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  New Release: Bible Teach book and ‘new light’ on 1914

  by JoeGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "new light!

  (looking for opinions on this line of reasoning)

  the basis for doing away with the 1914 doctrine may have been laid in this new book.

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  Thegoodgirl

  Good catch. Ah, how they love their new light (ie: rewriting history)
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  If you were bullied at school for being a JW kid..

  by mtbatoon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ..would you thank the bullies now?.

  i must admit that the social pressure was a large factor in my exiting.

  though it was hell at the time i'd rather that than life as as dub now.

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  Uraban: Welcome! Yes I too remember those "Winterized" things, and nope, they never did fly. But the teachers and other students did go way out of their way, it was nice.

  It' annoys me now when I'm at work and we have Christmas music playing in the hallway and a coworker who is Jewish says she's offended by it and we need to turn it off. There are like 20 people working in this hall, and she is the only one offended. I so badly want to tell her that I was a JDub and never asked the stores to turn off their christmas music. It's just part of life, even if you chose not to celebrate. (And plenty of Jewish, Muslims, Hindus in the hallway (most of our docs and nurses are from other countries, no one complains but her.)

  Danny Hazsard: Wow, I never even stopped and thought what it must have been like for the JWs on the day Kennedy died. Must have been awful.

  Tal: So great to hear someone apologized to you. I'm sorry you went through all that.

  I was only threatened/bullied when I tattled on other witnesses. I've thought of apologizing to them, but oddly enough, they're still in the truth, and I'm the one out. I'm afraid they'll now "tell on me"!
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  Notes from the Wallkill Printery Dedication - May 16, 2005

  by acsot in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you will all no doubt want to upchuk your lunch be pleased to find out how jehovah has blessed the brothers and sisters at the expanded, updated printery at wallkill.

  i have several pages of notes from that momentous occasion, but haven't a clue how to get them to post here.

  one of the snippets that will make you want to vomit highlights mentioned how, in reference to one job out-sourced to a "worldly" company for the concrete floors, the foreman of said company told the dubs that "what he learned in his few months at watchtower was comparable to five years of college".

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  5 years of college education??? Geez, that does make me want to vomit.
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  Shun This Apparel

  by Victoria Cruz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there was a link posted here awhile back to a site that sold disfellowshipping apparel.

  if someone has saved it can you please post it for me?

  thanks in advance.. victoria cruz

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  Jeaniebeanz, you are hilarious.
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  My brother spoke to me for 2 hours after 2 1/2 years

  by toladest in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  boy that would sound weird to most normal people.

  my brother is still a jw.

  he has never attempted to talk to me since i was dfed/daed.

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  Wow, you must feel really really great. I'm so happy for you to have contact with your family again.
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  PLEASE REPLY ASAP!!! Disfellowshiped without a meeting with elders?!?!?!

  by chok in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

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  i was trying to fade, and thought i had done so successfully for the past 18months.. i have just received a call from my dad saying it will be announced tomorrow that i have been disfellowshipped... can they do this???.

  chok.

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  Chok,

  So sorry you are going through this. I hope you are able to stop those guys. They're out of control. They sort of did it the old way, I guess, with my sister by sending her a registered letter saying if you don't show up to this judicial committee at this time and date, you are automatically disfellowshipped. And she was df'd just like that. I've drifted for about 4 or 5 years. I know my mom has called the elders on me too, but thank goodness, in the town I was living in, they were like, lady, we don't care, we don't even know her. So it is really different with each town. Good luck with the legal action if you go that route. Maybe it will stall/scare them off.

  GG
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  Birthday!

  by jeanniebeanz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today is my husband, rocker-dudes, birthday!.

  he is 41 which is quite disturbing for someone with heavy metal coursing through his veins...he was never supposed to pass 21. .

  your 'condolences' would be most appreciated... .

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  Happy Birthday! You're not old: did you see some of those "rockers" on the Live8? They looked much older than 41 (ie: pink floyd...) but they're still as awesome as ever.
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  CO says not to read anything on here. So here I am. Hello

  by ocsrf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my history,.

  47 years doing the jw thing from the age of 3.. many good times and many times i thought i was worthless especially as a teenager.

  couldn't be good enough to please some elders.

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  Welcome, we love free thinkers! So did the CO say that at a convention or in the KH? It's funny, the more they say it, the more people drop by! I used to think coming to a site like this would be the ultimate sin and there would be awful things. Now it's just laughable.
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  I am new here, former JW left years ago.

  by out of the box in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i want to discuss my experiences with the witnesses.

  how it began: i was recruited during the time i was escaping from a violent husband to a shelter.

  a witness came to my door as i was preparing to move during the day without him knowing (while he was at work).

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  Welcome out of the Box!

  Wow, what an experience. Yeah, it seems so many are recruited at a low point in their lives. My mom was too.

  AFter reading your post, I'm like"no wonder mom is always telling me that men like to feel like they're in the lead and that they're naturally needing to feel that, so we shouldn't take that away from them." (referring to me and my husband arguing.) She's been saying that a lot lately. She too came in in the late 70's early 80's with the Truth book and the "Family Life" book (green one.)

  Thanks for sharing.
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  Help me handle this louser

  by Cupcake in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  hi everyone just had another situation wanted to know your all opnion on how to deal with this one.

  here goes..... i got a dozen roses with ballons the other day at work and it had type written on the card " to someone special ?

  "that was on friday.... i called my x and ask others if they sent them to me and everyone said no......including my co workers then tuesday when i went to work, the florist brought me another dozen roses with a teddy bear and said he forgot to bring me the teddy bear on friday so he had a dozen roses a teddy bear and ballons again and the card read " thinking of you".... again didnt know who sent it... i talk to a co worker who is trying to make the moves on me and he said " do you want me to tell you the truth?

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  Yeah, what those girls said. Just stay away, sounds like a real weirdo. Thank god youd didn't get more involved, Cupcake.

  Next time he brings it up, just say, yeah, thanks, it's so nice to have a pleasant bouquet once in a while. And sort of cut the conversation short like you're kind of bored. Keep your conversations with him as short and boring as possible. No drama. Get rid of this guy asap. And sorry to his girlfriend, but hopefully she's seen the light too.