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  Anyone struggle to find meaning in life?

  by Good JW in

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  just wondering if this is a common thing for you guys and girls?

  when i left the jws it was hard to make a connection with people, much of the time i felt that whatever they wanted to talk about just didn't seem relevant/deep/meaningful.

  i find myself filtering my mind to get to a level with others (small talk mostly).

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  OnTheWayOut

  FIND MEANING IN LIFE?
  
  Everyone who isn't living in crisis mode does that- crisis mode being a life where day-to-day living is too full of problems to allow for anything beyond getting through the day.
  
  Jehovah's Witnesses told me that life has a meaning and God has a purpose for me. That was all hogwash nonsense. So does that mean that life does not have a meaning? Sort of, but it doesn't have to be that way.

  Although many are selfish meanings, people can give their own life it's own meaning. You find a purpose. If it's to pass on wisdom to another generation and do your part to perpetuate your genes, so be it. If it's to leave earth a little cleaner for the next generation, to save the puppies, to rid the earth of ignorance of some subject, etc. etc. etc. so be it then too.
  
  I had a longer answer at my fingertips to type, but I think you can figure out the rest.
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  What Is The Major Reason Jehovah’s Witnesses Exist?

  by minimus in

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  i understand that cults and religious groups will always exist.

  but why do jehovah’s witnesses continue as a religion that people will join?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Well, people are barely "joining" it today. It's mostly some of the children of members joining because of pressure from family and growing up in it and not knowing better.

  But since there are still some adult recruits joining, and since I was an adult when I joined, I will try to answer. Granted, my joining was preceded by childhood exposure to the beliefs as the only religious training I received, but I can still try to answer.
  I joined because I was in a state of emotional turmoil. I needed some kind of comfort, and the JW's had a false offer of that comfort. Some would join for answers to their problems, be they substance abuse, loneliness, boredom, some may join because of what JW's seem to have- instant answers to everything with their paradise and destruction of the wicked.
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  Did electrical energy evolve or was it created?

  by atomant in

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  2. beliefs

  lt appears this topic has not been debated.energy has to come from something it doesn't come from nothing..

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  This is just a back-door way to preach Creation.
  
  
  
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  I am getting disfellowshipped

  by CitizenofEarth in

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  2. experiences

  maybe some of you remember me, maybe not.

  for general information i am now 19 years old, and living by myself.

  for the past 1 year (more like 1.5 years) i have been quietly fading out of the hypocrisy of this organization, but since i still live in the town i grew up in it has been hard, and filled with different challenges.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I join the chorus of voices.

  Congratulations on sticking up for your friends and not giving the elders any power over you.

  And I would also say anything you want to teach them, prove to them, whatever, is falling on closed minds. Better to keep giving them no power by not showing up.

  If you must go, you do it for yourself, not for them.
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  My father also molested my DAUGHTER!

  by alamb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  needing advise.

  i was on here years ago fighting for custody of my daughters.

  the court gave us a joint arrangement.

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  I don't know that you have any case or not. Try talking to the law group that tries to MAKE these into cases instead of one that may or may not be trying such:
  
  http://zalkin.com/what-we-do/sexual-abuse-cases/jehovahs-witness-abuse/
  
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  Talking Janet Jackson and Religious Freedom with the Wife

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. friends

  my recent sidewalk discussion with a couple of jw's has gotten me in the mood to say more when appropriate.so the wife and i were riding in the car and cat stevens comes on.

  i mentioned to her that cat stevens left music when he was still popular and converted to islam back in the 1970's- how he was told that his music would have to be morally acceptable and he found it easier to just abandon making new music for at least 20 years.

  so i didn't really remember all the details and i figured the conversation would die.

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  Etude, I couldn't always speak this stuff with my wife, and I have to tread carefully much of the time still. But time and drops of water wear down all things.
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  Elders WILL be removed ...

  by The Fall Guy in

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  ..............if their child pursues higher education and lives on campus.

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/7ob4wa/interesting_tidbit_from_elders_school/?st=jc214ok2&sh=cfa8af95.

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  What a grand excuse to get out of eldering. "Sorry, boys. My kid's going to college. I will sit down and be a regular publisher. Last I heard, it's not a judicial matter. See ya."
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  JW's - Do you follow pagan practices?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  w95 5/15 p. 19 part 1—flashes of light - great and small: “jehovah’s witnesses do not celebrate birthdays because these observances have pagan origins and tend to exalt the ones having a birthday.” (jw broadcasting doesn't exalt the gibbering body??????).

  in order to be “faithful in what is least” and to “stop touching the unclean thing,” j.w.

  's should abhor & shun all of the following traditions and practices due to their pagan/demonic origins - especially using the names of weekdays and several of the names of months.. “it was believed that sneezing was the way for the body to rid itself of the devil's evil influences.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Every friggin thing on the planet that has it's origin from a time before the Roman Catholic Church was established is pagan.

  A pagan is "a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions."
  IOW: "a person who is not religious or whose religion is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam."
  
  For objects or events, "Pagan" means that the thing is "of or related to Pagans."
  
  You can't win once you go down that road.
  Sure, we all understand Easter, Mardi Gras, Halloween, even the stuff done on birthdays. But common doors have the sign of the cross:
  
  
  I am sure dancing has origins in mating rituals.
  Chocolate comes from Aztecs who used a bitter chocolate drink in their religious ceremonies.
  
  You can't win.
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  CL&M part Jan 4 - annual meeting service report - our outstanding experiences

  by loneranger in

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  2. friends

  this was the first part in the "living as christians" section of the meeting tonight.

  speaker had two pioneers on the stage to relate their outstanding experiences for 2017. we have 23 pioneers and over 160 publishers in the hall.

  our territory is densely populated with single family houses, apartments and condominiums.

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  "I found a man in the door to door work. When I tried to find him at home later, he never answered. But I was determined to be persistent and not give up. Finally I found him at home again and started a doorstep Bible study."

  "Of course he hasn't answered since.....but I counted a Bible study at least once, and if he answers ever again, I will count it again."

  The problem with comparing these local experiences to Assembly experiences is that you don't get the C.O. to ask you to exaggerate because your experience will also represent a conglomerate of all the circuit experiences.
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  Why do ex-JW's talk so much about being ex-JW's?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it because we were in the cult watchtower compound that we talk about being ex-jw's when we stop being active?

  i have never heard anyone say that i was an ex-catholic or an ex-lutheran or an ex-baptist.

  they just stop going to their church and don't talk about it.. years after not stepping inside a kingdom hell, many of us still have to talk about being ex-jw's.

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  Even though there are ex-Catholics, ex-Protestants and the like, they are able to drift away from church. Most churches don't pile up rules for everyday life upon members and they certainly don't shun members who don't live up to a certain standard. But even though their former religion isn't quite like the cults of the Mormons or JW's, I have heard former Catholics and the like call themselves exes.
  
  Jews don't typically stop calling themselves Jews because they are ethnic Jews when they stop being religious Jews. I have seen Jews saying they are "ethnic Jews only" when I saw them eating a ham sandwich.