Is stepping down from anointed a big deal? I think it's absolutely essential.
hallelujah
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Is stepping down from being an elder a big deal?
by Clam inrecently ive discovered that my brother in law has stood down from his position as an elder.
ive of course been intrigued but theres little chance of him discussing it with me.
however the other day my non jw mother (his mother-in-law) asked him why hes resigned from eldership.
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Who here is not former Jehovah's Witness?
by omerp injust wondering who else is lurking besides me?
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What about calling out to Jah?
by hallelujah inthe big to me is what about jehovah.
after years of calling out to jah, literally, i start to wonder whether jah really helps me or rather it's just a type of mantra.
i have started thinking that i have to look after myself.
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hallelujah
Thanks deeskis. Nice to talk to you.
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What about calling out to Jah?
by hallelujah inthe big to me is what about jehovah.
after years of calling out to jah, literally, i start to wonder whether jah really helps me or rather it's just a type of mantra.
i have started thinking that i have to look after myself.
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hallelujah
It really worried me because I know that I really damaged myself (split my mind) by practising Vipassana meditation - where you have to say "I surrender myself completely to Buddha [a dead man] and my present teacher [Mr S.N. Goenka] for proper guidance and protection" and then running into the arms of the Jehovah's witnesses only to get more damaged and I wonder how on earth I came to be so affected.
Bowing down to Mr Goenka was damaging - but I really started to wonder why I wasn't getting better but rather was getting worse. When I looked at the Jehovah's Witness organisation I realised that I was bowing down to the men of the governing body as well as to the dead men's bones within, those of Rutherford, and of Russell.
That's when I realised that what they call "Jehovah's organisation" is an occult and the sheep are sheep being led to the slaughter by the governing body. But what they don't realise is that they too are doing worship to the dead men's bones within, those of Rutherford and Russell.
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Scans needed for San Diego Sun and Time articles about Beth Sarim
by VM44 ini am looking for scanned images of two articles about beth sarim.
i believe they are both online somewhere, but i cannot find them.. the articles are:.
rutherford interview about beth sarim, san diego sun, march 15, 1930, and.
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hallelujah
"Divinely authorised to know imposters"??? I think what Rutherford meant was that he would pick who he reckons is the real reincarnated David and who is the false and he'd tell (authorise) his followers who was who, which was which, and what was what.
Sounds like Tibetan Buddhism.
Dan
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Scans needed for San Diego Sun and Time articles about Beth Sarim
by VM44 ini am looking for scanned images of two articles about beth sarim.
i believe they are both online somewhere, but i cannot find them.. the articles are:.
rutherford interview about beth sarim, san diego sun, march 15, 1930, and.
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hallelujah
Did Rutherford have any family? I'd be interested to know. From my what I see JW life often becomes more important than family life. Surely it must affect them at the top. I have seen a wife of a 'young anointed' and I think that it impacts on her.
I downloaded heaps and heaps of scans. I think that they can all be pasted together in pdf and posted as a single document.
Dan
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What about calling out to Jah?
by hallelujah inthe big to me is what about jehovah.
after years of calling out to jah, literally, i start to wonder whether jah really helps me or rather it's just a type of mantra.
i have started thinking that i have to look after myself.
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hallelujah
The big to me is what about Jehovah.
After years of calling out to Jah, literally, I start to wonder whether Jah really helps me or rather it's just a type of mantra.
I have started thinking that I have to look after myself. Any thoughts?
Dan
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How long did it take for the fog to lift?
by Honesty ini was inactive for almost 2 years, not attending meetings or reading any watchtower publications before i felt the fog start to lift from my mind and i could truly think.
how long did it take for you?
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hallelujah
7 years of attending for me and it's surprising how the lectures not to look at 'apostate' literature become insidiously ingrained.
Only thanks to all of the good souls out there who posted scan's of ORIGINAL Bible & Tract society publications - and hungrily searched the web for all of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of watchtower literature and Bible and Tract society literature, did I finally see the truth.
When it clicked that Charles Taze Russell was a mason then I knew I had to warn my JW friends that Jehovah's organisation is into the occult - numerology and pyramidology. When I realised that the witnesses say that we are not son's of God but now grandchildren, through the 'anointed brothers', I thought this goes against the words of Jesus that we all know so well, that we may be children of our Father which is in heaven.
But Charles Russell while misguided is light reading compared to the vitriol of Joseph Rutherford and the now anonymous lecturing of the Governing Body.
But when we leave the witnesses for what we don't like, we ought to retain the dignity to retain our own principles which drew us there in the first place.
Just because the Governing Body continue with hallucinations of Charles Russell - enforcing them, and enforcing lies of Joseph Rutherford, such as the '144,000 anointed brother's of Christ', doesn't mean that I am going to reject everything that the watchtower said just because they said it.
As a man who was sexually abused as a child by an older male neighbour, and later catastrophically duped into a Vipassana meditation cult which demanded complete surrender to the teacher and left me out of my mind and spaced out, only to be 'befriended' by another male and deceived into engaging in homosexual behaviour, I can say that we should never ever forget the principles which attracted us to join the Jehovah's witnesses in teh first place.
From catastrophic personal experience I believe that oral and anal sex is degrading to both participants. I also believe it is degrading to human dignity to so deal with the male seminal fluid which has the power to give human life. We should no more take these male fluid's within our digestive tracts than we would eat female menstrual fluids. It is to me the same thing. The Governing Body said it and I agree with them on this, but not by submission or surrender to their views, but simply because I am in agreement with those views.
So now even though I know that the Governing Body lies to us about the anointed, I still believe personally that there is no such thing as a homosexual identity, and that encouraging this identification only cements certain damaging behaviours which are later regretted.
Daniel Taylor
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Switching Holy Ghost on and off and using KGB as Gods servants...
by Trojan inthis weeks study of daniel's prophecy book.
this one made me really feel sick....
chapter 16, page 273-275 #7-10. i never saw this and it was there - all the time!
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Photo drama of creation - GB would call it pornography
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http://www.biblestudents.org/absco/photodrama/pd0010a.htm