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  Injustice of the elders

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am so angry tonight.

  there is an elder and his wife who have upset so many with cruel/biting comments.

  one family of 14 moved away because of them.

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  were you more 'materialistic' when you were a witness???

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it was my experience when a jw that many focussed their lives around...having good holidays...having nice cars (some with private plates)...having perfect houses etc etc.

  it all seemed very materialistic to me.

  totally the opposite to what was being preached from the platform.

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  Jw view of resurrection: will it be you who is resurrected???

  by chuckyy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have always had a problem even when a jw with the wtbs view on the bodily resurrection.

  if your body is destroyed following death, and there is no soul, what then is being resurrected???.

  ?.....its a new body and only a recording of your thoughts that was in gods memory that is put into this new body......how can it truly be the same person???

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  congregational cliques

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.

  in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.

  if you were in the clique, fine.

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  Steaming Angry - Forced to explain Shunning to my 5year old daughter!!!

  by chok in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am absolutely hopping mad angry!!!!.

  to those of you who know me, you are aware that i have been fading for over a year now.

  i have a daughter who is 5 and a son who is 2 y. in brief iast year i separated from my husband, left the organisation, met someone else and am now expecting with my new partner.. well i have had the usual ups and downs with my jw family.

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  High rates of depression in Org.

  by chuckyy in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i noticed after being a jw for a while that many members of my congregation were having to take antedepressants.

  (i counted at least 30 out of 100).

  after a few years i too began to have bouts of depression and problems with anxiety.

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  An almost uncontrollable anger

  by chuckyy in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i seem to have had a drastic personality change since i disassociated myself.

  i have gone from a relatively calm human being to someone who is full of anger and sometimes what feels like an overwhelming rage because of shunning.

  how do you deal with those emotions??

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  Am I or am I not a Dub?

  by upside/down in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've heard in comments here that after 6 months of being "inactive", you're no longer counted and/or taken off "the rolls".

  to what degree?

  locally or at hq too or both?.

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  144000 how can the numbers be right

  by chuckyy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it suddenly hit me the other day while i was reading about the early christian martyrs:.

  if thousands upon thousands of early christians were martyred by romans, how could just 144000 be anointed, as all early christians were anointed.

  this as well as the fact that there have been 10's of thousands of anointed in the last century or so.

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  My daughter has a brain tumor :(

  by outnfree in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i am so terrified!.

  #2 daughter came home from college on 12/18 with a violent headache, nausea, neck pain and great fatigue.

  we took her to the dr. on the 20 and again on the 21st as she had kept nothing down for 3 days.

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