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  Would you leave the Watchtower if you woke up at age 80 plus, or just stay in for the rest of your life.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so yesterday while i was doing some work for a customer, i noticed the wt mags on the sofa.

  and i asked the elderly man if he was a jehovah witness?.

  he said that he and his wife and all his children were raised in the religion, but only he and his wife attend the meetings or zoom.

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  Ucantnome

  Yes, I would leave
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  Born Ins, How Did Your Parents Get "The Truth™"?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  born ins are in a unique position in that we never knew any other way of life.

  no birthdays, christmas and overly superstitious family just seemed normal.

  when my parents talked about their pre-jw life it seemed like they were talking about completely different people (actually, that's true, the cult had taken their real selves).. so i'd be interested in hearing how your parents were indoctrinated.. my dad.

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  My parents became Witnesses in the late 1950's. My mother first listened to the witnesses at the front door, it was the Look I am Making all things New booklet. My father said he would sort it out and speak to them. They got baptized shortly after. He was a fascist prior to becoming a witness he had a good job and we lived in a nice area.
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  If you had two years to live what changes in lifestyle would you do?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  re-evaluating time and tying lose ends can be complex.

  don't worry this chook won't go down without a fight.

  just think if i had a short period of time i would let my hair down .

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  Ucantnome

  I'd probably paint the house
  
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  Do JW's ever really grow up ?

  by Phizzy in

  1. social
  2. family

  i ask the above because of my personal experience.

  as a born-in i was naive, socially inept and had never really thought deeply about anything.. i was also unable to accept arguments based upon reason and facts.. just like a child.. it was only after freeing myself from the mind-control of the jw cult that i educated myself and matured as a person to being (almost) an adult.. jw's attitudes and their inability to debate in any meaningful way, (they could start by actually listening),means they have not grown up..

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  Ucantnome

  I think my parents were grown up when they joined.
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  There are only 4 ways to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are only four ways of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.

  so there are four ways that could lead to shunning.

  i say “could” because options three and four has some loopholes.

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  Ucantnome

  Thanks Brock,

  I don't know that I would use the term 'hang out'. The witness that I work with lives thousands of miles away but we have interesting conversations.

  Yes, I think it is probably quite 'rare' my situation but I don't think it is unique.

  When it comes to what I do or don't do, my children attended school with other witnesses and they attended birthday parties, etc, I think it varies from area to area. Most of the things you list are not things I do anyway.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  Ucantnome

  As it stands the record of JWs refusing to kill each other as other religions do is impressive.

  
  

  but I think that this has been shown on the thread to be that they do not join in wars for various reasons, like not supporting the 'defense efforts of Christendom' not because of pacifism.

  If JW's controlled the world or large parts of it and there were 'apostates' I could imagine there maybe a religious war as the smaller group, the apostates tried to protect themselves from the effects of the 'shunning' at the minimum and the 'stonings' at the worst.

  maybe similar to things we have seen throughout history.

  so that's my thoughts and I'm not that impressed
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  There are only 4 ways to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are only four ways of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.

  so there are four ways that could lead to shunning.

  i say “could” because options three and four has some loopholes.

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  Ucantnome

  and I am on speaking terms with friends and elders .

  I do some work with a witness and I find it mixed some try to ignore me when they see me I think but I had elders that treated me like that when I was a witness.

  no elder or servant ever invited us to have a meal at their house in years I was regular publisher but others did.
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  There are only 4 ways to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are only four ways of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.

  so there are four ways that could lead to shunning.

  i say “could” because options three and four has some loopholes.

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  Ucantnome

  I stopped meeting attendance after discussing it with the elders so they were aware of how I felt.

  fading to me is gradually disappearing and not saying how you feel

  the elders came twice to visit me. The first time was with an accusation of apostasy it didn't go well for them.
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  There are only 4 ways to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are only four ways of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.

  so there are four ways that could lead to shunning.

  i say “could” because options three and four has some loopholes.

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  Ucantnome

  I had discussions with our friends and elders I wrote a letter to the Watchtower with my concerns and I phoned the elders several times and asked them to visit me to discuss the letter. We eventually had the meeting I was not disfellowshipped. I had stopped meeting attendance and field service. I don't consider that fading.
  
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  What are your beliefs now, religious/non religious?

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what are your convictions now that you are no longer one of jehovah's witnesses?

  are you a born again christian?

  have you joined another denomination of christianity?

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  Ucantnome

  probably more eastern orthodox