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  Smiddys wedding anniversary

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. family

  today feb.18 2019 is the smiddy`s 58th wedding anniversary..

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  Black Sheep

  Congratulations to both of you.

  I hope you like each other :D
  
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  Ignorance of Watchtower doctrine among young JW's

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been having a conversation with a young jw on twitter and have, once again, come up against beliefs that do not match up with official watchtower doctrine.

  if you like you can read the full thread here (you'll need to click on some comments to open it all up).. anyway the upshot is that this jw, and many like her, believe that only truly wicked people will be killed at armageddon - not innocent babies and children or anyone who "didn't know better" perhaps because they didn't get a witness.

  it's as though they cannot accept the obvious injustice of jehovah's morality.. this jw teenager believes that all these non-jw's who survive armageddon will get their chance to prove their loyalty during the 1000 year reign of christ - again, not a watchtower teaching.. i don't really have a question to ask, this is just an observation.

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  Black Sheep

  If they try to pull the 'old light' card, I ask them for a published article that rescinds it, having been careful not to choose a subject that has one.
  
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  Ignorance of Watchtower doctrine among young JW's

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been having a conversation with a young jw on twitter and have, once again, come up against beliefs that do not match up with official watchtower doctrine.

  if you like you can read the full thread here (you'll need to click on some comments to open it all up).. anyway the upshot is that this jw, and many like her, believe that only truly wicked people will be killed at armageddon - not innocent babies and children or anyone who "didn't know better" perhaps because they didn't get a witness.

  it's as though they cannot accept the obvious injustice of jehovah's morality.. this jw teenager believes that all these non-jw's who survive armageddon will get their chance to prove their loyalty during the 1000 year reign of christ - again, not a watchtower teaching.. i don't really have a question to ask, this is just an observation.

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  Black Sheep

  Backed into a corner, my JWs will look me in the eyes and lie their aces off to pretend that doctrines they are uncomfortable with were never taught, or that we 'don't teach that any more!'
  
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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.