Tatiana, thanks for telling your story, very touching. I bet these same considerate people keep telling you armagedons coming soon?
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A story of brotherly love.....
by Tatiana insince i've been here, from around july, 2001, i haven't really shared any personal experiences of why i left the society, except for the story about my sister who committed suicide.
this is kind of long, so i will tell it in parts.
if this is god's organization, i will gladly be a devil worshiper.. here goes....... when i was about 27 years old, (around 1984) after my divorce, i'd moved from laurens, south carolina back to andrews, sc, and rented the house beside my grandmother.
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What do you think? Drank and smoked with witness..
by DanielHaase inok, here's the situation.
i have a good friend who i grew up with and now lives in mobile, al.
of course, when i was d/f'd a couple of years back, all contact was gone.
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There was a witness brother I had business dealings with and I had to show him the locations of a couple of clients just after I was disfellowshipped. For some reason, he felt that now I was disfellowshipped he could use the 'fucking' word every other sentence.
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Giving Up Smoking
by ballistic ini'm giving up smoking on the 22nd.
it will be the third time, but this time as part of a government sponsored training course with drugs and patches supplied etc.
anyone else given up and got any helpfull advise?.
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yes, still going, must be 8 going on 9 days.
In answer to you, I don't know what the exchange rates are but cheap brand here 4 pounds and expensive brands are 5 pounds per pack of 20 cigarettes inclusive of any taxes. I understand it is one of the most expensive countries for smoking (if not for most other things also), perhaps someone who knows the exchange can compare this?
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How Many JWs Fully Buy Into the WT Party Line?
by Room 215 infor those of us with years of acquaintance with the wt and its teachings, it's clear that full acceptance of the 1914 date as the establishment of god's kingdom in the heavens is a non-negotiable condition of remaining in good standing in the organization.
many of us know people who've been booted out just for expressing misgivings, lety alone outright denying this teaching.
almost as central, and as non-negotiable, is the teaching that only baptised jws can expect to survive the big a.. .
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It's not just in informal settings or social gatherings where you will here things like:
"even if we cannot fully understand, trust in Jehovah" and "it is not important to know all these minor details, Jesus choose simple ordinary men" and "that is for Jehovah to reveal in HIS own time" and numerous, numerous other such statements are the bottom line of their whole teaching.
This is important. This is where the buck stops in the organisation. Every single argument in the truth, whatever subject, whatever Bible version, whatever brother or sister always ends with the same force majeur.
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Arrrrgggg! I'm PISSED!
by David Gladden inthis morning i went to my computer to find my screen packed with messages.. several asswipes keeps sending me advertising messages on my yahoo!
messenger.
when i put the username on "ignore" the person increments the username-number by one and sends another message.. this has been going on for the last few days.. [>:(][>:(][>:(][>:(][>:(].
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what has this got to do with being drunk?
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How true is this? (dilbert)
by Simon indilbert's "salary theorem" states that "engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors.
" this theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates: .
postulate 1: knowledge is power.
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ballistic
Si, listening to the once chairman of enron the other day, I can easily believe this.
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Giving Up Smoking
by ballistic ini'm giving up smoking on the 22nd.
it will be the third time, but this time as part of a government sponsored training course with drugs and patches supplied etc.
anyone else given up and got any helpfull advise?.
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Cheers UR! I'm off work today on my 7th day with a real stinker of a cold / flu. I remember when I gave up before this happening. It almost as if your body throws on a fever to sweat out all of the toxins accumalated over the years. Actually, I had to stop taking the zyban (bupirion) pills cas of the side affects, but hey, I don't need them anyway.
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Giving Up Smoking
by ballistic ini'm giving up smoking on the 22nd.
it will be the third time, but this time as part of a government sponsored training course with drugs and patches supplied etc.
anyone else given up and got any helpfull advise?.
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I would just like to say it will be a week tomorrow. It still sucks but there is no turning back now.
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Tell Old School Friends That You've Left?
by Englishman insome of the uk national newspapers have been referring to the web-site at http://friendsreunited.co.uk/, where thousands and thousands of brits have been getting back in touch with old school friends.. just out of curiosity i decided to take a peek.
well, i was stunned.
many long-forgotten class-mates had my mind leaping back to the early 60s, particularly when they mentioned the weird nicknames that we had given to our teachers.. the french master, froggy fleuriot, mousy mclaughlan with his rats teeth, bummer burrell well, i will leave that one to your imagination.
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ballistic
ok here's ballistic's tip of the day...
Join for free and in your notation put your email address with the word AT instead of @...i.e. contact me on BRIANBALLISTIC AT AOL.COM.
This way, your email address isn't filtered and you don't have to pay the 5 quid.
I'm in touch with some of my school friends this way!!!
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hello from newbie
by gspradling ini am an inactive jw.
my mother and sis are still in.
i have been lurking here for awhile and i enjoy reading most posts.
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ballistic
what does gspradling mean?