Posts by Bonnie

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I Missed Memorial - First time in 30 years! Thanks to you!

by Witness 007 in

last year i turned up to make everyone happy.......but this year i just could'nt force myself to go.

some witnesses called on the day to "encourage" us to go....my mum called to make sure i go.....but i just couldn't put my tie on!

after being on this site for awhile i feel like i have moved on.

Bonnie_Clyde

I missed my the Memorial the first time in 53 years. Clyde hasn't gone for three years, and my son and daughter-in-law stayed home too. We didn't miss it a bit.

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Who's Going to the Memorial Tonight?

by daniel-p in

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friends

ok everyone, who has to go to the memorial tonight?

check in here, state the reason you have to go, and when you get back, let us know how it went and your impressions.

for me, i have to go for my family--since i'm doing the fade i figure it won't kill me to go.

Bonnie_Clyde

Tonight was the first Memorial I've missed since 1954.

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How long were you...

by Honesty in

in the truth before you found out it isn't?

About 43+ years. Started going to meetings in 1955, baptized in 1956, and started questioning in 1998. However, because of family pressures (my father and daughter), I continued spasmodically until 2006--that would be 53 years. (Fading didn't work. My relationship with them fell apart anyway.) So many years wasted.....

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So... what has changed in the JW world in the last 2 years?

by pr_capone in

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i have not really been keeping up anymore.

are they still df'ing people?

any progress on the blood issue?

Bonnie_Clyde

The calling for the 144,000 is still open.

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Prominet elder goes against the society's advice on education!!!

by Samuel Thorsen in

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i just wat to inform you that i have from absolutely trustworthy sources that rolf furuli (one of the absolutely best known and most recpected elders in norway, and altso a scolar known as a hard core 607-apologist among opposers) did have a local needs speech last week (or maybe the week before) where he went directly against the watchtower anti college education pollicy and warmly recomended all the young ones in the congregation to go on and get them self educated.. i wonder for how long ha can keep his position??

if he gets the boot wee'll se a theocratic earthquake here in norway..

Bonnie_Clyde

I know a local elder who is getting a lot of flack for letting his son go to college, and I'm sure there are plenty more. But for someone to actually give a local needs talk. That's fantastic? They probably will give him the boot though. Let us know what happens.....

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How the WT will allow all to partake

by yknot in

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random memorial mainstreaming thought.

is it possible to allow all to partake and save face and authority?.

then it occured to me that yes, and quite simply too.. ahh new .

Bonnie_Clyde

Blondie - that was the exact article. You are so quick....

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How the WT will allow all to partake

by yknot in

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friends

random memorial mainstreaming thought.

is it possible to allow all to partake and save face and authority?.

then it occured to me that yes, and quite simply too.. ahh new .

Bonnie_Clyde

Blondie or someone - could use your help on this - I distinctly remember an article, maybe 20 years ago, where the WT addressed the question, "Since all of Israel, including alien residents, celebrated the passover, why don't the other sheep partake?" - something like that.

Of course, the WT explained it away, but they could use similar reasoning to allow for everyone to take the emblems.

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Romantic Notions of returning to.......

by nomoreguilt in

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the organization.

i have observed in a number of threads some of the members here have expressed the need to return to the org.

or to become active again.

Bonnie_Clyde

Just found out my daughter-in-law's father is trying to get her to return to meetings. She's frustrated right now, but she had a talk with my son how she wants more structure for her daughter--my granddaughter. My son doesn't want anything to do with the "truth", but I'm a little worried about her and especially my granddaughter.

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