Doubtfully Yours

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  Hi everybody

  by Cellist in

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  we "faded" more than a decade ago.

  at least, we began to fade.

  it took a few years before they gave up on us.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Cellist,

  My fade is the slowest I've known thus far because most of my relatives are firm JWs and I love them to pieces. Outside of the JW stuff, they're the nicest bunch of people I know and can't take yet the fact that I may lose them if I stop the JW facade altogether.

  I do as least as possible to still be considered one of them, just to keep the lines of communication open between me and my folks.

  They do know, however, that I'm 'spiritually weak', but as long as I'm still considered a JW they treat me very nicely. I just love them all so much!

  My husband is very much into it, so there's my story. He also knows that I couldn't care any less about the Organization, but he loves me so he doesn't give me much grief about it anymore.

  There will come a time in which I'll only attend Sunday meetings, and I won't knock on doors anymore. That will be more than enough for me.

  DY
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses Reformation Movement

  by Kenneson in

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  i made an interesting find last evening.

  i stumbled across a site purporting to be a jehovah's witness reform movement.

  while it sees value in jehovah's witnesses, its primary purpose is to reform the governing body.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  I notice that nowadays it's very difficult to get disfellowshipped, as opposed to much earlier days when just about anything would get a person disfellowshipped at the drop of a hat.

  I think that's somewhat an improvement.

  More improvements to come. I'm certain of that as the old policy-makers retire to their graves. May they and their old policies rest in peace!

  DY
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  Would You Be Afraid To Go To An "Apostofest"?

  by minimus in

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  a year ago, i would've never attended.

  what a difference a little time makes, huh?

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  Rather than 'apostafest', those gatherings should be called "people that threw the baby out with the bath water fest".

  HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  The stories I've read about in this forum... talk about decadence and going off the deep end!!!!? Count me out of those scenes!

  DY
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  IT'S HOTTER THAN HELL OUTSIDE!!!

  by Mary in

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  holy crap it's hotter than hell out there!!

  i know, i know, i had bitched back in early may cause it was snowing outside, but this is crazy!

  right now, it's 30 celcius, or 86 fairenheit outside.

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  Southwest Florida: 95F degrees, heat index with humidity factor 105F degrees!!!

  FEELING HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

  DY
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  Would You Be Afraid To Go To An "Apostofest"?

  by minimus in

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  a year ago, i would've never attended.

  what a difference a little time makes, huh?

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  By what I've e-heard here in the Forum, I gather a lot of promiscuity and excessive drinking goes on at those apostafests. Therefore, I don't think I'll ever be attending one as I really dislike that life style.

  Really, really, really dislike drunks!

  DY
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  Another marriage bites the dust because of JW beliefs

  by unbeliever in

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  i know very few people who have been successfully married where 1 spouse is a witness and the other is not.

  i know there are a few examples on this board.. a couple that i know irl have split after nearly 25 years of marriage because of the stupid shunning shit.

  one of their 3 children got df'd 6 months ago and that is when everything fell apart apparently.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Unbeliever,

  "your mom" told you about another person and their relationship troubles. I guess there's a lot of information you might be missing.

  In most instances, the WBTS has nothing to do with a couple's problems, but rather their own doing is bringing the problems about.

  The WBTS encourages to keep the union if the other party is not a JW. However, there are things that only the people in the relationship know about which caused the break up.

  It's easy to blame the religion, though.

  DY
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses Reformation Movement

  by Kenneson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made an interesting find last evening.

  i stumbled across a site purporting to be a jehovah's witness reform movement.

  while it sees value in jehovah's witnesses, its primary purpose is to reform the governing body.

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  There's definitely a reformation movement within the JWs, whether they like it or not it will happen sooner rather than later, because all the die-hards are literally dying off and the new generation of JWs is more educationally/technologically/humanly inclined.

  I'm somewhat excited! I see some changes already:

  More young people choosing to further their education past high school, which in turn will broaden their minds and help disipate the cultish 'JWs against the world' mentality.

  It's just awesome!

  DY
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  Could we be right, and they be right too?

  by JH in

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  is it possible that just about everything we say about the jw's on this forum is true, but on the other hand they would be the only true religion that god approves, even though they are imperfect and make errors?

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  I now believe that God has many 'people', belonging to many different religions and many different walks of life.

  There's good and bad people everywhere!!!

  DY
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  Tiger wins at St Andrews by wide margin!

  by AK - Jeff in

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  with grace and style tiger defeats monty and alle and takes the cup.. great golf with a wire-to-wire win for tiger.

  hope you golf lovers got to see it and enjoyed it as much as i did!.

  jeff

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  I was so happy to hear this!

  I'm not much into golf, but Tiger is defenitely my guy! What a great sportsman he's turned out to be!

  May he become the greatest in all the record books!

  DY
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  at a pioneer's birthday party... YEAH THAT'S RIGHT!

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  a few days ago i had the privilege of being invited to a regular pioneer's birthday party.

  i met her a couple of weeks ago, and even though she knows i am inactive and have serious doubts, we hit it off on a social level.

  so that's why i was invited... .

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  Doubtfully Yours

  I know quite a few JWs that in a hush-hush manner celebrate their own as well as their kids' birthdays on a yearly basis.

  Be very quite, though! Mom WBTS doesn't approve!!!

  DY