Topics Started by indoubt

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A Morning on Mulberry Street (pro-JW cartoon)
by indoubt in
1. jw
2. friends
not sure if this was previously posted here... it was sent to me by a regular jw and this person thought it was the best thing ever.... so sad... .

http://mediaphil.free.fr/fun/jw/3dpreach/flvplayer.html.

(since i don't post often here): my current status is that i am "inactive" and happier than ever... i have not been to a meeting in 3+ years..
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Will DA'ing myself be better for my children's future?
by indoubt in
1. jw
2. friends
background

i have been fading away, and considered fully "inactive" for over 2 years now.

my wife is still a very active jw, and she brings my 2 children (5 & 3) to the meetings and service on a regular basis.
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When am I an apostate?
by Lilycurly in
1. jw
2. friends
my father talked to an elder yesterday, told him i was reading crisis of conscience, other apostate material and talking apostate with my mother.... the verdict: i am not consider an apostate, according to this elder.. now i'm confused...i thought just being here made me one, but the elder says i need to be talking badly about the society to others jws to be one.

does that even make sense?

anyone has any written references from publications or others that clearly says that there are other motives then trying to convert other jws?
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Now they "Excommunicate"??
by Lilycurly in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
some of you might had read that in one of my other post...my father, who is the only jw in the family, came up with the word "excommunicated" when talked about disfellowshipement.

now, nobody here seems to have any idea what this is all about.

he seems pretty certain that it's now the proper word to use.
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Quasimodo and JWs
by indoubt in
1. jw
2. friends
today i was driving my daughter to school and we were listening to the hunchback of notre dame soundtrack.

one of the songs (that i have previously heard dozens of times before) struck me... it seems to me that it has lots of similarities with the jws (or any other cult)... .

context: frollo (compare him to the "fidel and discreet slave") is this religious man who has raised quasimodo the hunchback (compare him to a rank and file).
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WT Article on Mennonites - Wow... Double Standards
by indoubt in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i usually don't read wt or awakes, but i stumbled on an article that shows the borg's two-facedness.. the article talks about a group of mennonites that had doubts about their religion and wanted to study with the jws.

after the first paragraph, i realized that i had felt exactly like those poor mennonites when i decided to study the jw's history.

let me explain... i have scanned some parts of the articles: .
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To IT and computer geeks
by littlerockguy in
1. jw
2. friends
i am not an it person per se but i do a hellaceous amount of typing and i cannot stand brand new cheaply made keyboards that are now on the market.

i prefer the old ibm clicky clack keyboards.

i take my old ibm keyboard whereever i work since i can type up a storm on it; something i really have a hard time doing with newer keyboards.
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Google Earth: Amazing 3-D satellite pictures (and it's free)
by indoubt in
1. jw
2. friends
just in case some of you did not hear of this yet.... you can download the software here: http://earth.google.com/.. i used my address, and other points around the globe.

it's amazing.

caution, requires broadband to connect.
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Documentary on JWs - "Knocking"
by indoubt in
1. jw
2. friends
anybody heard of this?

it seems like a pro-jw documentary, planned to be broadcasted on pbs in 2006... .

http://www.knocking.org/.
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WOULD I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE?
by Outaservice in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm curious.

how many of you when you were still in the organization, or your family, that had a home security systems, had '1914' as your security code?

i know a lot did around here!