If my baby doesn't have a blood transfusion , he will die
Dub answer: Taking blood is against the Governing Body's law. Your baby will be resurrected in Jehovah's new system of things.. Wait on Jehovah.
lilybird
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Give a JW answer to a question..................
by JH inyou surely noticed that the jw's have an answer to everything.. question: my dad died.
jw answer: he will probably resurrect .
question: i don't feel well.
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Were you present for your DF/DA announcement? Would you choose to be?
by nicolaou inif you've already been 'announced' and were at the kingdom hall to hear it, how did it feel?
i think when my time comes i may be there.
a part of me says "sod 'em", but another part wants them to see how happy i am.. hmmm, not sure..
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lilybird
My husband and I didn't attend our DA announcement as we were too busy raising 3 little kids to care what happened at the time.. My mother-in-law told us after that many people gasped when the announcement was read and some were crying, as we had been Dubs since we were children, and grew up with many of them.. I feel sad for them that they felt so distressed about our decision that they would cry about it.. just made me even happier to be free of the mindcontrol and rules of the org.
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Believer, Agnostic or Atheist?
by lfcviking ini am curious, what amount people on this board from their experiences of being a baptised & active jw and their subsequent exit from the jw org (for whatever reason or reasons) are now either agnostic, atheist or do some actually still believe in god?.
your honest answers please.. lfcv.
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lilybird
I believe that some sort of power, not necessarily God as many like to believe caused all to exist. Whoever or whatever this God is or was ,no longer cares what happens to us. We make our own way, whatever life throws at us...I believe a god-like spirit exists in all of us, so we make decisions that are either good or bad, we decide what kind of person we want to be...So I guess I do have a belief in God.(or creator of some sort). he just is indifferent to us. At least he is not the quick to anger, petty God that is pictured in the Bible..
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Snow .................again.
by Mulan init snowed here at the end of december and i said then that it usually doesn't snow here in the seattle area until january or february.. well.............they predicted a big snowstorm last night, and it didn't happen, but it's snowing now, really hard.
not sure if it will last long, because the weather forecasters can't seem to predict much correctly, other than rain and wind.. i was hoping to take pictures but it's dark, so will have to wait until morning.
a cold front is supposedly going to last awhile here, so the snow should be around for a few days this time..
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lilybird
We finally have snow this winter here in Southern Ontario. An unbelievely warm winter so far. The ski resorts laid off workers over Christmas and most ski runs were closed. Now with this snowfall, I hear they are opening most of the runs and bringing back staff.. Its colder now, but still not the bone-chilling cold like past years.. Kind of nice for a chance. I like seeing the thin layer of snow which looks pretty, but I don't have to shovel.
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Why don't JW friends come over and say hello?
by JH ini always wondered why jw's didn't stop by to say hello, just to encourage or by friendship?.
but if i showed up at the hall, after many months, they would be happy to see me, and would come to talk to me, and ask what,s going on in my life as if they were really interested in me.
so, if they were happy to see me at the hall, why wouldn't they be happy showing up at my place too.. why is it that only the elders come over to see me once in a blue moon?.
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lilybird
Basically, the organization teaches Dubs to be selfish and self-serving while under pretense of caring..They are so busy worrying about doing everthing to make sure they have everlasting life, they don't have time to make real caring relationships with friends work...Thats why so many like to drop by on "friends" who are spiritually weak, when they are out on service..Makes them look like good caring people , plus they can count an extra few hours on their reports.
JW doctrine makes them think like mindcontrolled drones anyways, I don't think they even understand what having a good time means anymore,,,Everything you do ,,you have to worry about stumbling others,,or in some way displeasing God so that you might lose out on everlasting life.
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How did your family react to your decision over time?
by mavie ini'm still somewhat hopeful my family will one day 'see the light'.
in your experience, did any of your family members finally understand your reason for leaving and communicate with you as a family member and not an apostate?.
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lilybird
My husband's parents at first were shocked. My mother-in-law told us that we " took being JWs too seriously". We found that ridiculous as we were raising children and as far as we were concerned, you couldn't act one way and then expect our kids to act as JWS also...Of course that is how his parents lived as Dubs..and his father was an elder..he survived by living a double life..one as a good Dub.. the other as a "worldly guy" with his non-JW friends. ..They have never shunned us even though counselled too.. They do as they want..probably because they donate a lot to the congregration and help many brothers out financially..
I have no living JWs on my side of the family.
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Barf Alert! - Governing Body 'believes we are in the time of the end'
by drew sagan inwell looks like the governing body is getting 2007 off to a great start.
here is a little audio clip that somebody pointed out to me: .
click here to watch 'jw-governing-body---time-of-the-end'.
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lilybird
Well..even the term"Governing Body" sort of creeps me out..Its really bizarre terminology..its like something out of a bad sci-fi film..
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AHHHHH! I'm PREGNANT!!!
by Jez injust thought i would pop in here to tell you all that i am 3 months pregnant!
it was quite a shock.
my husband and i have been married for 5 years.
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lilybird
Congratulations! Don't let the age factor bother you. My sister had her first child at age 37 as she was busy with her career and her second at age 42. She is enjoying every minute of it !
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Snippet of a JW letter.
by jeeprube inhere's a snippet from a letter my sister in law recently wrote my wife.
enjoy:.
hope you two are doing well!.
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lilybird
Exciting things are happening lately
Sad how the dub's minds are programmed to think the stuff she wrote in her letter is exciting.. Sounds just like how it was 20 years ago when I still a mind-controlled dub.
Does she still really believe the end is near or even going to happen??
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So what will they do now.....?
by Gill in2014, a hundred years since christ's supposed invisible presence began, has come and gone.
it is now 2018.. you are now 75 years old and the world is packed with free information.
you can find out anything you want to, and infact, you have to use the internet every day just to shop and bank and a lot of the things you need to do.
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lilybird
Great post and insight into the future , Gill. My husband and I have talked about this very real future for the Dub friends we left behind. We wonder how many now that we grew up with and are now in their 40's secretly wonder if they have wasted their lives and when we are all in our 70's and 80's they finally realize how they really have wasted away their lives.
We are happy that at least we left before we would have wasted our kids lives away if we had raised them as Dubs also.