Samuel Thorsen

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  ARE JWS LAZY?

  by badboy in

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  any answers?

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  Samuel Thorsen

  Have you ever seen a pair of publishers along the street?

  Probably some of the slowest moving objects on earth.
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  If it wasn't for "....................." I'd still be in the "Truth".......

  by ScoobySnax in

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  for me i think if it wasn't for the fact i'm gay, i'd still be an active witness.

  this year, even my mum has said that it wouldn't be "appropriate" if i was to go to the memorial.

  now the memorial is something i've never missed, so that kind of stings a bit.

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  If it wasn’t for the 1914-generation died away and nothing happened but a new understanding(TM)
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  how many khs have email?

  by badboy in

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  any ideas?

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  How about zero? It's probably forbidden.
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  to worlds (danish movie) about JW

  by pallemar in

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  a new danish movie have premier today in the danish theathers.. it is about a young girl, and her life inside jw and her relations ship with her boy friend.. and all the conflikt this gives her.

  i hope the movie will somehov be translatet to english.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsor9rqcvwm.

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  Thanks!

  Looks like a pretty good movie. They have obviously had some help from ex-dubs making the movie i piched up some phrases thay only insiders are familiar whith. They have made one mistake though -- one of the elders wears a beard.
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  Is Disfellowshipping Scripturally Proper, In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  do you believe that the method jehovah's witnesses use to shun a person is founded from the bible and christianity?

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  But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person.
  1Cr 5:12

  When a person is DF'ed he is no longer "named a brother". A guess he could be treated like any worldly(tm) person then...
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  What was it that "clicked" w/ you that this wasn't the "true religion"?

  by cognac in

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  for me, it was not being able to prove that people were going to be resurrected to earth... i'm still not sure of the answer, but for some reason that just started this huge, fast snowball of different things that i couldn't prove... .

  this lightbulb just went off in my head... .

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  The generation thing in 1995 made the snowball start rolling. I read it in a worldly paper before i read it in WT. It WT they called they called the new understanding an "ADJUSTMENT" . A very very unhonest name for a change of paradigma.
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  Any ideas on how to reply to my old JW buddy?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey all, .

  i happened upon an old email address for a friend i knew back in my jw days.

  a very close friend, in fact.

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  Samuel Thorsen

  AA

  Please keep us informed.
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  How do I go out with new ex-dub friends with my wife still in? Tell or lie

  by oompa in

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  with my 22 year old df'd son in a very nearby city, and having met a few here that i want to do stuff with, how do i go about this?

  thanks to my son, who has some older df'd friends, i was able to spend a couple of weeks at the beach together with them the last two summers.

  it was me and five evil df'd ones on my boat, so i called a dub friend who was friends with the beach gang, and told him i was on the ussdf!

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  You don't have to tell, but it's not lying. It's just theocratical warfare.
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  How Jehovah's Witnesses Control Your Mind - Controlling Your View of Truth

  by flipper in

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  for those of you, newbies or perhaps others who haven't read steve hassan's book - " combatting cult mind control" here are some very important things to remember of how jehovah's witnesses and other " mind control" cults operate .

  it may help you to understand some things to see how we were all faked out at one time in our lives.

  hassan's book states , " in totalistic cults , the ideology is internalized as " the truth ", the only "map" of reality .

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  3. No serious religions agree with WT's stand on many interpretations.

  OnTheWay:

  Is there any such kind of religion?
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  Things You HATED About Being a JW

  by minimus in

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  there were a few things that i hated about being a witness.. i love music and live concerts.

  quite often i'd have to play my music privately or hide an album cover for fear it might "stumble" someone.

  i hated worrying whether someone was going to somehow get "stumbled.. regarding going to concerts, it seemed that certain artists only came to town on a meeting night and i'd miss the shows.. what did you hate about being a jehovah's witness?.

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  Field circus

  Feeling forced to take stupid magazines with tasteless illustrations seriously and recommending them to other people.