Posts by joe134cd

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Mormon Church Founder had 33 wives

by designs in

we know russell, rutherford franz and knorr wer kooky but joseph smith takes the cake.. the salt lake tribune of all newspapers has run an article on the lds founder's 33 wives, most of whom were teenagers.. http://www.sltrib.com/news/173364-155/plural-smith-joseph-marriage-lds-says.

would you stay an lds after knowing this, how would you rationalize staying with this knowledge.. .

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joe134cd

Coincidently enough I started a thread on the mormon church just a couple of days back here is the link

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/286641/1/Just-watched-a-documentary-on-the-Mormon-church-and-I-reckon-they-have-got-far-more-scandal-and-issues-with-BS-doctrins-than-the-witnesses-ever-did

Here is another article discussing the issues they are facing. To the Mormons credit at least they are honest enough to come out and admit it. Sorry for some reason I can't seem to cut and past outside sources. If you google special report: mormonism besieged by a modern age | Reuters And it should bring it up.

To be honest I don't think the watchtower has got anything on the Mormon church in relation to the scandal and the total BS that surrounds it. Wouldn't it be funny if one day they merged into one.

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one last step..Is being mentally out the same as being emotionally out?

by MissFit in

jw
friends

we talk here about the importance of being mentally and physically out to be really free.. what about being emotionally free?.

i realized for me, i had to be emotionally awake first.

i had been yo-young back and forth for years.

joe134cd

Direct apostasy never works. There has to be an external trigger that sets you off down this course.

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Will They Continue To Take Your Money After Booting You Out?

by steve2 in

automatic bank payments & being disfellowshipped.

as noted on this site, the organization has in place numerous electronic provisions for people to donate money, ranging from one-off payments through to monthly automatic payments from donors' bank accounts into the organization's.. this is all well and good - and consistent with what lots of organizations - religious or otherwise - do.. but, should a donor be disfellowshipped - or disassociated - is the pre-selected donation provision stopped by the organization itself?

do they have any policy at all on it?

joe134cd

can anybody substantiate a story I heard about the bethel in the Czech Republic been financed from contributions of dirty money. i heard it was quite well known in that country.

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"The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!

by Witness 007 in

at the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.

1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.

and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.

joe134cd

I never asked him. I just took him at his word.

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New Zealand News: Jehovah's Witness dies after refusing blood transfusion

by AndersonsInfo in

jehovah's witness dies after refusing blood transfusion.

monday, october 20, 2014.

3 news - nzn.

joe134cd

Huh this is the first I have heard of this.

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My daughter gave blood today!!

by joyfulfader in

jw
friends

i am a proud mother.

my daughter's school had a blood drive and she is of age to donate.

she wanted to last year but was too young.

joe134cd

It's interesting as I have been thinking about donating blood. But more as it been the last frontier of letting go of the religion. But so far I just can't seem to do it. The ol buggers have still got me in mental slavery. I'll get there I'm just can't bring myself to it.

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"The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!

by Witness 007 in

at the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.

1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.

and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.

joe134cd

I was actually intetested to see how other denominations feared with regard to youth retention, so I went to the local church down the road. The thing that struck me were the young kids actually been allowed to play and have fun. There were also a fair amount of youth. I spoke to the pastor about the time and money that they put into creating programs and an environment for their youth. Surprisingly the pastor actually spoke highly of the witnesses although he said a few of their ideas were a bit far fetched. If only he knew. Wt you have to change.

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One Day assembly in Arizona- $17,000 !!

by AndDontCallMeShirley in

i heard from a reliable source that a one-day assembly in arizona last weekend had a "cost" to the publishers of $17,000.. predictably, the elders were nice enough to obligate the attendees to a $6,000 donation to wt before the assembly "costs" (i.e.

"rent/extortion) were even met.

$11,000 rent plus $6000 in extra "donations".

joe134cd

JW APOLOGISTS!!!!! You are getting shafted.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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a young 14 year old girl was disfellowshipped in my former congregation last week

by alexandre in

a baptized girl from my former cong.

was expelled out because she participated in more than one porn videos with classmates in the school and theses videos became public.

she is 14 years old and grew up as witnesses.but anybody knows she had many boyfriends and she-, but that thing was unbelievable!

joe134cd

OMG I havnt heard one like that ever in my life. I sort of wonder if there are underlying problems with abuse of some sort or dependency issues. To be involved in a porn film at that age I would say you would have to have very low self esteem.

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This weeks service meeting! More craziness.....

by stuckinarut2 in

so this weeks service meeting is so full of "crazy".

a whole 15 min part devoted to trying to indoctrinate everyone on how to "explain our beliefs on 1914".

then another 15 min part called "a tool to help us explain our beliefs about 1914".

joe134cd

If the GB knew what was good for them they would be trying to forget about it.