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  5 Year Old "Ministers"

  by minimus in

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  all witnesses are ministers.

  from the time a witness is baptized, they are considered ministers.

  this religion is getting more ridiculous each passing day.

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  kairos

  If a 5 year old "qualifies" for baptism, what's that say about the adults that join in?

  so terrible
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  Crap Shoot

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what would have happen if i was not home when jehovahs witnesses knocked on my door?.

  there was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us.

  all of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the kingdom hall.

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  kairos

  I have often wondered what would have become of me if I had rejected the "truth".

  I always liked to brag how "the truth" saved my life. As if I was leading some sort of tragic life heading for death. That was not the case.

  Now I'm catching up with all of my old interests and hoping I have enough time left.
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  HELP - A Guide to Fade

  by cognitivedizzy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everybody, been here lurking for years now... i tired of all the gb 2.0 shit and need to fade successfullydo we have a guide, i am very tempted to go out with a bang, but i want my wife with me, she aint a strong witness and would happily trust me ... i love her a lot.

  status as of now,,, read coc isocf, been through jw facts and am convinced this religion is bs, also a ms now :( damn.

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  kairos

  I feel like I'm reading my own life story as I read some of the personal experiences.

  I met with ONE elder and said: "I no longer want to be a MS and I do not want to talk about it with anyone."

  They bought that.

  I later found the door and faded fast and deliberately.

  ps, choose you elder wisely. The one I selected had been "out" for 6 years himself preveiously, so he knew the feeling on a similar level.
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  How Do You Feel About All The Time You Wasted Being. A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  all that i can say is....what a shame!

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  kairos

  In 2004 I began a very delicate balancing act.

  I started to immerse myself in new and exciting activities.
  People would question me. Make stupid culty remarks about the time required to enjoy these things.
  

  The balance was that I was a "strong" MS, aux pioneered every month where there were five full weekends, maintained a legit FS average, out on Public Talk assignments monthly and was running my own successful business.

  I learned to enjoy my private life, while being an example in the hall in attendance, answering, reading, KH assignments, etc.

  I was unknowingly starting to build a replacement social network for my eventual departure from the cult. It was only after I developed this new group of "worldly" friends and realized that they were now my "real" friends, that I then faded. I awakened in 2010 with the New Light, unscriptural and unteachable, "Overlapping Generation" letdown.
  
  It still took more than two years to get out, while dodging assignments, rejecting an elder appointment, witnessing first hand congregation injustices and a divided BOEs, gradually slowing down and finally leaving for good in 2013.

  I was baptized in 1989~

  So, yes I'm working through anger issues regarding the feelings of being taken advantage of.
  The time is lost forever. I'm trying to cope with that reality.
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  The org, it's money problems ans other stuff!

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hi there, although i have been a lurker here for a while now i've not yet posted a new topic, so here goes nothing lol.. i have been thinking a lot lately on all the changes and the branch visits, specifically the uk branch visit where apparently it has bean mentioned the great tribulation is about to start.. since i've not heard the full talk and only heard certain items from it i got to thinking that maybe this is the org's way of saying the watchtower is about to go down due to all the cover ups and the long list of discrepancies.. maybe i am way off the mark here, what does everone else think?.

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  Any successful "attack"- ( punitive judgments , jailings, account or property seizures by governments or courts ) will be viewed as coming from "Gog of Magog".

  So sad...
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  Will they jump of the building?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.

  many people are very fragile creatures.

  if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?

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  I believe the JW phenomenon will go down in world history as one of the most damaging social experiments ever.

  Yes, I sadly think there will be thousands of suicides.
  I really expect this. Gut wrenching.
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  Did You Feel Bad For the JW Dishwasher-Cook Who Quit His Job (May JW Broadcasting)To Avoid Attending Later Meetings?  He Pioneered on Welfare or Unemployment!

  by RoyalFlushPhil in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you watch the story about the jw who was working as a burger boy at some diner and his boss wanted him to work on sunday during the time of his meeting?

  this faithful jw decided he could not attend a later meeting (6 pm sunday meeting) and soon quit his job(or got fired to attend his sunday meeting) so he could attend the sunday meeting he was assigned to.

  i think he was on welfare because this story states he won't work on sunday morning because that's when his meeting is!

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  kairos

  There's an elder and his wife that attend every hall in the area.
  They change to another hall when the morning meeting cycles through for their cong.

  His wife does not get up in the morning.
  I've NEVER seen her at any meeting for service...Ever.
  The group would always have to pick her up at her home when she was ready.

  Hypocrites! Go to a different meeting to keep your job? Sorry.
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  Using Google Chrome Browser. Search feature does not work?!

  by kairos in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  when i click on the search bar to enter text, the screen refreshes.. been this way since the software forum upgrade.. is there a setting i need to check in chrome?.

  thanks.

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  kairos

  Thanks. I have some things I would like to look up and do not want to just start new threads when these have been covered. If I have something to add I may bump it up after a comment.
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  Average Age of this Forum?

  by Garrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heyo!.

  i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.

  i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..

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  kairos

  47 this summer.
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  Where Does Jehovah Live?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when my niece was very little (over 20 years ago), barely walking or talking, my mother decided to teach her "where jehovah lives".

  she would coach her and say, "where does jehovah live?

  " in a sing-song voice.

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  kairos

  This topic delivers the goods!!