Of course we both did at one time ,but thankfully my wife and I are well and truly out as are other members of our family that I was instrumental in getting them involved are all out now.
Except for one niece who shuns us all.
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Did you at one time Believe-that you were not going to die. Does your still in JW spouse still believe?
by pistolpete inthis magazine says it all!.
and many of the older jws believed at one point in their life that they would make it through the great tribulation and into the 1000 year reign of christ without dying.
which is why so many jws stayed in so long.. is the main reason why jws ignore all the child abuse, the end of door to door service, and the closing of kingdom hall for almost two years----because they still believe they will not die?.
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Yesterday I applied to join FB ex JW in Australia
by smiddy3 intoday i see that my application was declined with no explanation or if i could review the decision ?.
or even ask why ?.
any aussies on this forum members of fb australia ex jw`s ?.
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No mate it was just Australian ex JW`s . What i liked about it was only members could see what you posted .
I`m always curious to know if anybody I knew has joined any of these ex sites ,not that I attend to visit them all mind you.
I was involved with 5 Cong`s in Melbourne ,and 3 in SEQld.in my 32 years as a JW.
I submitted another application with a little more detail just a few mins,ago and will let you know how that went .
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Yesterday I applied to join FB ex JW in Australia
by smiddy3 intoday i see that my application was declined with no explanation or if i could review the decision ?.
or even ask why ?.
any aussies on this forum members of fb australia ex jw`s ?.
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Atlantis,
Sorry mate I should have asked if any other Aussies have had this problem. '
Born and bred an Aussie.
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Yesterday I applied to join FB ex JW in Australia
by smiddy3 intoday i see that my application was declined with no explanation or if i could review the decision ?.
or even ask why ?.
any aussies on this forum members of fb australia ex jw`s ?.
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Today I see that my application was declined with no explanation or if I could review the decision ?
or even ask why ?
Any Aussies on this forum members of FB Australia EX JW`s ?
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I`m astounded by this number ,what`s your thoughts ? definite benefits for sure ,but what of the future ?
by smiddy3 inby 2020, 114 launches carried around 1,300 satellites to space, surpassing the 1,000 new satellites per year mark for the first time.
but no year in the past compares to 2021. as of sept. 16, roughly 1,400 new satellites have already begun circling the earth, and that will only increase as the year goes on.
just this month, spacex deployed another 51 starlink satellites into orbit.. right now, there are nearly 6,000 satellites circling our tiny planet.
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Now there`s a theme for budding authors on this forum .In the distant future there will be so much accumulative junk orbiting the Earth that it`s blocking out much of the Sun threatening life on the planet that is dying due to decreased sunlight.
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Watchtower Study on 5th December.
by Lost in the fog inthe wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.
in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".
however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.
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Lost in the fog ,I also have brought up this point in previous posts , that Jehovah never shunned Satan and that Jesus never shunned Satan either , spending time with him and allowing himself to be tempted by Satan ?
And all Jehovah and Jesus did was cast him out of heaven thousands of years later ?
And the loving pair Jah and Jesus are, they sent him down here on Earth to cause more havoc for humans ?
Apparently neither of them have shunned him to this day and if they have, why send him down to earth ? there are plenty other places they could have sent him in the Universe where he couldn`t cause anymore trouble for humans.
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If Ever GB Members Deserved To Be Thrown in Jail It's When ...
by smiddy3 init was when the governing body started to disfellow-ship jehovah`s witnesses from taking blood transfusions in an effort to save their lives .. resulting in many hundreds if not thousands of needless deaths of men women and children who by this coercion died from this doctrine.. and to this day they still go unpunished .
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And those individuals who subject their unborn to the same fate in the case of a pregnant woman whose life and possibly the babies as well by refusing a transfusion.?
And parents who decide against minor children having a blood transfusion and indoctrinate them to refuse a transfusion ?
All because some men dictate their interpretation of scripture and enforce those rules by threats of DF or DA and shunning if they disobey them and their interpretation.
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JW Newsroom "reviews"
by neat blue dog injwdotorg pats themselves on the back yet again with the latest article praising jw news reports.
among the reviews one sister is quoted as saying: "i appreciate that i can trust the news on jw .org.
it is reliable and objective.".
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Then at the end of the article of course it says JW News is not possible without donations and a video about how to donate online.
That statement says it all : Including the lifestyle Governing Body members and their wives live.
Actually JW News reminds me of Watching The World on the inside back cover of AWAKE magazine .
IT was always months behind and past its use by date.
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Jussie Smollett on trial
by LoveUniHateExams inthere is a trial currently starting - even funnier than the baldwin nonsense.. yes, everyone's favorite actor, singer and hate crime victim is going on trial.. i am, of course, talking about jussie smollett.
he's going on trial for lying to chicago police and wasting their time.. he's obviously as guilty as hell, but i just can't wait for this to unfold.. it's gonna be hilarious ....
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It can only happen in America.
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Unitarian Universalist: Anyone Familiar?
by Darkknight757 ini hope you are all doing well.. has anyone had an encounter with a unitarian universalist?
my wife has a friend who invited us to their church a few years ago.
we never went lol.
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An interesting post DK757 ,I guess I`m a bit of an introvert as I`m quite happy in my own company.Though I`ve got into the habit of going to one of two clubs everyday now for 2 beers that I`m happy to spend about 2 hours quietly drinking before heading home again.
I have a few different friends / acquaintances who I have come to know at each club and if there I will socialize with them but if they are not there I`m still happy being on my own , in my own thoughts.
Organised meetings of any sorts now are not my cup of tea.
As far as the spiritual aspect is concerned ,I do find wonder in the complexity and divergent of all life forms that exist on this planet and I find myself wishing ? that their was some higher power nurturing and protecting what there is.
But then I come back to reality.Just about every living thing on this planet survives by living off the death and destruction of some other living thing on land sea and in the oceans IMHO .