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  I gave Blood today...

  by zeroday in

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  one more step in becoming a human being again.

  i gave blood for the first time in my life.

  it felt good.

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  I found it fascinating when the nurse was hooking me up for to give blood.. there were 3 different bags and how the blood is separated into different parts and she explained how the different parts of the blood were used, She said my one donation could help several people.. It was a great feeling..to be able to help in a small way.. I am going to go again in June..
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  Does this make you want to scream?!

  by Gill in

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  may 2006, awake, page 30:.

  from our readers.

  how to find a job and keep it .

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  The really sad part is the Dub in the letter will actually feel righteous and smug for a while thinking they are working their way into the new system.. until one day..BOOM.. they are wacked upside the head realizing they are old- sick -broke with no pension and no one to help them.. cuz the borg aint supporting them in their old age..

  Use them until they wear out.. I think that is the society's motto isnt it???
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  I gave Blood today...

  by zeroday in

  1. jw
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  one more step in becoming a human being again.

  i gave blood for the first time in my life.

  it felt good.

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  I am curious though, if the JW's now allow fractions who do they expect to give blood so that they can live?

  Excellent question, but that would require the org to actually give some intelligent thought to something. Its easier to spew out rules and doctrines for the mindless DUBS to follow.. Congrats on giving blood for the first time.. ITs a great feeling isnt' it..

  I gave blood for the first time last month.. Then I found out that I am in the small percentage of the population ,7% to be exact, to have a blood type that is universal.. They can use it on anyone .Makes me feel kinda special..Its so nice to free of the org and be able to do the things that can actually help people instead of handing them a lame tract or mag !!!!
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  Wacky WT article to 'scare you'

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  its a wt article on their official website called the "the danger zone".

  "the danger zone"... isn't that an old kenny loggins song for the top gun movie soundtrack?.

  here is the wt "danger zone"... .

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  hmmm. "Danger Zone" so is that going to another of the endless JW "catch phrases" that every time you hear it , it makes you shudder and brings back all sorts of bad memories..Its another mindless Dub article regurgitating the same old blather we have come to expect from the society..
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  Is the average JW as brain dead as this poor woman?

  by Honesty in

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  2. beliefs

  i actually stopped replying to certain sections of this website awhile ago now, i felt it was starting to get to me, certain comments that were made were making me think and i actually had to shake my head and snap myself out of it.

  what i did was remove myself from here altogether for a few weeks and i only came back last week to inform everyone of my baptism decision, i have still not even read anything in certain areas of this website, but yes most definitely has sunday's watchtower lesson put all of that into perspective for me.

  we do have to be very careful indeed of what or who we let into our lives, for if we do it can be extremely damaging consequences if we start to believe what we read.

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  Yes.. sometimes it seems easier to persuade some people to believe foolishness than to believe rational thinking. To the point where they are afraid to reason and believe what seems true to themselves, ITs amazing this woman was afraid to read something that made her think indepentdently.This just proves to me more and more that the JW org is a cult.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-2-06 WT Study (Increasing Light)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the april 2, 2006 wt study (february 15, 2006 issue, pages 26-30)(increasing light).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  Thanks Blondie.. your posts are always interesting and enlightning .Thanks for all your research and time..Makes me wonder,, how do they keep writing and re-writing all these doctrines and beliefs...Even they must have a hard time keeping up with all the changes and back-tracking.. Good thing they have this website to check on so they can keep up with all their changes!!!
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  JW DECREASE IN AMERICA of 1.07%

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  worldwide faith news (press release), ny - 3 minutes ago .

  ... 25. jehovah's witnesses, 1,029,902 members, reporting a decrease of 1.07 members.

  24. the orthodox church in america, 1,064,000 members, reporting an increase of 6.40 percent.

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  EAGLE-1.. In your post you said your parents were great until they became JWS and then it was like they were dead.. I can really relate to that.. I try to block out a lot of my childhood, some parts not so great..

  But before my mother became a very stanch JW, she gave us amazing birthdays,, Christmas, and they always had a abig Halloween party for all the kids on the block..And my parent were happy. My Dad was opposed to the day he died.So that didn't help.But,, it was like the life was sucked out of my mother,, now when I really remember, and the whole world revolved around the new system and the "friends" ..Very robotic.. (shiverrrr) I am happy to hear that the corp of JWS is decreasing.. and may it just decrease more and more with each passing year
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  JW DECREASE IN AMERICA of 1.07%

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  worldwide faith news (press release), ny - 3 minutes ago .

  ... 25. jehovah's witnesses, 1,029,902 members, reporting a decrease of 1.07 members.

  24. the orthodox church in america, 1,064,000 members, reporting an increase of 6.40 percent.

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  lilybird

  On our street here a local Baptist Faith red bus comes every weekend to take children and youths to Sunday School. They called at our house to see if we had any young people who would like to attend and they would pick them up and then drive them home.. They are showing an interest in young ones and trying to cultivate a love of worshipping God in the youth. Which is more than you can say about JWS. You have to find your own way to meetings. They don't worry about organizing for others who don't have their own way there.
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  Were You Always Feeling Guilty & Unhappy During Your Witness Years?

  by minimus in

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  were you ever really joyful as a witness?

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  lilybird

  Both my husband and I felt unhappy during our witness years. My husband said he always felt like something was missing. The day our "Dissasociation" from the borg was official.. we felt like a big weight had been taken our of our lives. and we were free to make choices we couldn't have before.
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  Leprechaun Sitghting in Alabama!!

  by lilybird in

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  this video is hilarious.. its a little late for st. paddy's day,, but these people really believe they saw a leprechaun in alabama.they even drew a sketch of it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_osweyn8&search=leprechaun

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  lilybird

  I think it just goes to show that you can get people to believe just about anything.. no matter how far-fetched... Guess that is how it works with the JWs.. they sure had me fooled for a while