can't sell your house to go where the need is great = satan keeping you from serving Jehovah to the fullest.
can't sell your house to go where the need is great = Jehovah has some other blessing in mind for you.
Phae
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Satan's tic tacs or GB kool aid?
by sparrowdown inanyone that has been a jw would be familiar with any or all the following scenarios.. 1. you get offered a full time position or promotion after submitting a pioneer application.. 2. a really great bible student you have gets offered a job which means they have to move or have no time for study anymore.. 3. a promising return visit begins a new relationship and the new bf/gf is'nt favourable to jws so the great rv backs off.. 4. a married sister falls pregnant right after her and her husband are invited to bethel or circuit work or gilead.. 5.a couple needs to start caring for an aging parent right after they decide to move to where the need is greater.. etc, etc, etc.
most if not all jw's would tell you satan is to blame,.... or is he?.
satanic pattern of sabotage or blind superstition?.
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Satan's tic tacs or GB kool aid?
by sparrowdown inanyone that has been a jw would be familiar with any or all the following scenarios.. 1. you get offered a full time position or promotion after submitting a pioneer application.. 2. a really great bible student you have gets offered a job which means they have to move or have no time for study anymore.. 3. a promising return visit begins a new relationship and the new bf/gf is'nt favourable to jws so the great rv backs off.. 4. a married sister falls pregnant right after her and her husband are invited to bethel or circuit work or gilead.. 5.a couple needs to start caring for an aging parent right after they decide to move to where the need is greater.. etc, etc, etc.
most if not all jw's would tell you satan is to blame,.... or is he?.
satanic pattern of sabotage or blind superstition?.
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A few International Conv instructions (more ways to control)
by doinmypart ina few official instructions jw delegates are being told leading up to the international conventions.
congregation secretaries are holding conference calls and then relating the instructions to the congregation.. atlanta - do not drive to convention, parking will not be available.
take public transportation; attendants will be on all public transit and able to assist.. dallas - attendants will be on site at all hotels to make sure delegates leave the hotel at their assigned times and take their assigned route.
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New Orleans - Carry two wallets in case you are robbed. Keep a small amount of cash in the wallet you will hand over to your assailant.
Really?! That'd sure make me want to attend!
Phae
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10 good reasons why celebrating birthdays should be allowed
by bluecanary ini cannot take credit for any of the gems below but i did want to polish and organize them.
much of the information was borrowed from this thread.
if you can come up with any more, please post them.. the bible does not ban birthdays.
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Glad this one resurfaced. Gonna read it now!
Phae
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Past couple years of being awake might be catching up with me
by noonehome ini was a little too honest with a super close friend who is one of the most important people in my life.
my mistake.
she talked to an elder about my doubts...i know she had my best interests in mind and i hold nothing against her.
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Ah, sweet noonehome,
Welcome... to your life.
You are officially outside the box now, no matter how much you want to stay or pretend to salvage your unfortunately conditional relationships.
What they all say above.
So much good input here for you to sort through. This is an amazing resource and I'm so glad you have access to at this fork in the road. So many of us didn't have this kind of support when we awakened.
That people keep waking up in this organazation to face these kinds of heart wrenching decisions mentally and emotionally is astounding and a testimony to so much humanly *wrong* in that organization when someone begins to truly exercise their free will... to lose so much.
I understand. I have walked this journey and still do. I have friends and family who are hardcore JWs and I tread carefully around them just to keep our relationships alive. I pay a high price. So will you. So does everyone.
Married to a believer,
Phae
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Happy Birthday LouBelle!
by kurtbethel inyes, it's that time of year to recognize that southern belle of the great continent of africa, our own loubelle!.
may you have a wonderful birthday and know that you are treasured by myself and many others here.. .
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Happy Birthday Loubelle!
Don't lose your head celebrating, now.
Phae
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WOW gotta check out this Charles Sinutko talk "Is It Proper to have doubts?"
by BU2B inso manipulaitve.
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http://www.printcentralandsigns.com/jwtalks/covisits/sinutko%20charles%20-%20is%20it%20proper%20to%20have%20doubts.mp3.
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Not going to listen, but I remember my parents had a memorial talk of his on cassette that was circulating (in the 80s). He must be a good speaker, manipulative and all... is he Australian (if he's the same speaker I'm thinking of)?
Phae
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Some JW on the street, my reaction...
by sp74bb intoday i had some of my worst experiences.
i saw a jw group walking on preaching.
one of them knows me well, we share a lot of week-end on rbc.. my first reaction was rage and nerves.
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I remember my adrenaline shot up on seeing some JWs going d2d on my street some time ago while I was in my yard doing yardwork.
I began having pancky flashbacks and felt sorry for them at the same time, while hoping they wouldn't approach me in my yard (they didn't, they were across the street).
Still, the familiarity all comes flooding back, mixed with compassion toward them, that they are captives of a concept, many reluctantly doing what goes against their nature so they can please God (men) and not be held accountable and bloodguilty for not preaching publicly.
I want to run as far away as I can and save them from the pointlessness of it all at the same time.
Phae
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Miami Has New Young Partakers
by James Jackson insnapper creek (miami, fl) congregation, had 2 pioneers (female), partake at the memorial for the first time.
one is 20 years old, the other 23.. the gt delayed again!!
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I'm very interested to see this partakers movement growing in congregations across the world. Don't know if it's related to that anointedjw site, which has claimed to be promoting the Urantia book ideas, with most visitors unaware.
The growing number of partakers is a fun anomaly to see how the FDS® will publicly handle what they can't control.
Phae
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Where were you? / How old were you?... during the Ray Franz witch trial?
by Zoos ini was 13yo and largely clueless to what was going on.
i think i remember hearing something about an apostate being weeded out of bethel but really couldn't have cared less.
i didn't start getting zealous until a couple of years later.. .
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I was 8 as well and never heard anything about it until I found Freeminds on the Internet in my 20s. And what a very juicy story it was indeed!
Reading CoC shortly after changed my life forever.
I was too young to understand the KM announcement and don't remember any discussion around it in my family or JW friends. I think I was just sheltered from such things, if they did occur.
Phae