Posts by Aussie Oz

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Anti-JW Cult: Why did you enslave yourself to new doctrines without fully investigating their validity first?

by Change Name in

i saw this on yahoo answers and wondered about your reaction to it.. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=asztevcfhe4rumq8w.94glxq1kix;_ylv=3?qid=20130226115907aalqjsp.

here are some of your deceptive doctrines:.

russell was a freemason & pyramidologist.

Aussie Oz

Seeing that changename has not seen fit to return to his thread, i would declare:

''I saw this on Yahoo Answers and wondered about your reaction to it''.

To be bullshit, he is not wondering about our reaction at all...

oz

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For anyone unsure as to whether JW's are a cult..please read...

by lostinnj83 in

if the informaiton i am posting is redundant or has been posted, please forgive me.. i know we are all at different stages of this journey.

for me i am still "in" but working towards being out and leaving.

any one in this position or who has been here knows how diffucult of a time this can be.

Aussie Oz

saved to print it.

would make an interesting topic of conversation if they ever call on me again after the one...

oz

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Hello. I am new here :)

by StevenJB in

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friends

hello all.. my name is dteve and i live in the uk.

i hope i can make genuine friends here and not pretend friends.....like that among jw's.. i left, went back, and have left again, but this time it is for good.

so i tried to work things out, but she carried on.

Is it not ironic that you mention you think it may be decades away and you are tagged apostate while the WT says the same thing by pretty much taking the foot off the acelerator in talking about armageddon like they used to and stretching out the generation...

oz

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TITANIC II Set to Sail in 2016

by Quendi in

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Aussie Oz

If he aims to retrace the steps of version one then he really has to find an iceberg to hit does he not?

Oz

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BF vented on "apostate" websites

by FingersCrossed in

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hmmm.... how many of you, in the process of waking up, got really angry with websites like jwfacts.com etc.. etc... even calling them slanders etc?

i think all of you are doing a great job, keep it on guys!.

Aussie Oz

Not angry with any ex jw site, just dumbfounded.

for months, every day, i would be like "no way!", "can't be"

Never got angry at any ex JW sites, but i did get angry about the WT and JWs

Oz

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1973 versus 2013 (40 years later)... How much confidence have J-Dubs lost in the Slave's "End-Time" estimations?

by Calebs Airplane in

back in 1973, when i was just a pre-teen, i remember that meetings in general were chock full of persecution talks, great tribulation talks and armageddon talks.

so much so, that there was a hightened sense of anticipation that the end was really just a few years away.

most j-dubs really believed, without any doubt, that freddy's estimation about armageddon in 1975 was a certainty (give or take a few months... not years).

Aussie Oz

I remember it well too, I was 13 in 1975. We buried a stack of bibles and watchtowers under the floor of the shed, ready to collect in the dark of night drom some forest hideaway. Persecution was all the talk.

these days its a case of dont mention and after a few years no JW will even remember. With one of the highest revolving door memberships of any religion, that wont take too long.

Oz

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At JW.Org, for kids, a connect the dots coloring page of Lot's wife turning into salt.

by Theocratic Sedition in

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http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/picture-activities/lots-wife-becomes-salt/.

is it me or is this kinda sick?

i mean i can understand learning from the account, but this is kinda deviant.

Aussie Oz

Unfortunatley no authorities would be remotely interested in a religion peddling this sort of thing.

Its in the BIBLE so it must be ok.

Oz

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Special Assembly in Puerto Rico Coliseum to annouce Branch Closure

by Calebs Airplane in

so, 2 weekends ago, my wife is showing an apartment to a potential buyer in the financial district of san juan and walks the buyer over to the balcony to show her the awesome views.

the buyer looks down at a crowd approaching puerto rico coliseum (aka jose miguel agrelot coliseum) and asked my wife: "are those jehovah's witnesses?

" my wife looks down from 19 stories up, notices the "pioneer pace" of the crowd and says: "yes.

Aussie Oz

Its called a bad news sandwich

First they would have had a lovey dovey nice 'hi were from brooklyn and here is all the exciting developments'.

second would have been the bit about the closure

third they would have the shortened WT study all like nothing just happened

all the JWs would have gone home totally miffed.

Oz

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Anti-JW Cult: Why did you enslave yourself to new doctrines without fully investigating their validity first?

by Change Name in

i saw this on yahoo answers and wondered about your reaction to it.. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=asztevcfhe4rumq8w.94glxq1kix;_ylv=3?qid=20130226115907aalqjsp.

here are some of your deceptive doctrines:.

russell was a freemason & pyramidologist.

Aussie Oz

1. Free mason?, there is no hard evidence to say he was. The pyramid was not erected as a directory for those buried in the lot, it is a monument to the laodecian messager, Russell.

2. the WT did join the UN as an NGO, the paper work clearly shows they knew the rules, they were outed and quit

3. Can't comment myself, never looked at it. Dont care.

4 They are false prophets as far as my own research shows.

5. child abuse and the WT? As true as it is in the catholic church, and as hidden. I have seen the policy of protection in action.

Personally, not one of these things bothers me true or false. There are so many other things that just add up to amountain of proof that the WT, the JWs are among the most evil groups on the planet. I am extremely interested in truth. MY own journey was one of discovery of the true and the not true stories in Ex JW land. It took me a year, how long will it take you?

If you keep cut and pasting the Watchtower society's answers you will never learn anything Change Name

ox

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Question from a dummy (but very helpful if anyone can tell me): Do the members of the GB or anyone that serves get paid?

by FingersCrossed in

in the jw-land, are there any of the gb, elders, or whatever posts/people get paid for doing the "good work"?

do they receive any monetary income (in term of salary/allowance/whatever as long as it is $$$) which come from donation aka from the congregation?.

Aussie Oz

All bethelites get an 'allowance', as do travelling sales reps

as for the GB, on paper they may well get the same allowance as the floor sweeper but the difference is in the package...

the apartment, the travel, the food, golden handshakes...

i am sure those up to date would know the amounts of $$$

Oz