazine on demon possession?

  by caves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?

  i dont think i saw it around very long.

  it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.

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  Black Sheep

  The most insane story I heard as a kid, I heard first hand from a JW convert who's wife had bought a souvenir imitation shrunken head in New Guinea in the sixties. I'm not going to perpetuate his nonsense story by retelling it.