Topics Started by irondork

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Did my bit for our cause today!
by Julia Orwell in
1. jw
2. friends
we went to a second hand book fair with literally 100 000+ books and i found some bible teach books in the religion section.

of course very few people go to the religion section, but anyway i got out my pen and wrote jwfacts.com on the title pages.

it's small, but it could just save someone..
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I thought baptism was a dedication to God
by irondork in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
according to this description, unless the elders determine that you really want to be a member of the watchtower corporation, then you are not worthy of dedicating your life to god.. .

w98 3/13 dedication and freedom of choice p.17 par.18.

before a person can qualify to become one of jehovahs witnesses, he must meet scriptural qualifications.
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"No longer need to change the world" since becoming a JW
by wasblind in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i ran across this while i was lookin up a reference from another post.

here's a summary.

july 2013 wt.
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Pronouncing things differently so they don't sound rude. Typical CULT persona. Political correctness?
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i noticed over the years how bros & sis(tm) would pronounce words/names differently or totally substitute them so as not to sound offensive.. egs:.

instead of 'bible aids' a bro(tm) said 'bible helps' thus avoiding aids disease!?!.

instead of sodom the bro(tm) pronounced it 'sow dom'.
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Respect for life - feels funny
by irondork in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i had to have a medical procedure done yesterday that had the potential for blood loss.

everything went fine.

but in preparation for the surgery i was asked, "in the event there is significant bleeding would you have any objection to a blood transfusion?".
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We are "On the doorstep of the New World" (Awake!)
by Splash in
1. watchtower
2. bible
anyone see that quote in the latest magazine?.

in full it says:.

"since the things are happening today that jesus told us about, we know that we are right at the very doorstep of the new world, the world to come.
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How much have you changed as a person ?
by Phizzy in
1. jw
2. friends
i was a born-in, and in for over five decades.

in the comparatively short time since leaving the wt for good, for good in both senses !

, i feel i have become a very different person, in quite radical ways.. how do you feel you have changed ?.
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Jesus never started his ministry untill he was 30 years of age ! What should that tell us ?
by smiddy in
1. jw
2. friends
while this always bothered me ,i still wanted my 2 boys to be baptised as soon as practical so they would survive the big a or else get a resurrection into the new system of things.thats how indoctrinated i was.both my boys were baptised in their early to mid teens.neither have ever been disfellowshipped or disassociated themselves ,however both have nothing to do with the religion today.

(thankfully ) .

how many family lives have been ruined because children/minors have been baptised at a young age and in the majority of cases have committed trivial offences against watchtower policys/rules .sometimes with tragic consequences .. teenagers have a difficult enough time as it is dealing with changes to their bodies and coping with new emotions as they transform from boys to manhood and from girls to womanhood .. here in australia you cant get a car license and drive on your own till your 18 yrs old ,vote at elections , or drink alcohol at a pub.and many people will argue,that is too young to start doing those things as they are not mature enough .. yet the wtb&ts / jehovahs witnesses put life and death matters in the hands of minors / children ,as regards the use of blood and blood products ,fractions of blood ,what is currently acceptible ,and what is not.. an adult witness would find it hard to keep up with what is current and what is not current in the ever changing policy regarding the blood issue ,let alone a minor/teen who is expected to make a life or death decision at a critical time.. a teenager /minor does not have that capacity to make such an enormous decision about life or death ,when the wtb&ts acknowledge they often fail to make right decisions in trivial matters ,hence the disfellowshipping of thousands for trivial rules imposed by the governing body ,man made rules at that .no birthday celebrations,no smoking,no associating with a disfellowshipped baptised witness,no questioning what the governing body has said,accepting a blood transfusion,formerly a disfellowshipping offence , now stated ,you disassociated yourself from jehovahs witness teachings so you disfellowshipped yourself .
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"Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant...?" - NEW ARTICLE
by EdenOne in
1. watchtower
2. bible
just wanting to let you know that i've published a new article on my website.. it's called "who, then, is the faithful and wise servant...?".

given the recent controversy about the "new light" of the wts / jw's about the subject, i decided to look deeper into it and came up with a surprising (even for me) conclusion.. i hope you enjoy.. eden.
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Jeessuuus Gives up trying to Change Gays
by fulltimestudent in
1. social
2. current
exodus international has been trying to change gays for more than 30 years.

they now admit that they cant, and have apologised for the harm they have caused.

exodus created a big industry in so-called 'conversion therapy,' all the time insisting that they were god's instrument for the salvation of gays and that they had had successes.