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  How to tell my parents that i dont want to be a jw?Please help, im begging...

  by ihatemylife in

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  fist of all my first language is not english so i apologise for any mistakes.i am 17 my whole family is jw.i am so sick of this i cry all the time i wasted my teen years doing nothing, no friends, no parties, no going out, no fun.i am scared for my life because if i tell them they will kick me out, i have no money to move out.i am curentlly studying the bible with my mom just because i am scared to tell her that i dont want to.please help me with some advice im begging.my life depends on this......

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  truth_b_known

  Happiness does not exist outside of us.

  Happiness does not come because of someone else.

  Happiness does not come from a particular experience.

  Happiness does not come from possessing a particular object.

  Happiness is within us and is in every moment. If you cannot be happy in the now there will be no happiness.

  What you are feeling is suffering from not experiencing the pleasures you desire. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is a choice. Craving and desiring pleasure leads to suffering. Believing that your life is meaningless unless you obtain something leads to suffering. That is not to say experiencing pleasure is wrong, but constantly craving it will cause mental suffering.

  Find happiness in the meaning and purpose of your life. At the same time you can obtain the means to provide for yourself. Even JW parents will not object to their child pursuing the means to provide for yourself. Once you do this, by all means move out. Then you are free to do as you please.

  Take some advice from an old man who was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses - there aren't enough drugs, alcohol, parties, and sex in the universe to satisfy craving and desire for pleasure. The real "waste of life" is failing to realize that happiness exists in every moment. That often starts with being grateful for what you do have rather than suffering mentally over what you don't have.

  Do you wake up every morning in a bed inside a house with electricity and hot, running water? Be grateful.

  Do you clean water to drink and food to eat? Be grateful.

  Do you receive an education and have access to medical treatment? Be grateful.

  The easiest way to feel better when you are feeling down is to do something for someone else. Show selfless love to others. Especially those who cannot repay you.

  You are 17. Your life is just starting. I didn't get out of the Jehovah's Witness life until I was in my 30s. I don't spend time looking back at what I missed. I immerse myself in the now.

  What time is it? The only correct answer to the question is "now". The past is an illusion created by the brain and the brain does a poor job at it. The future is also an illusion. Making plans for the future is pointless unless you are living in the now.
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Me: How about a campaign that says "Be kind and compassionate"?

  Politics: Shut up, racist!
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  Memorial this year?

  by carla in

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  how are they handling the memorial this year?

  zoom or open kh's?

  how do they reject the wine & bread in their own home?

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  In short, this will be the second consecutive year Jehovah's Witnesses will not be holding the Lord's Evening Meal as their own teaching prescribe.

  "Keep on doing this in memory of me," has been the Watchtower headline for their "Memorial" of Christ's death. The Watchtower pride's itself for conducting the Eucharist as Jesus himself did almost 2,000 years ago.

  Step 1: Gather the congregation together in one room on Nisan 14.

  Step 2: Say a prayer and pass emblem #1.

  Step 3: Say a prayer and pass emblem #2.

  For the second year in a row Jehovah's Witnesses will break with their own belief system. Instead of holding their Black Mass of rejecting the body and blood of Christ they will be staying home to listen to the same talk that has been given for decades only streamed over the internet. What does this reveal?

  The real Memorial Jehovah's Witnesses conduct is just a 45 minute talk sandwiched between a song and a prayer. The real Memorial is held for the benefit of the "Great Crowd" and casts scorn to those who claim to be Annointed brothers and sisters of Christ.

  The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses? Hardly!

  Just another Yahweh cult? Absolutely!
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  Do You Support Trump Being Impeached Again?

  by minimus in

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  it looks like it can happen again and i suspect if it does happen, the senate will not convict either because they can’t convict him since it’s after his presidency or simply because they don’t have sufficient votes..

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  18 U.S. Code § 2102.Definitions

  (b)As used in this chapter, the term “to incite a riot”, or “to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot”, includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.

  The FBI had intel published on January 5, 2021 that there were people coming and planned on carrying out acts as seen on January 6, 2021. Excluding those individuals, were other people who came to the rally on January 6, 2021 incited by that rally to riot? That is the accusation which requires being proven by evidence.
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Coca Cola, thou dost doublethink too much.
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  "White people" is ambiguous.
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  Jehovah`s Credentials Fail or Pass

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  judging by jehovah gods past dealings with the israelite / jews , i wonder why anybody can take seriously anything that he has promised for the future .. or is it what humans want to believe he has in store for them ?.

  during jehovah`s dealings with the israelites they had a leprosy colony in their midst .he didn`t do anything about that .. they had wars that he instigated and supported and people died on both sides of the wars.

  israelites as well as the enemy.. he accepted slavery ,did nothing about it .

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  Rocketman:

  You have a good point as to gods never existing as man explains them. There seems to be a point in human history where things change. There seems to be individuals who gained enlightenment (probably through drug use or dehydration/starvation techniques) and used a common system to try and explain what they learned. In turn, other men took the enlightenment and turned it into a system of rules. Compare what Jesus taught and what he did versus the religion of Christianity.

  Spirituality is something you experience and not something to conform to. Religion should be used to express gratitude for life and sharing how it makes you happy with others. Unfortunately religion is used to control the behavior of others.
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  A Generation Change Again???

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
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  i have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.

  does anybody have on info on this?.

  i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .

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  The carrot looks too juicy to care about the fact that the stick dangling it keeps changing.
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  How Do You Think Election Votes Should Be Counted?

  by minimus in

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  do you think voters should be required to prove that they are legitimate?.

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  truth_b_known

  In the United States the voting system actually works quite well. If anything needs to be changed it is the campaign contribution laws. Elected officials spend way too much time raising money for re-election campaigns and no where near enough time listening to their constituents.
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  Jehovah`s Credentials Fail or Pass

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  judging by jehovah gods past dealings with the israelite / jews , i wonder why anybody can take seriously anything that he has promised for the future .. or is it what humans want to believe he has in store for them ?.

  during jehovah`s dealings with the israelites they had a leprosy colony in their midst .he didn`t do anything about that .. they had wars that he instigated and supported and people died on both sides of the wars.

  israelites as well as the enemy.. he accepted slavery ,did nothing about it .

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  Smiddy3:

  You have made a valid point. I also disagree with the whole concept of apologetics which is nothing more than mental gymnastics based on speculation and circular deduction. However, it also brings to light a common thread of reasoning seen. That common thread is the atheist view of god or gods being intergalactic butlers to the human race.

  The hypothesis is that, if there is an all-powerful, conscious entity who created mankind it is this entity's moral duty to make sure man has -

  • Food
  • Water
  • Clothing
  • Housing
  • Unlimited medical care
  • Prevents all death other than death from old age (and even that should be addressed eventually)

  “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

  In the 1800s Nietzsche saw the rise of rationalism and naturalism. He new it would be the end of religion in the West. He predicated that the end result would be one of two pathologies - nihilism and totalitarian authoritarian utopias. In other words, rationalism has replaced the supernatural intergalactic butler with the national butler, government.