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  What Depresses You About Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  many persons express why they are angry toward the jw religion but what gets you depressed, just thinking about it, regarding the witnesses?

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  hi blondie,

  i think my family love me, they never abused me, never shunned me, never anything, neither did the jw's really, they just believe their religion and i do not. i have nothing better to offer them than what they already have, that's what depresses me. i have no issues or anger to the jw society or my family, i find the whole thing amusing more than anything, my life hasn't been ideal but nobody's is, i feel for the people who were hurt, but i wasn't really hurt, or if i was it has become so much part of me that i don't know any different and i don't think i would change it if i could.

  what i mean is that i have nothing better to offer my parents than what they have already, and that is depressing, no i am not depressed over it because i know my parents are happy, but it in itself is a depressing thing, the same as it is depressing for them knowing i will never go back to the false.

  i am sure i could give them plenty of arguments to leave the jw's and point out the many faults, a lot of which they already know, but what for? they are happy now, and wouldn't be if i suddenly started ripping into them.

  maybe this is the wrong topic. it's not a thing about jw's that depresses me, it's a thing about me, the rest of the world, my family and the whole structure that intertwines our lives that depresses me, but if the org wasn't there, i'm sure it would be less depressing.

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  What Depresses You About Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  many persons express why they are angry toward the jw religion but what gets you depressed, just thinking about it, regarding the witnesses?

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  i love my mom & dad and wish i had something better to offer them.
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  Here comes another Newbie!

  by adamgraziano in

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  i just stumbled across this forum today and just wanted to say big hello to everyone.. it's great to know that i am not alone in this world when it comes to leaving the so called truth.. when reading through the forum discussions, i can really relate -and that is great!.

  i'm sure i'll be back here time and time again.. have a great day!.

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  welcome to the jungle adamski!

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  Christmas Day/Arizona Another KH is torched

  by blondie in

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  http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dallas/tsw/stories/122703dntexchurchfire.4e03.html

  worship hall fire was arson

  08:23 pm cst on friday, december 26, 2003. associated press .

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  The truly cynical part of me wonders whether there was declining attendance at that hall, and the society torched it for the insurance.

  Yeah, they probably wanted to turn it into a night club to attract more young people.
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  The three wise men and their gifts!

  by shotgun in

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  does the wt comment on this occasion?.

  the gifts could be considered birthday presents couldn't they?.

  if they were gifts to a future king why would his parents who knew his origins and his future accept gifts from pagan's for their son who's kingdom was to be no part of this world?

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  my memory is a little sketchy but here's another random slightly off topic thought... were the number of wise men mentioned or just the number of gifts?

  anyway, just a thought.

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  Lord of the Rings-The Return of the King

  by stichione in

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  yooohooo!

  glad tidings to all!

  rejoice!

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  well i just bought the dvd of return of the king, will watch it tonight, couldn't be bothered waiting heaven knows how long to see it at the cinema over here.

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  Have you watched "Pirates of the Carribean" yet?

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  awesome movie...i am not that much of a johnny depp fan but he was absolutely brilliant in this...but his wonderful acting is not required to carry the whole movie.

  it is extremely entertaining, and the special effects are excellent.. i was just wondering if anyone else had a chance to see it?

  i hardly go to the theater any more (too many kids!!!

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  johnny depp is cool as

  great movie
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  yo lads ?

  by cooky in

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  i was wondering as a jehovah witnesess aloud to have oral sex ?

  i cant rember if its a contious thing or ure totally not allowed ?

  reply plz :)

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  jeez i bet that took a long time to write!!!

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  "The Hobbit" Movie?

  by Gerard in

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  fortunately, he seems to be interested!

  jackson keen on hobbit movie .

  lord of the rings director peter jackson is interested in making jrr tolkien's the hobbit.

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  as long as he doesn't cock it up like two towers
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  The "deeper things"...

  by Lonestar13 in

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  as much emphasis is placed on study and research has anyone noticed that you if you engage a dub in a conversation about the deeper things of the bible (not the wt), that you will end up doing most of the talking?

  i made a personal decision to read more books, magazines etc, (of a secular, historical nature) becuase i do not wish to be that way.

  unfortunately i found that within the dubs i had no one to talk to.

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  yeah, one of the main reasons i stopped with jw's was that i spent a lot of time studying and reading alone, history, other religious views, and i prefered to read the bible and not the other stuff they printed, i figured if it's the word of god and for everyone i should be able to understand it unaided, so that's what i did and naturally it was the end of my life with jeh.

  in the field service, if i ever worked with an elder, servent or someone older than me, which i enjoyed because they were supposed to be knowledgable, they did actually have a good knowledge of the bible and could pull out a chapter and verse easily, i would talk about my views, and do the same with chapters and verses, break them down, they would talk, i would talk, nobody ever treated me like a kid, even though i was, the deeper it went the clearer it became, i had formed my own views already, and as i went deeper they would tell me that they and i needed to pray about it because 'i was questioning the truth' and that 'satan was after me' i was cool with this, when the time came to get baptized i was 17 and they told me that 'when you get baptized satan will try especially hard to get you' i was cool with that too, maybe he got me, but a year later i left.

  i feel that because i talked about my views openly and in depth to the 'right people' (older more experienced elders or 2nd generation servants with their head's screwed on) who i knew wouldn't be quick to judge me, the rest never thought badly of me, never stopped talking to me, and i think it was no surprise that i left, almost like they had already discussed it among themselves and decided i was just 'a troubled individual who would come back to the truth'.

  i never did

  other than that, when i worked with other kids we just talked about whatever and did as little as possible, if i worked with a regular jw i'd do most of the doors and not say anything else.