outbutnotdown
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1975 - Love it or hate it?
by outbutnotdown ini find it quite interesting that, due to minimus' thread about "the end", there were a lot of comments about 1975. everybody who made comments about it here didn't seem very bothered by the fact that they had such high hopes for the year and were let down by yet another false jw prediction.
yet the borg chastises and condemns as being arrogant those same people who may have drifted away because of it.
to me, that says a lot about how, even subconsciously, great it must be to be out of that high control organization.
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Should I renounce my baptism to the JW organization?
by outbutnotdown ini got baptized in 1986, when i was 17. i got df'd in 1992, when i was 22.
(april birthday.. df'd early in 1992.... .
i don't want to sound like i am complaining about this next part because i actually have a very happy life right now with very few exceptions/concerns.
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"As soon as they are saying 'Peace and Security', sudden destruction.......
by outbutnotdown ini was having a moment today when i was trying to compare how loving the jw's god (and father) is compared to me, also a father.. i'm not sure how much they still preach the "peace and security" cry and that sudden destruction is to be upon the world immediately after that.....????......
but when i was a child i thought that was the meanest and also cowardly thing that god could do.
comparing it to me as a father.... .
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Green Bible....... Follow up
by outbutnotdown inwhen i originally brought up the topic about the 1961 green bible i wanted to write more about it but my computer went screwy and submitted only what i had typed in up to that point.. the one really whacked thing in the old green bible was, imo, what someone mentioned about genesis in the last topic.
i don't have one anymore..... (the society, i believe, is trying to hide their stupidity and systematically tried to get rid of them) but i do remember plain as day that, in that green bible, genesis' time period that it covered was 46,026 b.c.e to 1657 b.c.e.
(the ones after that just said: "in the beginning to 1657 b.c.e.
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Remember the 1961 green Bible?
by outbutnotdown in.
i know there are numerous examples of crazy, whacked out stuff that the wtbts taught that most of here now realize were just that...... crazy and whacked......... but do you know how insane some of the stuff in that original 1961 bible was?.
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I want to stir up some sh*t like minimus and scooby snax
by outbutnotdown inearlier i posted a comment regarding the question of whether jesus would have been disfellowshipped by the jw's if he were alive today that went like this:.
i have been disfellowshipped!!!
can you imagine?
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I saw one of the elders from my judicial committee today.....
by outbutnotdown ini was df'd about 12 years ago and i saw one of the elders form my judicial committee for the first time in about 11 and 1/2 years today.
i was at the mcdonald's playland with three of my four beautiful children, and i went up to the counter to get something they had forgotten to give me and there he was..... standing a foot from me, in typical saturday morning service garb.
i was taken by surprise but my instant reaction was going to be to thank him for kicking me out.... since, even though it has not always been easy, it is still the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Going to court.... I need info/advice please...
by outbutnotdown ini haven't been real active here lately, but some might remember that i am going through a divorce with my ex, which, it seems will have to be terminated at a trial.
she is technically still a jw.... (not df'd but she publically despises the religion).. and her mother is a regular pioneer.
my ex is continuing to allow her mother to have a lot of influence over my kids, including that i recently found out that my oldest (of four) son's exercise book (that goes to school showing what he has been reading at home) had almost all the entries being from their, "greatest man who ever lived" book.
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Backyard rinks... I was out skating on mine for the first time today
by outbutnotdown inwhat a great thing to do.
this is my first one and i have to admit it was a lot of work getting it ready, but thanks to unseasonably freezing temps in southern ontario, the ice is great.
the kids are just loving it.
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What are the WTBTS's biggest lies?
by outbutnotdown ini've been out for about 10 years and, to be honest, i have begun to worry less and less about what that org.
but in eman's recent post, "you have one shot", sirona mentioned about all the lies that the wtbts have told.
i have read c of c, but my memory is fading on what some of the more blatant lies that i recall from that book and other articles.. just in case i have an encounter with a jw who may actually be considering leaving but wants more support/reasons to leave, can people help me by refreshing my memeory on the biggest lies that they have told, that would catch their attention the quickest?