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  Circuit Assembly experience...

  by No Apologies in

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  "and they're both getting baptised today!

  no, not that kind of experience.. .

  this happened this last weekend at the circuit assembly my (jw) wife attended.

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  iamfree

  Well, this reminds me of a story.

  It's about three Jews, a Samaritian, a road and one donkey...
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  Do you think we're just doing what the JWs expect by being here?

  by NaruNaruChan in

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  don't get me wrong, i'm as guilty as the next guy.

  i love reading on here, lurking if you will (i am a woman of very few words) but you know, i still remember what those anal warts (elders) would say at meetings about "apostates" etc.

  do you think we're just playing the part because we left the org, i mean, do you get what i'm saying?

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  It really doesn't matter what one does in the end, they (JW's) will work up some reasoning to put them in the right.

  It's part of their gymnasic reasoning and only needs to seem true rather than be based on any real tested fact.
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  Awake ! Jan 8, 2004 cover "Understanding Mood Disorder" WTS change ?

  by jwsons in

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  i remeber about 20 years ago wts still go against psychiatrist and in this awake !

  mentions some jws did go to psychatrist.

  huh !?.

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  iamfree

  Arrrrrr... I saw one. They told me too. I left the Organisation as a result!!! The best day of my life.
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  I just don't understand why someone would do it...

  by atpeacewithself in

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  can someone please explain to me why a person who was one a jw, left, bitched and complained about them, the way they think, the things they do...and then go back to them

  i just don't understand it ...can someone please help clarify this for me...i'm at a loss on this one.

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  atpeacewithoneself

  It?s certainly one of those occurrences that will disturb your peace if you haven?t found the answer to why some people what to go back, especially if the event(s) or reason(s) surrounding their leaving was disturbing.

  I have found it helpful to look at it this way. The reason for going back is dependant upon the individual and what really matters to them. For example, imagine someone who was an elder, well respected, conscientious and a family man. Bob?s children are all in their twenties, financially independent and JW?s.

  In time his marriage and view of the WBTS goes pear shaped. About the same time the divorce comes though he is disfellowshipped (reluctantly) for adultery. Bob marries the ?partner in crime? (Betty- a disillusioned JW) who is also disfellowshipped.

  Taking into consideration his history, the home congregation would not hinder his reinstatement (you?ll have to trust me on that), however as for his new partner, Betty?s home congregation would more than likely drag the proceedings out.

  They both have good friends who have also left the JW?s. The only problem that bothers them is to do with their respective families.

  In discussions with them Bob wants to go back so that his children would feel easier about talking to him and, Betty so that her dependant mother (JW) would not be reluctant to speak to her because of family pressure (JW?s).

  Apart from logic and good sense, the elder?s manual allows them to speak to close family members on things other than ?spiritual matters?. The elders should have informed all parties of this stipulation ? it doesn?t happen, rather they are only left to incorrectly apply the hard line of shunning. Even if Bob and Betty were to inform their families of the stipulation, they would not believe it until the Elders did so.

  Going back may seem to be a noble gesture, but whom are they pleasing when it?s a JW problem? Not themselves, that for sure!

  The solution is very simple and involves . . . (Sorry - not for your eyes).

  [Name have been changed to protect the guilty].
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  Circuit Assembly Report

  by Hapgood in

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  coming out of the lurking mode to give you all a report on the 2 day ca that i attended this past weekend.

  i always enjoy other reports that have been posted so i thought i would share my observations.

  i attend with my jw hubby to keep him company so he doesn't have to go alone, that's the only reason that i go.. i didn't take any notes, so i'm doing this by memory.

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  iamfree

  Hapgood,

  Here?s a little inside information.
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  Wanted: All Aussies!

  by iamfree in

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  just want to know who's around in my part of the world, rather than plowing thur the members directory!

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  iamfree

  Just want to know who's around in my part of the world, rather than plowing thur the members directory!
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  I mad and don't know what to do.

  by Aintthatcute in

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  i am a jw and have posted here before.

  i have, for a long time been dealing with the option to "get out" as it were.

  i have a wife who is loooked at as "so faithful" in the words of a one influential sister here in ***, wi.

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  Feeling confused,depressed and your marriage is heading for the rocks?

  These are the result of "That Spirit" you are trying to depend upon.

  It happened to me until I realized that "the odd smell" that I couldn't put my finger on was that the spirit was an invention and not from a "surpreme being".

  I sort help of a professional kind and then left what I call the "Animal Farm" (WTBS). Now all things are 100% better between the wife & myself, and everything is getting better all the time.