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  Time Gained by Leaving JW World

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  does anyone else wonder at the amount of time a person immediately gains when they leave the jws?.

  just today, a sunday, i would have woken up at 7, frantically taken a highlighter pen to my wt to make it look like i had made a deep study of it.

  packed my stuff for meeting and ministry, cycled to the kh, joined the pre meeting ministry arrangement, rushed back for the meeting, sat through a sometimes interesting public talk, sometimes mind-numbingly dull one, strained through a wt study to which i usually had more questions than answers.

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  Time to read what you want. Time to do projects for your benefit. Time to relax when you see the need. Time to go to a lecture anytime and day of the week. No more time wasted doing all the busy work of the Borg and worrying what time it is so you will not be late.

  Morpheus you are right no more time wasted being a elder. If the wt. paid the elders for all the work we did for them I figured at 20 hours a week times let's say $20 per hour that equals $400 times 52 weeks equals $20,800.00 per year. For me I served as a elder for 25 years and that equals $520,000 for my service to the Borg. I feel that is a conservative estimate. Boy that makes me sick just to thinking about it. Still Totally ADD
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  Does the Watchtower have an official position on Alcoholics Anonymous?

  by JeffT in

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  i ask because i'm working in a 28 day residential addiction treatment center and one of my co-workers is studying with the jw's.

  he does not know i'm an xjw.

  i suspect that at some point they're going to tell him he can't go to aa meetings anymore.

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  Back around 2000 there was sister in our Hall who was fighting alcoholism. She was before a committee which I was one of the elders and she ended up getting DF for adultery which her alcoholism led to. Of course the counsel she got from the other older elders was read your Bible and pray to God and don't miss meetings. I in turn told her she might want to look into AA meetings. The other two elders thought I was nuts. Well as it turn out over a year later I ran in to this sister at a assembly. She ran up to me and told me she was reinstated then she gave me a big hug and thank me for turning her towards AA. At that point she was 1year alcohol free. It was a small thing for me but I think it was the first crack in my jw box that finally lead to my leaving. After that anyone I knew that had problems with alcoholism I recommended AA. Still Totally ADD
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  Pope says "hell does not exist"

  by Gorbatchov in

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  today the pope said in an interview that hell does not exist.. (we allready knew...).

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  The hell you say. Hell no. Oh hell. What the hell? You go to hell. There must be a hell we have to many ways to use the word hell. That is a helluva statement from the pope. Lol. Still Totally ADD
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  The Home of Charles Taze Russell - Renovated

  by Wild_Thing in

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  charles and maria russell lived in one side.

  emma russell lived on the other.

  emma russell was maria's younger sister who married charles's father.

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  Looking at the before pictures it looks like he lived pretty good compared to most americans of that time period. It so nice to see old buildings beginning renovated instead of being torn down. Still Totally ADD
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  Self indulgent attention whore thread....

  by _Morpheus in

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  today is my birthday :) in happy to be able to say that guilt free!

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  Happy Birthday Morpheus and many more. Still Totally ADD
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  What are you most passionate about?

  by SplaneThisToMe in

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  i had an interview today and was asked a question o have gotten in the past: what are you most passionate about?

  it was a struggle to come up with an answer on this one.

  as a jw, the things i was passionate about were chosen for me.

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  Good question. For me it is sustainable gardening using permaculture techniques. Teaching and demonstrating in our local area how important it is to have clean chemical free food for us to comsume and how our present food system is causing many health problems in our society. I had this passion when I was in the Borg but unable to devote much time to it. Now I am able to study and work on this subject as much as I want to. I hope in the very near future I will be able to post some pictures on what we are doing. Still Totally ADD
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  Disfellowshipped/disassociated – How did your parents handle it?

  by Richard_I in

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  to those who were disfellowshipped/disassociated – how did your still-in parents handle it?.

  i don’t want to fade, so i am thinking about disassociating soon – i don’t care if i’m playing by the org’s rules, i just want out.. however, i am concerned about how my parents will react.

  i don’t want them to become super depressed or whatever due to me leaving the org.. i don’t want them to be hurt by my decision to leave the org, but i feel like there is no way of avoiding this..

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  As parents our son was DF at the age of 18. He really thought we was going to kick him out of the house. We didn't and reasured him we would never do that because we love him. During that time he was out we paid for his training in a local trade school so he would have a good job to support himself. This is a job he is doing to this day. When the CO came in town for his visit and heard what we did he tried to have me removed as a elder. It did not happen although looking back I wish it did. At any rate when we left the Borg our son now in his thritys and married stop having anything to do with us. So this is kind of reverse shunning on your topic. He just turned 41 last Friday I hope he is doing well. Still Totally ADD
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  What I noticed about the Awake Mag left at my doormat

  by days of future passed in

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  first, this is the second invite i received and it came with an awake magazine.

  i'm pretty sure it is the crazy anointed witness that i knew, that is dropping it off.. i decided to look at it to see what is the wt is up to.

  how different the content is from long ago.. on the back page, there is a header in a red box that says "the way of happiness learn more.

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  Days of Future passed thank you for telling us what is inside a awake maz. Nothing like it was when I was a kid. It looks like they are pouring on the guilt to make their flock do more. Still Totally ADD
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  Thoughts of Suicide?

  by Simon in

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  we are not a support forum for people with serious depression or thoughts of suicide.

  if you or someone you know are struggling with such issues there are professional support services in most countries with people who are experienced and qualified to help:.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_suicide_crisis_lines.

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  Amen to that Simon. Still Totally ADD
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  Today is the date of Albert Einstein birthday 14 / 03

  by smiddy3 in

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  can we let this day go past without acknowledging his contributions to the betterment of human society ?.

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  Happy Birthday Albert Einstein. I have just seen on TV Stephen Hawking's has died at the age of 76. Another great mind of the ages RIP. Still Totally ADD