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  Check this out! my first act of "rebellion"...

  by freedomlover in

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  well, not really rebellion but that i've wanted one of these for a long time so i went and did it today, and i love it!

  my little sister came out for a visit this weekend and i told her everything about leaving the jw's.

  she has pretty much left about 6 months ago when she went away to college.

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  sass_my_frass

  Nice one, shake it sister!
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  Church members come from far and wide to repair hundreds of houses

  by Country Girl in

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  church members come from far and .

  wide to repair hundreds of houses .

  by: jamie reid, the enterprise 01/13/2006 .

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  A few hours with a staple gun, being served free cake and perving on virgin teenagers desperate to marry me before they turn eighteen and get put on the shelf? Sign me up, beats field service any day!
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  Are you willing to lesson to negative info about your religion, now?

  by free2beme in

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  often when i speak with people about religion, they are christians.

  i will get into discussions and mention items of truth about their history and ask them what they think of it.

  more so then not, they have canned answers of "that is only part of the story" or "the person who said that was not a christian.

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  I don't have a religion now, but, do I have to work it all out? It takes so much time, and I don't think I can be bothered. God doesn't care, if he did, it would be a whole lot clearer than it is. I'm just a nice lady, and any God who wants more than that, and for us to get the formula right, well that's not a very realistic God.

  Sorry, got OT. I'd be willing to hear from anybody about why this isn't a good idea, but generally, the people who do go about to talk about it are loons.
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  Breakthrough with JW mother - Stunning Anti Witness !

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  i thought i would share this with you as i am still a little bit stunned to say the least.

  my mother who is a longstanding jw came to stay over the christmas period as my uncle had past away and she wanted to be more local to the family, that way she could attend the funeral and provide some support to her remaining brothers and sisters.

  she lives a considerable distance away from me at this moment in time.

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  Aww bless her for having an open mind! If it was me I'd still be buzzing!
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  Does your JW baptism still mean anything to you?

  by JH in

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  all i know is that jesus said to get baptized.

  he didn't say in what religion though.. although i don't go to meetings anymore and don't plan on going anymore, i'm still glad that i was baptized.

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  sass_my_frass

  I think I was baptised into life membership of a high-control book club, not into God or Jesus... however, I figure he's big enough to see where my heart is, if it means that much. If I'm doing something wrong by not going out and finding the right way to get baptised into the correct group, I don't want anything to do with the God who thinks so.
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  reexamine.org has District Convention Operations Manual and PSAs

  by reexaminer in

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  www.reexamine.org now has two new items available from our downloads page: .

  (1) district convention operations manual.

  (2) public service announcements.

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  sass_my_frass

  My hero! Mr Quotes and everybody who has re-posted his site ought to get a medal. Keep it online for as long as you can!

  My favourite today:

  For example, what will you do if you receive a letter or some literature, open it, and see right away that it is from an apostate? Will curiosity cause you to read it, just to see what he has to say? You may even reason: 'It won't affect me; I'm too strong in the truth. And, besides, if we have the truth, we have nothing to fear. The truth will stand the test.' In thinking this way, some have fed their minds upon apostate reasoning and have fallen prey to serious questioning and doubt.

  Can you spell 'cognitive dissonance'? My brain hurts just trying to remember how I used to buy that reasoning. 'Don't start reading, you might start doubting. You wouldn't want to start doubting, would you?'

  I'm FREE, I'm so happy I'm FREE!!! Thank you gentlemen and everybody who does what you do.
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  Now That The "Hope" Of Paradise Is Gone-----Now What???

  by minimus in

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  are you aimless?

  are you happier?

  more confused?

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  I'm still working it out, I realised recently that I am afraid of dying and don't much want to, but it doesn't look like I'm going to soon so that's okay. A new friend has a 30% chance of surviving another two years due to cancer and hep C, and she's just decided to eliminate all the stupid crap and live life for the good of it. I can thoroughly respect that, and relate to it, although I probably have decades longer. (*touches wood*)

  You start the coolest threads minimus!
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  Never be sure of anything...

  by Willow Tree in

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  isnt it amazing how life can totally turn around and you end up in a place you swore you would never be in?

  5 years ago, i was "happily" brainwashed, unaware of the deceptions.

  i always thought that the jw's were right and everything against them was lies from satan.

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  sass_my_frass

  Great thread, I'm all over it. I like the idea of stopping in atheism for a while, and the idea that you can't stagnate; you're always going to change and review your beliefs. If God isn't man enough to accept this kind of doubting, would you want to share heaven or life forever on earth under those kinds of rules anyway?

  I love life now, that's a great start for me.
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  Judgement

  by sass_my_frass in

  1. watchtower
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  i'd like to know if there's any bible quote supporting the jw practice of judging people now.

  i've read a lot of 'judge not lest ye be judged' stuff, and i thought that the one doing the judgment was god, on judgment day, and in the meantime we're just doing our best.

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  I'd like to know if there's any bible quote supporting the JW practice of judging people now. I've read a lot of 'judge not lest ye be judged' stuff, and I thought that the one doing the judgment was God, on judgment day, and in the meantime we're just doing our best.
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  "Witlesses", "JDumbs", other labels.. How do you feel about them?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i've commented before that the watchtower goes out of its way to label groups of people it doesn't want you to like -- "worldly people", "apostates", "christendom".

  there are scores of these labels.. people in general use them too: "spick", "n*gger", "trailer trash".

  once we allow ourselves to refer to people by a label, we automatically change them from an individual to a member of a group.

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  Yeah I think it's pretty immature.