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Have you known dying persons to use the expression "going home"?
by JimmyPage ina close relative of mine has reached the last days of their life and has been talking about "going home".
this seems unusual when you consider that they have been a jw for many years and this would not seem to jive with their belief of being resurrected to live on the earth forever.
i'll grant you that they have acted quite confused much of the time as they draw closer to their end.
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It is a pretty common expression. I think most religious people consider their life on earth to only be a step on the journey to wherever they believe they are going or wherever they believe they should be.
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some old pictures
by JeffT inso my sister in law is scanning all the old family pictures.
with my brother a very long time ago.
our parents are from texas, hence the visit to the old shrine.
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Just wondering Jeff what age did you become a Jdub. I got involve with them when I was 19 and fortunately was out before I hit 30.
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Big Love
by Band on the Run ini adore big love, in its final season on hbo.
for those who don't know, it is a story about a group of polygamous mormons in hiding who just stepped out publicly.
the mormons cannot be happy with the show.
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I also see a lot of similarites bewteen Jdub and Mormon religion. They were both started by wacky guys in the 19th century who thought they had some sort of speciial communication with God. Upon their deaths control of their organizations fell to or was taken over by tough fisted authoritarian men. I think both Jdubs and the Mormons would have remained a lot smaller if that hadn't happened. Didn't both Joe Smith and Tazemeister have Masonic ties? Anyway they both had occult teachings that weren't accepted by traditional Christianity.
The series sounds interesting. I don't have HBO but I'll see if I can rent it from the video store.
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some old pictures
by JeffT inso my sister in law is scanning all the old family pictures.
with my brother a very long time ago.
our parents are from texas, hence the visit to the old shrine.
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Nice pictures Jeff but I have to say you look spiritually weak in picture #2.
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Might I suggest a more wholsome theocratic appoach to staying in shape rather than going to a gym where you will have worldly association? Spend more time in service. Carry two book bags. Put a brick in each one. The added weight will build upper body strength.
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Questions for Doubtfully yours or Elpiro - The happy annointed Jehovah's Witness
by Hoffnung inhello doubtfully yours or el piro or other happy jw,.
there are 4 questions for you.
1. the issue i have is with paragraphs 1 & 8 of the study article on page 21 of the 15/09/2010 watchtower.
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This was one of the questions I asked years before starting my fade. The only response I ever got was furrowed eyebrows and scornful look as if to say ' Why would ask a question like that??'
Once I was out I found it very revealing how JWs are always asking others to examine their religion yet become fearful or angry whenever someone points out a problem with their belief and asks them to get them to look into it.
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LURKERS: Is JW the only true religion? Here is my personal research!
by mentallyfree31 inare jehovah's witnesses the only religion teaching the truth?.
the statement that only jehovah's witnesses are teaching the truth is an extraordinary claim.
such a claim would require extraordinary evidence.
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I remember witnesses using the example of how you tell counterfeit money by looking at a real bill so you don't need to learn about other religions but they really didn't want you look to close. They were very careful at pointing out what they wanted you to look at.
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Verifiable Former Bethelite Willing to Answer questions
by Uzzah ini am a former active poster here, former elder, former bethelite and pretty much known by people on the xjw boards since the mid 90's.
gawd that makes me sound old.. i notice that a great deal of uproar is being made by allegations of a hide in the closet alleged bethelite.
to counter the damage caused by this claim, i am happy to address any questions people may have about bethel, protocol, etc.. i was at the canada branch for 11 years, worked in multiple areas including the legal department, service desk and writing dept.
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Welcome back Uzzah. Nice to see you posting again.
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What makes the GB better than the average JW???
by shadowolf inat a past convention i went to a bethel meeting during the lunch break.
it was geared towards young people who wanted to dedicate themselves to bethel service...yuck.
anyway, as the boring program went on, an older brother spoke of how, if you went to bethel, you would be living with the gb.
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They love to knock the Catholics for having a the Pope over them yet they do the same thing with their GB only worse because the GB is more controling in Witnesses lives than the Pope is in Catholics lives.