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  How have you changed since finding this forum?

  by happehanna in

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  my friends and daughters say that i am more relaxed and i seem happier in my own skin.

  which is just great, but when i first started reading stuff here i was a quivering mess, i was in shock, but spending more time researching things are now slotting into place.. .

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  pudd

  I had already decided it was not "the truth" before I found this site, but I was crippled with guilt and uncertainty.

  Finding this site was such a relief as I realized I was not alone. In the last six months or so I have learnt to trust my instincts, and have enjoyed finding new friends who truly understand the difficulties of leaving in a way that nobody in the "world" or in the "truth" could really comprehend.

  Without wanting to sound cheesy, I really don't know how I would have got though this time with out this board.

  Thank-you Simon!!!

  Pudd xxx
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  what do i say?

  by pudd in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i got a phone call last night from an old j.w.

  friend.

  she was very close at one time and is one of a very few who did not turn on me when i left.

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  I got a phone call last night from an old J.W. friend. She was very close at one time and is one of a very few who did not turn on me when I left.

  I was not available to take her call so I rang back this morning. Her husband answered the phone and said she was not in but told me why she phoned me: her best friend has cancer (which I knew) but she has just been told that she is going to die, there is nothing the doctors can do.

  The woman is only in her thirties, and was desperate to get married and have kids and lead a normal happy life. I am devastative myself as I knew her too, but my friend will be falling apart. I need to phone her today and I have no idea what to say.

  I feel so helpless and guilty this is just not fair.
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  Jesus versus Judas. (May cause offence)

  by Englishman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jesus was a ransom sacrifice for many.

  according to scripture, he died to save the world and carried the sins of the world with him as he died.

  he actually suffered an horrendous death, dying 3 hours after being crucified.

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  Compare this with the unknown soldier that stays behind to delay the advancing army and allow more of his comrades to escape or who otherwise sacrifices himself with the knowledge that no one may even know of his sacrifice and he's giving up the only life he has.

  THAT is sacrifice.

  Amen!
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  UnDisfellowshipped is back in the house!

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

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  long time no see!.

  i apologize for not posting the last 6 months -- i have been very busy working a new job i got to support myself and my family.. i really have missed everyone, even the people who didn't like me.. i've been preparing some threads (with wt quotes from newer articles), and i will hopefully post them soon.. may the lord jesus christ bless you all!

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  hello undisfellowshiped

  im rather new here but look forward to reading your posts and getting to know who you are!

  welcome back!
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  Do you have a favorite piece of music?

  by MorpheuzX in

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  2. entertainment

  i don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?

  i know the question seems juvenile.

  but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.

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  everything by BJORK. fantastic artist. favorite probably "play dead" of the debut album.
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  If you considered going back to the hall....

  by JH in

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  if you considered going back to the hall after posting here for a while, would you hesistate telling us?

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  pudd

  thanks IT for your kind words.

  that is exactly what i get from this board. lots of support in knowing that i am not alone.
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  If you considered going back to the hall....

  by JH in

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  if you considered going back to the hall after posting here for a while, would you hesistate telling us?

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  Actually joking aside for a minute, I still wake up in a cold sweat a night at times wondering if I am doing the right thing in leaving the truth.

  So yes I would tell you guys if I were to go back.

  Not that I am planning to? but if I did.

  Maybe you would then remind me why I shouldn?t be!
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  Czar to be reinstated

  by czarofmischief in

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  2. humour

  well, i guess it's time i came clean.

  i've actually been seeking reinstatement for almost six months now.

  by getting married, i've removed the next-to-last obstacle to being a part of jehovah's clean people once again.

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  lol crying with laughter!
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  Beggers

  by Xena in

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  every day either on the way to work or coming home i pass people with signs begging on the side of the road.

  i'm curious if anyone here gives them money....i have from time to time, i tend to give more to women then men...i suppose i identify more with them...a kind of "under different circumstances that could be me" feeling i get... .

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  Where I live there is not a big problem with beggers. There is one old guy that lives in a shop doorway all year round how he has not frozen to death I don't know.

  When I lived in Manchester, I used to carry a surply of "appropriate" magazines. If I saw a begger I would witness to them about a life without poverty. I figgered that was more valuable than money, which I did give some times.

  I feel such an ass now but a really was one of those very anoying zealous types!
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  Question on the generation teaching

  by expatbrit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know about the wt's dramatic about face in 1995 on the generation thing.

  it was a large nail in their coffin, as far as i was concerned.

  after all, surely a verse so important, so relevant to our modern times would have been studied intensively at bethel.

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  pudd

  So, from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem to 1914 when war broke out in heaven (ridiculous if you ask me) God didn't have an earthly organization representing him?

  Why? Do the jws offer any reason for this? I can not understand why God would leave us alone for all that time. Did I miss the read where the jws explain why God abandoned us for all that time? It seems rather cruel.

  I remember asking an elder this same question. After a confused look that said "why are you even thinking about things like this" !? His answer was that Jehovah has always used individuals throughout history to accomplish his purpose but in this time of the end it was necessary for a more structured organization!