Topics Started by BoozeRunner

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my last year in the BORG
by BoozeRunner in
1. jw
2. friends
although this story is several years old, i wanted to share it here.. after i was df'd, in 1996, under questionable and selective circumstances, i really tried to get back in the swing of things in order to be reinstated.

i actually travelled from nyc, where i was staying with family for a short time, back to my cong.

in new jersey, often getting a hotel room solely for the purpose of attending the sunday meeting.. my p.o., tho, basically cringed each time i showed up(guilt, i guess).
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a bizarre decision!!!
by digderidoo in
1. jw
2. friends
hi guys...i just wanted to share with you all something that happened over the weekend, that i found really weird.. on saturday i went to a cousins wedding.....we are quite a large extended family, not jw's(only my mom is a witness), so it was nice to be with the family on such special occasions.. throughout the evening i sat down with a cousins husband, who i hadn't seen for about two years.

we had a pint and he decided to get out a pack of cigars.

now these cigars were big fat ones (you know the cuban type)...he lit up.
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Is this how they control people?
by Loki in
1. jw
2. friends
if religion is, as marx said, the opium of the people, do the borg just have theirs at a better grade than most religions?

is that why it is so hard for people to "kick the habit"?

is that why we feel so strongly about the borg - reformed druggies being the most outspoken and all that?
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Party like it's 1899, uh - 1914 - I mean, 1975...
by Michael3000 in
1. jw
2. friends
the party's really over, folks.

from the associated press.... .

--michael .
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dead serious question
by Mommie Dark in
1. jw
2. friends
and it has nothing to do with jwdom, but i am really bothered and would appreciate some feedback.. thursday night there was a horrible hit/run in the street by my house.

a man was run down by an angry youth.

our local law enforcement has waited until today, tuesday, to return to the scene and do forensic analysis.
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$$$$$$$$$
by New Eyes in
1. jw
2. friends
(b j kotwall; investigator magazine no.

73 2000 july pp.

the watchtower society (wts) has often criticized other churches for passing collection plates during meetings.
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Society on Documenting Personal Views
by Marvin Shilmer in
1. jw
2. friends
question: does the watchtower society want individual witnesses expressing personal viewpoints about vital religious issues to persons whose intent is to record and document the findings?

the following letter written under the new letterhead from the societys service department documents the answer to this question.

christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
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a part of ourselves we neglected
by rodnico in
1. jw
2. friends
my mother is coming to visit me next week.

i haven't seen her for over 4 years.

she thinks that somehow i am a completely different person since leaving the organization.
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Waiting's Never-ending Joke Thread
by Seven in
1. social
2. humour
happy monday!.

had no price tag.

much to her embarrassment the cashier got on the intercom and boomed out for the entire store to hear: "price check on lane thirteen, tampax, supersize.
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'Changes That Disturb People' Awake 4/22/70
by ISP in
1. jw
2. friends
one of the reasons is that people are disturbed by what is happening in their churches.

yes, millions of persons have been shocked to learn that things they were taught as being vital for salvation are now considered by their church to be wrong.

have you, too, felt discouragement, or even despair, because of what is happening in your church?