To the will the dead live again question I'd tell them...yes I believe in Zombies.
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Dubbies stopped by
by rebel8 inwell just like everyone else, we were visited by 2 old ladies.
mr. rebel8 was home and it went something like, "we're on a worldwide mission and we wanted to know if we could just leave this in your door.
" so he said ok and took it (because he knew i'd have fun with it later).. the tract reads like a note i passed to a boy in 1st grade:.
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Gorby's father collapses at home after new light watchtower study
by Gorbatchov infriends,.
sunday my father, a strong believing witness, former elder and still a ms, collapses at home after the new light watchtower study.. the cause was extreme stress.
i asked him about his worries.
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I think a lot of witnesses are feeling a lot of stress these days trying to force themselves to believe they have the "truth". They just can't seem to admit to themselves that they have been wrong. And they fear what would happen to them if they did.
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What proof do we have? How did we pass the inspection in 1919?
by Quarterback inwith the new light, the governing body apparently passed the master's inspection due to our focus on preaching the kingdom at that time.
we were the only ones doing this according to the july wt re all those changes.. but, were we really doing this in 1918?
i thought it was only the colporteurs.
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There is no evidence whatsoever that there was a test given by Jesus in 1919 and they were the only ones that passed it. It is easy to ace a fantacy test that you made up. Unfortunately a good Jehovah's Witness never questions anything they say. They just accept it as truth.
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My August Update
by OnTheWayOut ini don't really have a purpose in this thread, but wanted to share my thoughts and updates.. fading has, at least for now, totally stabilized.
my jw wife doesn't discuss jw things and, as difficult for me as it is, i haven't been discussing anything directly against jw policy.
oh, i slip in comments when she tries to judge people or groups based on her jw training- things like gay marriage, medical marijuana, pedophile news stories.
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I think your doing the best you can in your situation. I gave up arguing JW issues years ago with my wife but like you I slip things in once and a while. I wonder if you find it as hard as I do to figure out why they seem to allow certain non jw things in their lives while seemingly holding firm to other things. I once got my wife to go to some lesbian friends house warming when I convinced her it would be like any other house warming not an orgy. She had a good time there. Like your aunts birthday party its hard to ask them why will they do this but not that without causing them to get defensive and maybe erasing any progress.
I find your comment about Mexican JWs in service interesting. That is who I mostly see out in service in my area. Maybe they take it more serious than the English speaking congregation. I do however notice that they do look just as miserable as any other group of JW out doing the work of the Watchtower.
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Happy Birthday Dagney!
by I quit! in.
today is dagney's birthday.
i sure she's doing something fun for it..
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Today is Dagney's Birthday. I sure she's doing something fun for it.
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The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.
by Julia Orwell inmy husband has started playing violent samurai video games again!
he's grown a beard!
he watched lord of the rings!.
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How can you be so happy? Isn't your life supposed to fall apart when you exit Jehovahland?
Glad you guys are doing so well.
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Who Taught You The Truth(tm) OR Who Counted Time, On You?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inmy mom's lover would bring his handsome youngest son, to our house, and along with my dad, would study with my brother, sister and i. wed 7 pm.. next an elder's wife, who was a regular pioneer and worked part-time, who had a daughter my age, came to our house, after school wed. ruth was the head of the house and wore the pants.
her husband was part of the 3 men who sat on all judicial committees in our congo and would tell ruth everything, which in turn ruth would tell the sister's.
ruth was very pious but at the age of 15 gave birth to her only child, and beat on her daughter all the time, never letting her forget what "trouble" her only daughter caused her.
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I studied that lovely little piece of crap call the "Truth Book". First I studied with a single "brother". That didn't work out so then they had me studied with a "brother" who went on to be a circuit overseer or district overseer (not sure which I wasn't around by then) and one of the long time "annointed"witnesses. I was a great disapointment to them when I walked away from the Watchtower. It is sad that we couldn't remain friends but the were hardcore company men.
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Jehovah's Witness Mother Ends Relationship With Atheist Son
by Bangalore injehovah's witness mother ends relationship with atheist son.source http://lefthemispheres.blogspot.ca/2012/06/letter-jehovahs-witness-mother-ends.htmlhttp://davetrash.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/the-letter/.
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Recently I had a cousin tell me that when her grandmother was dying she felt awful about how she treated her son by shunning him. She wanted to see him before she died but sadly it never happened. Jdubs really mess things up for themselves by listening to those old farts in Brooklyn.
BTW she (my cousin) is being shunned by both her parents.
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Disney's The Lone Ranger - This movie is awful - DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas ini never really liked the 'pirates' movies that much, so i don't know how i was talked into this one.
it's a shame because johnny depp is much better than these quirky roles he is now assigned to play.
just hope he puts a few million of this payday in his kid's college fund.
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I'll wait for the dvd then rent it. One of my problems with the movies they put out now is poor editing. They seem to go on and on. A movie that should have been 90 min goes on for 2 plus hours. Also they seem to make a lot of remakes these days that aren't as good as the original movies.
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PAYBACK: How Judge Rutherford conceived the MILITARY neutrality policy
by Terry inwhen rutherford published (in defiance of russell's will) a phoney posthumus final volume of russell's studies in the sciptures (the finished mystery) problems began which eventually resulted in criminal prosecution for watchtower society administrators.. certain passages in this book were so anti-government as to represent the society's views as dangerous to national security.
(in a time of war.).
the blowback from this book was unexpectedly severe.
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I remember years ago reading somewhere that Rutherford did something to apease the government to keep himself out of trouble but didn't remember what it was. I've been looking for the info you posted here.
I also remember that back in the Vietnam era male witnesses of draft age were told that they couldn't go in the military or even ask for alternative service yet they didn't offer any draft counciling. BTW not being able to ask for alternative service made no sense to me.
One time during that era I was at the draft board and saw a table set up outside offering draft counciling. I think it was run by the SDS but I don't remember for sure. Anyway there was clean cut young man there who was asking for assistance. If you were clean cut back then you stood out. It turned out that he was a Jehovah's Witness I remember this because I recently began studing with them so I was observing him. I remember wondering why he was asking them for help rather then his church. Now I know why. The Watchtower didn't offer any counciling for something as life changing as refusing military service. They didn't mind throwing young men under the bus as long as it didn't effect them.
