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Who is your favorite "Apostate"? Who helped you see the truth about "The Truth"?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i would have to say that ray franz was the biggest influence for me.. when i first got on this board, a poster by the name of james, a former bethelite and organization heavy, helped me understand a lot of the inner workings in the upper echelons of the society.. .

and of course, farkel's common sense approach was (usually) helpful..
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Jehovah's Witnesses: Who's Your Mediator?
by Darth Rutherford in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is jesus your mediator?

were these men anointed christians?

... jesus christ, is not the mediator between jehovah god and all mankind.
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Depressed
by Gorbatchov in
1. jw
2. friends
since the annual meeting 2012 news about the adjusted fds doctrine, gorby has followed all the news about it, thought about it every day.

just like the times of the 1995 generation adjustment.

made some postings on jwd.
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The real story on why The Watchtower society lost a Kingdom hall in Bonham ,Texas.!
by koolaid-man in
1. jw
2. friends
what happened in bonham, texas?

: the body of elders and the majority of the congregation decided to leave the watch tower organization.

and with that, they took the kingdom hall.
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A new study of brain activity in depressed and anxious people indicates that some of the ill effects of depression are modified - for better or for worse - by anxiety.
by Elsewhere in
1. jw
2. friends
one of the things i have to deal with after my jw experience is depression and anxiety.

sometimes i will become overwhelmed by them.

sometimes i'll wake up around 2 or 3 am and lay in bed experiencing extreme anxiety and worry about... whatever (you name it).
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Funny things to not do at the Memorial
by rebel8 in
1. jw
2. friends
pull out a can of cheese whiz, top the bread with it, and take a nibble.. .

say really loud...."oh, wow!

jesus' body is really tasty this year!".
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WTS attends as a NGO to OSCE in July- 4 branches present!
by yknot in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
so i was just cruising www.extj.com/foro.

mary received a interesting bit of osce information via a brother (peter) from germany....... http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14643.

here is the pdf she has uploaded..... http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2009/07/38763_en.pdf.
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I was counciled for putting in Pioneer hours and not officially "Pioneering"
by RubaDub in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i didn't want to hijack the thread about people having to "wait" until the society approves their pioneer status.. i recall once an elder was shocked that i had done the 60 hours a couple of months but not officially on the pioneer list for the months.

i told him that i didn't need the title, that the purpose was to do the work, not get a title.. i then heard a long lecture about how that was not encouraging to others, etc, etc, etc.. he got rather annoyed when i asked him what the purpose of the preaching work is.

of course he said to spread the good news.
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making meetings more interesting
by openminded in
1. jw
2. friends
do you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies?

long and boring home studies?

> here's a way to change all of that.. > > .
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When should you Disassociate yourself?
by happytobefree in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been having discussion with my sister (relative), who is an active witness, about writing a letter of disassociation.

the reason being is that i have not attended the meetings in over a year and it's been 4 years since i have went out in the jw ministry.. i going to try to sum this topic up.

my sister think that i should not da myself because i have not done any immoral act in her thinking.