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  Woohoo, just been DF'ed !!!

  by Genesis in

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  yesterday i was annonced as the kingdom hall : genesis is no more a jehovah witness !

  im so glad i made it, but in the same time i have remorses, but thats a phenomenon called homeostasis, the mind try to take things to normal...

  so i have so much things to plan,do think !

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  Genesis,

  Thats an unusual name - just wondering if it's your alias, or your real name? Interested cause my wifes real name is Genesis, and as yet havent met another blessed with such a title.
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  Dating dubs, when is a chapperone needed?

  by gringojj in

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  my wifes mother is a devout single dub.

  i understand that it would be innapropriate for a young couple to be alone in a house, or even go out in public together if they are not married or had a chapperone.

  so we just found out a certain brother whos wife died a few years ago has been stopping over my mother in laws recently.

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  A chapperone is required at all times. Witness couples of the opposite sex are not to be trusted alone. In one of my old cong's, the local presiding overseer, who was recently widdowed, started "seeing" a single sister in the cong. Although they were both in their late 40's, and he had the top job in the cong, no exemptions were made.

  He got pretty mad when other elders pointed out he still needed a chapperone. They are married now.

  Phil.
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  i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true

  by googlemagoogle in

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  listen to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".

  i just thought, well she's dreaming.

  the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".

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  Another possible explanation is that you remember the "hits" and never notice the "misses".

  I'm very open minded about this, and there are definately more hits than misses. This might happen once a month if i'm lucky. Or mabey i'm psychic.....Not.

  Its just an interesting quirk of nature that doesen't really need an explanation. I just enjoy it when it happens.

  -Phil.
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  i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true

  by googlemagoogle in

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  listen to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".

  i just thought, well she's dreaming.

  the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".

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  This is an interesting subject for me. Ever since i can recall, i have always been geting that "de-ja-vo feeling". Like, something happens in my day, and i instantly flash back to a dream a few nights before, and i reconise the immediate next few seconds as events unfold.

  I'm not able to remember my dreams on a morning, but i remember them through the day when they line up with something thats happening.

  Its happened since i was at least 5 or 6.

  As far as sceptic input, well..... i dont know. I'm not really into fortune telling or all that crap, but i know what i know. I have dreams, sometimes they appear to come true.

  Once i won loto, but i'm still waiting for that one.

  -Phil.
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  A must for all who want to know the real "truth"?

  by phil78 in

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  yesterday i linked to a web site that left me spellbound!

  here on jwd you can read as many profiles and testimonies as you like about life in the "truth", but yesterday i linked to: http://www.towertotruth.net/audio.htm and heard real life heart wrenching tales of misery and abuse.. .

  i really recommend to all that you have a listen, especially those "still in" jw's trying to decide what to do.

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  phil78

  Yesterday I linked to a web site that left me spellbound! Here on JWD you can read as many profiles and testimonies as you like about life in the "truth", but yesterday I linked to: http://www.towertotruth.net/audio.htm and heard real life heart wrenching tales of misery and abuse.
  

  I really recommend to all that you have a listen, especially those "still in" JW's trying to decide what to do. It puts a human touch to the tragic life many have had to lead. Hearing emotion in a grown mans voice peak, untill he breaks down sobbing, rams home the fact that the cheery witness way of life is all smoke and mirrors.

  Last night I downloaded 3 testimonies, and saved them onto a CD. I listened to them in the can on the way to and from work today, and it was just the things i needed to hear to help me resolve to never go back.

  Floyd Erwin and Tom McGovern are fantastic speakers. I definately recommend listening.

  Thank you to TOWERMAN for providing the link in his thread yesterday. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/91161/1.ashx

  -Phil.
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  RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD

  by fri in

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  religions of the world

  taoism: shit happens

  hinduism: this shit happened before

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  I love it !!!!!

  JW: U cant prove i said shit - where's your 2nd witness.

  Phil.
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  What is the Great Pyramid?

  by phil78 in

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  i found this reference, but i have never ever heard it spoken about.

  what is this great pyramid?

  how did it effect the early witness doctrines?

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  I found this reference, but i have never ever heard it spoken about. What is this Great Pyramid? How did it effect the early witness doctrines? Are any still semi-mixed up with what witnesses believe? Or is it all crap?

  Russell's grounds for these beliefs was the usual mishmash of Biblical
  passages inherited from generations of free-lance interpretation in
  fundamentalist circles. However, he combined with this another mother lode
  of fruitless speculation that commanded much interest in America at this
  time. This was the curious superstition that pretends to find secret wisdom
  and prophecy hidden in the dimensions and structure of the Great Pyramid of
  Egypt. Readers may be familiar with one form of this superstition from the
  newspaper advertisements of the Rosacrucians, a sect which has no
  pretensions to the "Bible religion" of the Witnesses. Here Russell was
  influenced by a certain Charles Piazzi Smyth, who had already combined
  Biblical speculation with "pyramidology," finding references to the Great
  Pyramid in such passages as this: "In that day there will be an altar to the
  Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its
  border. It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of
  Egypt..." (Isa. 19:1920). Russell's predictions were based equally on the
  Bible and the Great Pyramid.
  
  The original name of Russell's followers was Zion's Watchtower Tract
  Society, which was changed in 1896 to the Watchtower Bible and Tract
  Society. The name Jehovah's Witnesses was adopted in 1931 at the suggestion
  of Russell's successor, "Judge" J.F. Rutherford, who took it from such
  Biblical passages as Isaiah 43:12 and John 18:37, identifying the sect with
  those of whom the Bible had spoken. It was Rutherford, too, who rid the sect
  of the embarrassment of "pyramidology" after Russell's death in 1916. The
  Witnesses now claim to base themselves on the Bible alone, without reference
  to the Great Pyramid.

  Thanks - Phil
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  Un-scriptural & Non-biblical JW terms

  by ljwtiamb in

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  2. beliefs

  after a recent 'spiritual' discussion with a relative, it hit me that so much of the jw terminology is not to be found anywhere in the bible or, at best is taken totally out of context.

  yet, it's by these terms & titles that jws approve and condemn each other, the entire world, and worse believe that god even cares!.

  i can just imagine someone at the pearly gates, explaining to peter: 'yeah, but i was a "pioneer!".

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  Mother organisation
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  I will not share a meal with you but can you give me some money

  by tyler m in

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  i had to come here and post about this.

  my parents who have dutifully shunned me for nearly 9 years had the nerve to ask me for money.

  it wasn't for food, a car payment, house payment or anything like that.

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  Love11

  My sister just sent me a postcard inviting me to a jewlery party at her house

  Go and buy some nipple rings. Would be good for a laugh. You are obviously a wicked "worldly" person now.

  -Phil.
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  What are some of the "Get rich quick businesses" the witnesses tried?

  by mjarka911 in

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  i remember many witness businesses that would pop up.

  usually they would say "i'll just offer it to the friends to get started, then when it takes off i can pioneer".

  it was usually one after the other for the same people.

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  We had a brother buy a franchise for Front door peep-holes. He enlisted the 3 local pioneers to sell them for a small hourly wage + small commission. The pioneers were walking around industrial estates trying to sell to factory workers who were outside smoking during their lunch break. It got sticky when the sisters were assigned to go back through there witnessing. The PO had a word to the brother and the whole thing got closed down.

  The same brother tried to sell painted house numbers. (A painted on black square, a stencil of your house number in white, and sprinkled with glass beads to make em reflect cars headlights, painted on the curb next to your driveway.) He would go through the streets door-knocking and getting orders, then he had 2 out-of-work brothers doing the painting. That didn't take off eather.

  PHIL.