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  1985 and baptism...I wish I had read this before today

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am posting a link as to being legally bound to jw rules at time of baptism.

  i only did a quick skim, but what i gathered is interesting, and what it says about 1985 may be of use to some hoping to just fade and not be bothered.

  in 1985, the questions were changed at baptism for legal purposes so they could have causation to defend themselves should you decide to sue for whatever reason.

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  smiddy3

  Anybody recall what the Baptism questions were in 1960 when I was baptized ? And what argument / discussion , I could have with a JW at my door ?

  Bring em on I say.
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  First Day of Returning to D2D Work

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the first day of the return to the d2d work, no one in the strip opened their doors or gates.

  what a waste of time!.

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  smiddy3

  They're too busy to do such menial work .

  Besides it`s below their pay grade.
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  NASA: Humans Back to the Moon

  by Gerard in

  1. social
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  nasa plans return to moon by 2020

  "this vision aims to return humans to the moon, and then to use it as a staging point for a manned mission to mars.

  i wonder if jws will be required to canvas those areas too.

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  Mikejw

  Your ignorance is too much to swallow buddy ,get back to your bible study with the witlessness.

  Hopefully one day you will see the true
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  Why do JWs love bomb?

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  💣.

  we know what mentally-in jws believe they are doing when they "love one another"... and many of us here formerly participated in that culty love bombing behavior.. why?.

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  smiddy3

  It`s to gain brownie points with the big J and the little j as well as sucking up to the Elders as to what a good witness you are.

  .A.M.If I knew someone who was mildly interested in the JW cult I would do all in my power to dissuade them from having anything to do with them.
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  What other alternatives for the meaning of Babylon the Great ?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought the reasoning sound as to the wt explaination of babylon the great, ( world empire of false religion ) but have any of you knowledge of other plausible explainations?

  or knowledge of other sources that are in agreement with wt?

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  smiddy3

  In my time as a JW, 32 years and the amount of articles lambasting ,critisizing ,heaping crap on the Roman Catholic Church every chance they had ,didn`t they at one stage say the RCC were the most promiminent part of the counterfeit kingdom of God on earth in Christendom ?

  Wouldn`t that constitute them being Babylon The Great ? According to the WT?
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  Canada : Baby of Jehovah's Witness parents may receive blood transfusions

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  canada, province of québec : baby of jehovah's witness parents may receive blood transfusions.

  in french, use google translate for english.

  https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1907941/temoin-jehovah-transfusion-sang-anemie.

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  smiddy3

  Thank you Fisherman for that post and others of course for their response.

  I guess it would be too much for an ex JW to post here that when he/she was a beleiver that they refused to give permission for a child to recieve a blood transfusion if their was one here.

  And that`s certainly understandable.

  Maybe it was not an appropriate question to ask in the first place.

  (But I can`t help wondering )
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  Did becoming a JW influence you to give up something you enjoyed ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.

  which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?

  sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.

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  I sometimes wonder why I bother carrying on. They won

  Punk : I`m sorry that they destroyed your family and your life ,but they didn`t win ,your out of the religion,the only ones that they won with are the JW`s who are still in the religion .

  Don`t give up Bro. you have friends here.While theirs life theirs hope.

  .I`m 83 years old and i`m not giving in to the bastards so why would you or anyone else.

  Now I'm out, I'm making up for lost time

  Keep doing that and enjoy what time you have left.
  
  

  Take care.
  
  
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  Canada : Baby of Jehovah's Witness parents may receive blood transfusions

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  canada, province of québec : baby of jehovah's witness parents may receive blood transfusions.

  in french, use google translate for english.

  https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1907941/temoin-jehovah-transfusion-sang-anemie.

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  I just wonder if past parents who were JW`s and then came to a knowledge of TTATT ever regretted what they had done.

  If there are any out there.

  I shudder to think I may have done this when I was a believer.
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  WHEN is the Kingdom of God coming?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when is the kingdom of god coming?.

  on being asked by the pharisees when the kingdom of god was coming, he answered them: “the kingdom of god is not coming with paratherisis; 21 nor will people say, ‘see here!’ or, ‘there!’ for look!

  the kingdom of god is in your midst.” —lu 17:20,21. .

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  Many years ago I vaguely remember the Borg saying something along the line that since Jesus was enthroned as King in 1914 Jesus and the faithful who have been resurrected since then would/could have been told By Jehovah when the GT and the big A will occur .

  But I can`t remember if it was in print or just spoken about by the GB.?

  Anybody else have a recollection of this ?
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  10 years on and I’m still indoctrinated

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this experience highlights the level of my indoctrination, after 10 years of been a pomo.

  a few months back my gf was hinting to me about what we could do for my birthday.

  to be honest i just had no idea, that i even had a birthday.

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  smiddy3

  I can understand born ins having more trouble shaking off the indoctrination , as a convert as a 19yo I didn`t have much trouble resuming a more balanced way of life.

  And I must admit the religion did help me to curb some of my more bad habits I had .like excessive drinking and smoking as a teenager.