Posts by Dawn

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How did you stuck in the JW borg ???????

by run dont walk in

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friends

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i was born into it, and had a rough ride getting out, not much fun growing up having little respect (didn't want to use the hate word) for your parents/family.. i can honestly say my parents had no idea how life works, as is the case for most jw's.. how did you get stuck in it, and how long did it take you to finally walk away (or still trying to) ???

(took me years)

Dawn

((((Scooby))))) - keep reading and hang in there! I love your posts.

I was born into it - all the rest of my family is still in. Baptised at 13 - was DF'd at 19, reinstated (dumb mistake) then DF'd again at 24. But it wasn't until about 10 years later that I started to REALLY break free. I still thought they were the truth and I was just someone with a bad heart - even though I was living a good clean life (married, great kids, good career, etc) and trying to do the right thing.

I read Crisis of Conscience - that was the first step for me. Then I found a few websites like this one and started to really research the history of the JW and their doctrines. About 3 years ago I stumbled onto a church (through a weird twist of fate) - the pastor there was able to see right through many of the JW twisted doctrines and mind games and helped me to see the truth in the bible.

I feel like I finally free November 2002 when I was baptised as a Christian in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - no denomination - just a Christian.

Now I'm working at getting my family out - along with anyone else I run across that will listen.

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DID JESUS LOSE HIS FAITH?

by plmkrzy in

in god?.

jesus spent close to 20 years convincing people he was the savior and the son of god.. .

he did such a good job of it that 2,000 years later a large portion of the world still believes it.. .

Dawn

scaring the shit out of and torturing people untill they believed.

Oh - so the 'dubs really WERE around way back then?!

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DID JESUS LOSE HIS FAITH?

by plmkrzy in

in god?.

jesus spent close to 20 years convincing people he was the savior and the son of god.. .

he did such a good job of it that 2,000 years later a large portion of the world still believes it.. .

Dawn

yep. A reminder of the prophecy - that he was the Messiah.

Good thing it wasn't me - I would have said something stupid like "I'LL BE BACK! (in Arnold's voice)"

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JW's not happy people

by wannaexit in

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i've noticed a lot of discontent among my jw friends.

i've had some express to me how stressed out they are because the meetings take up too much time and the assemblies are too long.

( a lot of complaining about this international assembly coming up).

Dawn

I'd like to go and hell "hallelujia" and "amen" at appropriate parts of the sermons

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The 70 Years of...ISAIAH 23:15

by logansrun in

the seventy years of isaiah 23:15

so much has been said about the seventy years of daniel and jeremiah in reference to the desolation of jerusalem on this forum and elsewhere.

of course, as we all well know, the society interprets these seventy years as literal, occurring from 607 bce to 537 bce.

Dawn

It's the same way that they arbitrarily decided that the number 144,000 is literal, but the rest of that scripture in revelation is Figurative. And that the great crowd are standing before the throne of God "figuratively" but the 144,000 are before the throne of God literally.

Just pulled it out of their butt is what they did.

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DID JESUS LOSE HIS FAITH?

by plmkrzy in

in god?.

jesus spent close to 20 years convincing people he was the savior and the son of god.. .

he did such a good job of it that 2,000 years later a large portion of the world still believes it.. .

Dawn

It has never been real clear regarding if Jesus even actually spoke those words, or if someone inserted them and it stuck as though it actually happened.

As to whether it actually happened or not - I'm taking it that it did because it's in the bible. But I don't ignore that there could be arguments to the contrary.

Anyways - yes, you're correct in that it is a prophecy about Jesus from King David. Jesus was repeating it (the hymn). T hink of it as a last minute witness - someone knowing what has happened to Jesus and seeing him on the cross, then hearing this well known Jewish hymn about the Messiah - suddenly puts it all together (you know). It would also have been a witness to those there that DID believe in him already - confirmation as they remembered the hymn and the prophecy.

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In your experience, do JW's show hospitality?

by Gopher in

and i don't just mean "formal" hospitality that is scheduled on the announcement board for visiting speakers and travelling overseers.. i mean real, from the heart, love of strangers (xenophilia in greek).

xenophobia (fear of strangers) is the antithesis of hospitality.. when you visited other halls where nobody knew you (and you weren't the guest speaker or the travelling overseer), did people go out of their way to make you feel welcome?

or did they mutter to themselves, "i wonder who the stranger is?

Dawn

I once brought a return visit to the meetings. Noone would talk to him because they assumed it was my "wordly boyfriend" (which I didn't have). Sheesh.......good thing I guess because he never came back.

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DID JESUS LOSE HIS FAITH?

by plmkrzy in

in god?.

jesus spent close to 20 years convincing people he was the savior and the son of god.. .

he did such a good job of it that 2,000 years later a large portion of the world still believes it.. .

Dawn

Jesus was speaking/singing a hymn - Psalm chapter 22 - it was a prophecy about him. He was in fact witnessing to those that still had an ear to listen.

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel. [1]
4 In you our fathers put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD ;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."

[edited to add verse]

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You Should Feel Guilty If You Don't Pioneer Even If You're Retired or Young

by minimus in

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per the june km, if you just got out of school and are young and decide to get a great paying job, you should feel guilty.

and if after you finally can relax a little and enjoy retirement in the last few years of your life, you are expected to pioneer as soon as possible.

the articles were designed to produce major guilt in any that might want to do otherwise.

Dawn

When the elderly person has no money to support themselves because they spent so much time in meetings and field service, who is going to help them out?

I'll tell ya who - the disfellowshipped daughter who did go on to get an education and her "wordly" educated husband. The other children that are still JW's are too busy shepherding and doing quick builds to take care of such trivial things!

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Truth about JW Anointing - Part 3 of 3

by Amazing in

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this deals with two aspects, that of life as a jw anointed, and then as an ex-jw:

first: i began associating in the late 1960s and was baptized in 1970. i believed i had the heavenly calling almost from the beginning of my jw life ... but like most newbies, i refrained from partaking due to the jw culture created by the society.

when i chose to first take the emblems, i was serving as an ms in richland, washington.

Dawn

Great article. I always wondered how someone decided they were "annointed" and why.

I dropped you an e-mail - I think you and I may have shared the same congregation!