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  Does Anyone Have a Postable Video of a Congregation Meeting?

  by new light in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it would be kind of interesting to see one without the sacrifice of actually going to a kh.

  it has been a few years for me now and it would be a good way to check the old mileage since exiting.

  "how much more ridiculous are meetings than last time i went" is my point of view.. so.. would anyone be willing and able to post any congregation meeting videos?.

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  Does Anyone Have a Postable Video of a Congregation Meeting?

  by new light in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it would be kind of interesting to see one without the sacrifice of actually going to a kh.

  it has been a few years for me now and it would be a good way to check the old mileage since exiting.

  "how much more ridiculous are meetings than last time i went" is my point of view.. so.. would anyone be willing and able to post any congregation meeting videos?.

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  new light

  It would be kind of interesting to see one without the sacrifice of actually going to a KH. It has been a few years for me now and it would be a good way to check the old mileage since exiting. "How much more ridiculous are meetings than last time I went" is my point of view.

  So.. would anyone be willing and able to post any congregation meeting videos?
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  Tame animals in the New System ™

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i was thinking about this whole idea of animals being tame and getting along with each other and how the wts depicts this in their artwork.

  i'm having a major issue with this.

  how far down the food chain would this go?

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  With out any predators, every species will (generally) continue to increase until they run out of their particular food source unless they adapt to eat other vegetation.

  Imagine a world teeming with all the animals nature can possibly support, overcrowding the earth and encroaching on human life quality in ways we can not predict.

  I suppose there must be some sort of divine reproductive intervention to make this plan work. Perhaps this could be mentioned in their next sciency book, one along the lines of the creation book.
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  Was the legend about Smurfs being demonic just an urban legend, or was it mentioned in the literature?

  by IsaacJ22 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i never heard about the smurfs being evil until i joined the forum.

  but when i look in the volume library, the word doesn't come up.

  i was wondering if anyone ever heard mention of it in the literature--as in, was it an official position?.

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  The Smurfs thing was just word of mouth as far as I know. One story that made the rounds was that a JW boy had Smurf curtains in his bedroom and one night the little buggers climbed off the curtains and walked about the room. I'm sure the story ended with him yelling out "Jehovah" and being saved.

  Back in 1990-91, the Simpsons were mentioned from the assembly platform as being an evil influence. Not demonic per se, but debasing.
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  Encounter with JW's on the Street

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. beliefs

  i was pushing my sister's wheelchair as we were enjoying the perfect .

  saturday noon weather.

  we were going to a local restaurant to get .

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  That's a pretty intense encounter, considering you may have changed the direction of the young man's life, and possibly the older one as well. I am still waiting for my chance to do this. A month ago I was working in a house and some JWs were walking the street. Adrenaline started to flow as I thought of what I was going to say. Five minutes later, I looked outside to see that they had left without even knocking on the door, but had left a lame brochure with an invitation to the local DC "public address". Easy day for them, I guess.

  Good job giving these guys some actual truth.
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  Could you die without anyone noticing?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.

  i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.

  then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.

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  If not for my cherished wife, I would end up lying here until the neighbors complained about the smell. Wow.
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  My Lord spoke and told me to post

  by watersprout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my lord spoke to me for the first time yesterday and this morning he told me to post my experience.. i know there are going to be ones who will call me names and thats ok. i will accept whatever you feel you need to say.. here goes.

  i heard a voice calling ''my child'', this happened while at the zoo so i was taken off guard!

  i replied ''who is this?

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  Ahhh..nothing better than a day at the zoo with shrooms.
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  How do people that are reinstated overcome the resentment

  by troubled mind in

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  2. friends

  what if you were df'd for along time ,say over 10 yrs ,and you were totally shunned by family that whole time .

  do you ever come to terms with the resentment of how family treated you ?

  has anyone here successfully got back in just to gain family ,and then faded or never got active after that ?

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  This is pretty much my situation, except that I went back after a nine year DFing really believing deeply in the whole thing. Getting family back was less than half of my reason for returning.

  I quickly came to realize that people will shake my hand and look me in the eye at the KH, but that's about it for being welcomed back. Actually, the congregation (which included my immediate family but was not the one that Dfed me) was awesome. I really felt wanted and loved.

  Anyone who knew me before the exile seemed to have a chip on their shoulder, though. I thought this was weird, as I was a 16 year old who was seduced by a 30 year old married woman. I was not exactly a hardened criminal, just a typical teenage boy who thought with the wrong head...big deal, right? I actually felt pity for those who held on to the past like they did.

  I do not hold on to any resentments toward any non-essential JW aquaintances as it would just add negativity to my life. I have fully let go.

  However, I do feel a certain "resentment" toward my family. It's not a hateful thing. It's just this roadblockish feeling I get when I think about them that things will never be the same. Instead of my thoughts taking the natural, almost instant path to undying love and loyalty, they just stop soon after I picture their faces, if you know what I mean.

  I feel more positivity from thoughts of casual acquaintances than from those of my parents and siblings.

  Having realized that this is the case, I sent a watershed email to my father explaining quite a bit of what disfellowshipping did to me and my relations toward family, hoping to get some of this never discussed stuff out in the open and to begin the healing process together. It went unanswered. I do resent this.

  However, just like my loving thoughts have a roadblock, the negative ones do also. I can only feel a little resentment before the Great Numb kicks in and softens the edges of terrifying isolation.

  So, for me, having tried to walk through the pain and begin a truly honest dialogue with my father and being ignored, the answer lies in building a stone wall between us. It sucks, but I cannot allow myself to indulge in thoughts and feelings that are simply destructive to my mental health.
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  THE FAITHFUL and DISCREET SERVANT VS THE GOVERNING BODY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

  by bible brain in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this journal is for jehovahs witnesses throughout the whole of the earth,whether active or inactive, it will be beneficial for everyone associated with the organisation today.

  firstly let tell you a little about myself, i have been totally involved with the society since 1967, and a pioneer for many years, giving 100 hours each month, service to my god.

  i was concerned when i read your watchtower of june 15th 2009, where it finally admitted the governing body represents the faithful and discreet slave class.

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  Exactly what "awakening" took place in 2002?
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  Do You Constantly Think About The Witnesses At This Point in Your Life?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i was just talking to a guy who's been df'd for years and he still talks about things like it was yesterday in watchtowerland.. are you still consumed by your jw past?.

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  Sometimes I think about how things would be different had I been born into a less "anti-everything" religion, but, on the whole, no. I don't tell new acquaintances about the Jw thing anymore. Whenever I think of family, JWism is inevitable, but other than that the whole thing is really buried in the past.