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Sweetp0985
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What are you up to this weekend?
by saki2fifty inwell, i've been reading, and reading, and even more reading and just dont have it in me to respond (midnight here)... so... here's whats going on with me this weekend.. i live in houston, and scheduled a trip up to austin for the weekend for a little race that we are participating in.
check it out, its pretty cool.
its called the muddybuddy and can be found @ www.muddybuddy.com.
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Do you hide you JW family's practice of shunning from non-JW family?
by kwintestal ini thought of this question as i've been talking to different family members about the situation with my parents and grandmother.
i wondered if they'd get upset by me telling other non-jw family members what was going on.
i recently told a family member in coventry who i'm sure will end up telling my grandmother's sisters.
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Sweetp0985
I used to do this but now I don't anymore...Well my dad was the only JW on his side, but my mom(dub) has 2 sisters/BIL's that are dubs too...Sad to say I kinda avoid going to my grandmother's house (mom's mom) when I know her sis's and bil's are there...and when i do happen to show up and they're there my uncles usually find some way to ask me when are they gonna see me at the hall again...NOT!!!
Funny this topic is on here tho cuz one of my cousins is graduating this month from college and I'm debating if I should go because the dub relatives are gonna be there...but like I told my brother I'm not gonna let them run me from my cousin's graduation..but the sad thing is seems like to me that my mom's whole side of the family shun me because of the dubs shunning me...(did i say that right???) it maybe just my paranoia but just sometimes i get a vibe that because the dub relatives don't talk to me (because of my devil-horns growing out my forehead) that my other relatives seem to think i'm doing bad stuff too and treat me as the black sheep of the family...i tell my mom about it and she always says its just my imagination....but i rarely get invited to "family" stuff that's not on a holiday or birthday party because the dub fam is invited too and they not even the ones giving it...but if its xmas, thksgiving, or birthday i get a invite then cuz dubs won't be present...like they all punish me in some way..
I'm so glad no one else on my dad's side is a JW or else I'd go crazy...nothing like having a grandma that you can talk to about anything...wisdom wisdom wisdom and plus she shares her true feelings about the dubs...its always so funny..she rants more than i do about them...
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I'm hooked on...
by mrsjones5 insudoku!
i admit it i'm a sudoku junkie.
it all started on a plane ride from california.
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Sweetp0985
hi my name is sweetp and im addicted to sudoku
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September KM - 70 alterations in Revelation Climax Book
by dozy ini can't find a thread on this subject yet - if there is one , please delete this one.. the september kingdom ministry has a 4 page insert detailing the 70 alterations in the revelation climax book which is due to be studied at the book study shortly.
i'll provide scans if anyone is interested.. i will leave it up to more experienced analysts to examine the reasons for specific changes , but just a few brief observations for now:.
p32 box - "they were completely exonerated" changed to "charges against them were dropped" - interesting change of terminology for the 1918 watchtower eight.
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Sweetp0985
i bet there is no changes to the 607 year stuff..thats one thing they can't alter without some repercussions
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former bethelites get paid
by dvw inapparently the c.o.
told the cong.
during his visit that the bethelites who got shite canned are receiving $450 per month as an allowance.
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Sweetp0985
yep with some extra left over for the
other big guns to play around withWWW....i may be wrong but didnt they say they sent home like 2-3000 or less...thats alot of extra funds left over using your calculations jgnat... -
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former bethelites get paid
by dvw inapparently the c.o.
told the cong.
during his visit that the bethelites who got shite canned are receiving $450 per month as an allowance.
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Sweetp0985
might be why they are asking for $8 now to cover the $450.
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WTS Running Out of Money? Letter to all congregations...
by drew sagan ina few days ago my wife commented on a letter sent out to all congregations (in the u.s.a.?
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se said it was long and boaring, but in the end there where a few points she remembered.
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Sweetp0985
Steve you hit the nail on the head
There's nothing wrong in asking the flock for money. But I can't excape the impression that, because of their criticism of Christendom's more direct ways of getting money (e.g., tithing and passing the plate), the Watchtower has limited the means by which it can apply pressure to fleece the flock.
Isn't funny that a religion supposedly "directed/guided" whatever by Jehovah and the "only right one" in the world has so much of the same thing going on within their religion as they put down in others...The molestations for one and now they want to outright ask for tithing but like Steve said they can't because they've put all other religions down so much for the same exact thing.
Its really just sickening..I want to ask someone still in about the letter being read soooo bad but all my local ones are at the damn assembly...didn't they just have one last month?? I think they trying to get money that way too..im sure this assembly is gonna be in a deficit too...
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Sweetp0985
Good Girl they have a option now in your Account settings where you can set it to private without changing your age...
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I came home to find my wife crying over THAT article.
by jambon1 ini came home today to find my wife crying whilst reading the 'when a loved one leaves jehovah' article.
its been a good few months now and i can appreciate how she feels.
but it just irritates me how my disagreeing with this religion has such a catastrophic effect on our everyday lives.
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Sweetp0985
In my case its a little different. My dad shunned me for the longest while he was in..now he's df'd and seeing for himself all the pain he inflicted on me..yes I'm a daddy's girl...but i don't rub it in his face..
my mom on the other hand (they're divorced) she never really shunned me..the only time she would not talk to me would be for a couple of days of so when one of my uncle's(elders) or aunt's would ask her about her communicating with me too much..and so she'd stop calling for about a week...this never bothered me because she'd always end up calling me about some "business matter" to see how i was even tho it was never really a business matter..so im just waiting to see what she'll do this time in reaction to this article...
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What book or movie most resembles the WTS in your opinion? Why?
by whyizit ini've seen where some former jws compare the wts to certain movies or books (such as the village and 1984).
i just wondered what movies or books reminded you of the wts and why?
did you draw this conclusion before or after you left the organization?
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Sweetp0985
All the movies mentioned so far are great examples, especially The Village...I must rent it again and let my dad see it...he was recently df'd
Also never thought of Equilibrium and The Island in that way but yeah they fit too...
Gonna go way off field with my own that hadn't been mentioned yet...X-men 2...but only the parts with the evil Dr. putting that poison stuff on their necks to make them do what he wanted..just like dubs...constantly putting out their little poison (mags, bible, etc.) to make people do what they want...but good thing is..in the end evil dr. got a megadose of reality...