january 29th - my baptism date.
can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.
i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.
Baptized in 1975 at age 15.
Why? In autumn 1975 I wanted to survive Armageddon and then play with pandas and tigers. And I wanted my parents to be proud of me.
The worst is not that Armageddon has not occurred, but that today the WT denies having promoted the year 1975.
Damn liars and hypocrites.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
@ kevin mcfree.
thanks a lot for all your hard work with the lego dubtown videos.
i just saw your "making of" and now i have a lot more respect for all the work you do with your movies.. please continue with the videos - i am looking forward to further episodes.. the making of dubtown's 'the naked truth' .
Another great Video from dubtown with a quiz that every JW answers wrong due to his indoctrination (thanks kevin):
my name is sophie mueller, and i’m currently in the class ap research.
the aim of ap research is to have students enter into an academic conversation that exists about a specific topic or issue.
for my research project, i have chosen to evaluate the social stress levels, or sense of belonging, within members of the jehovah’s witnesses community, due to my personal background with the religion.
You write:
"Because this sect exhibits mental illness 16 times more than the general population, it is important to find a solution, in order to raise awareness and help people."
Where I can find this information and is it science-based?
new to this forum.
i ran across it when watching lloyd evans videos and searching out jw links.
i left the cult many years ago after a long stint in it.the cult caused me much pain and problems even though i left.
@ toby
Welcome from Germany.
what questions do the elders ask you when you are in your meeting requesting to get reinstated ?.
Before they ask anything at all, they tell you that you must write to the elders about your request for reinstatement.
it's been updated.
copy the link for your email sharing.
i hope you enjoy.
@ FatFreek 2005
WELL DONE. You have to check the library with every update. The governing body keeps the apostates busy
not because he discovered jesus was the promised messiah , but he learned that gods name "could" be jehovah?!
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Escalating violence surrounds us. True, we are convinced that these “critical times hard to deal with” are evidence that we are living “in the last days” and that each passing day brings us one step closer to the new world. (2 Tim. 3:1)
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The ususal scare tactics.
What the WT is hiding from us:
Germany had in 2017 10% less crimes than in the year 2016:
https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Zahl-der-Verbrechen-sinkt-2017-deutlich-article20397856.html
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episode twenty three - sherrie is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.
today we have a really cool live recording from my living room.
@ dubstepped @ sherrie
Since I'm on vacation, I listened to the whole podcast. Thanks for this 3 hours podcast.
Sherrie told her story fantastically and pleasantly. I could "see" the tears in her eyes as she learned the truth about JWs dealing with child molesters (ARC) and the truth about them dealing with quotes (jw-facts) in the publications.
I wish Sherrie a lot of strength in dealing with her father - I had to experience the same with my mother.
It is heartwarming to hear how Sherrie and her husband were allowed to learn the truth about the truth (TTAT) and how this family was not destroyed by the JWs.
it's been updated.
copy the link for your email sharing.
i hope you enjoy.
I have the 2016 version from here: https://avoidjw.org/watchtower-library/
And then all the automatic updates done.
It's hard to believe, that WT is changing parts of such an old publication. But they have done it.
In my experience, no JW will install an "old" 2013 library CD to verify your statement - for them it's a old version and they will not have the new stuff available. Propably they didn't keep the old CDs either.
Suggestion:
Maybe you write number 7 with both versions into the table - showing, that the WT ist trying to hide, what they wrote in the past. So a noble JW can look into the hardbound "Insight on the Sriptures" AND on his actual library CD and see, that the WT is dishonest.
