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  ex-jw-uk

  by bigmac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

  i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

  i've already found several by reading older posts..

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  iCeltic

  Glasgow :)
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  REAL life of a JW!

  by Silent_Scream in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  born into jw family.

  5 years old - you are told celebrations and gifts on those days are from satan.

  therefore, in school, your an weird outcast.

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  To add, I wish I did leave because certain teachings were brought to my attention, maybe then I wouldn't have spent over a decade of my life in absolute terror that Jehovah was going to kill me and how that affects every aspect of your life.
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  REAL life of a JW!

  by Silent_Scream in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  born into jw family.

  5 years old - you are told celebrations and gifts on those days are from satan.

  therefore, in school, your an weird outcast.

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  I've experienced most of this too even though I wasn't born in ( which to me now, looking back, is worse. Born ins have no choice, I actually made that choice myself :( ... )

  I can remember being told that I had to stop seeing my gf at the time I started studying, I did. That was 24 years ago, I spoke to her recently and she still remembers clearly me doing that to her, I'm ashamed.

  I was also told to stay well clear of a number of the sisters because they would want to marry a young, hard core newbie like me and it would distract me from the full time ministry. I just thought that's what everyone did and went along with it. I saw first hand elders lying, elders fighting, brothers smoking, drugs, cheating on partners etc and for some crazy reason those aren't the things that made me leave, those things didn't make me think about things till a long time after I had left.

  Incidently, the incredibly hard core witness I originally studied with and told me who I could see and could talk with started (during studying with me) seeing a non baptised witness, funny eh..
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  Are you an athiest and why?

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm interested in finding out people's reasons as to why they are athiest.. i have simply through life experience, my research into religions over the years come to that conclusion.

  never thought i would come to a day that i did not believe in a god.

  believing in a god is like believing in super man, it would be great if he existed but well it's just a fairy tale.

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  I don't believe in the fairy godmother but as far as I'm aware there isn't a group called the afairygodmotherists. I don't believe in the bogeyman, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or hobgoblins.

  If folk want to believe in an invisible god who cares for them and in some cases, talks to them, that's up to them but why there has to be a name attached to those who do not believe that is beyond me.
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  Question for Dogpatch (Randy): What will it cost to produce the new 16-page Watchtower & Awake?

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when literature used to be sold d2d, i remember how the society never missed an opportunity to trash other religions for "peddling god's word for profit" while boasting about how the watchtower only charges for the cost of the paper and ink.. in the book "witnesses of jehovah", the author mentioned that randall watters used to be involved in print cost analysis and determined that, while we were selling wt & awake mags for 20 cents door-to-door, it was really only costing the society 4 cents per copy to produce.

  that's a whopping 400% profit!.

  obviously, things have changed... the paper is different, as well as the ink and printing methods in general.

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  Dogpatch - And they suggest contributing $50 to $100 for one stinking cd-rom. And boy does it stink.

  Wow, that's unbelievable. Pure cheek asking people to donate that kinda cash for a disc that costs pennies and production done for free. Makes me sick.
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  Emblem stupidity, and the bizarre dance of the confused memorial-taker

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i went along to the memorial with mrs cedars.

  it was my first since my "awakening" just less than a year ago.

  apparently i made a lot of people happy by being there (even if it was only building up false hopes), the most important of which were my family.

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  Jesus.
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  The germ of life was implanted in the blood-stream!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jehovah's witnesses have read their awake!

  magazines, and i am quite sure many have viewed some consolations and even a golden age or two.

  i wonder though, just how many have viewed the broadcaster magazine?**.

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  I'd never heard of it, nice find.
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  revelation 14:5

  by independenthinker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so im at the memorial talk, this year though im reading above and below all scriptures.

  anyway the speaker uses revelation 14, and i find a new scripture ive never seen used before by the brothers.

  they always use v1-4, referring to the anointed.

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  I've found that it doesn't matter what scripture you use, JW start off thinking (or in their minds, knowing) that they are right regardless of evidence and that the GB can do no wrong, even if, god forbid, they get something wrong, the average JW think the GB have the right intentions and are directed by god, no evidence in the world can combat that thinking, sadly.

  Ive done loads of obsessing about it myself at one point so I now where you're coming from.
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  revelation 14:5

  by independenthinker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so im at the memorial talk, this year though im reading above and below all scriptures.

  anyway the speaker uses revelation 14, and i find a new scripture ive never seen used before by the brothers.

  they always use v1-4, referring to the anointed.

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  iCeltic

  If there was a John who wrote that he may well have been on drugs, go out and kick a ball around or go to the pictures with your gf and forget about anointed and bollocks like that.
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  Emblem stupidity, and the bizarre dance of the confused memorial-taker

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i went along to the memorial with mrs cedars.

  it was my first since my "awakening" just less than a year ago.

  apparently i made a lot of people happy by being there (even if it was only building up false hopes), the most important of which were my family.

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  I barely remember memorials, thankfully.