Yep. For Marrying a non-JW (behavior unbecoming a Christian), remember that phrase? And I told them I did not want to live forever. I am new here, also. Welcome.
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Khazar
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Is anyone on this forum disfellowshipped?
by Kimmee inand if you are do you care to tell why you are disfellowshipped?
for those who were not what prevented you from being disfellowshipped?
curious minds want to know.
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Anti-intellectualism and demagogy
by Narkissos inin religion (the wt being an excellent example) or politics (it's a common attitude of a lot of electorally successful leaders such as bush and chirac)... why does it work so well?
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Khazar
Watch it, SixofNine. Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and Toby Keith are going to whip your a____ for lumping country music with JW's.
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NEW (to me) COMPUTER!!!!
by pr_capone inmy dad realized the pain i was in without a computer so he decided to give me his old one.
its nothing huge... a 1.3 duron w/ 512mb of ram and i have purchased a 128mb ati radeon 9000 pro 128 vid card for it.
a free computer is nothing to sneeze at.
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Khazar
Hello everyone
I am new to the internet and Ex JWS. I have always used a computer at work but never had the internet until the past 6 months when my firm had it installed. I have been lurking in the shadows all that time before I would get on board. Thanks so much for releasing me from the bonds of the JWS. I do not have a computer at home so I get online at work an hour before my job begins at 9:00 a.m. I am a secretary in a law firm.
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"Your Reports HAVE To Be Turned In By The 6th of the Month!"
by minimus indo you miss not getting that phonecall or that announcement?
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Khazar
In my years as a JW I turned in time only three times. I felt anything done for Jehovah should be done silently and without a showy attitude. I explained this to my study conductor (I was still new in "the truth") and was given a non-satisfactory answer. One of the issues surrounding my disfellowshipping was "how much time do you have?" After I was df'd I would put Watchtower and Awake mags in my neighbors' mailboxes which led to police being called and my being taken home by them. Although it was serious to my family then, It is funny now. They still talk and laugh about it. I was always a rebel a bad seed.
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Adam was perfect,...Right?
by prophecor inmy wife and i were discussing adam being a perfect creation of god.
we as jw's, have always associated adam with being such, but she tosses me a curveball and does not necessairily agree to the standard jw theology.
she believes that had adam been perfect, the sins of the fathers would never have been visited upon his children, we would never have been locked out of paradise and all the ills of this world would never have been an issue.
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Khazar
Having been reared in Catholicism before my conversion to JW's, I can tell you that every time catechism was taught in the Catholic school I attended regarding Adam and Eve, according to Catholic theology, Adam and Eve were perfect; however the issue of free will allowed them to be tempted and sin. Sounds like the JW concept, huh?
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my take...
by teejay in... on the watchtower society.
i am not one who will ever bother to waste my time heaping praise on the jw religion as though it were some kind of improvement on society.
i have no qualms in saying that it was, is, and always will be a dangerous religion ?
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Khazar
It was all bad for me. I never learned anything from them except to hide my head in the sand and shrink from reality. Even the delusion of a "paradise earth" with my children was negative. I left my husband. He died last weekend and me and my children (because of their upbringing in a delusion, illusion, (I say tomato, you say tomaato) were ill equipped to deal with the loss, for years of course, expecting to live through Armageddon and hoping and praying my husband and children's father would make it, on and on ad nauseaum. Well, so long. Guess I've cheered everyone up! Sorry. Next time I'll try to find something positive.
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When did you stop believing?
by cherryblossomgirl inthe "light" faded for me when i was twelve.
i asked my uncle what happened to all the people that couldn't be reached by the "truth" in far off lands, or little kids whose parents didn't believe..ect... " will they still die in armagedon?
" he answered yes.
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Khazar
April, 2004 when I logged onto my computer to find the nearest JW convention center and got this website instead. I lurked around in the shadows for months 'til I decided to get on board. Love it.
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maybe repost... cant find original...
by myvalk inhas anyone who left the "truth" felt like i do... that you cant approach god anymore?
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Khazar
I have not been able to approach God since I left "the truth". The very concept of God now is very ambiguous. I think God may believe me to be not serious about approaching him since I am not anguishing over not being able to serve him properly according to the WT. However, I pray anyway, even though I am all but convinced there is no God. I sure hope I am wrong about this one.
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Have you ever been marked?
by Dustin inwhen i first met my wife, she was not a jw.
i was baptized at the age of 12. to make a long story short, some of the other youths in the congregation followed my lead and took non jw boyfriends and girlfriends.
well the brothers decided to point me out specifically as i was the only one who cared.
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Khazar
Yes. I married a non-Jw and was disfellowshiped. I made several attempts at reinstatement but was discouraged by the elders who even called the police to get me out of the Kingdom Hall. (Such a criminal I was). It is funny now but at the time it caused me to have a nervous breakdown. Consequently, my dilemma was never resolved as this behavior continued for years. One elder in particular would come to me in the Hall (during all this time I was still disfellowshiped and trying to get reinstated between mania and depression) and he would get five inches from my face and I would say "What"? He would reply, "I am looking for marks on your forhead". That terrified me, so I stayed away few more years before trying it again. I thought all this was happening because Jehovah had removed his spirit from me, making me spiritually weak and susceptible to demon possession, which occupied a large part of conversations between me and my psychiatrist. Thanks to this website I resolved the conflict myself. Thanks for helping me out of my prison. Something even my shrink was unable to do all those years.
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Does Talking Negatively About "Jehovah" Bother You??
by minimus indo you ever feel nervous or a little guilty talking about "jehovah god" in a negative way?
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Khazar
Yes, I am apprehensive about it, although it is very funny when I read it on the website from others. I just don't know what or who Jehovah is anymore. When I pray I don't know whether to address him as Jehovah or God.... that is when I pray, which is something I hardly do anymore. I don't even know if there is a supreme being.