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  How did your family react when you made it known that you did not want to be a JW anymore?

  by Yondaime in

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  please share your experiences..

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  mikeypants

  I'll let you know in a few weeks...
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  My best friend growing up shot himself in the head with a shotgun while his parents were at meeting. They found him on the front porch when they came home.
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  John Lennon, 34 years, long time gone

  by designs in

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  2. entertainment

  imagine.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgyahhkpfs.

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  Never heard of the wife beating thingy - but I do love the song.
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  Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. friends

  i remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.

  the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.

  they weren't just happened upon, though.

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  mikeypants

  I was at an assembly in Woodland Hills, big white round building in Southern California. Anyway, right when they announced lunch a dude stood up towards the front and started yelling stuff about the watchtower and such. About 6 brothers ran down and carried him out to the street and sexually assaulted him.

  Okay, i made up the last part...part they did carry him to the curb. I was 6 or 7 and it was all very exciting to me.

  Oh, I remember seeing Lisa from Saved by the Bell there once too. I had a crush on her..not so much anymore.
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  Money Grab?

  by mikeypants in

  1. social
  2. family

  so, i was at the hall when they announced the new mortgage payoff donation thingy a few months.

  yes, thats about what i got out of it.. i raised my hand when they did the resolution but, like most witnesses, i really had no idea what was going on.

  does anyone ever say nay to those?.

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  mikeypants

  So, I was at the hall when they announced the new mortgage payoff donation thingy a few months. Yes, that’s about what I got out of it.

  I raised my hand when they did the resolution but, like most witnesses, I really had no idea what was going on. Does anyone ever say “nay” to those?

  I don't even know if they counted me, im not baptized and have facial hair.

  Anyway, can anyone here explain to me what the heck they were talking about?

  I took it has they will forgive the debt (mortgage?) of congregations but make encourage everyone to pay a monthly premium , 7 dollars a publisher or something like that.

  Is this correct?

  Thanks and happy Thursday everyone.
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  really? they are going 'out in service' today?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my mom tells me last night that she and 'the group' is going out tomorrow.

  [ god, she cant talk about anything else but her 'freinds'].

  omg why????

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  my mom and sisters went out too. When I asked why the heck they would bother people on a holiday she said they skipped the homes with lots of cars. Or that looked like they had company. Guess only witnesses got called on.😁
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  Wedding question

  by lostinthought in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can a witness get in trouble for attending an inactive family members wedding?

  just wondering because i am getting married this summer and my mom tried to blackmail me by saying she and other family members would attend but only if i returned to the meeting.

  i told her i am not going back to the meetings.

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  I married a J-Dub and our families did not attend. She was babtized and I was just going and studying - they said it would be supporting her decision by attending attend.

  If I had married a "normal" woman they would have attended. I was raised a witness but never babtized, thank Jehovah.
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  144000

  by mikeypants in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure this has been brought up before but.... i was talking a lil bit with the wife today about things as she brought it up.

  she's baptized and all that, i'm not.

  after the zone meeting i said enough.. anyway, she mentioned there's about 6000 anointed left and that armageddon would come before they all croaked.

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  I'm sure this has been brought up before but...

  I was talking a lil bit with the wife today about things as she brought it up. She's baptized and all that, I'm not. After the zone meeting I said enough.

  Anyway, she mentioned there's about 6000 anointed left and that Armageddon would come before they all croaked. I asked what's going to change in JW land regarding the literal 144,000, would it be changed to figurative when those peeps have all died? Would they say some must have been imposters?

  She just looked at me like I was crazy for thinking of such a ridiculous thing. She just repeated that Armageddon would come before the 6000 or so died.

  I'm kind of hoping it gets changed, maybe she will start asking more questions.

  Any thoughts about this? Sorry if this was a previous thread, couldn't find anything recent about it.
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  Marriage outside the religion punishable?

  by Pattytheperfectone in

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  2. relationships

  now i know they have always discouraged marrying outside of their so called 'truth' but since when has it been a punishable offense?

  my sister recently married and they are discussing wether her being married to an outsider will stumble others and if they need to reprove or disfellowship her for it..

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  My wife married me and I'm an non-baptized, facial hair sporting, non meeting goer. She is baptized and her father is an elder. She didn't get in trouble, no family came to wedding of course but there wasn't any JC meetings or such. Think she has hopes of converting me.
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  I need a good cry but I can't. Please help?

  by ohnightdivine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides being overworked and overstressed almost everyday in the past few months,.

  i've had to deal with a 'broken heart', insecurities with my physical appearance (gained a lot of weight),.

  and being lonely because i started distancing myself from the 'congregation', i just want to cry, sob, and bawl out here in my bedroom.

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  mikeypants

  reading the '94 awake mag featuring children dying from refusing blood brings a tear to my eye.