Topics Started by TheLiberator

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New Ex-JW Channel
by TheLiberator in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm just sharing the link to my new ex-jw channel.

if you are on a similar path, join me on my journey out of the watchtower.

if you enjoy the content, please like, subscribe, and share.
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Helping My Children
by TheLiberator in
1. jw
2. experiences
i try not to think about it everyday but every now and then i seem to get very down about the fact that i see my adoptive children being raised as jehovah's witnesses.

they are 10 and 13 years of age.

my wife continues to raise them in this religion.
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You Need to Heal
by TheLiberator in
1. jw
2. experiences
it has been awhile since i posted.

but i wanted to say a few things that may help those recovering from the watchtower, especially if you have just discovered ttatt.

it is with humility that i come here to express these thoughts.
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My Freedom as an "Apostate"
by TheLiberator in
1. jw
2. experiences
just curious.

how many of you are "apostates", but not disfellowshipped?

i know this happens if you keep this stuff secret.
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If you could speak to your former self, what would you say?
by LoveUniHateExams in
1. jw
2. experiences
if you, knowing ttatt, could go back in time and speak to your former jw self, what would you say to wake yourself up from the wt religion?.

i would speak to my unbaptised publisher self.

at that stage, i believed.
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What crime should elders report?
by kramer in
1. jw
2. friends
so, i am trying to get my head around what the right position of elders should be when they come across crime is.. i think i get the issuess around clergy confidentiality - and how that might potentially be breached when they talk about it to other elders, let alone the police.. but if people are saying that elders - or clergy of another faith should report crime to the police when it is confessed to the, then where are the boundaries.. so if someone says they should report to police on a confessed example of child abuse, that's one thing.. how about reporting to police consensual sex between a 19year old and 15 year old - which is statutory rape in the uk.

how about criminal fraud if they come across it.

assault on a congregant?.
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"What is in it for me."
by stuckinarut2 in
1. jw
2. friends
so if there was no promise of a "reward" for faithfulness...no paradise...no eternal life etc, how many witnesses would stick with the "faith"?.

sure, the reward might be "making god happy", but he supposedly holds out the paradise promise with eternal life as an incentive right?.

before anyone says, that's what satans challenge regarding job was about, just think.
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The "Fellowship of Sufferings"
by Perry in
1. jw
2. friends
i came across this title phrase while reading a daily devotional one morning and it reminded me of this discussion board.

there really is a fellowship of sufferings here.

never since adolph hitler has an organization done so much to destroy families as the watchtower has done.
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Convention Weirdness
by BlackWolf in
1. jw
2. friends
well i just got back from 3 days in hell, and geez was this convention strange or what?

im sure someone's probably made a topic about this already but i can't believe that there weren't any new releases besides the movies.

has that ever happened before?
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Is Knowing/Using The Name Of God Important?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i say no.. although the tetragrammaton appears close to 7000 times in the hebrew scriptures, the personal name of god does not.

seems to me that god made sure that both that his personal name does not appear therein and that no one would ever actually know it or learn even how to pronounce it.

he also made sure that his name (baring 3 hallelujahs in revelation) did not appear in the new testament.