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  Did you make stuff up without realizing it when you were in the 'truth'(TM)?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  recently, since my d/aing, i've heard the same old cobblers has been said to and by my family members.

  (more than likely referring to me).. ''jehovah(tm) will judge.

  he knows who will survive and be destroyed at armageddon.

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  humbled

  Making stuff up?-----It happens in all churches that teach there will be a massacre at judgement day by the ALL-LOVING God and his son.

  If you can't understand how a loving father does this then you start to rationalize and figure ways around it somehow.....or somw people just know how crazy it sounds and will lie about what their church teaches.

  I gravitated toward every possibility that God would be merciful and fair to people who had done the best they could in life--but I know that was not the sales pitch we were trained to give.."Sincerity is not enough.." is the way I learned it. "You can be sincerely WRONG."

  It took me a long time to leave this lie. And yes, I made it (the WT version of "Truth") seem kinder than it was while I was one of its peddlers (pedlars for you Brits, Punky).

  Maeve
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  Come On And PLAY!!!

  by snowbird in

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  this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

  come on, y'all.. sylvia.

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  humbled

  I needed to study up! Fun and games----thanks, Syl.
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  July 2014 WT says cremation is okay, such double standards!

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. beliefs

  is cremation proper for christians?the scriptures do not present any basic objection to the practice of cremation.. there are biblical accounts relating that the bodies or bones of dead people were burned.

  (josh.

  7:25; 2 chron.

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  humbled

  Cremation is cheaper than burial. More to leave to Brooklynn?
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  My JW sister left JW husband

  by umbertoecho in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after years of looking down on me for not being "in the truth", being told (more or less) that my daughter died because i did not have the "truth" and therefore god's approval.

  my sister has, after forty years of marriage and fifty years of being in the truth....left her husband and her dis-fellowshipped son and gone to live with our other sister (who by the way is disassociated).

  i am amazed at this turn of events, as i have always been led to believe that they were a fine example of how complete and spiritually protected they were as a family for being in the jw religion.

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  humbled

  The recipes for happiness don't change just because you are a Witness--nor do the recipes for unhappiness. JW just blind themselves to reality. And suffer in their dark exclusive silence.
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  Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.

  had to reference 1 cor.

  11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.

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  humbled

  Blondie!!!!! I love it! Beautifully, eloquently,silently true.

  Now, these years after, I wish I could re-do my final meeting with the elders. I would drape that thing over my head and pray for deliverance....
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  Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.

  had to reference 1 cor.

  11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.

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  humbled

  Legacy,

  To the point of rules and laws--what is the difference between one and the other?

  There are natural consequences for any action we take, we know this. But having laws to support arbitrary rules is non-sense.

  Of all the non-sense rules in the bible the head-covering one is the most ancient and detestable because it pervades the intimate lives of couples all over the world.

  Think about it, Paul retells the Genesis story. He says God made a rule that Adam consciously broke but that Eve unconsciously initiated the breach. This is a strange distinction--even an insulting one: Both paid with their lives, didn't they? Even in imperfect human law there are varying degrees of culpability and therefore of punishment even for murder. The screwed up penalty (subjection/inferiority to man) for women is the most unjust in the history of the earth.

  This stupidity is wrapped up/embedded in these scriptures:

  ***1 Tim. 2:14--"Also Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and came to be in transgression."

  ***Romans 5:12, 18--"...just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin..." " So then as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification...."

  Sort it OUT! The bible writers have woman bear a primary guilt yet not the ultimate agent of the FALL. Adam is paired with Jesus Christ--while Eve is painted a weak-minded hussy.

  And yet woman, despite the all the man-made rules laid hard on her back, must answer for her own salvation or be damned.

  Twisted.
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  My Window Cleaner

  by happy@last in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.

  the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.

  who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.

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  humbled

  (Sorry foe double posts)
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  My Window Cleaner

  by happy@last in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.

  the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.

  who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.

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  humbled

  I would ask him how he squares his scruples--

  If you (happy@last) are so vile that he will not talk to you, how is it he does business with you?

  I knew an elder who prided himself on refusing to do work for a church that tried to hire his plumbing services. We weren't even to go to the Salvation Army thrift store as it supported false religion.

  So he finds no conflict in taking payment from a person so reprehensible that he will not talk to you? Just how does he figure this?
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  Not willing to cooperate

  by happy@last in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just thought i would let you know there appears to still be no change when it comes to assisting the police here in the uk.

  i am in the process of pressing charges against my abuser who was and is again a jw.

  during my interviews with the police i did not mention jws as it was not relevant to the case, however during one if his interviews he stated that he had been 'punished' by the jws by being disfellowshipped, and now he was a jw again he had 'paid his dues'!.

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  humbled

  I am glad you are bringing this man to account for hurting you. You have to be a strong person to do this. It uncovers the dark thinking of the JWs that they don't understand how wrong their actions are to hide their crimes from the public.
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  Germans Play Monopoly

  by cofty in

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  if karl marx, sigmund freud, and friedrich nietzsche had a game of monopoly....

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  humbled

  Funny, cofty--

  Anyone, for a dark reflection on the Epic Thread (My Old Pastor Tried to Re-convert Me Yesterday...), click on the the previous feature to the above link: "the Wrath of the Sea"

  Maeve