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sweet tee
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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sweet tee
I remember having to place sets of 3 of those old obsolete books. What a disaster. Was that local or world wide/
I remember that danny - trying to place three old, smelly, stupid publications at one time really made me feel like a fool.
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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sweet tee
I think they should study the revelation book AGAIN
If I had to study that book one more time, I wouldnt go to a book study
I swear that's what came to my mind Vitty - I hated studying the same publication. I think I went through the Greatest Man book twice (or was it three times?).
It amazes me that they just keep on doing the same things year after year ... the program hasn't changed in decades. I believe that will be part of their downfall. Most mainstream religions are responding to the changes in society but the WT is not. It's just the same ole s***.
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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sweet tee
Why doesn't the Society smarten up??
Cause they're a bunch of old farts living in an Ivory tower lording their authority over 6MM people. You think they care whether the R&F 'like' the study publications? Ha! The GB are anti-fun, anti-pleasure, anti-enjoyment ... it's all about "do this, do that and don't do this and that, don't disupute anything we say or do, do what we say or get the hell out ... here, read this boring ass book again and see if you get it this go 'round".
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Why Does The Society Pick BORING Books To Study At The Bookstudy?
by minimus inmy mom hates the daniel book and doesn't even remember studying it before.
(she's 79 today).
maybe she's losing it.....i don't think so.
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sweet tee
Why doesn't the Society smarten up
Cause they're a bunch of wealthy old farts living in an Ivory tower lording their authority over 6MM people. You think they care whether the R&F 'like' the study publication??? Remember min ... the GB are anti-fun, anti-enjoyment, anit-pleaseure ... nothing they do says 'we care about you'. It's all "do this, do that, and don't do this or that', listen or get the hell out ... here, read this boring ass book again and see if you get it right this go around.
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CROSSING OVER with John Edward?
by mad max inwatched last night and in the past.
still feel kind of "should not be watching" as the dead are dead.. being sought of going to church and its now that we don't die but go to god.. just wondering if john edward would be the same as the medium that saul went to and god was very displeased?
though he said last night he is not????.
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sweet tee
I don't have a clue as to whether spirits really exist or not.
Funny how that JW BS can creep in when one is watching TV sometimes though.
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sweet tee
Enjoy life - there are no reruns.
--Shirl Lowery
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Hi.. I'm also new and wanted some opinion...
by Lynne Y inhi, i'm lynne.. i was wondering about religion for months and found this website.. i was hoping to get some feedbacks... almost everyone in my mom's family is a witness, and i was born and raised as a witness.
and yet, i never really wanted to get baptized, maybe because my father left the truth(?
although i don't like the expression, the truth, i don't know what else to say.. heh..).
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sweet tee
Welcome to the forum Lynne! This is a great place to meet people who've been through what you're going through and get some honest feedback. You could never speak freely to a dub about your doubts and get anything other than the party line. Here you can speak the truth.
I left because I was basically tired of slaving for a bunch of old a** men who didn't give a crap about me. That along with the flip-flop doctrines. It was too much, boring as hell and time to get on with my life. I was in for about 12 years, got baptized right after I turned 17 - no family in so when I had enough I just walked away.
Rebel8 summed up the way I feel right now too:
Nobody knows for sure. There is no proof. People try to pretend there is proof, but there isn't. Faith is fine, but pretending it's based upon actual evidence is delusional and serves no purpose. The most important thing is to lead a worthwhile, happy life. That is where meaning, purpose, and happiness lies: in doing the right thing for ourselves and for humanity right now. If there is later found to be evidence that god exists--great! I will have led an upright, meaningful life and will be able to add worship of god to it. I really find it hard to believe that an all-good god would be disappointed in the way I live my life.
The only thing I would like to add is that I DO believe in God, just not the way it's described in the Bible. That just doesn't make sense to me that God is love and he's so interested in our day-to-day sins but doesn't step in and really help mankind in general due to some dispute with the devil and a test upon mankind. I would rather admit that I don't know than believe in and base my life on a bunch of fairy tales. May as well believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy too.
Like it was mentioned earlier, agnosticism is very liberating. Until you find YOUR truth don't sign up for anything. And it's probably best to keep your mother in the dark for now. A lot of witnesses seem to be getting fed up with the GB lately. There are now posters here everyday - some of them active witnesses trying to fade. Your mother may join that bunch ... you never know. Give it time. Don't sever the relationship now by announcing that you think it's all a crock. You're not baptized so you can choose whether to go or not since you're not locked into the GB
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who escapes more often, those born into it or adult converts?
by kid-A inwhat strikes me on this board is the number of adult converts that have left the borg, either fading out or getting df'd.
from my experience (i was born into it, 2nd generation, left before getting baptized) most of the faders or escapees were also like.
me, born into it, never really accepted it and just bowed out at the first opportunity.
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sweet tee
Teenage convert .
It's interesting hearing the view of those raised in the b0rg. Funny, it never occured to me that my kids may have thought I was crazy for believing that stuff. It's sooooo stressful being a dub parent, you want your children to get baptized ASAP and escape destruction at army-gettin. It does seem that born-ins leave more readily than converts. My stepdaughter said it wasn't for her when she was only 16 (she's very intelligent). Many of the youths I saw get baptized in my 12 years in turned away as young adults. The old timers appear to be the most steadfast. It's been a way of life for them for so long they don't know anything else.
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Did you ever want to just 'FOREST GUMP' it out of the Kingdom Hall?
by GetBusyLiving inthe last few weeks of meetings for me were pure hell.
i got a cold sweat sometimes and just sat there fantasizing about running forest gump style out of the kingdom hall.
i was getting "encouraged" to comment more too and i just physically could not audibly promote that crap in public anymore.
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sweet tee
Sounds like a panic attack. Maybe your doctor can write a note to the boe and have you excused due to health concerns !
Tam