lfcviking
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Was It Easy For You To Leave "The Truth"?
by minimus inwas your life totally disrupted?
did you lose a lot of family and friends?
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Truth
by thebiggestlie ini imagine part of the draw of the jws is the fact that they claim to have all the answers and the ultimate truth.
it's true they seen to on the outside provide many "answers" to many questions but now that i know these answers aren't the absolute truth that i once thought they were my mind is now open to a whole new world of ideas and theories and explanations.
assuming that logically there is only one absolute truth in the universe (that in itself is a huge assumption but bare with me) then it is easy to get tied down and overwelmed by the shear volume of differing info and ideas available to mankind.
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Dinosaurs?
by Paralipomenon ini was very curious about dinosaurs as a child.
what was jehovah's purpose for them?
my mother used to say that they were used to prepare the earth for living, you know, like mulch and stuff.
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Instances of JWs causing serious harm?
by greendawn incan you recall instances where the wts seriously damaged the emotional health or generally the life of other individuals or you?
what i can recall are two young jws at the congo who had strict elder fathers and ended up suffering severe depression due to the many restrictions in their lives.
growing up as a jw in a repressive and unloving environment is not easy.
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Baptism Candidates
by FadingAway inat dcs, sads, or cas, do they know beforehand how many baptismal candidates there will be?
i recall on another thread where the brother gving the baptism talk ask them to stand and no one stood up.
could anyone then go and sit in the front row and go through with baptism without having to answer the questions or even have studied?.
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Is there any bitterness between you and the one who brought you to the Org.
by JH indo you feel any additional bitterness from the brother or sister that gave you a bible study and expected you to remain a good jw.. althought i'm not df'd, the one that gave me a bible study that led to my baptism never calls, or comes over, although he is an elder today.. i feel plenty of bitterness from his part..
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The Mystery behind the Conventions and Assemblies
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style3 { font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; color: #000066; } .style4 { font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000066; } --> the mystery behind the conventions and assembliesin the organization, the idea behind the conventions was to unite gods people under one roof.. .
looking back and knowing it is not gods organization raises.
a few questions about the conventions and assemblies.. what was the real motivation behind the conventions?did the watchtower hold conventions to show the world god has a united people?.
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Can you name ONE thing that the WTBTS said that came true?
by megsmomma ingarybuss said not one single thing they told him about in his younger years (since the 50's) came true.
it made me think....does anyone know of anything they said that was/is right?????
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POLL: Would You Ever Consider Going Back To The Organization?
by minimus inyes, no or maybe....and why?
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Fallacy of the "Light gets brighter" Teaching
by rassillon inthis is by no means a complete discussion of the subject but i will start it with my thoughts and i hope those smarter than me will contribute.. the wt teaches that the changes in doctrine and their understanding of the scriptures over the years is because as we get nearer the end of this system the "light gets brighter" or god allows(?
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this is based off the scripture proverbs 4:18 which states.