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Salt Lake City Convention this weekend

by I quit! in

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my wife is again in salt lake city for her convention.

i was wondering how many days are they now?

use to be four when i last attended.

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My wife is again in Salt Lake City for her convention. I was wondering how many days are they now? Use to be four when I last attended. Aren't they only three now?

Also wondering if they are announcing any new light or changes.

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Why WT reform would never work

by JimmyPage in

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i used to think how great it would be if the wt finally made long overdue changes.

higher education would no longer be frowned upon.

men could have beards.

To me reform would mean getting rid of everything that was wrong or didn't make sense. If they admitted that Christ didn't return in 1914 then select them in 1919 and that the old men in Brooklyn weren't chosen by God and didn't know what the hell they were talking about not much would be left.

They would also have to remove the door to to door work delivering of the faulty message and admit that it was a complete waste of time emphasize by the fact jdubs who have been there a while spend most of there time in field service figuring out ways to count time without actually having to speak to anyone.

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I FINALLY found a car I like & brought it home tonight = )

by FlyingHighNow in

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after nearly seven months of bus rides and asking for rides, i have purchased a car.. for all of you who made helpful suggestions & contributions to my car buying thread, especially zed is dead, thank you so much.. my thread asking for advice on car buying:.

suggestions for car buying23.

i bought a 2009, pontiac g 6. my reasons for choosing a g 6: this car gets great miles per gallon.

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Congratulations. That is a really nice looking car. I'm pretty surperficial when it comes to buying cars. It doesn't matter how good of rep they have if I don't like something about the looks of it I won't buy it.

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Why WT reform would never work

by JimmyPage in

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i used to think how great it would be if the wt finally made long overdue changes.

higher education would no longer be frowned upon.

men could have beards.

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The Watchtower is a rediculous mean spirited organization. If they ever made enough changes to make it not rediculous and mean spirited it just wouldn't be the Watchtower. There are just too many problems for reform.

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I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody

by Terry in

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i'm at starbucks .

just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.

my hands are shaking.. wow!.

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Great story. Keep us posted on what happens next. In my early days as a JW I would appoach people and confront them when I overheard them speaking bad about the Watchtower. One day a person at work offered me book to read. I think it was A Slave of the Watchtower for 20 (or 30) Years. For some reason I wasn't feeling quite as smug so I took it and read it. Nothing happened right away but it raised some doubts that continued to grow. You never really know what effect you are having on someone because it doesn't always show or it can take time for them to think things through.

Glad I continued to read this thread.

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If there was a pill that could open their eyes - would you give it to them?

by truthseeker in

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if there was a pill you could give to your jw family members that would awaken their eyes to the truth about the cult, would you give it to them?.

most would probably say yes.. but what about those who are completely institutionalized, the elderly, the super zealous, the geeky kids who have no friends, the misfits?.

some people need "boundaries", they need someone to lead and give them directions, they need a sense of belonging, even in an organization that has no social programs.

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I would give it to all of them. The young and the old. I know that some feel the old ones should be allow to live out the rest of their years in their Watchtower fantasy but the problem I see with that is that is that in most cases if not all their WT fantasy world is still reaching out harming others with shunning, the blood issue and other Watchtower BS.

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TODAY I published my book THE MONORAILS of MARS the first JW sci-fi

by Terry in

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http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-walstrom/the-monorails-of-mars/paperback/product-21717981.html.

under the cover illustration, click "preview".

a preview screen will appear.

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Can't wait to read it. I enjoy your first book (in a depressing sort of way) so I'll be ordering pretty soon.

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Update on shunning@the store. Watchtower victorious.

by quellycatface in

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yep, that's right.

after all my friends and my efforts, the shunning carries on.. the 3 people who were shunning me at my local supermarket, still, are carrying on this practice.. little subtleties like avoiding eye contact, making busy as i walk past and looks out of the corner of their eyes.

you know the modus operandi.. nothing now the store can do about it.

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You're right it is a very childish way to act but that is how they choose to be. Sadly the joke is on them because they are wasting their lives following the rules of a cult that could care less about them. At least you are out of it and are hopefully moving on.

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