I learned TTATT in the mid 1990s, and it took me another 10 years to exit. I doubt I could do what I did without the internet. I tip my hat to those who left before the massive amount of information available with two or three clicks of a mouse.
NewYork44M
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Seems very easy to leave now, why do people hesitate?
by Xanthippe inwhen i see people on here saying they've looked on several sites before this one, jwfacts, jwstruggle, youtube, etc., and then they make friends here, sometimes meeting up with ex-jws, it seems incredibly easy compared to leaving in 1989. .
no internet, no amazon to find ex-jw books, no facebook to link up with ex-jw groups.
still people find it so hard to leave.
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Seems very easy to leave now, why do people hesitate?
by Xanthippe inwhen i see people on here saying they've looked on several sites before this one, jwfacts, jwstruggle, youtube, etc., and then they make friends here, sometimes meeting up with ex-jws, it seems incredibly easy compared to leaving in 1989. .
no internet, no amazon to find ex-jw books, no facebook to link up with ex-jw groups.
still people find it so hard to leave.
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NewYork44M
you stated: "it seems incredibly easy compared to leaving in 1989."
Forget about 1989, think about those that left a decade or more before - there was not much of anything other than what you could find at the public library. My brother left in the mid 70s. He was a island among a torrent of criticism from family and friends. There was nothing then to hang on to.
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Has anyone seen today's JW broadcast this Saturday to the KH's 5/09/2015
by WideAwake7 ini have faded successfully with family intact now for 3 years ...but my in-laws are still in the borg.
they are so excited to go to this event than visit there patriarch father of 97 years of age in the hospital who is still a jw .... who we take care of 24 /7 at his home.
what is so important about today?
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NewYork44M
I am sure they announce that we are closer than ever to the end of this wicked old system. They then advised to hang in there and don't give up - we have a short wait for our eternal reward.
I am be a bit off on the words, but I'll bet they are pretty close.
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Specific Comments By R&F About May Broadcast
by freemindfade ini know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!
but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.
i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).
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Accountability and transparency are two terms that define good corporate governance. There is nothing close to governance in this May presentation. It should make the R&F angry. -
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behind the curtain: literature offer for the month
by Magnum ini was an extremely sincere, zealous pioneer.
i really cared about the people in the field.
i thought their lives were in danger.
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NewYork44M
The watchtower was masters at what is known as "stuffing the supply chain." For example every publisher has stacks of un place magazines and books, the congregation has stacks of magazines and the society had an a corresponding stack of unsold. And yet at the same time they would advertise the how much publishing as proof that they were in pursuit of the hearts of the honest hearted truth-seekers.
In reality campaigns were simply to relieve excess inventory. Or at least to shift the inventory to the hands of the publishers.
This is a very inefficient and costly system. It seems they have gotten away from this by focusing on web-based material.
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I have never pushed the dislike button on purpose!!
by brandnew inso, if anybody ever got a dislike from me.....it was my fat thumbs trying to scroll down....sorry ; )
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NewYork44M
Where is this dislike button you speak of? I would love to use it for so many-many things - I just can't find it? -
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July Kingdom Ministry
by CloseTheDoor inthe july 2015 kingdom ministry says jws can't do international outreach through the internet, but to instead, point someone in the direction of jw.org site.. it's just another form of control.
the individual publisher is forced to send the interested one to a website fully controlled by the borg.. .
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NewYork44M
Yet again, the society shows their totally ignorance of the internet. aren't "chat rooms" 20 years old. I think they still view the internet with their Prodigy dial up. -
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the age of adam when he died, anyone know?
by brandnew inand if so, does this mean that adam had already invented a timetable, and calendar?
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NewYork44M
I think Adam (West; aka, Batman) is still alive.
Sorry, the concept of humans living nearly a century is kind of silly. Thus, I made a silly reply.
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Is the student more qualified than the teacher?
by John Aquila inwhat does the bible really teach page 110....
why does god allow suffering?.
the wt uses the illustration of a math teacher who is challenged by a student that the math problem can be worked out a different way.
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NewYork44M
As a professor I am highly offended by the illustration. Teaching is not about showing how much more you know than the student. The teacher should encourage experimentation. The student should work until the he or she gets it right. Eventually the student may figure out something that the teacher never thought of. - That is what education is all about.
If the teacher is confident he or she will be thrilled to have a student figure out a new way of thinking.
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May tv.jw.org program
by zophar inthe may broadcast on tv.jw.org.
we need money!.
http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.
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NewYork44M
Remember that god is all powerful, almighty, and all loving - he just can't handle money.