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  Witnesses called for a bible study

  by umbertoecho in

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  2. experiences

  hello all.. i haven't been here for some time to post as mainly i read the comments and such.

  yesterday was a really interesting, unnerving experience though.

  two sisters had called last week when i had an abscess on my tooth and was sort of sick from it.

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  Driving Force

  Why not ask a couple of friends around at the same time and when the sister arrives with her (elder) husband tell them that your friends are also interested in the discussion.

  Of course prime your friends well on this.
  
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  The JW religion has just cost me my marriage & my family life

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  after leaving the organisation 10 years ago i fought with everything i had to stay in my marriage and with my three children.

  after a tumultuous number of years trying to maintain a happy family life while living in a divided home, it's finally over.

  the religion is single handedly responsible for destroying my marriage and my family.

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  jambon1

  To give up on your marriage without even making an effort to see the other side of the story is absolutely astonishing to me.

  I am having precisely the same problem with my wife, she will not even open the bible to have a discussion on any text. I can imagine how you feel, it is very hurtful, I have been married for 22 years.
  
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  Did judge Rutherford piss off Hitler

  by greenhornet in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the jws at the time in germany where considered part of the aryan race, (since they were not jews).

  then things changed for the jws after rutherford mailed a letter to hitler bragging about jehovahs kingdom on earth.. so can we add this to the bloodshed that that the watchtower corp is responsible for?.

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  JWs preach christian neutrality, then and now.
  Trying to appease the Hitler Government was breaking this christian neutrality, the protesting against the government as Rutherford did really pissed Hitler off, IMO JWs were unduly persecuted, but they were persecuted because they broke their Christian neutrality, not because they maintained neutrality.

  If JWs had really remained neutral during that period, I doubt that they would have ended up in the concentration camp. The death of JWs at the hands of Hitler had a great deal to do with how the bOrg handled the neutrality issue, the Watchtower has the blood of these witnesses in theirs hands as much as the Hitler regime had.
  
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  Attention JW lurkers: May JW TV broadcast demonstrates the GB's utter contempt for you (and all non-elite JWs)

  by sir82 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in may's "we will never solicit for money, but now we're going to solicit you for the next hour" broadcast, we kept hearing about all the "facts" that the gb would like for us to know.. hmm...what facts did they leave out?.

  -- $millions have been spent in out-of-court settlements of child abuse cases.

  -- $untold amounts are being spent on legal defense of wt policies related to child abuse.

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  I had a session with my psychiatrist this morning, (yes I need it after 28 years thought control), I am lucky to find one that is really knowledgeable about cults and how they work.
  

  One thing he said this morning was that something has to happen, some kind of action by the cult, before a person starts to question things. Unfortunately he said that most people in a cult have given up thinking independently, they do not want to think, because it is so much easier to have somebody else do the thinking for them. The thing is with JWs, they have such a wonderful future planned out for them, everlasting life in a paradise earth, why should they risk losing that by thinking independently.
  Subjects like this for lurkers is really good, it might just get them thinking, perhaps this is a subject that will cause them to evaluate things.

  I think it is really good that lurkers are on here, because their sleep is being disturbed.
  
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  40 years on - and still in Damage Control mode!

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  earlier this morning, i posted off to the the institute of engineers an application for membership as an "engineering associate":.

  - today being just over 40 years since the congregation's retards elders made me abandon my apprenticeship.. (in this part of the world, the pre-1975 hype was taken to that level.

  not being content to prevent young persons attending university, they went one step further and treated with hostility any youngster who would "tie up five years of their lives" by entering into an apprenticeship.

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  Good one Bill, all the best to you.
  
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  Sikh man removes turban to help bleeding child

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  i think the lesson on the blood issue in this story is obvious.. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hero-sikh-man-breaks-strict-5711701.

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  Brilliant!
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  JW sighting while shopping

  by Scully in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was out today at the grocery store, picking up a few things for the weekend, when just beyond the pineapples, i spotted a jw lady i was once friends with.. i wasn't interested in engaging in conversation, so i just continued picking out fruit, when out of the corner of my eye, i see her look at me and recognize me.

  she looked like she was panicking, and then darted behind a pillar in the store, trying to hide from me!.

  my dd was with me and noticed what happened.

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  Scully.

  I used to read the days text in the morning now I take a look at whats new on this site.

  And your entry made me laugh this morning.

  Village idiot.

  "boo!" I like it.
  
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  A big hello and thank you

  by iwasblind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to introduce myself and say a big hello to all of my mentally diseased friends.. i say friends because i have been lurking for some time so it feels like home (us lurkers are a bit scared and cautious so it takes a while).

  i won't bore you with too many details, but i am a born in, currently serving as the cobe of a congregation.

  my wife and i have pioneered for the last 10 years and were shaken awake by that ridiculous 15th july 2013 wt about the generation and 1914.. my wife who is much smarter than me has questioned for years.

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  iwasblind

  Thanks for your story.

  It not very nice have you whole family in the bOrg and I wish you strength and hope that you manage to help others wake up.
  
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  JW 'urban legends'

  by Steve Lowry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking about some of the old jw urban legends that we grew up with and believed in as jws.

  most of the ones i remember revolved around stories about demons, and jws being "attacked" when they would do something wrong.

  some of these legends scared the crap outta me when i was little.

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  Here is one I heard.

  Chris de Burgh giving a concert and apparently there was a piece he wanted to do where the drums would play themselves, apparently the daemons would play the drums. The didn't play because there were some JWs in the audience, so Chris de Burgh asked that if there were any JWs in the audience that they should leave the auditorium, otherwise the daemons would not play the drums.
  
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  I asked where is the proof?

  by disillusioned 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  arguing with my husband again, i asked where is the proof that jesus looked down on earth in 1919 and chose a small group of bible students in america apart from them saying it in their magazines.

  also where is the proof that satan and his demons were cast down in 1914 just because first world war started.

  neither of these things are in the bible only in their magazines.

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  disillusioned 2

  
  

  I know how you feel, my wife treats me in the same way. But at least you are free from this mind control.