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thank you all
by itsallgoodnow in
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2. friends
i'm coming up on my one year anniversary posting on this board, and wanted to say thanks to you all for everything i have learned here this past year.

you've definitely helped to make fading a little bit easier to take.

i was pretty lost when i first started posting here and this forum helped me figure out so many things and how to deal with the jws in my life.
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faith at work
by itsallgoodnow in
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2. beliefs
christian evangelizing at work, not just for jws anymore.

some people are really smooth about it, but you realize there's more to their persistent religious comments.

they want to convert you and don't stop trying.
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daily inspirational
by itsallgoodnow in
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i got this little inspirational email from a friend this morning (don't worry, i won't do this every day, just today).

being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect.

it means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
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how many days?
by itsallgoodnow in
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ok, so we've probably all heard before that someone out there has done a study calculating about how much time we will have spent in our lives sitting at red lights and it comes to about a year?

try calculating about how many days you have spent at circuit/district conventions in your life, assuming there were 3 for circuit every year, and 3 or 4 for district every year.

i can't remember the year it switched to from 4 down to 3. this number is bigger than you might think, especially if you were raised as a jw.
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WT illegal doctrine
by itsallgoodnow in
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2. beliefs
after reading the nov 1 1999 questions from readers about voting... http://www.jwfiles.com/vote.htm.

i'm wondering if they felt they needed to change their teachings on this because they feared legal action against them for disenfranchising their people.

am i on the right track with this?
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question about faith
by itsallgoodnow in
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2. beliefs
i've been wondering about faith as a concept.

if there is a god, why can't he or she make it plain and obvious who he is, what he wants from us, what his purpose is?

the bible is open to wide interpretation on all matters as we can all see.
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what's your favority JW reference from a movie or TV ?
by itsallgoodnow in
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mine is from friday, the movie with ice cube, where a couple of jw ladies wake up ice cube's character's family one morning and there's some mouthing off, and you wouldn't believe the nasty words coming out of these sweet looking old "sisters".

hilarious!.
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What's was the funniest thing that ever happened to you out in service?
by itsallgoodnow in
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for me it's a tie between the time a certain gentlement didn't realize his thingy was "out", waving in the breeze, i couldn't hold it together... laughed until i cried.

or the time the po's wife stepped in dog poo and i laughed and she wasn't amused.....
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Do you ever have a kingdom melody in your head?
by itsallgoodnow in
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this drives me crazy.

i woke up with "i want to" in my head this morning... havent been to a meeting lately, so what gives?

does this ever happen to any one else?
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hello everyone
by itsallgoodnow in
1. jw
2. experiences
my first post here - - wanted to give my story, too.

raised a jw, stayed in out of fear, painted myself into a corner and currently struggling to get out completely.

i know lots of people would say they don't respect someone who knows they don't want to stay but is staying for other reasons, like family & friends or whatever.