If it sounds too good to be true it most likely is, this holds true alot on the internet. For me the only time I have got anything free is when I get it from a slot machine with a beer in hand.
Shane
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I Really, Really, Really Need Yall's Opinions on this.....
by Frannie Banannie ini opened this email (call me crazy) on a whim last night..........i haven't told another soul about this, cause i'm afraid it isn't real.
scroll down for their response to my response...k?.
from:the desk of the managing director .
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How did you feel when you learned it was all a lie?
by what_Truth? inbit of background.
i grew up as a jw i left the church when i was 14 because a ministerial servant who was conducting a one on one baptism study with me said that i couldn't ballance my dreams of being a professional singer with the so called "truth".
i stopped the study and told my mom i no longer wanted to be a witness.
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I had a viseral pain like I was slugged in the gut. but the worst feeling of all is to try to show those you love facts about the witness's veiws and they cling so much to these ideals. It was then I seen myself as I was so long, in them.
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Is the Organizaton slowing down or are we just imagining it?
by JH inevery time i speak to an active jw in my congregation, they don't give me the impression that they are slowing down.
if i say that i see less jw's on the street knocking on doors, they will say that many are working full time.
they will also probably say that the hall is always full of people.. i don't go to the hall anymore, so i can't say if the hall is full or not, but i notice that there are way less jw's going door to door than before in this area.
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The Internet is chipping away at the Witness's strangle hold on free thought. Though they almost demand that the RF stay away from it they know they won't. In the words of "Brave Heart - FREEDOM !!!!!
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I finally said enough is enough (shunning)
by Fleur ini did what i was asked.
all these weeks, i did all my mother asked when it came to dealing with the matters at hand for her.
i'm nothing, if not loyal.. so over the weekend, when mother called for us to please come and deal with my relatives coming to the house to pick up boxes of my grandmother's belongings.
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How come I can't post to this anyone know?
Shane
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I finally said enough is enough (shunning)
by Fleur ini did what i was asked.
all these weeks, i did all my mother asked when it came to dealing with the matters at hand for her.
i'm nothing, if not loyal.. so over the weekend, when mother called for us to please come and deal with my relatives coming to the house to pick up boxes of my grandmother's belongings.
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Can JWs vote now?
by BeelzeDub inbob greene a jw from new haven mass, voted for kerry!
both parties made the iraq war and the war on terrorism key issues in their campaigns and voters responded at the polls.
bob greene, 49, of new haven, said he is a jehovah's witness and does not usually vote but considered this election too important to miss.
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Yup they say you can vote then there is more double tounged BS.
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What do our past Witness friends say about our Christmass tree and lights?
by PinTail in.
i have always liked the lights of christmass, and some how i still feel weird when they do our our area in the field service.
what do you say to them when they come to condem and roll their eyes at you for it?
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PinTail
Get out the Christmas cheer and drink the egg nog and close the door for a while, no more scolding from the stage.
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Depression & Jehovah's Witnesses
by minimus inis it me or does it seem that nearly all jws go through depression in varying ways??
i'm not talking about what the average person could deal with because of a loss of a loved one or a job termination, etc.
i'm referring to being depressed because you're a jehovah's witness.
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(Major Dittos)
I can not exspress how greatful I am for this site. I see now also that at least a reasonable percentage of my depression namely 89 % came from being raised a witness and continueing on with it till age 42, I am now 50.
The nagging from my ex-wife about taking the lead in the congergational activitys, service, like as she said: that I must do more than my "token services" and so on while working two jobs that dam near made blow my head off.
I still feel like a thick lead rope is tied around my head from it, at times. Basicly I have been afraid to live, now that most of my life is used up; what a shame. I see this same condition in my siblings their lives slipping by with out seeing the roses along the way, because of their fearing being destroyed, and that weird feeling only they "MAY be preserved in the day of gods anger; what a nightmare. I belive Jehovah God did not intend for serving him to be full of feelings of dread. So I say suround your selfs with many friends, that is what saved me and the aid of my brother who escaped from them earlier.
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Church faces abuse complaints-JW policy: Address issues internally
by Dogpatch inchurch faces abuse complaints .
jehovah's witness policy: address issues internally .
by annmarie timmins.
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Thanks for this information its well done and most needed.
Shane
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You DON'T Have To Listen To The Elders If They Say They Want To Meet ....
by minimus ineveryone that is in the process of leaving dreads the thought of having the elders approach them, call them, etc.
the fact is----just because they say they want to meet with you or just because 2 elders stop by to visit you----you don't have to deal with them at all.
simply tell them you won't meet with them, you won't talk to them.
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In the words of Edith Ann just say :"I Don't Have To Do Anything I Don't Want Too".