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  JW Urban Legends 2

  by ZeroKool29 in

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  wow!

  thanks for all of your replies to my last topic!

  since it was so popular i thought we could use another one.

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  Joysome

  Here's a story that always stuck out to me. There were two sisters in field service and they were knocking at a door. The dog was barking and they knocked again. The dog came around the corner and SAID "Nobody is home" The sisters ran away and the dog chased them. The one sister tripped and fell and just as the dog was going to attack she shoved a Watchtower in it's mouth and the dog just turned and walked away. I've heard that one for years.
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  XJW's and Mental Health Disorders

  by ColdRedRain in

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  as many of you now know, i was in the mental ward for a breif period.

  after i got out of the mental ward, i was placed in group therapy where i am today.

  i talked with my therapist today and he mentioned a very interesting fact.

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  Joysome

  Blondie makes an excellent point. There are so many different reasons as to why a person develops a mental illness it isn't fair or correct to place that blame on a religion.
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  XJW's and Mental Health Disorders

  by ColdRedRain in

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  as many of you now know, i was in the mental ward for a breif period.

  after i got out of the mental ward, i was placed in group therapy where i am today.

  i talked with my therapist today and he mentioned a very interesting fact.

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  Joysome

  It sounds genetic. Depression is genetic it isn't something that is connected with the religion you are in. It's a disease. You can't catch a disease from religion.
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  lessons in love from the faithful and discreet

  by galaxy7 in

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  god certainly realizes that carrying out his righteous laws about cutting off wrongdoers often involves and affects relatives.

  as mentioned above, when an israelite wrongdoer was executed, no more family association was possible.

  in fact, if a son was a drunkard and a glutton, his parents were to bring him before the judges, and if he was unrepentant, the parents were to share in the just executing of him, 'to clear away what is bad from the midst of israel.

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  Joysome

  Anyone who is feeling the sadness and pain that the disfellowshipped relative has thus caused may find comfort and be encouraged by the example set by some of Korah's relatives.

  Oh so it's all my fault everyone is pain!
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  Spankings In The KH Bathroom

  by Hunyadi in

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  oh, how many times have we heard the loud hard spankings of toddlers' and preschool aged children by their parents for making noise at the meetings echo from inside of the kingdom hall restrooms?

  until now it was a memory i had forgotten, but it really bugs me now.. hunyadi

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  Joysome

  honestly, i don't think there is a problem with disciplining a child by hitting. there is a difference between disciplining a child and beating a child. the problem is a lot of parents nowadays don't know the difference.
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  Witness Speak

  by Flash in

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  what controlling statements or questions do you remember hearing or using most?

  my all time favorite is, "isn't this god's organization?

  and shouldn't we obey god's organization??

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  Joysome

  Here's my favorite right now. My mom tells me you need to understand that you sinned against Jehovah. I didn't sin against her. So i'm thinking if that's the case why is it that I can't talk to you but yet you still tell me that I can pray to Jehovah. I mean if I sinned against him wouldn't it make sense that he wouldn't want me to talk to him? I don't know that irritates me right now.

  Another thing that irritates me now is my mom thinks that I party all the time. She thinks I got df'd just simply because I wanted to have 60 seconds of pleasure (yes she says that). I do party on the weekends but that's not what it's all about. I plan on going to school this fall and I still work everyday and take care of myself. I'm maintaining my own apartment. It's about self-discovery. I don't hate the organization like some do here but there are a lot of things that I disagree with though.
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  A Letter I Want To Send To My Brother

  by ZeroKool29 in

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  most of what i read was the book of ecclesiastes.

  i don?t think it would.

  i remember having a ton of those books lying around, and some of them i never read.

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  Joysome

  What a great letter! Honestly!!!! My favorite is this

  Are you not capable of making a decision with your conscience? Do you really feel that I am a threat to your faith? That associating with me would negatively effect your morality? That I will try to preach against your religion and make you want to leave it? Do you really feel that me wanting to have a relationship with you again has ANYTHING to do with religion AT ALL?

  I mean it's the truth....Am I that bad or do I have that much control over my family that I would influence them so much as to leave their faith?

  I hope you find the address and are able to send it and he reads it with an open and unbias mind and heart.
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  Another hole in the JW's version of inherited sin

  by logansrun in

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  the wt has often alluded that there is a genetic defect in humankind ever since adam and eve ate of the "forbidden fruit.

  " we've all heard the "dent in a pan = dent in the cakes" illustration countless times over by the society and, for that matter, by a number of fundamentalist christians.

  but, there is an enormous problem with this line of reasoning.

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  Joysome

  ok...at the time however they were "closer" to perfection after leaving the Garden....as time progress, perfection got further and further away from them...and here we are today.
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  My new issue.....

  by Joysome in

  1. jw
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  as i've said before i'm very lost and torn and confused.

  part of me still believes in the things that i was taught as a jw.

  1. armageddon.

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  Joysome

  Here's something that hurt really bad. My mom as I said above deals with depression she always has. Well she was doing so well yesterday and she went to the doctor today and they put her on more meds. Well I was asking what it was that was giving her anxiety. Well one of the things is that she's afraid she's been talking to me too much and she doesn't want to displease Jehovah. Because she's talking to me,her daughter. It just hurts so much. It's not fair. It's not fair at all. Disfellowshipping makes you feel like you are such a terrible person. I mean so bad your MOTHER can't talk to you. It hurts.
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  Are You Still Torn, Wondering Whether You Made The Right Decision To Leave?

  by minimus in

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  are you 100% sure you're doing the right thing??

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  Joysome

  I think everyone on this board knows how I feel. :)