Ron.W.

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  Telling People You Used To Be A JW

  by JW_Rogue in

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  2. experiences

  since i faded i've told a few people at work about having been raised in this organization but i found that most people don't really get what it is like at all.

  they just focus on not celebrating holidays as if that is the worst thing about growing up jw.

  i didn't explain much because it's too much for most people to handle.

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  After a lifetime of 'giving a witness' in school, work, holiday, etc etc I like the fact that I don't have to self importantly announce and import my beliefs on anybody anymore..

  I'm enjoying the peace and life with so much less drama about every issue, from Mothers Day to Christmas Day..etc etc.

  Some born again customers who don't know I was a witness were going on about prayer and their religion to me the other day.

  Their eyes were glazed over and they both looked so odd.. I thought to myself 'that's how I must have come across when I wanted to pump my religion to everyone I could.'..Creepy.
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  Oral and Anal Sex flip flop? March 2025 Announcements and Reminders

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just in.

  a jaw dropping announcements and reminders for elders this month.

  how can you serve as an elder and believe this organization is spirit directed after reading this letter?.

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  Ron.W.

  Caused a whole lot of trouble in one of my old halls many years ago - three newly baptized couples suddenly learnt of this strange interference in their private lives..

  Not one of those three couple is still in the org - the elders in my hall were so heavy handed and insistent on laying down the law that people simply voted with their feet and cleared off..'spiritual paradise' my arse!!
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  2025*03*S-147-March*English*and*German*Announcements!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2025*03*s-147*march*english*and*german*announcements!.

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  https://app.filemail.com/d/khmudgccmlzpcdp .

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  Ron.W.

  Many thanks indeed.👍
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  Don't you just love LITERATURE truths?

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as jw's we swallowed such concoctions for years - without a single scripture provided as proof!.

  w71 12/15 p. 759 - "apparently, the apostle peter was the chairman of the governing body on the festival day of pentecost of 33 c.e., and the disciple james, the half brother of jesus christ, was the chairman at a later date, according to the account in acts of apostles.

  from this, and from what historical evidence there is available, the chairmanship of the governing body rotated.".

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  👍👍

  When pioneering I hated all the statements they made without a single scripture to back them up..

  I was asked on a bible study to show where the bible says the cut off date from partaking of the emblems at the memorial was 1935 - I remember thinking, 'This 1935 teaching of ours is utter shite!" Yet I still tried (in vain) to prove it to my study.

  My study was a well educated lady. She looked at me with a mixture of pity, sympathy and disgust..
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  Jehovah's Witnesses in the news: "I was exiled from my strict Jehovah's Witness community"

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was exiled from my strict jehovah's witness community after i broke a major convention - they'll never speak to me again.

  daily mail.

  "a former jehovah's witness has shared her extraordinary journey of leaving behind everything she knew after falling in love with a colleague at tk maxx.

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  Madison explained: 'I wasn't allowed to be with anyone from outside of the religion. If I wanted to be with Josh, I had to walk away from everything.'

  Sounds like a cult to me..
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  Do JWs see the org falling apart?

  by ThomasDam21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been away from the jw cult for many years.

  i don't have any family i talk to that are in it.

  so i don't know if the jws as a whole are seeing the cult fall apart or if they or the majority of them are head in the sand la la la the end is neigh.

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  Ron.W.

  When I have put the link on for my parents it is just sad.. so many people in their eighties and over still waiting for an Armageddon that is 'still just around the corner'..

  They just can't see it - or if they do, they are too afraid/indoctrinated to say.

  I think this is why they have such a violent/aggressive action when you tell them facts that disprove their faith - you are touching their heavily brainwashed eyeballs and they don't like it..
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  Do JWs see the org falling apart?

  by ThomasDam21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been away from the jw cult for many years.

  i don't have any family i talk to that are in it.

  so i don't know if the jws as a whole are seeing the cult fall apart or if they or the majority of them are head in the sand la la la the end is neigh.

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  Ron.W.

  Fantastic post!

  multiple end of times predictions

  Yet if you try to reason with them about that, their eyes glaze over and the accusation of 'apostate' surges quickly to their brainwashed lips..

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  Do JWs see the org falling apart?

  by ThomasDam21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been away from the jw cult for many years.

  i don't have any family i talk to that are in it.

  so i don't know if the jws as a whole are seeing the cult fall apart or if they or the majority of them are head in the sand la la la the end is neigh.

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  Ron.W.

  I agree,

  One thing I hate about the jw's is the way they will never admit anything.

  My family (in since the 1960's) doesn't see anything falling apart..

  I was preached at the other day that 'the end is so,so close now..'

  I politely pointed out that the wt have been saying exactly the same thing since at least 1879 and if they had any new scriptural evidence to show me why the end was now closer I would be more than happy to view it....

  ..vacant blank stares...and a quick change of subject..

  Hmmm.. and they have 'the truth'!!!!
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  When JW's say they are 'In the truth'...

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where did this phrase 'in the truth' come from?.

  it's been around as long as i can remember.

  is it from the time they were promoting 'the truth shall make you free' book back in 1943?

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  Ron.W.

  Biahi6 hours ago

  Yes, they should call it “the lie”.

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  When JW's say they are 'In the truth'...

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where did this phrase 'in the truth' come from?.

  it's been around as long as i can remember.

  is it from the time they were promoting 'the truth shall make you free' book back in 1943?

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  Ron.W.

  Where did this phrase 'In the truth' come from?

  It's been around as long as I can remember. Is it from the time they were promoting 'The Truth Shall Make You Free' book back in 1943? And also of course 'The Truth Book'..

  These two books have surely had a lot to do with JW's bandying the expression 'I'm in the truth' about ad infinitum..

  It can be a very irritating and even angering phrase to many of us that have woken up and realised that the JW's with their ever changing, shifting beliefs, certainly do not have 'the truth'...

  pdf version of the 1943 book is available online:

  https://www.thewt.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/1943%20The%20truth%20shall%20make%20you%20free%20%28%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%20%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%29.pdf