Topics Started by jeanniebeanz

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Bad Nitrous Trip . . .
by carefully faded in
1. jw
2. friends
i just had the strangest experience at the dentist.

i went to have a cavity filled and the dentist gave me nitrous - as usual.

i have taken nitrous at the dentist many times with really good results.
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The Hat in the Cat
by Elsewhere in
1. jw
2. friends
the hat in the cat

do not eat that i say!.

do not eat my hat that way!.
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Kingdom Hall Spankings
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
most meetings i went to, children were brought to the washrooms in the back to be disciplined.

often i could hear a child yell or cry due to the spanking given by the parent.

people in the hall would have that look on their face meaning that it was alright to discipline a child by spanking him.
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Was I a coward?
by DanTheMan in
1. jw
2. friends
right before i disassociated myself last march, i sent an email to quite a number of jw's that contained only a link to an "apostate" website that had been instrumental in my seeing the the truth about the wt.. well, nobody responded to it except for one person, a guy who i hadn't had any contact with my last year in.

he started out with "yikes, do you know i'm disfellowshipped?

" he then went on for several paragraphs defending the org, how loving the brothers were when they disfellowshipped him .
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It's been awhile, PLEASE HELP
by apostate man in
1. jw
2. friends
it's been about 6 months since my last post.

what a world of shit i am in now.. some of you may recall a thread i started on my problems with my wife found here at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=24462&site=3 .

a little update first.
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car chase by elders at age 11
by ashtheflash in
1. jw
2. experiences
hello there i would like to tell a story that will shock you.

this is how it all started... my sister at 19 was planning to marry a brother into the kingdom hall, she was not yet baptized so she was trying to keep her marriage plans a secret.

a couple of weeks from her marriage the elders of the congretation found out and contacted my mother whom we were still living with.
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Cross or Stake, which is biblically true??
by butalbee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
can somebody please explain to me biblically where it says jesus died on a stake and not a cross?

need theological details, please.

prove your stakely beliefs...
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Watchtower Article Titles We'll Never See
by COMF in
1. jw
2. friends
i saw redhorsewoman's thread title, "the time is at hand", and knew why she picked it: because the society uses that phrase all the time (or used to when i was in, anyway... i'm betting they still do).

it reminded me of a district assembly part from along about 1983 called "now is the time" (can any of you brighter types guess which song they chose to accompany it?).

this got me to thinking of how the society has these pet phrases they use over and over again, often featuring them in some thinly reworked format (like going from "now is the time" to "the time is at hand") as article titles.
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Raising Kids to be Cult Members!!!
by lisaBObeesa in
1. jw
2. friends
in another thread, there is a discussion about young people leaving the jws at a rate of something like 88%.

we see the rules given to the sheep for raising their children and we shake our heads saying, dont they get it?

what is wrong with the org that it cant see how they are treating the youth?
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What Do Un-Believers Not Believe?
by mensa163 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one of the things that used to annoy me in the new testament was the "believe in jesus" message.

any explainations seemed fuzzy at best so i decided to take a run at it from behind and find the definintion of an un-believer.here is what i came up with and i welcome other opinions.

many of the people around jesus were jews, they walked with him, talked with him, listened to his teachings and witnessed his miracles.