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  Merry Christmas 🎄

  by snare&racket in

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  it’s that awesome time of year again...... food.

  drink.

  tree.

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  Merry Christmas from Germany

  
  
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  1981 quote made my blood boil

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just got so angry coming across this quote from the wt, shortly after raymond franz was disfellowshipped:.

  one who has been a true christian might renounce the way of the truth, stating that he no longer considers himself to be one of jehovah’s witnesses or wants to be known as one.

  when this rare event occurs, the person is renouncing his standing as a christian.

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  @ Vanderhoven7

  *** w81 9/15 p. 23 par. 14 Disfellowshiping—How to View It ***

  14 One who has been a true Christian might renounce the way of the truth, stating that he no longer considers himself to be one of Jehovah’s Witnesses or wants to be known as one. When this rare event occurs, the person is renouncing his standing as a Christian, deliberately disassociating himself from the congregation. The apostle John wrote: “They went out from us, but they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us.”—1 John 2:19.

  Even worse when they say they left Jehovah:
  

  *** w06 9/1 p. 21 When a Loved One Leaves Jehovah ***

  If you have left Jehovah, now is the best time to return.

  
  
  
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  JW Phrases

  by Holden Caufield in

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  what some jw phrases that you hate?.

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  "religiously divided home"
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  One scripture Jesus quoted that the Watchtower Society forgets to teach/apply

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  14 and this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.. .

  19 go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[b] the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that i have commanded you.

  and behold, i am with you always, to the end of the age.”.

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  (John 12:5-7) 5 “Why was it this perfumed oil was not sold for three hundred denar and given to the poor people?” 6 He said this, though, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money box and used to carry off the monies put in it.
  

  JWs do not follow jesu's footsteps.
  

  JWs have no money box for the poor - and the bible is very clear in this point.
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  Explain Your Avatar

  by new boy in

  1. jw
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  i know this thread has been done before.

  however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.

  ".

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  fastJehu

  My avatar is the sign for german "Autobahn" (highway or freeway).

  I'm a german "petrolhead" (as the UK people say) and love to drive fast cars.

  No longer driving mad cars with JWs into fieldservice -

  now driving the "free way".
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  Blondie's Thoughts 11/4/2018 WT article pages 3-7

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  blondie’s first thoughts 11-4-2018 wt study (september 2018, pages 3-7 (happy if you do them).

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2018/ .

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

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  @ Blondie

  Thanks - I appreciate your analysis.
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  well written exit story in huge magazine

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. family

  https://www.stern.de/neon/wilde-welt/gesellschaft/zeugen-jehovas--wieso-meine-eltern-mich-haetten-sterben-lassen---und-ich-ausstieg-8353584.html.

  clear story of exit from wt, would suffer in google translation imo.

  https://www.stern.de/panorama/zeugen-jehovas--ein-aussteiger-erklaert-den--psychologischen-terror--7587542.html.

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  Diogenesister

  Love your username by the way FastJehu!!!

  My username:
  I am the modern day fullfillment of Jehu, because I drive very fast cars on german Autobahn. My avatar is the german sign for Autobahn (highway or speedway)

  
  
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  well written exit story in huge magazine

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. family

  https://www.stern.de/neon/wilde-welt/gesellschaft/zeugen-jehovas--wieso-meine-eltern-mich-haetten-sterben-lassen---und-ich-ausstieg-8353584.html.

  clear story of exit from wt, would suffer in google translation imo.

  https://www.stern.de/panorama/zeugen-jehovas--ein-aussteiger-erklaert-den--psychologischen-terror--7587542.html.

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  fastJehu

  12. September 2018 06:19 Uhr

  Notorious religious community

  "My parents would have let me die" - why I left Jehovah's Witnesses

  For many years our guest author was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. For NEON she talks about everyday life in the faith community and the moment when she decided to leave.

  A guest article by Sophie Jones

  A pretty good girl, with a long skirt and a high blouse, who knocks on your door and wants to talk to you about paradise - I was the little one. Because I grew up with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Actually, I was a normal child. But who took a closer look noticed that something was not quite right. Hardly any free time with classmates, no cinema visits, no rappers or rock bands. Instead I was dressed differently, withdrawn and insecure.

  I knew Bible verses by heart and when others celebrated birthdays or Christmas, I prayed to God and the day went like any other.

  "The good Lord is proud of you"

  When you're small, it's still possible. I didn't know anything else, I grew up like that and so I thought for a long time that the others were funny and abnormal. Until I noticed then sometime: I am the outsider. And the older you get, the clearer the difference was.

  Mobbing from schoolmates? It's not that bad, after all you can bear it for God! "The dear God is proud of you and sees all that", I was told. Well, thank you.

  For a while I talked myself into this successfully, cried into my pillow at night and asked God to end the suffering. Nothing happened. I had "friends" in the congregation, but they were the only ones. My free time was filled with preaching and Bible reading. When I wanted to spend time with other teenagers who unfortunately were not in the "truth" (i.e. unbelievers), it was said that they were bad company for me. And immediately afterwards a Bible text: "Bad dealings spoil useful habits".

  Does God really see everything?

  There they were again: feelings of guilt. God does not want you to meet people who do not believe in Him, it was always said. But I wanted to have friends! Also to be normal. To be invited once, to the cinema or to a party and be able to say "Yes"! But that was soon over: With time I was hardly invited any more and didn't have to think about any excuses anymore.

  Nevertheless, the guilt continued to spread. I should stand by what I believed and not deny it. "Jehovah will be so disappointed. And he sees EVERYTHING" was a typical sentence of my mother.

  The thought that God sees everything drove me crazy. As if he was just waiting for me to sin and come crawling to beg his forgiveness. To see if I'm watching a baller film, drinking beer, wearing a skirt too short, snogging, smoking, swearing, lying, whatever: He's watching me!

  But there was also pressure from the other side, which was just as bad: "Why don't you celebrate a birthday? Where do you always go on Thursday evenings? Why aren't you allowed to go to the party with us? What are you wearing for funny things again? Whaaat, you don't know this new crass band?"

  My classmates, of course, wanted to know exactly. And when they found out about the witnesses, the questions became more difficult: "You can't have a blood transfusion if you had an accident? You are not allowed to have sex before marriage? Why are you no longer in contact with your father?

  Jehovah's Witnesses must not have contact with excluded persons.

  Unfortunately, I had no answer to these questions myself. I was unhappy. It was clear to me that I could not believe all these teachings and did not want to live by them. I knew that in case of a medical emergency my parents would have decided for me: No blood, even if it means death. They would have let me die in the name of God. And worst of all, for years I was manipulated in such a way that I would have gladly agreed to the whole thing.

  For a long time I was bubbling over. At the age of 17 I still let myself be baptized. From then on, contact with my father was strictly forbidden, for he was an excluded man. And Jehovah's Witnesses must not have any contact with the excluded, even if it is their own family. I could not cope with that. I was torn back and forth, angry and deeply sad. I just couldn't believe that a "God of love" had created families - and then tore them apart.

  I have my life back

  About a year later, I broke free and built a completely new life for myself. I have left everything behind me, moved and created a new person: MYSELF AS I WANT TO BE. The way I want to be, the way I am happy.

  Now I am 23 and live as free and content as never before. I don't have to please anybody anymore, go my own way and have met so many valuable people who love me without conditions and are always there.

  It was not always easy to hold out and find my way in a world that seemed so often strange to me. But if you take the risk of leaving something behind that doesn't do you any good, you can win the most important thing: your life.

  https://www.youtube.com/SophieJones

  translated by https://www.deepl.com/translator
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  "Blood Guilty"

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  guilt is such a wonderful tool used by the jehovah’s witnesses.

  one of the terms they love to use is the term “blood guilty.” they have actually used this term to guilt their members into doing more and more “house to house activity” yes, they have said on numerous occasions at their kingdom halls and other major gathering that a person “could be blood guilty” for not going out in the field service activity enough.

  the reason is simple.

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  (Luke 17:1, 2) 17 Then he said to his disciples: “It is unavoidable that causes for stumbling should come. Nevertheless, woe to the one through whom they come!  It would be of more advantage to him if a millstone were suspended from his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to stumble one of these little ones.

  
  The GB made a lot of JWs stumble when they made the wrong predictions about 1975 and all the other wrong predictions.

  So the bible is very clear, who is blood-guilty.
  
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  wizard of Oz JW style

  by Kevin McFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a one year special episode for watchtower to enjoy watching this week ;).

  https://youtu.be/1fx3vrkvaci.

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  @ Kevin

  Great job - well done. I'm proud to be a member of the "Kevin-class"