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Urgent! Need help - I told my parents.
by filip in
1. jw
2. friends
we have just gotten home from sunday-meeting, when my mom ask me if i believe in god and so on.

so i tell her, cause you adviced me to be honest.

and despite all my fears, she took it very calm, and then told my dad whos also taking it calm, and it doesnt seem like theyre hating me now or want to throw me out of the house.. the thing is.
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If God created complex creation - out of the mouths of babes answer!
by qwerty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we know the wts offical answer to this but,.

if god created complex unique creation and is the amazing designer - he must be as equally unique and complexed!

surely god would need a creater too????.
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Fish & Chips He Said Crisply..
by Englishman in
1. jw
2. friends
americans call 'em chips.

we call them crisps.. .

now..these are fish and chips.
16
A letter to my sister
by jwbot in
1. jw
2. experiences
i got some help from someone on the board in composing a letter to my parents, but i am presenting a letter i wrote just now to my sister johnna.

she has probably been the most rabid in shunning me.

she is also one that i felt very close to.
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Just got back from the YMCA
by Atilla in
1. jw
2. friends
i went to the y last night just to relax and go swimming.

the y near my house is pretty clean and after 8 p.m., not very crowded.

i find it very relaxing to go work out, play basketball, go swimming and then sit in the sauna after a long shower.
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Can I withdraw a Disassociation?
by Woman know your place in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm new to the site, and wonder can anyone advise me..... two years ago i decided to leave the jws, and when i met with the elders to inform them, they told me they had grounds to disfellowship me (i told them i doidnt believe in god and had slept with my boyfriend.....for full story see my profile).

at the time i thought that telling them would just mean that i could get on with my life and they would know that i was not a jw... i thought that you could only df a person who wilfully sinned against god.... well i didnt believe in god, so how could i wilfully sin against him?

anyway, as i said, the elders wanted to df me, and, not wanting to be seen as a sinner, i wrote a letter of disassociation detailing my reasons for not believing ahead of the dfing.. so did the elders have grounds to df me?
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Hey! Did you ever wonder how to use a piece of plastic to cover the mags?
by joenobody in
1. jw
2. friends
here's a truly weird flash animation demo of "how to use magazine covers".

this is waaaay too bizarre... if anyone is good with shockwave or flash they should do a parody (although the self-parodying nature of this is too much!)..

http://www.mckennabookcovers.com/first_page.html
22
satan fears
by cuddlepie in
1. jw
2. experiences
this is a paragraph out of an email my mother sent me.

this doesnt help.

why cant they see that its this talk that attributed me to needing therapy in the first place!
31
Just got Crisis of Conscience
by bull01lay in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just got my mail order copy of crisis of conscience... got to chapter 2 in the first 20 mins!!!.

who else has read it, and what are your thoughts ???.

i've enjoyed it so far, and am glad to see how respectful ray franz was in his writing, with no 'outright attacks' on the wtbts.. bull!
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Do you still get embarrassed by it?
by Mr Ben in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the other night in the pub a guy pipes up, "hey, how you doing mate?

then proceeds to inform everyone that i used to try and convert him to jwism about 8 years ago.

i say, "how you doing dave?"...