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  Being interviewed by police tomorrow

  by moley in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  well tomorrow is a big day for me.

  i'm finally going to be interviewed by the police about what happened to me as a kid.. im running the whole gamut of emotions at the moment.

  sad, anxious, angry, guilt, fear and many more that cannot be quantified.. i feel physically sick, cannot sleep, have lost my appetite and i am desperately trying not to self harm.. i've got my sister to thank for getting this far.

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  Best wishes.
  
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  Took my 11 yr old trick or treating this year. saw first hand his cognitive dissonance. had to show him nothing is wrong with halloween

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know there was another thread about halloween, and i was going to post on it.

  but, thought i wanted to make a couple of points on mine.

  so.... here it is.. i took my 11 year old trick or treating this year.

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  Yay! Good for you - it will do your son a lot of good to see things how they really are as opposed to the nonsense he's been taught at the hall. I took my daughter (8) trick-or-treating for the first time yesterday too (with her cousin and a few others). It was great fun, and we met some really nice people (my wife is still in, and it seems unlikely she will ever leave). It felt great to knock on doors without a Watchtower or Awake, lol.
  
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  Something interesting!

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

  we both served as elders for years.

  he is in his late 70s.

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  Cool. Any idea what they think about shunning / blood?
  
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  MOTO-GP the Rossi vs Marquez controversy

  by wozza in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you've watched the race what do you think about the stoush on the track.. i've always been a rossi fan but after what happened in the race i'm really disappointed.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2div26-jqs.

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  Just seen the race. Rossi looked very dirty - what a disappointment. I'm now rooting for Lorenzo to win the championship.
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  The fade did not work

  by BeautifulMind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.

  his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.

  we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.

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  Same thing happened to me - I thought I could fake it for a while for the sake of a relative, but I only lasted one meeting. One excruciating meeting. It is amazing what a difference it makes when you attend a meeting without the blinkers on.
  
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  Why doesn't God need a creator, while the Universe does?

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked this question of a jw that called on me yesterday: "if the universe requires a creator, why doesn't god?

  if the universe must have a beginning, why doesn't god?

  he claims to have an answer, but it must wait for next time he calls.. i'm hoping you guys can give me a heads-up as to what he will say.

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  When I was a JW I would have used special pleading to argue that whatever the first cause was, it had to be eternal, since if everything needs to be created, and someone created God, then that someone was the first cause, not God. We could regress with that argument indefinitely, but as the Bible tells us that God was the first cause and has existed eternally, and the Bible proves its veractiy with unerring prophecy (barf), we can be confident that it is true. As God is supernatural, and invented the laws of physics, he is not himself subject to the laws of physics, and can exist outside of the universe, thus not needing to have a beginning (whereas there is evidence that the universe itself did have a beginning). Ugh, I can't believe I just typed that BS.

  westiebillie11: ...I have a circular thought re universe expansion....if it is expanding..what is it expanding in?..ie.what is outside it for it to expand into?....after a while I get a headache!

  As for what the universe is expanding into - I think people often misunderstand what 'the universe is expanding' means (not saying you do, but it is easy to get the wrong idea). It does not refer to matter spreading out in space, it refers to space itself getting bigger. Imagine a two dimensional universe by drawing little pictures of stars and galaxies on the surface of a balloon. Then inflate the balloon - the dots and galaxies move away from each other because the balloon (space) is expanding, not because the dots are moving along the surface (that's not to say stars and galaxies don't move through space, they do, but that's not what expansion is about).
  
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  Hubby has been doing research on the internet!!!!

  by atacrossroads in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husband was recently subjected to an intervention by his parents.

  i am apparently a danger to his spirituality.

  after i stopped attending meetings and went apostate hubby decided to resign as a ms to spend more time with me.

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  Awesome. It still could go either way, but it sounds very positive (the hardest part is entertaining the notion that it might not be true, which he has already done). All the best.
  
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  MOTO-GP the Rossi vs Marquez controversy

  by wozza in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you've watched the race what do you think about the stoush on the track.. i've always been a rossi fan but after what happened in the race i'm really disappointed.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2div26-jqs.

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  I haven't seen it yet - I can only get the highlights which will be on tomorrow. But I thought last week at Philip Island was the best race of the season (unless you happened to be that seagull). I was a Rossi fan until I read his autobiography, and now I'm a bit ambivalent about him. I'd still like to see him win the championship this year though, and we do need characters like him to keep things interesting.
  
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  How many of you left the Org since 2015?

  by Paul Bonanno in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have noticed that many lately have left the org or are in the process of leaving.

  how many of you have left since 2015?.

  this month will be my 21 years out of the org into the road of freedom.

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  Officially forcibly disassociated in April 2015, but have been mentally out and inactive since 2010.
  
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  As a Matter of Conscience, I Am Resigning from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Sail Away in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.

  as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.

  i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.

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  Nice. I hope they respect your wishes SailAway, although I would not be at all surprised if they still make an announcement that you are no longer a member. That's great that the solicitor didn't charge you! I got a solicitor to write a similar letter when I was being harrassed by elders 5 years ago, and it cost me £250 for just the one letter (which had no effect, other than to mean that they made an announcement that I was no longer a JW without telling me - they would've told me if I hadn't sent the letter apparently).