TooBad TooSad
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Not a Lurker anymore!!!!!
by Ohio Nana ini have been reading your posts the last couple of weeks and wanted to post and talk to all of you and at last i can.. first i am (or was)a unbaptised publisher but have jw daughter (really into it)and jw granddaughters and df son in law(for smoking).. i studied for 2 yrs and tried field service(hated hated hated it).anyway reading your posts helped me to make the decison that.
i just couldn't go on going to meetings even to be with my grandchildren(who i love dearly)and living a lie.
i believe jw's are a cult and the.
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Good Ilustration for 1975 teaching
by TooBad TooSad inmy wife was talking on the phone to one of her witness friends in.
another state who has been a jw for over 40 years, which is also true.
for me and my wife.
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36 rules/teachings that "go beyond what is written"....in bible
by oompa inwitness rules and teachings that go "beyond what is written" in the bible............(feel free to add more here or on other thread).
1. hatred of men's facial hair and sideburns ...................................(privileges withheld if you have too much or wrong style) also length of men's hair.
2. clothing requirements................. ties/jackets/suits mandatory for ministry/talks/privileges....and sisters can freeze there ass of rather than wear a hilliary clinton pantsuit or they can not be on the school.
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Moments of Epiphany... and other touchstones in life...
by AK - Jeff inwhen i realized that 1975 was past, and the end appeared no closer than before.when a boe made up of men i had 'served' with for better than a decade were willing to write a letter of 'recommedation' that was character assassination at it's finest, and then defend the lies within with a straight face and no remorse.when i began to notice that many of the 'friends' seemed mentally unstable, in an organization that claimed it offered the greatest hope for mankind and the 'only true brotherhood' of supporter's available.when i saw a 'bible student' who was refused any assistance in her move to another congregation because of her sins before she was ever baptized [she never was in fact].when i was 'allowed' to conduct funerals and weddings that needed a minister, but for people who were too soiled in one way or another for the self-righteous upper-crust elders to touch.
yet they all attended and seemed to rejoice/mourn with all others in attendance.the day in the early 90's when i read a critique of jehovah's witnesses in which the author roundly condemned jw's eschatology regarding the '1914 generation', and in such article stated that they would have to renounce such foolish reasoning soon, before the end of the century to avoid being the 'relgious laughingstock' of the world.the day in 1995 when i saw his predictions come precisely true in the watchtower.when i watched and saw no other jw's bothered by this massive change in position.the months that i compiled a chart in which, using actuarial mortality figures, in which i applied the numbers, age-group by age-group to the 'annointed' from 1941 to 2002, and saw that it was empirically impossible for 8500 to still be alive.the month in which i read ray franz' books, and found myself aware that my life was about to change forever.october 2006, when after 3 years of 'fading' and staying out of sight, i submitted my letter of disassociation, and saw a look of happiness on the face of the friend-elder that took the document, though it meant the end of 20 years of personal friendship with him.the day my cousin - my best friend for 35 years - decided i was unworthy of even a reply to a simple email.the list is longer.
but so theraputic to put in words.
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Does the formation of oil disprove JW's creation time line?
by TooBad TooSad inoil is a fossil fuel that is buried deep into the ground and under the sea.. oil was formed when tiny plants and animals died in ancient seas at a. minimum 10 million years ago and perhaps up to 60 million years ago.. if plants and animals were created on god's 5th or 6th creative day and.
these days were, as i remember 7,000 years long, how could oil be 10. million years old?
some of these oil wells are 5 miles deep which points.
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PDF documentation regarding 1975 prediction in WT publications
by cabasilas ini had a request for documentation of the watchtower societys statements regarding the year 1975. so, ive put these files up for downloading from a filesharing service.
the first file contains the complete text of 3 issues of awake!
26-35 (file is 12 mb):.
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..The Big Lie.."Everlasting Life"...
by OUTLAW ini was taught,that i was going to live forever in the new system..i would not get to high school in this system..thats how close we were to armageddon!....................................................................................................now my children are grown and have lives of thier own.....jw relatives who put me out of their lives because i did not believe their religion,are dead.....it`s funny in a black humour kind of way..to see people who will punish you for not believeing they will live forever,die..they may have pissed me off..but..in the end..they were able to make me laugh..lol!
!.........it was and is all bullshit.....those people died waiting to have a life..lol!
!..they had it all along and wasted it....................................................................................................................................personally,i don`t worry about death..how the hell do you know when your dead?..unless your sitting in a kingdom hall listening to the same old crap..i think thats about as close to death as you can get,while still being conscious..lol!
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"Jehovah blessed me when I quit smoking"
by TooBad TooSad intoday during the watchtower study one sister said "that jehovah.
blessed me when i quit smoking because my asthma went away.".
i just get a chuckle out of the witnesses when they talk about how.
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I wanted to scream at the Elder Sunday morning "you are a lying !!!!!!"
by TooBad TooSad inmy wife wanted to go visit some friends at another kingdom hall so i tagged along.
to keep her happy.
the elder giving the "public" talk brought up the 1975 myth.. he said, as he looked around the audience, "it looks like there are not a lot of brothers.
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Focus on Watchtower Classes and Ranks
by unclebruce inanointed class .
faithful and discreet servant class .
faithful and discreet slave class .