Topics Started by Invetigator74

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Disfellowshipping or Disassociation what is the "difference"?
by booker-t in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i know this may sound like a dumb question but fellow ex-jws out there what is the difference between being disfellowshipped or being disassociated?

why do the watchtower have two classes of ex-jws?

i have really never understood the difference.
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Do you still remember the date of your baptism?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
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i do.

july 9th 1988
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KM in 1974 praising people for selling all their stuff and pioneering?
by ithinkisee in
1. watchtower
2. bible
someone on this site mentioned they got a km off ebay that praised those that sold all their belongings and preached.. does anyone know which km that was?.

interesting, when going through the society's cd-rom i noticed that the drama for the district convention in 1975 was about noah's ark and was something along the lines of "there's still time left!

" (i'm paraphrasing).. -dm
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Any XJW's in the Central Florida/Orlando/Daytona/Tampa Bay Area?"
by ApagaLaLuz in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm posting this topic for coldredrain.

he's out of posts and leaving for florida in the next day or two.

if you're in this area and interested in getting together please pm him.
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My Dad died a few hours ago
by BONEZZ in
1. jw
2. friends
excuse me if i ramble...this is hard.

i have even avoided threads in the past where others have had to go thru this because i didn't want to face it.

guess i'm a wuss.
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Just when I thought I didn't hurt over the JW's Shunning,,,,,,,, I dream :(
by LyinEyes in
1. jw
2. friends
for such a long time, i haven't had any dreams dealing with my jw issues, and mostly i just pick and make fun of my old jw days.. last night i dreamed another dream about old friends and it was painful.

i woke myself up crying.. i dreamed my family that are all out, in laws included where at a convention.....there was one sweet girl that we have known since she was a baby and she was waving and smiling at us from afar.. i was worried she would get in trouble, and wondered if she knew we were d/a.

( of course in real life she knows).. as the dream went on , more and more of the faces of so many of the witnesses started to appear.
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Is Ehrman's "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture" worth reading?
by True North in
1. watchtower
2. bible
most of my "knowledge" of the history and sources of the bible was acquired from watchtower publications.

although i left the jw org.

some twenty years ago, i never felt compelled to consider the subject much further.
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New to the site, but got me on a train of thought....
by dustin_adam in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i got ahold of the latest watchtower cd-rom (2001) from my grandmother, who is still an active jw.

i've added below a few direct qoutes from various publications... in one instance below the watchtower says that the bginning of christ's thousand-year reign will begin in 1975 with noted exception in error of "weeks or months, not years" then in 1975 they say that "it does us no good to speculate" on the date his reign will start!

because after his creation adam lived some time during the ?sixth day,?
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Where's Mithras ???
by skiz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i copied a page of info on mithras from a thread on this site and would like to go back to read some more but i can't remember where it was.

anybody know the thread name ?.

plus, if that thread doesn't have sources for its info, does anybody know a well researched source for mithras info ?.
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Old JW Books & Records
by talesin in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this post is to help a sick friend, thanks for reading.. .

i have a friend who is wondering if their collection of old jw books & records would be salable to any collectors.

they are having difficult times both financially and with health, and i have offered to investigate possibilities.. i have set up an e-mail address, so anyone with info or suggestions, please mail to:.