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  Our new yearly "regional convention"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so unstuck and myself have decided to attend a different kind of yearly convention!.

  it should be fun!.

  just think, anything that helps us using our "powers of reason" (romans 12:1) is approved by the bible isn't it??

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  dubstepped

  Wow, that sounds fun. Enjoy your new convention together!
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  My mums dying she refuses blood transfusion...the horror.

  by Witness 007 in

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  mum has a mild form of lukeimia if she took blood like normal people she could live to be 100. but no, anointed sisters dont compromise jehovah wont allow it.

  so here i am moving to sydney for one month going to hospital everyday putting my life on hold to watch my mother die slowly.

  watching her gasp for air, struggle to breath.

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  dubstepped

  I can really feel your pain in the words of your original post, and I'm very sorry that you're facing this. I wish there were some wise words to make you feel better, but all I can muster is to let you know that people here care and that we're all sorry about this. It was a fear that so many of us had, or still have.
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  I need some help

  by Akid48 in

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  well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

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  akid, one thing you have to realize is that the people teaching this to you like your aunt have been lie to also, they just can't see it. Try to have some compassion for them. You are clearly a smart young man to catch on to this. Those other people aren't stupid, they've just gone so far down a path and have so much to lose that they are blind to the actual truth. You haven't gone down that path yet, so it isn't as big of a deal to you.

  Myself, I was 38 when I woke up to what was really going on. Some wake up very late in life.

  Your skills at asking questions will serve you well in life. Be curious, but also be willing to challenge things to see if they hold up. Challenge yourself too. Sometimes it is uncomfortable to do so. It hurt me a lot to challenge my JW beliefs that I held for so long. But it was worth it for me. I'm not sure that everyone has what it takes to do that. Humans are very complicated.
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  I need some help

  by Akid48 in

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  well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

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  7Okay then, it sounds like there are repercussions. It sounds like your aunt is a JW and so is your big brother, am I right? Oh boy, I don't know how to advise you, but JWfacts is a great site. Unfortunately though, it may not go well for you if your aunt knows that you're looking at stuff from ex-JWs. I seriously doubt that you can open their eyes and have honest discussions about it because they believe it.

  You're in a tough place. You should have to face this at 13. I'm sorry, but honestly I don't know what to tell you because none of us knows your situation well at all or the people that you're dealing with.

  If you have to go along with things, I guess you have no choice. Just don't get baptized. If you do, there are more severe consequences if you leave someday. The rest is a game you have to play.
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  I need some help

  by Akid48 in

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  well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

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  dubstepped

  Cool then. So if you stop studying there are no repercussions, right? Or is your aunt a JW? If so, drop it like it's hot and just tell him you don't want to study. You will save yourself a lot of heartache. You've had enough with your parents dying when you were so young. I'm so sorry. Just know that JWs are a cult and they will shun you someday and you will lose everyone again if you become one and change your mind.

  You deserve better than them.
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  I need some help

  by Akid48 in

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  well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..

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  We need to know who is studying with you and the circumstances around that before telling you to refuse study. For all we know it's your parents, as you're just 13.

  Read JWfacts.com as a place to start. If you have specific questions ask here. If you stick around and read you'll learn a lot.
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  Watchtower Victims Memorial Day!!!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  hey guys i just wanted to share with you all a video we made this week for watchtower victims memorial day.

  cheers!

  😊.

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  dubstepped

  Nice video outlining the realities of life as a JW, not the doctrines, but the life. I can identify with a lot of what you talked about, particularly that father that was one way at home and giving talks about happy family life at the KH. I'm telling my story on my podcast and am glad that you're sharing yours on the videos and I hope more people will share their stories. That is the kind of stuff that people that are not and have never been JWs can take in and really use to inoculate themselves and others against the cult. The human interest story of it all is fascinating, entertaining, and something that others can identify with that were never even in it.
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  Man DOWN!!! Updated a Wordpress Plugin and ThisJWLife crashed.

  by dubstepped in

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  any wordpress gurus here that might be able to help?

  i was just updating the libsyn plugin, as libsyn hosts my podcasts, and suddenly there were "internal server errors" and i got the following message:.

  fatal error: can't use method return value in write context in /home4/umc/thisjwlife.com/wp-content/plugins/libsyn-podcasting/admin/lib/libsyn/api.php on line 154. can anyone here help?

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  dubstepped

  Thanks Simon. I've had Wordpress sites for a long time without any issue, though none are really that big or involved. I do know that things are really evolving though and it may be antiquated at some point. I've never heard of Jekyll or Hugo but after a quick Google search they look interesting. It sounds like you've really gone deep into these things, or maybe I'm just easy to impress.

  Libsyn released an update for their updated plugin for me to try. I guess I'll give it a go and see what happens. If it shuts it down again I know how to fix it with relative ease.
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  I left the organization

  by Issa in

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  i left the organization.

  my awakening was this month of july, the first week of july.

  i couldn't answer my own questions about the organization or the doctrines, i couldn't understand the prophecies, i couldn't figure quite well what i was feeling.

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  Awesome, though I'm sorry. We disasaociated and it was so freeing. Just realize that you can't un-ring that bell, so look at your circimstanes and see what is right for you. If you have no family in, and want to do it, blow it up. If you have family, don't be impulsive. Just make sure you know what you're doing. I personally wish more would take a stand and disassociate and make the membership feel that discomfort, but realize most won't. We intended to fade but refused to play their games.
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

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  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  dubstepped

  I thought it was pretty clear that the woman was dfed for leaving an abusive relationship, which happens. I also thought it was clear that the guy was dfed for more than missing a Memorial, but because he questioned the faith and his wife turned him in. I liked the article. I realize that JWs will minimize things, but they always do that.