Happy Tuesday Everyone,
How is everyone doing this fine Tuesday afternoon? I hope everyone out there is staying safe and well. It’s a wonderful day and a great start to a New Year. What is everyone’s plans for the year? What are those New Year’s resolutions? The one I’m hoping to accomplish is my book. Everyday I feel more and more inspired. I think I might take a few days and head to the cabin and try and complete it. I think a couple days in the mountains will help me sort the rest of my thoughts out and finish it. I know once it’s finished then I’ll need to start the process of reading it over and over again, making changes, you know, major edits. I figure if disability won’t accept me and every doctor I have says I’m not allowed to work now and most likely never will, then I need to find a way to support myself. I love to write, so why not try and make a living with putting things from pen to paper.
I have come up with a couple ideas on how I can set up a small place that’s all mine to be able to keep my quilting supplies out as well as my new Cricut machine. I was telling John yesterday that I have figured out the reason I don’t do much crafting is that I don’t have a place to really dive into it. You see, I don’t have a place to set up my equipment and just leave it up. I don’t think I’ll get that space any time soon, so I need to make accommodations where I can have just a small space. I have some ideas and I’m going to start working on those later this evening.
With that being said, this little issue of mine has made me stop and think about the feeling of being misplaced. You see, I’ve owned my own home since I was just 18 years old. Now, I’m in a different situation where I don’t have my own home and I’m not gonna lie, it is very difficult, more difficult then I thought. I just got a call from my disability attorney and she informed me that even though my doctors won’t allow me to go back to work, my license is suspended due to lapse of conscience, I will need to wait 12-18 months before I can appear before a judge in hopes of being approved for permanent disability. Ugh, now if that isn’t the biggest kick in the butt. I am feeling even more misplaced then ever now. I’m not sure what to even think about all this.
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”-Masaru Emoto. I guess the next step would be finding myself, or better yet, figuring out who I am or who I used to be. I know I don’t want to go back to the life I was living in its entirety, but now I can’t help but wonder what lessons I need to be learning. I’m told by my friends that I’ve come along way and that I am a strong person, yet at this very moment, I’m feeling defeated again. I think maybe I need to escape for awhile and just sit in the muck. “The pain will come. Let it visit, cry it out, vent it out, bleed it out, and then ask it to leave. Do not allow it to build a home and call it broken. We aren’t meant to be broken forever. That is punishment to our hearts and minds.”-Pierre Alex Jeanty. I’m pretty much numb. For the first time I’m not in flight mode, I’m simply in existing mode. I can’t allow myself to sit here for very long as I know it will take that much more time to get out of it. I think that’s why my best option or maybe I should say that the path I am being directed to is writing.
What makes a person feel misplaced in life? According to purposefairy.com, she says one reason is that “people feel lost in life because they value the opinions of others more than their own. Even though they have a very wise and trusted counselor within themselves, their heart and soul, they don’t seem to trust themselves. They constantly seek advice from others, and the opinions of those around them always seem to be more valuable and more important than their own.” I know I’m guilty of this very concept. I think in part it’s because of being raised a JW, I didn’t learn how to think for myself. This is something I’m learning to readjust in my life though. I’m learning to think for myself. I often wonder what my life would of been like if I would of only followed my dreams, instead of letting someone tell me what my dreams were. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”-Steve Jobs.
Isn’t that the truth? Our lives are short overall. We can’t waste our own lives living the way someone else wants us to live. I believe if we really stop and listen, our hearts and minds will direct us to the path we need to follow. We will be open to hearing where the Universe is guiding us. In the article by purposefairy.com, she says that “people feel lost in life because they are ruled by fear. Their hearts are closed and fear seems to govern every area of their lives. Fear seems to be present in their minds, in their hearts, in their homes, in the work they do, in the decisions they make, in the relationships they have and in everything they do. They live in a permanent state of fear, and since love is no longer welcomed, they feel lost, disoriented, disconnected and very unhappy.” Makes complete sense, doesn’t it? I think we grow up learning certain behaviors, and if we are raised by parents that believe in molding us, rather than teaching us and guiding us within certain boundaries and allowing us to expand those boundaries as we grow in wisdom and experience, then we fear a life outside the parameters of our very own comfort zone.
I know I fear the unknown rather then embracing it as a journey and experience. This isn’t to say that I’m giving in or giving up the journey I’m on, it’s just saying, I fear the unknown. I fear the insecurities I am facing. If I was truly a strong person, I’d be embracing them. When we fear something, we pull back from it, or push it away. Fear in part comes from being stuck in our past. “We are very attached to our past and everything that happened in it. And we just can’t seem to find a way to free ourselves from in, and maybe we don’t want to.” I suppose this makes the most sense. Change is difficult. I read something somewhere or heard it said that we should stop looking for happiness in the same place we lost it. Basically our past, right? “Great things never come from your comfort zone.”-livelearnbetter.com
What does life look like outside your comfort zone? Do you ever just sit and look out a window and dream of life on the other side of that window? Are you too afraid to allow yourself to get lost in those dreams? “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”-Max Depree. What are we? What am I? Am I simply meant to live life the way someone wants me to live? Can I live the life I’ve always dreamed of? Can I someday have the house overlooking the ocean that I’ve always dreamed of? The photo below has become my dream home, or dream view for writing. Ever since I saw the movie, Something’s Gott Give, I’ve dreamt of owning a home where I can set up my writing studio just like this. Can I find the inner strength to perhaps move away some day where I can have this home with the view of the ocean? Can I find the courage to pursue becoming a published writer? Will I continue living the life that disables me from sitting in front of windows like these, maybe having one or two open, feeling the breeze and hearing the sound of the waves crashing below? Only I can answer these questions and only I can fight for what I truly want. Only I can decide if I will settle for an average, yet happy life, or will I take chances and go for it all.
“It is good to feel lost… Because it proves you have a navigational sense of where ‘home’ is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists, and maybe your current location isn’t that place, but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it.”-Erika Harris.
My dear family, friends, I hope we can all embrace that lost feeling and find our true path. I hope we an all end up right where we need to be. I believe strongly in a plan for my life. Maybe it isn’t a plan that someone else has challenged me to have, but there is a plan for my life. I believe strongly that if I listen and pay attention to the signs, the Universe will direct me where I need to go. I know that what I consider to be a failure is simply life placing stepping stones at my feet to guide me to the path I was meant to be on. I am terrified of the unknown, and yet, I know my God has never let me go without. While things seem bleak for the moment, I’m sure if I continue to put faith in him, he’ll show me the way. I’ve come to far to look back, or maybe it’s okay to look back and remind myself of the distance I’ve come. Either way, I must leave the past where it lays.
If you are feeling misplaced in life right now, I beg of you not to give up. Find that inner strength and continue forward. Life is a journey and it’s filled with so many uncertainties, and that’s what makes it an exciting adventure. Be thankful for your struggles, after all, they help you see the strengths within that you may have never known existed. I’m right there with you being fearful of the unknowns, and I’m right there with you to be a friend, a listening ear and your biggest cheerleader, and I’m eternally thankful for all of you who have been by my side, encouraging me, helping me and embracing my dream of becoming an author as though it was your dream too. Take care of yourselves and until next time, don’t forget, Love Life++
Love Life with Dawna 
“Our faith in Jesus and his father is between us and them alone, and we don’t need to have a worldly organization mediating between us and them.
I sure hope this makes sense? Sometimes, it makes sense in my head but doesn’t come out the way it’s supposed to.”
In reply to your previous comment, yes, that makes exactly perfect sense how PERSONAL this really is, because that is the truth. It is also simple, hence why apostasies of unneeded middle-men try to complicate it like JWs do. But, the truth comes out anyway doesn’t it?
With a universe creating duo like God and Christ who needs that rickety manmade junk heap they call an “organization”? And with JWs for example, why on earth would they need to “obey as crazy and it sounds” and run of to the “bunkers”?
One angel is all they would need, but that is NOT what the GB promote, yet there are legions at the universal scale of numbers with powers beyond all humans and all civilization on this planet in many of them as their powers will also vary and be diverse. Then you got God and Christ, imagine that. The GB promote false trust in themselves and the decrepit blood-guilty organization. Not good. JWs are trusting in MAN. Their faith has been SUBVERTED.
This is the confusion JW error inspires. They isolated JWs from the most important history of Christianity which is the 1517 Reformation as far as modern intervention on the Catholic apostasy which was doing THE EXACT SAME THING AS JWs, trying to force people into their “religious views”, “the Pope is your mediator”, etc. That Refprmation resistance expanded with the 1534 English Reformation Anglican Church “revolt” which in 1609 provided the context for the Baptist movement.
By 1833 the Adventist stream came from Baptist roots, and the IBSA was one of many ministries in that period. By 1931 that became Jehovah’s witnesses but at first as a life mission term. By 1950 they adopted the “true religion” false-idea at which time Jehovah’s witnesses was morphed into a mere religious label, the true is not not true, all religion is still a “racket and a snare”.
From that time the seeds of error were born as the 1944 period is when the concept of a “first century governing body” MYTH was also first entertained in JWs. Their 1919 “governing body” claims are historically bogus. From 1944 to 1976 the Governing Body error took control. From there it was all downhill. But like Paul said, we all have our own gifts and places we are “sent out” into by the spirit. Some as this, some as that, etc.
We all have enough faith and experience as aided by the apostasy of JWs to now be independent of men, and dependent on Christ [alone] with God of course. The end of the [weed-infested] “a system of things” (Matt13:36-39) of JWs defunct weed-led ministry, is this era of basic teaching ministries concluding, and they ALL went bad, now we go into our freed ministries. JWs will be a benchmark things have changed when WT goes down.
You are fully capable of being led by the holy-spirit [alone], not men, we have freed humans in this ministry to encourage, NOT to lord it over “fellow slaves”. JWs lost their minds, like the GB it ALL went to their fat heads. Now time for the humbling.
In Matthew 22:1-14 JWs are that ingrate city who have spurned God’s grace, and which “City of Murder” will now go down as a symbol of WT downfall BEFORE the weeding guest invite is completed.
(Matthew 22:10) Accordingly those slaves went out to the roads and gathered together all they found, both wicked and good; and the room for the wedding ceremonies was filled with those reclining at the table.
When you read it, you will notice a final call to “the wicked and the good” is the result, on the “roads”, plural, is the world system, of a world call in generic form like we have received from God. That is because more anointed-to-be and people are being called in as aided by the JW “city” conflagration for a big signal, coming up.
(Daniel 11:32-35) And those who are acting wickedly against [the] covenant (in JWs right now), he will lead into apostasy by means of smooth words. But as regards the people who are knowing their God, they will prevail and act effectively. 33 And as regards those having insight among the people, they will impart understanding to the many. And they will certainly be made to stumble by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plundering, for [some] days. 34 But when they are made to stumble they will be helped with a little help; and many will certainly join themselves to them by means of smoothness. 35 And some of those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and to do a whitening, until the time of [the] end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
In Daniel 11:32-35 when you read it, the stumbling by sword and flame, which the GB oppression is an example of, is for “whitening, cleansing and refinement”.
We just got refined in the fire of the apostate JW experience, and now we are getting ready for the Revelation 10:5-7 true summary to prepare for the final global milestones of prophecy and world events to precede Christ. Obviously he will not arrive until they have the “rival kingdom” world government “8th King” completed. That is another big secret JWs are tasked with the concealment of. And thus it is no surprise they worship it as UN NGO.(Matt24:15)
JW judgment downfall coming up will be our first milestone, as Daniel 8:13-14. Make a note, because it takes a few years to unwind fully and you will see it self-verify those prophecy events and timing DURING the JW downfall in judgment. It is the temple visit, judgment, and purification of Malachi 3:1-4, and Zechariah 3:1-5, as the first pattern repeats in the future for the final round.
Anyway, in relation to your Misplaced article, with me JWs made me imagine I was no longer in God’s service if I fell out or did it “my way”. That is when I was misplaced. But by the trials of the “JW experience in apostate ramifications”, I listened to GOD, not GB and JW manmade sinner opinions and judgments. I just accepted “my territory” “my way” and just let it happen. I did not have to freak out and “schedule a time” and “keep track of hours” the territory literally came to me.
When WE believe something the motivation is natural, it does not need to be forced, the spirit pushes it along as Jesus said “worship in spirit and truth” not dependent on a “place” of a physical mountain or physical temple. JWs worship the GB at a physical place they liken to both of those symbols, thus they now must be forced into WT service.
I could not force it, or plan it, or foresee it, it just happened. I was hearing the JW judgmental self-righteous voice, rather than the “voice of the shepherd”. (John10) JWs are the “stranger’s voice” of the GB, and the goal is to try to place their commands in us, when we can just “listen” for God and “the true shepherd” instead. Like Christ said he is NOT a burden. Look at the blood-guilty enormous GB burden JWs lug around.
NO OTHER HUMAN voice is needed. Like with you, you can know when God is talking to YOU, between YOU and Christ and God with no other person necessary, true freedom.
Since we are close enough to the “Word of God” Christ speaking for himself soon, another teaching ministry is not the purpose now after WT bites the dust. Any summary movement will be non-religious and natural and it will have great proofs coming, for a positive message.
Now is the approach of the real thing who was going to replace all this human mess anyway. Plus, when the Revelation 13:15-18 world government pushing “666” phase commences, OF COURSE, the Kingdom of God must have a counter-offer for their Kingdom to be chosen if ANYONE wants to be in it. Worldwide at that time, even now, ANYONE can say yes to Revelation 14:6-7; it has to be that hugely promised, free and open and human error is why.
That is because the Revelation 11:15 Kingdom OF THE WORLD, also has a physical reflection of Christ’s “let YOUR Kingdom come”, and its “will done on Earth” Kingdom rule, “as in heaven”. All heavenly things will be reflected into earth exactly. Hence Revelation 21 holy city “come down from heaven” to this planet. Hence the stone in Daniel 2 becomes “a large mountain” and “fills the earth”.
Earth is transformed into the physical Kingdom of Christ to the exact degree as the spiritual Kingdom of Christ all with God’s Kingdom total eternal power over it all. hence the “regeneration” in that physical term of Matthew 19:28. Even the animals cannot be left out of the finale as in Revelation 5:13, Isaiah 34:14-17, Ezekiel 47:9 and many more. (Ps49:14; Rom8:18-22; Ps133)
Such as Christ the man, his physical perfection must become new perfect humanity as an example of a heavenly thing “reflected into earth” as a “last Adam” new human being perfect and deathless. “The way it is supposed to be”.
God has been using confusion of human nations and peoples since Genesis 10-11 for his own better end purpose. Also, Christ “I came to cause division” in his own house is the same dividing and confusing effect. That is because disunity is safer as unity gets used for the wrong purpose as in Genesis 11:1-9.
In spite of its errors and eventual apostasy, a divided competitive Christianity spread the news of Christ much more fully than any single ministry. There are now 2.3 billion people who claim to believe in Christ. And now because judgmental JWs must be the “big winner” they are all invalid to please their fantasy? No can do.
As in Zephaniah 3:8-9, Christ and the true “pure language” as a literal one world language restoration, is when global unity comes under Christ, not now.
In the meantime we can know God is not pleased with the JW apostasy, but he knew this long ago. That coming Daniel 8:13-14 judgment is why Daniel is all wiped out and exhausted in Daniel 8:26-27 from that very vision sequence. The “transgressors acting to a completion” in Daniel 8:23a, has been active in the JW apostasy for few decades now.
Anyway, once the JW error is out of the way and closure in part is given by a huge judgment on that city of transgression (Matt24:15), it will get clearer for even all Christians globally, because with the mess Christian religion is, God has to guide them.
He does it in ways very subtle, not like some pillar of fire in the old days. But, we have to stick to the faith (Rev14:12), by only hoping and having faith in God and Christ. As you see with JWs, their faith has been hi-jacked to the GB and their vain material organization. That will end up disastrous. But, that also sets up that “the judgment” but “starts with the house of God” as in 1 Peter 4:17, much more will follow. ALL Christians are involved.
In addition, JWs promoting their religion as salvation also eclipses Christ’s sacrifice which should be their NUMBER ONE message. That is because his Kingdom is the means to carry it out globally, his sacrifice is ultimately more important as it is what legally empower others to be in that Kingdom, by total forgiveness and rebirth.
This is why JW anointed numbers are increasing, the anointing is not completed yet, it is open. Also, that Matthew 25:1-13 “ten virgins” now in there will lose “five foolish virgins” worth of current anointed. It is not hard to tell the evil GB play a role in that anointed corruption process. Now you get the real reason the evil GB are working “man of lawlessness” operations in JWs. They are anti-Christian frauds.
JWs have built a convenient “the end” “final chapter” which is a fantasy. It is also a desperate attempt to say they can just cut the story short, for their benefit alone, and also cut loose the accountability the WTBTS has sown for a reaping. They cannot, and much shall be learned when their false-prophecy blows up in their faces, and that rightly so. Thanks for considering that JWs are only an end all of typical apostasy which always led to something else instead.
That prophecy story is also not done and everything JWs conceal in it and divert by lawlessness and hypocrisy will also keep unfolding. But the actuality of what it leads to is also far more positive then the doom they have also subverted the prophecy with to attempt to turn as many people as they can AWAY from God who is the only everlasting and real hope.
God and Christ did not build this universe to have its own life story simply truncated and hi-jacked by JWs into a simpleton “whisk it all away” fraud-chapter ending, which they claim is “the truth”, but it is not. JWs are trying to skip town early and shed the accountability of their many WT crimes. It will NOT work out well.
So, keep progressing with your book, whatever is going to happen in this world will happen regardless of human words, but it does not simply “the end”, it keeps going. It’s best to plan on a future, because there is a lot of it coming in reality and may as well pursue the things you want positively. Plus, we are freed from the WT dungeon for more work, free work, personal work, positive work and we are to be guided not by humans any longer. We have been freed fully for a good reason. Good day, thanks for listening, thanks for the article, I always get something interesting from them, glad I read that one a few posts ago.
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Thank you again for a wonderful and inciteful reply. I enjoy reading your replies. They always give me something to think about and I actually enjoy taking the time to go back an look up the scriptures you site and read the entire passage. I will be honest, I am a bit behind in my scripture reading. You are right, what is bound to happen will happen, and there’s nothing I can do to change that.
I know you’ve talked and touched on the subject, but I do have a question I’d love to have your opinion on if you don’t mind? Why do you feel some people “wake up” and others do not? I have a family member that is still “in” and she is one of the smartest people I know. Why do you think she is so glossed over and masked by the “truth”? I am no way even close to being as educated as her and I can see the lies within the organization, why can’t she?
Thank you again Kingnorth for more to think about. It takes me a few read overs to fully grasp everything, but I will read it until I fully grasp the entirety of your wonderful message.
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Everyone is unique as far as individual people. They have different experiences in life and in the org. They come across information in varied ways and times. PIMIs somehow are not giving this information a fair shake, hence the WT apostate “it is all apostate lies” tricks of ridiculing and condemning their critics. Some PIMIs believe these WT lies about the real truth of the WT crimes.
The way I “woke up” was by going on-line to defend JWs as part of my personal “new territory”. As I tried to defend WT and the GB I kept running into very strong objections.
Except they came armed with web-available evidence. I began reading it. I kept preaching, and more and more evidence mounted, like the UN NGO thing I fully missed until 2011. It was no fast wake up. I believed the governing body concept was true. At first I thought they needed to humble themselves and it would all fix itself. I thought they knew everything and “were saving it” for some big grand slam “message” “before the end”. How wrong I was.
Then more WT crazy stuff like that GB=FDS thing manifested instead. I had just kept storing this stuff in my head. Then I took a notebook and started to list the problems and evidence. Wow, there was far more dirt than I could easily review en masse in my mind. Pretty soon, it could no longer be denied, the WT was criminal and apostate.
In time I came to the conclusion the whole “governing body is divine” thing was simply not true as well. Within a year I “switched sides” and saw the GB and JW thing as common slowly corrupted apostasy. (Dan11:32a; Zech3:1-3)
So, a wake up takes one doubt going from doubt to the realization it is not just a doubt, it has a good reason. Then they start to “ADD UP”.
And it truly is “one thing at a time”, we go from one problem to another, and evidence starts to mount. So, I would say with your friend, they have not yet really considered a doubt, and if they have run into WT criminal evidence on-line for example, they have not really looked into it. They gloss it by. Then the org keeps them way way too busy, as WT knows the busier one is “in the truth” the less likely they will have time to discover the truth about WT.
That is why JW Media came out at the very same time WT criminal evidence started to explode on-line. It is all “connected”.
They knew what their expanded propaganda offering is trying to divert JW minds away from, mounting evidence. It is no accident that they increased that counter-media blitz at the exact perfect timing in all this. But, it is also a sign they cannot stop it, they can only try to divert attention now, as long as they can, upon those PIMIs they have left. EVERYDAY they are losing more than they are gaining. It CANNOT be reversed now.
But like Egypt, the GB Pharaoh will have to “let ALL of my people go” in time. The last batch have to get the last plagues on WT. What we see now is just the first plagues on WT Egypt. Eventually the WT collapse and no “end of the world” to result is where the last PIMIs get “thrown up” to, like the Jonah principle. JWs are the modern Jonah who do NOT speak the message they are supposed to.
Now it is too late, they got swallowed by the org. As it goes down then they get swallowed by the world context, but it can be survived. Thus, when that WT goes down in its final fail, those who have not escaped yet will also be set free. ALL PIMIs have to face reality eventually to “come to light” in this dark process.
I am not saying it will be easy, it can be imagined it will be very turbulent and difficult for the most stalwart JW to accept the GB is just an apostasy.
I think PIMIs who are staying have not yet given the real truth the time it deserves. As you see with Covid, when some PIMIs got a break from the WT hamster wheel, they get the TIME to consider reality simply freed from a part of the WT distracting ritual. Covid produced many xJWs, because the WT routine of distraction got broken.
ANYTHING which reduces the WT propaganda and distraction effect, results in more wake ups, because those new XJWs got the TIME TO THINK and to research more.
Once WTBTS is fully silenced all PIMIs will then have the time, no more “voice of the stranger” will be left. (John10)
The ONLY thing keeping a PIMI on the WT hamster wheel is WT messages. They increased their messaging as a desperate attempt to stave off the inevitable, it will come anyway.
We do not know how some even more intelligent PIMIs cannot have “their eyes opened”, just pray for them but know EVERYDAY more future POMOs and PIMOs are indeed “waking up”. This wake up and exodus will NEVER be reversed now, this is the “last days” of the WTBTS is all it is. Eventually God will bring the rest of his plagues on WT. It deserves it. In time all PIMIs must “awaken”. Just be patient. Hope that helps.
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Thank you for your reply. I do hope in time she wakes up and others that I care so much about. It does sadden me those that have been shunned or who shun their own children in the name of WT. So many lives lost, so many torn apart and the devastation on families, well, there are no words for that. Patient is all I can do, well that and write and hope that my story helps someone who is on the fence or who feels so alone because they woke up and left the “truth”.
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I was perplexed as I fully woke up but in time a “new you” emerges as a result. That is why like on xjw reddit so many are still in the perplexed stage because many just awake there. Thus, the most important thing as a “sideline” of our life is what you are doing to help anyone you can. Everyone has been helped a little by other people’s views on this WT exposed apostasy and criminality.
As you can also see on xjwreddit, not everyone still keeps their faith in God, some become atheist. So, the reaction varies, but they can also be helped to leave and stay out. As far as that focus goes it is what we can do with the experience. Part of the reason JWs are so engrossed by what is a cult now, is that it became unbalanced even when it was Christian [in the past]. It certainly is NOT Christian now, it is a clear lawless apostasy which worships and fears men.
To keep balanced we have to believe in the power of what is saving us, that God full well knew we are imperfect, and worse, we would be faced with enemies who are wolves pretending they are Christian sheep. If JWs believed in their own salvation, they would not have to try to save themselves so much. They also would not become open to men to become their salvation.
I say that because the salvation hope is certain if we just stick to it and make it part of our lives. PART of our lives as in balanced and not forced to help others but that we want to. JWs forcing themselves is thus a service which is not really deemed of complete freewill. And they worship WT idols which only makes it worse, it is all now in vain. A course of fanatical level unbalanced ritualism is what slowly molded JWs into the cult zombies we see today. Their motivational “zeal” has been h-jacked for other uses which are harmful and hurtful to others now. Imagine that, in but a few short decades.
That was aided by the nature of the governing body which is busy body millionaire meddlers scheming up only injury and contexts which later lead to it. Just look at that place now. The unbalance in JWs starts with the power tripping GB who leads them, those men are now more insane than the average cult JW, go figure.
Therefore the eventual “epiphany” I know I had was to relax. Get balanced by helping others reinforce the reasoning to be done with this WT mess. JWs by their judgmentalism taught me to be more merciful and open to others and to judge no one. Btw, the GB judges themselves as criminal, I just relate their crimes and as Christian warn that it will have consequences secular and divine. Now we know the lack of peace in the JW ministry is due to evils which purposely over-stress JWs with guilt, which actually turns them in judgmental fiends always looking to condemn. That is because as well, that is all their GB does. Thus, it condemns itself, it never did remove the rafter from its own eye.
If we believe something to be true we will talk to others about it freely, with no need to be forced to do so like JWs. All I can say is keep writing because the web is a huge place and anyone who reads it as a JW can be helped to flee, and xJWs encouraged. There is no easy fix for problems in life we just have to keep staying engaged with it. WT is a nemesis, no solution at all, so breaking free of that cult is a great step to freedom. After that the recovery will come naturally as energy wasted on WT negatives can become positively focused for more important things. Well, thanks for the articles by all means keep going with the writing it really keeps us mentally engaged whether as a writer or reader and both. XJWs really came to bat as this manifested to help others escape and to help the needed encouragement especially when one first bails. Have a good day.
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Thank you for your reply. I am so sorry for my late reply back to you. It’s been a hard week. I suffer from migraines due to a few head injuries and this one has really taken me down, but I’m back and writing will commence.
This cult is so hard to break free from and I appreciate how you mentioned they are like zombies. They’ve been molded. I know growing up in the religion it was so different. I believe at one time there was love that existed and that many joined because of the love for everyone. It seemed back in the day it was an unconditional love. It seemed that the brothers were truly concerned about their flock, but now, I don’t even know what it’s about for those underclassmen within the congregations. I know it seems the GB is in it for the glory and power, maybe even the money. They live for free off of their members, but it saddens me to see those within the congregation that still hold out for the love that should be displayed towards others while some within the congregations are so cold and heartless..
I love having a platform such as this to be able to share my experience and I hope that it helps those escaping the religion. If I can help but one person find their way out and be successful and happy with their new found freedom, then that will be the greatest and most humbling accomplishment possible.
Thank you for all your heartfelt replies. I love reading everything you write. I learn so much from you and your replies with the added scriptures open up a whole new light for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for all your amazing responses. Have the greatest of days and I look forward to more interactions with you
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A very difficult reality for JWs to accept is the whole place has polluted the “constant feature” to clearly unacceptable, profaned, and fully rejected by God. The GB led this profanation whose modern description as the latest “profaning” apostasy is at Daniel 11:30b-32, plain as day. For some reason, which is the GB, JWs think they can float topical “Christian living” blather, to conceal transgression and misery “due to transgression” as in Daniel 8:12. Like Israel, some people see it, while those mesmerized are blind to it. This JW subverted flock of now anti-Christian proportions has been led by clearly reject anointed or as bad, “weed” impostors, which JWs consider ministerial leaders by the GB’s vain claims to be “appointed by God”. That detail is also present at Daniel 11:30b in “those leaving the holy covenant” which cannot be Christendom now.
The GB claim of divinity and divine appointment is the base lie from inception, 1944 to 1976. The principle is any ministry founded on a lie like the GB of 1976 has done, will be cursed in the long run. And NOW just LOOK at the place. JWs forgot to be humble and to take it all as serious as is required, because they imagine they are already there, while plenty of others feel like they are never adequate, none of them consider Christ’s sacrifice to be the basis of their standing. So, we can see all the anti-christ activity the “rich man class” WT actually promotes and true to the adage they have become rich men in this process, corrupted ones. A little knowledge and a little resources went straight to their heads. Just LOOK at them now, what a joke.
From the Christian perspective it is clear as day JWs are now the final serious apostasy devolution. Now all God can do is make an example of the place in a judgment so complete (dan8:13-14), so severe, so worldwide, perhaps a few lost sheep will say “look at that place, it is destroyed, perhaps there is a God” just like they did in the past when Jerusalem was destroyed. The principle is, when “God’s people” go bad and stop representing him properly and the good news properly, at least trying, God will then do his own “witness” by “judging the temple” because now only a settled account can work and actually be true.
With that in mind, we are at the threshold of the JW “Jerusalem” apostate judgment of destruction now, there is NO reform possible now, too late. Though it is plain as day, JWs like Israel, will stay blind as long as they listen to their corrupted anti-god leaders. It is simple to see, even if enormous in future ramifications. God must make an example of WT to show what he does NOT accept. JWs would think this is crazy, but as Jesus said that is exactly what happens when “a blind man leads a blind man, and both fall into a pit”.
JWs are being led by blind men who have seriously sinned against God, and lost MILLIONS of his sheep as they are his number one reproach leaders worldwide. There will be a horrendous price to pay, because there really is a God, and he does not suffer apostates like JWs claiming to represent him as his “witnesses” for long.
THAT is why the delay to WT destruction has allowed many thousands to flee the doomed WT, it is all connected. As in Matthew 24:15, fleeing OUT of apostate JW “Jerusalem” is far safer ground. WT does not have long. This ministry is done, ruined, finished. Well, thanks for the reply, and I am glad a little scriptural perspective can help, because we know full well God nails apostasy in scripture and prophecy (Zech3) and it is also how we know JWs are spiritually deceased at this time, it is dead serious, but they remain oblivious. It will only get more interesting as we proceed, because the WT forecast will flop on its liar face. (Rev2:2)
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one thing that I am truly curious about is how things will continue to unfold. The JW’s feel this is the end, with everything politically going on. It’s almost as though they are saying this proves the point that Armageddon is here. It will surely be interesting to see things unfold.
Thank you again for giving more to think about. As always, I love your replies
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You’re welcome. The truth is from a believer’s perspective, the Devil and his earthly interests can ONLY hi-jack prophecy and use it prematurely for other objectives.
The logic is, they cannot wait until Christ arrives, for then it would be too late, they must twist prophecy first, to try to delay mass awareness.
Therefore, the GB are selling JWs a Christ arrival hope way too early in this same logic. Just like warned of in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2.
They also wrap it all up in a very emotionally gripping “end of the world” claim when no such event is even present in the Bible.
There are mistranslations of Matthew 28:20:
KJV: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.
That KJV “end of the world” pretty much formed this mindset since 1611 so all the Reformation branches picked up on it. The “completion of the age” has an entirely different meaning, because the age is by “appointed times” (Dan12), it is a transition into Christ’s rule which is positive as in Revelation 14:6-7.
There will be no “thief in the night”, that was just used to keep Christians alert, because “the flesh is weak” and only devolves into inaction even with that statement.
(1 Thessalonians 5:4-5) But you, brothers, you are not in darkness, so that that day should overtake you as it would thieves, 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to night nor to darkness.
In time, God by the spirit through Christ can make all Christians globally aware of what is coming, no matter their level of experience, simple or complete.
Christ has to give full fair notice of arrival because any human being on Earth can accept that Revelation 14:6-7 offer, a promise it is.
The thing the GB is doing is also attempting to make JWs think we do not have a number of years left, but we do. All the final timed prophecies of Daniel 12 have yet to manifest, so we know that alone is a number of years.
And it is logical it is the “last chapter of Daniel” because that is the future timed segway to the Christ arrival and its timings “complete the age”.
Even now it can be shown Daniel 12:11 is 1290 days of total open salvation available to all people of Earth, because Christ must offer his own world government counter-offer to that of human “8th King” world government.
The final choice of one or the other must be freely given to all humans. (Rev13:15-18 vs. Rev14:6-7) True, some will not choose the Kingdom of Christ, but a great crowd great multitude possibly in the billions will. Ultimately, they are all that will matter.
The GB taught that God’s arrival (Rev1:8) was a doomful fearful event, when in Revelation 14 it is a positive event to save billions of people.
The GB did NOT tell people the prophecy truth that God and Christ are “showing up” to >>>SAVE<<< billions of people and at Matthew 24:21-22 the entire planet as well.
We have plenty of time, the JW downfall will allow a final declaration to eventually emerge as they meet the Daniel 8:14 temple judgment purification timing instead, first in the process. In addition, it is a global positive pre-offer open to all people (Joel2:30-32), the real "everlasting good news" can ONLY come with Christ himself.
Christ is who completes his own good news, and it must be the most positive offer humans have ever heard, actually "good news".
It CANNOT be more religious bad news sold off with doom and judgment as if "the good news".
Because of human, world, and religious error and failure it is the only salvation solution that will actually work.
All human Christian messages (Rev10:5-11) eventually ceases as in Revelation 11:7-10, for the real thing which is Revelation 11:11-12 parallel Revelation 14 and 7 as the Christ arrival, BUT with a 1290 days timeframe for people to decide, NOT a "wham bam" sneak judgment.
They have not even completed "8th King" "King North" "King Fierce" world government yet, that is how many more years we still have for "8th King" "scarlet wildbeast" completion in the future.
Plus, God cannot destroy good people of course, as in Romans 2:12-16, and even people who want to become that. Christians have John 3:16 across the board if we stick to it.
The real salvation of Christ must be giant, positive, worldwide available freely, and with a peaceful offer first, to those who want it. Then he will conquer the rivals as in Revelation 19:19-21 (wild beast world government) and Revelation 20:1-3 (Satan abyssed).
He has to offer peace first to ANYONE who wants it.
His sacrifice already purchased the whole world (1John 2:1-2), most people saved will probably not even be Christian, they will "demonstrate the matter in their heart" by having tried to do good as much as they could.
(Romans 2:12-16) For instance, all those who sinned without law will also perish without law; but all those who sinned under law will be judged by law. 13 For the hearers of law are not the ones righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared righteous. 14 For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. 15 They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or even excused. 16 This will be in the day when God through Christ Jesus judges the secret things of mankind, according to the good news I declare.
The apostate GB task is now to try to delay this awareness with a hyped up doomsday that will never come anyway. THAT is all the enemy system can do, premature hyped fakery.
Well, have a good day, thanks for the articles.
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Kingnorth,
Thank you again for an enlightening reply. I will honestly say the one thing that I could never get passed with this religion is how a God of love could destroy everyone who wasn’t a JW. John 3:16, he died for all our sins. There are so many good hearted, compassionate and genuine people in “the world” that truly have a deep love for God. I love how you always point out how the JW’s make the scriptures work to their benefit. How they misguide people. We are living in the last days according to them and they use current events to not only prove their point, but to scare and keep a hold on their followers.
Hope your day is a good one and again, I so appreciate hearing from you. Sorry this took me so long to reply. For some reason I missed seeing the comment.
Take care and until next time, Love Life++
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You’re welcome, thanks for considering it. It is now common sense, once we remove our minds from the “operation of error” such as WT displays to enslave JWs into a self-serving fantasy.
The final message has to be one of open peace >first<. Thus, people have [nothing] to worry about IF religions did not undermine the positivity of say, Revelation 14:6-7, with their hopeless doomful "bad news" all for control of human minds.
In fact "the message" is even NOW one of open peace and salvation for all that want it FREE. (John3:16) If God already purchased "the WHOLE world" (1John2:1-2) through Christ's DEATH, then the hard part is ALREADY "it has been accomplished" as Jesus said as he expired.
HOW can God now withhold the FREENESS purposed in that very death of Christ to now save the whole world in time? Why would these last people globally in the potential BILLIONS, given all the error of religion and world confusion, now not to benefit from a "Christ passport" ALREADY sacrificed to provide freely, bought, and paid for at the actual Christ future arrival? WHY would God now say, nope my Son's sacrifice is not quite enough to SAVE YOU?
THAT is why Christ died to BEGIN with, to save NOT destroy ALL willing. And NOT by some religion spiritual Ponzi scheme which CANNOT be the additional "intermediary" "middle man".
Why would he want to limit a global salvation GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY which is FREE to ANYONE who simply wants it, directly, no need of religions, to save just one little narrow-minded religious group? Why would he trade off billions he WILL save anyway, for 6 or 8 million Jehovah's witnesses alone?
Of course, that is crazy, and it makes NO SENSE.
So, it is the GB and WT who formed this very odd and anti-Christian salvation delusion.
We ALREADY have a "mediator", no human requires "another one, just in case", which religion self-appointed themselves to become in what is an illegal, useless, unnecessary role.
They "baited and switched" themselves in slyly, like with JWs, as some self-invented "divine authority chosen by God, whose rules you ALSO REQUIRE to be saved". It is common sense now, it is an evil lie.
God CANNOT destroy a person who tries to do good, regardless of their past or religion (or not), nationality, class, etc. (as per Romans 2:12-16) That is how open Revelation 14:6-7 is, ANYONE who says yes to that promised future offer MUST be saved, ANYONE, and at worldwide scale because Christ has all universal power, this planet is a pea to him.
Christ already made the "payment" to save people, ANYONE willing, all willing at that time, and now, rather than destroy. He is only removing the problem, period. (Rev19:19-21; Rev20:1-3) Such as the rival world government, BUT, he must offer individuals even in that enemy system the same peace offer promised, as anyone else. The "situation" of Saul of Tarsus teaches us that.
That way every human of earth will chose THEIR OWN destiny. It has to be such an open guaranteed LIFE OFFER that no normal person can possibly disagree, or try to make up a "better solution"; there is no better solution than a guaranteed open peace offer to all people by the Kingdom of God, when Christ arrives, and that FIRST before the conquest hence Daniel 12:11's 1290 days. What normal person could disagree with an offer which they merely agree to in Revelation 14:6-7, and get life?
WHAT better solution can there possibly be given the mess religion is, and all the world confusion? HOW is "one religion" going to possibly out do that offer or offer a huger saved potential population?
They CANNOT, that is the point, God can and will. Because no religion has the answer, or even the whole collective of Christendom (it is worse as a whole), and they are all bad news, the only way possible to save billions is a direct offer to their face in time, or as requested as per Joel 2:30-32.
NO ONE who requests to live and agrees to "worship the One" who is God Almighty in Revelation 14:6-7's agreement can be destroyed, NO WAY.
Now you can watch this unfold from JW downfall as timed in Daniel 8:14, to the non-religious "message" of Revelation 11:3's 1260 days to merge into completed world government to activate the 1290 days of Daniel 12:11.
Just be patient, the GB are also trying to conceal the final actual prophecy map to the Christ arrival, AND its hugely positive REQUIRED AND PROMISED open salvation opportunity of Revelation 14:6-7.
This speculation described here, will also be put to the test with every other Christian claim out there. We can watch it happen, and not worry, because open salvation promised has always been what Revelation 14:6-7 is, a 100% holy angelic deployed message of peace is what it means.
That is why Revelation 14 has NO human involvement, humans are then the target for the salvation sweep.
World government is what causes the dangers of Matthew 24:21-22, not the Kingdom of God.
God's Kingdom is what ceases world government and their final agenda of Revelation 13:15-18, AFTER all savable humans are secured. (Rev7; Rev14:14-17)
Now due to Christian religious error and hypocrisies, and world errors and confusion, that has all lessened everyone's accountability to form the optimum opportunity for DIRECT salvation of the Kingdom of God in the future, it is now the only way to save the maximum possible amount of humans.
IT MUST BE A DIVINE TRUE SOLUTION SO PERFECT AND SO TRUE "GOOD NEWS" NO ONE CAN OUT DO IT, OR EVEN IMAGINE A MORE OPPORTUNE HOPEFUL REALITY.
THAT is what the POWER of the salvation in Christ's death and sacrifice GUARANTEES and PROMISES, to be made actual reality as his arrival.
Truthfully, "there is NO other way now", nor has there ever been, Christ is the only way and his offer has to be as open and general as was the worldwide magnitude of his sacrifice for all life, past, present, and future.
Ironically, the JW fail is what helped to "see" this already in the prophecy.
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You are right. Jesus died for all our sins. I keep thinking about the scripture that says “By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35.
It’s by love that we are demonstrating who we are, each and every day. How unloving it is to not only expel people from the religion, but to encourage people, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters to shun, cut off as though their family members don’t or have never existed. Jesus died for us all to have the chance of being saved and Watchtower teaches only their people will be saved. Young children, babies, innocent babies are to be destroyed if their parents don’t teach them to love Jehovah, the god of Watchtower. We can talk for hours on this very subject alone. Many genuine people in the world worship and serve God. I personally know some who are “worldly” and have a greater relationship with God then some of whom I know who profess to be Jehovah’s people. How unjust and unloving it would be for God to destroy them. I want to worship and serve a God of love, not one of vengeance.
Kingnorth, keep those comments coming. I would like, if you are okay with it, quote some of your comments in my upcoming blogs?
Happy Tuesday new friend and thank you for always giving me something to think about
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Yes, the truth is free, use any quote or idea you want.
And though these be human words, I believe it is truth as Christ laid out simple but global principles which crash all lies to pieces and that FOR ALL PEOPLE, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Eventually he is taking over but with a great hope no doomsday required. In the meantime, as an example of a child simple principle (Matt11:25), the JW devolution into lawlessness, clear as day, is just the next MILESTONE APOSTASY, is all it is.
They will not stop the next, they will fuel it instead. I will reply to your comment later, but in the Secrets post.
Thanks for considering it, but we are all on a mission the spirit is fully capable of guiding us where we need to go. The Christian [individual] mission is very real, that is why a WT-like apostasy is there to try to discredit us and make us seem invalid when they are now invalid in reality.
WT is now a detour, unnecessary, and not the spirit but the John 10 “voice” of a “stranger”.
Simple principle a child could understand, JWs are apostate. One word summary of what it all means in WT today, just another apostasy.
It ONLY makes it all the more real when we take the proper perspective on it, it failed, nothing new, it leads to the next phase is all it does.
Bumpy it will be, but sure to come it will also be. There is no “the end” easy exit plan.
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I do believe the spirit will guide us, especially if we put it out there that we want to be on the right course and follow the signs. We can’t get caught up in all the hype of religions and apostacy such as displayed by the JW’s. I look forward to hearing from you again.
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Yes, there is only one place “to go”. Like Jesus said “come to me”, not some organization. So, any “other religion” will just be the same things as what stalled and detoured JWs. But, now that the “one true religion” is debunked they all are. That is actually good news, as common sense could even indicate, it is just to be an “it is what it is” assessment of all humans from all time, since in the past many had no religious context whatsoever. Like Job it was a spirituality “context”.
Spirituality means nothing physical. With religions even their claims become attached to physical things and prove to have physical goals.
Spirituality is just that, all spirit based. The only “label” which can ever apply is God for many people and God and Christ for that revelation of the spirituality leader.
But, he must have a larger salvation goal of the whole human race, of course. We just have to ride out religious claims because now we know as with JWs, it is just for control of physical things, they are not spiritual focused.
It is good news, because it frees up the playing ground again to be as Jesus said to worship anywhere, not just this mountain or a physical temple, but in spirit and truth in the spiritual temple he defines.
It is free, totally. Freedom can have no labels. When it does, we know a slave mill is using freedom for bait. It is a lie. Christ said worship in truth as well, and the truth is FREEDOM has to actually be FREE.
The objective and purpose of God and Christ, as in Romans 8:18-22 is to FREE all creation, even the animals and the whole planet into the “freedom of the sons of God” to be revealed.
THAT is what it is leading to, spirit backed freedom for the whole planet, past, present, and future for forever. This little phase of lies to support the slavery of man, animal, and this whole planet is temporary.
All JWs will do when they final flop in their FINAL fail, is make it all the more real and add a little viv for refocus. They will just amp the whole story up and again as the Matthew 25:1-13 freed “five discreet virgin” whole group worldwide, as known by God, will kick the lights on “again” as in Revelation 10:11 “you MUST prophesy again”. And that light of human participation from “oil in reserve” completes for the age and leads to the real thing in the “I am the LIGHT of the world” REALITY.
That is who it was leading to anyway, only God and Christ can complete the light and recovery perfectly. Religions all forgot that, and stagnated into darkness as a result. It all became about them alone and their self-serving self-appointed bedarkened so-called “leaders”.
The real thing will be very very different. Well, thanks for the articles, I always get some new perspective to consider. Like with the “secret”, JWs are bringing their own thoughts and desires for other, on their own ministry by negative thinking made real soon enough.
As Christian we have to be as positive as we can, because the real thing is positivity itself. They really are “the light of the world” and light is positive in that huge meaning, it is also life as in John 1. ONLY God and Christ are life itself and have it to be applied eternally. Just a little more time is all this has ever been.
Well enjoy your freedom, and yes, LOVE LIFE! There is more where this came from, much more. (Rev2:7; Rev22:14)
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THIS WAS THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, SORRY.
My fiend had migraines, I know how debilitating they can be from seeing him lock up. Hope they pass soon. From the basic Christian perspective of Jehovah’s witnesses past which the Reformation first inspired, “to return to first century Christianity” in some of its reform ideas, the “constant feature” cannot be polluted by anti-Christian behavior especially from lawless leaders. The GB, rather than take any of it serious as you can see from their own brain-dead blathering, does not actually shepherd JWs to stay spiritually faithful, but the dead opposite. This truth is plain as day visible, as Jesus said “by their fruits you will KNOW these men” and that by love people could tell who was really Christian. Obviously JWs are actually anti-Christians. It IS what it is.
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Thank you Kingnorth,
Yes the migraines are at times off the charts and simply hard to deal with. The new meds seem to help keep them a little more under control. Pain levels are still about an 8 out of 10, but that’s better then a 10++
I love this scripture at Matthew 7:1-2, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it, it will be measured to you.” They judge those of us who have left the religion. They shun us, they even give talks showing the GB blowing out a match, referring to those of us that will die at Armageddon, according to their teachings.
As far as their works, well, according to verses 15&16 of the same chapter of Matthew, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” The judge people, they break apart families, they cause divisions within the organization and quit frankly, they encourage clicks. “By their fruit you will recognize them.” Double standards are so prevalent. Rules differ from their members compared to those who hold positions. Like you mentioned earlier, they are producing a group of zombies.
Thank you so much for your replies. I love being able to engage in conversations like these. You help me think and you help me really want to look further into being able to stand up to the pressures from those few JW’s I still talk to who always “encourage me to return to Jehovah.”
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