I'd say probably say there are quite a few as well. I say this because if they actually took the time to read the bible in it's complete context, and not taking it out of context like the Watchtower tells it, they would see very quickly how bogus things really are. While I was still a JW, I never read the bible from Genesis to Revelation, but I did after I left it. All of it except for the genealogy part, that always makes my eyes gloss over, and I really don't care to know who the father and son were of So and So.
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Is my situation unique ?
by Steel inso ubm here.
i have a jw wife who in 10 years of marriage i have never seen actually read the bible, never given a witness to me, never had a biblical discussion.
for a number of years now hardly even reads the magazines.
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When did jws start viewing the "worldly" as bad associates?
by nowawake14 inany of you that had been in the organization for decades are welcome to answer.
really, who started this craziness?.
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Tameria2001
I don't know who started this, but I remember back in the late 1980s I would constantly hear this. They really aimed this at the teens, or at least it seemed that way to me. There was one time down in southern Oklahoma, there was a congregation that I attended, had some real issues with cliques, and I was not part of the group. There were pretty close to 15 other teens there, but none of them would have anything to do with me. So I made friends at school, and none of them were "good association" aka JWs. Most of the time they didn't give me any mind, other than doing a total avoidance of me. But one time I decided to hang out with a girl from school who was a smoker, and there was a designated smoking area for the teens at school (1984). At the very next meeting I attended, all of a sudden I had several people asking me why I was hanging out in the area with bad association and a bunch of other crap. When I was a teen I had no desire to smoke, drink, or do drugs, and not because I was a JW, just because it never interested me. I told them point blank, that their good little JW children would avoid me, so what did they expect me to do. I wasn't baptized at the time, and no desire to become one, so there wasn't much they could do to me. It was funny because at the next meeting I got a huge "love bombing" from those snotty @SS JW brats with the next meeting, then the next meeting after that it was back to the normal avoidance.
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Well about as I can be for someone going through Menopause.
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HELP! - Asking for Baptism photos for university art/personal documentation project (they will not be published or made public)
by AGoodPigeon ini'm new here, but i've been an ex-witness since 2015 (not disfellowshipped, faded and inactive but no longer believing) and i'm working on an art/personal project gathering the bapstism photos of many different ex-witnesses.
i am asking that anyone who feels comfortable with it send me (private message me) their photos that they or others took on the day of their baptism (before, after, or during).
i will not post these online anywhere or publish them.
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Tameria2001
Zeb, where were you baptized at, if you don't mind me asking? I was in Witchita, Kansas, summer of 1987. There was a little girl sitting next to me who was extremely young who was getting baptized.
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HELP! - Asking for Baptism photos for university art/personal documentation project (they will not be published or made public)
by AGoodPigeon ini'm new here, but i've been an ex-witness since 2015 (not disfellowshipped, faded and inactive but no longer believing) and i'm working on an art/personal project gathering the bapstism photos of many different ex-witnesses.
i am asking that anyone who feels comfortable with it send me (private message me) their photos that they or others took on the day of their baptism (before, after, or during).
i will not post these online anywhere or publish them.
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Tameria2001
I don't have any photos of my time as a JW, other than my wedding pictures, and a couple of baby pictures. When I left the JWs, I very angry at everyone associated with that organization that I personally knew, I ended up mailing almost all my pictures to my biological mother, that had anything with her in it. That was after I got the most hateful letter from that bi*ch, I was making a huge statement, and I told her so in a not so friendly letter, and she got the message loud and clear. It was very therapeutic.
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Will the Russian brothers start to wake up?
by nowwhat? inif i was a russian brother i would be wondering what exactly is the gb doing to help us out.
they are sitting in their lakeside corporate country club doing nothing while outside worldly agencies are making known our plight.
i found it puzzling that they flew out of russia like a bat out of hell as soon as the court rendered its decision leaving us high and dry.
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Tameria2001
The Watchtower has the flock convinced that if they are going through persecution then that is one of the signs that they are God's people, and are in the true religion. Also, another problem is they don't think for themselves. But could you just picture how mad a person would be once they do finally wake up, and realize the troubles they went through over a lie?
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Fearmongering : The greatest ploy the Watchtower Society uses against its faithful members
by RULES & REGULATIONS in"shortly, within our twentieth century*, the "battle in the day of jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.
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fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.
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There are quite a few JW that would stay in even if they knew it was a lie, both my mother and mother-in-law said those exact words about themselves. All I can reply that it is their loss, not mine.
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Do you think its stupid that JWs can't date regular people?
by nowawake14 inthat is absolutely the number one rule that i resent.. i feel sorry for some of those poor dependent minded jws who can't find anyone to marry.
all because they were only allowed to be with witnesses.
what a bunch of boloney!
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When I was still in my mother insisted that I get married to either an elder or a regular pioneer. I think she said that because if I had it would have raised her status in the organization in her mind. Fellow JWs would tell me that whomever I married should love Jehovah more than me - Gag. Dating was a real pain in the arse as a witness. Needless to say I did none of the above. The guy I finally got married to hated the JW - I am brother prick attitude and he loved me more than you know who. That was 25 years ago.
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Fearmongering : The greatest ploy the Watchtower Society uses against its faithful members
by RULES & REGULATIONS in"shortly, within our twentieth century*, the "battle in the day of jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.
" (the nations shall know that i am jehovah; 1971; 2nd ed.
fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.
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I believe it is. I was watching a recent video on the John Cedars YouTube channel, and it made total sense why my father-in-law was in panic mode when I was sitting next to him a couple of months back. In the video, he showed where Tony Morris was actually saying if a JW and any dealings with a DF one, or in my case DA, they will be killed at Armageddon. Not once did he talk to me, or allowed me to talk, because the @$$ kept talking over me.
Here is the video if you want to see it.
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Awake No. 2 2019 - Way To Destroy Your Childrens Hopes And Dreams Watchtower!
by pale.emperor innot that i spend much time on the cult's website, but i like to skim through their latest propaganda to make sure i'm up to date with their nuttiness.
(and when i say skim, i mean just that.
the wafer thin, dumbed down content can be read in like 2 mins flat).. i just had to share my thoughts on the above piece of trash.. no.
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Tameria2001
Sorry I couldn't get through even the summary of that op. All I will say about that is hogwash. They make me sick.
There is absolutely nothing encouraging a child to reach their dreams. Told my son at a young age if he wanted to go to college, work hard in school to make it happen. Had no idea how I was going to pay for it. Long story short, he worked his butt off reaching his dream of going to college, and as a result, he was able to gain a full scholarship for his complete time in college, with the stipulation that he keeps up his grades and do the class requirements the school puts down. He is wrapping up his third year and has been on the Dean's List every semester.
I am SOOO glad that I got my kids away from that cult before those jerks could mess them up.