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  My Mother Passed

  by Roberta804 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thank you for all of your support durning the two difficult weeks my mother was on her death bed.

  last night at 10:30pm she breath her last with my sister and i by her side.

  this is a real end of an era for me as i have known little these past 8 years other than taking care of my parents.

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  So sorry for your loss, Roberta. Your good deeds will not go unremembered.
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  Hello from North Dakota

  by ndmom73 in

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  2. friends

  i am fairly new here.

  i came across this site a few years ago and tried to join but i wasn't approved as a member for whatever reason.

  well, recently i came across this site again and decided to reapply to be a member and it was approved.

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  Welcome aboard! We may have some mutual acquaintances. Check your PMs, please.

  By the way, when you click on the little envelope the first time you are likely to get an error message. Just go back to the previous page and try again. It usually works the second time.
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  QR codes: a way to stop APOSTATES !!!

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  interesting meeting today.the do had the last talk and he mentioned a couple of things i have not heard before :.

  1) the new lighter magazines are designed in a way to attract people to our website .

  2)the ministry will change to incoprorate preacing in town centres and and with stands as in manhattan and certain brothers will be allocated to do this .so it is done now in a big scale ,organised.. 3)the qr codes at the back of the magazines are there for smart phone users to guide them directly to jw.org ,unlike bad old internet via laptops and pc's that you have to look for the website on google and sometimes end up in enemy websites that look like our website but are spreading lies about jw's (he said exactly that!

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  Does anybody know the exact size of the QR codes as they appear in the magazines? I just might have some stickers printed up and look for opportunities to stick them over the original codes. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
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  Terry, the advantage we have being 60 and older, we are smarter.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how many folks knows the answer to these historical events, lol.. 1) after the long ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset.

  the grateful citizens would ask, who was the masked man?.

  invariably, someone would answer, i don,t know, but he left this.

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  I do remember most of them!

  1. Silver bullet (Hi yo, Silver! Away!)

  2. The Ed Sullivan Show (a really big "shew" tonight)

  3. Route 66 (with Buzz and Todd)

  4. Protect the innocent (Just the facts, ma'am)

  5. The lion sleeps tonight

  6. Chocolate

  7. Jazz (?) Not totally sure about this one

  8. Timex

  9. Clem Cadiddlehopper (sp?)

  10. Sputnik

  11. Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

  12. Howdy Doody

  13. The Shadow (knows what evil lies in the heart of men)

  14. Speedy (?)
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  .....It is painful to watch...

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  I don't know you, OTWO, but I admire you and respect you for the unconditional love you have shown your sister. It is obvious that you have put her interests above your own many times and unselfishly looked after her needs. It's a shame that her husband seems to have used her situation as a way to provide for himself.

  My hat's off to you, Sir!

  One might well ask if a JW would do the same for their unbelieving sibling, particularly if they were DA or DF. Hmmm...
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  What is your daily commute, and how long does it take you

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mine is 25 miles each way.

  it can take anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half each way depending on traffic.

  there is no way way to get here by public transportation.. sigh~ .

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  I usually ride as an extra crewmember on a company airplane from NH to TN. I leave the day before to arrive in position about 18 hours before I begin an operating flight. That way I can get plenty of rest, as most of my flights are about 14 hours non-stop.

  If the first leg of my trip entails positioning on a passenger flight, then I usually leave out of Boston and fly to wherever my operating flight begins, typically somewhere in Europe or Asia.

  The commute to my local airport to catch a company airplane is only about 25 minutes.

  The ones I feel sorry for are the people who have to ride commuter trains or buses for an hour or two each way five days a week. Now that's brutal!
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  I want this guy on the Governing Body. Now!

  by usualusername in

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  2. friends

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpox2zd-rgy&list=fl868j_zisuing3g1hj8rtjw .

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  I agree with most of the level-headed comments listed below the video on YouTube. He was confident and happy and wanted to share it with his dad. Bravo!

  WAY back when I was a JW, I dreamed I was on that show and got to the million dollar question. It was a Bible question such as "What is the 8th book of the Bible, as listed in the King James version?" I knew the answer, but used a lifeline to call my father, who had been a congregation servant/elder since the 1950's. In my dream, I did it to honor him for being such a great dad and to acknowledge his part in my Bible education. I still feel that way about him and his life of being sincere, genuine, and consistent about his beliefs. Of course, I now know TTATT, but that doesn't diminish my love for Dad and my respect that he truly lived what he thought was right.

  He passed on a few years ago, so if there is a life after death in any congnizant form, he too now knows TTATT. "Here's to you, Dad! I'll see you again, but hopefully not for a long, long time."
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  New video: Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower's secret child abuse letter

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  we have decided to let the world know what happened when our websites were shut down earlier this month by means of this new video..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_9efi84qnc.

  huge thanks to nugget for lending us her gorgeous voice, and also to cantleave for his cameo role as the voice of the big bad watchtower!

  cedars.

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  Well done, Cedars! That was an excellent video with a very compelling message. I agree with everyone else who thinks the Society shot itself in the foot with its heavy-handed tactics, especially since they did it on false pretenses. No one really believes it had anything to do with copyright issues.

  For what it's worth, I hope the Society doesn't call someone in Hollywood with the rights to The Bourne Identity background music and try to get them to have the video pulled on that ground. I love the Bourne series and think the theme was perfect for this video. Good job!
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  Stop Putting Apostate Stickers On My Literature! They "Cost Lots of Money!"

  by AuntConnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.

  do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?

  please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.

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  At the risk of being "flamed," here's my personal opinion on how to handle JW trash (literature) that is found in public places:

  I think it is inappropriate to simply take or dispose of the magazines. In my mind, that is the equivalent of book-burning. Who appointed us the judge of what people should be able to read? How is it we get to decide what the public does or does not have access to? We may think we are "saving" the public from a destructive, mind-controlling cult (and we ARE), but it is not our place to take or destroy things that do not belong to us. Yes, they were left out for the public to have at no charge, but they were not intended to be collected wholesale and disposed of because WE don't like the message.

  That said, the magazines themselves (if read by anyone with a modicum of reasoning ability) do a fine job of anti-witnessing on their own. Yes, they are full of self-aggrandizing propaganda, dumbed down "science," and inane religious doctrines that require mental gymnastics just to follow their line of "reasoning." And that's my point: anyone with just a little education or common sense will likely see through them for the pointless drivel they are.

  But here's what I DO think would be fair and appropriate: do as others have done and put stickers on them pointing to websites that show just how silly and false WT teachings are. That way we are not interfering with others' rights to read what they wish, and we're not taking things not meant for us for our own purposes. We're just showing the public that there is another point of view while warning them of the dangers of Watchtower Society. I doubt very many would even talk to the Witnesses again if they visited a site like this just once.

  Collecting and destroying literature, just like losing our temper and screaming and yelling at JWs, may do us and our "cause" (warning people about the Watchtower) more harm than good. One way to make sure people read something is to try to supress it. If someone picks a JW rag to read and notices an "apostate" sticker and then checks it out, our work is done. Be sure to count your time!
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  First Ex-JW Experience with XMas Spirit

  by simon17 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so obviously as a recently parting jw, i've never had the hastle, the annoyance or the joy of experiencing christmas.

  this year in our office was the first time that we did a secret santa, so i would joke with a few of the people looking for advice because i had never really celebrated christmas.

  it was kind of a fun running joke for the past month or two, as they laughed and pitied over my past with me, which they pried about and i explained.

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  under the radar

  What a wonderful story! I guess those sex-crazed, demon controlled, evil worldly people aren't so bad after all, huh.

  My heartfelt congratulations on escaping the JWs. May you enjoy many more Christmases with your true friends and love ones.