Posts by EverApostate

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Isiah 65:17 (Memory wipe?)

by pleaseresearch in

“for behold, i create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.. i need some help with this please guys and gals.

what is this implying?

god will wipe those past memories, the past system of things from our minds?

EverApostate

I am terrified that my still-in wife's memory about me would be wiped off.

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The awake on my doorstep

by days of future passed in

i occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.

this time it was an awake.

is the world out of control?.

EverApostate

I feel the world is a better place to live now. Don't fall for doomsday tactics.

Had I been born some 300 years earlier, I would have died at a young age of Cholera, typhoid , malaria or any other numerous diseases caused by microbes that the loving God Created.

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Do you or did you experience too much intrusion into your personal life by the elders in your congregation?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i ask this question because i have personally experienced first hand the control and intrusion into my personal life by the elders at our hall; and for virtually trivial things or non issues!

what's more, i regularly hear of individuals moving to other halls because they were stumbled by the thought police....er, i mean these elders.. have you had any such experience?

have your elders been a bit ott over trivialities?.

EverApostate

I used to do very low FS, on an average of 5 hrs/month. For that, I would be advised by elders to do more and be less materialistic.

The elders thought I am giving more importance to my job than Kingdom activities. The truth was, my inner guts told me that this is all fake and hence lesser FS.

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So is there any truth to more Northeast Ohio congregations being merged or dissolved?

by My Name is of No Consequence in

i know of some congregations and even circuits that have already met this fate recently.

are there any more to come for certain?.

EverApostate

JW is Growing in India for sure, so as the Pentecostal and other young christian denominations.

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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there’s a lot.

i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.

since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.

EverApostate

They follow what they claim is a literal application of the improper usage of blood when it comes to transfusion, yet those same scriptures don't prevent them from allowing modern medicine from using blood for tests instead of what they say is the only proper use of blood- sacrifice and disposal

Yes, I always wanted to ask a JW about this. If blood is only to be used for sacrifice and disposal, JWs shouldn't do any blood work tests at all.

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And finally I'm out

by Skepsis in

jw
friends

hi all.. it's being a while that i don't share in the forum.

after moving to another country and finding a job, i asked my congregation in my country to send my publishing card here.

once i did it, i stopped attending meetings.

Nothing tastes better than Freedom. I am an Ex JW and relishing every moment of life, to be free from a cult. Looking back I can only laugh at how silly my beliefs were, once. You too would experience the same.

Wishing all the best.

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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there’s a lot.

i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.

since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.

EverApostate

The strangest Belief for me to swallow was "Only JWs would survive the Great Tribulation". Any others, however good they may be, would be destroyed."

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December 6, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: Study of Jesus—The Way

by wifibandit in

december 6, 2017 to all congregations re: study of jesus—the way.

jesus—the way, the truth, the life.

EverApostate

NeatBlueDog, This is for you

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jesus—the way, the truth, the life.

EverApostate

I remember Jesus riding on 2 donkeys. But the cover picture has only one. May be a spare one drawn at the back of the one being ridden ?