That's great! Hope it keeps getting better with your family.
love2Bworldly
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My Dad
by Crumpet injust a wee update on my current tentative drawing out of my family.
i sent a letter, which not coincidentally was timed to arrive on fathers day weekend just gone.
its the first letter i've sent in 8 years to my family and whilst i was careful to avoid any mention of religion i did talk about how happy i was generally and mentioned how nice it is that i see so much of my inlaws who despite living 800 miles away make regular visit to us at least 3 or 4 times a year.
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After 30 years my mother now has doubts!!
by diamondblue1974 ini have just finished an incredibly long conversation with my mother which was tense in parts and hard going but i feel as though i have made a break-through; i was incredibly delicate in my approach given her 30 years inside the borg but again i think i have made some headway.. we covered the un scandal and i asked whether she had heard anything about the wts affiliation with the un as an ngo; she surprisingly had heard nothing about it; i read the guardian articles to her and she was silent....i half expected to hear her hang up the phone but she continued to stay on.
she tried to justify it initially but slowly i allowed her to reach her own conclusions and she has agreed to let me send the information upto her; i.e the guardian newspaper articles and the ngo press release.. we covered the child abuse policies and lack off protection for children and covered the highly legalistic approach taken in the very little policy they have...which is mainly about self preservation.
i asked her whether she knew that the society in the us are being sued by a number of different people for the organisations failure to protect children from abuse and i asked if i could get the proof without using 'apostate' sources, i.e primary sources such as court judgements etc, would she accept the information?
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love2Bworldly
Wish you much luck, and hope she doesn't get persuaded to shun you. You might share with her the conflicting blood policy, and the Malawi vs. Mexico fiasco if she lets you share more info that is.
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Mind Numbing stupidity are some current JW's that are on this board.
by skyman ini have had a rash of jws on this board leaving comments in my inbox telling me how mislead i am.
but what amazes me not one of them yet will analyze the facts with me.
a real discussion means nothing to them.
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love2Bworldly
Well look at it this way--some of these today lurking JWs are some of tomorrow's Apostates!
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In the end, I can't help but laugh
by Texas Flood ini'm new too posting here but i've been lurking since the summer.
how i came across this site?
a brother at one of them conventions warned us about 'sites on the internet that can threaten our faith' and i was like "psh if this is the truth, what information could possibly do that?
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love2Bworldly
Welcome! Glad to know the JW's are unknowingly sending people to the Internet for their own undoing. Awesome!
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JW women focused on appearance!
by Sirona init really gets on my nerves.. jw women used to be always focused, as their number one thing, on appearance.
they could be crap at the rest of the jw stuff, but if they turned up at the meeting dressed nice, thin, long hair, looking nice, all was forgiven.
of course it was because of the misogyny (sp?
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love2Bworldly
Seemed like when I was a teenager, there were a lot more cute young girls than there were boys, so the boys had their pick. I had severe crushes on several JW young men, but they always picked the ones who were shallow, had no brains, and looked like models.
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I'm new to the forum and desperate for support
by muse ini will be very brief on my introduction as i need to get straight to the point.
i was raised in the 'truth' from birth.
i got baptized at 16 (elder dad hassled me) and managed to do the 'slow fade' at 18 (it helped that i moved 50 miles away from home).
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love2Bworldly
Hope all goes well with your dad's surgery! You have support here.
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NEW RELEASE FROM THE ASSEMBLY
by Mary ini'm not sure if anyone has posted this, but one of the new releases from the assembly is called "what does the bible really teach?
the contents are too boring to completely reiterate, but here's a sample:
what is god's purpose for the earth?
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love2Bworldly
"dood this brand new spiritual food that jehovah has released to us. i think i have food poisoning after that 3 day assembly." Hee Hee that's funny He got food poisoning from the spiritual food! Hard to believe they get excited over these new releases, it's just old books with new covers.
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What do you do in your spare time?
by EvilForce ini have been here for almost 3 months now and was curious what ya'll did for fun outside of jwd.com.
right now because it's summer and it's too hot i don't do much glassblowing.
but that is where i spend most of my weekends when i'm not working.
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love2Bworldly
Glass blowing sounds really cool! I used to do stained glass but I don't have the stuff anymore. I like to take walks and admire the flowers around the state capitol on my lunch breaks. With what little spare time I have lately, I like to garden and look around antique shops. I have 4 teenagers at home and a full time job, and 2 part-time step kids so I'm pretty busy. When my husband and I can escape for a weekend away, we like to go to Fort Bragg; we have a favorite hotel overlooking the ocean that has fireplaces and hot tubs right in the room, king size beds-hard the way I like em and feather pillows, also has a refrigerator and microwave and coffee set up with breakfast items in the refrigerator--it's heaven on earth!!!
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The Watchtower's Latest Stupid Annoucement
by metatron inas many of you are now aware, the watchtower society is presently triggering official.
disfellowshippings by announcing that 'so and so is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses'.. thereafter, friendships and real family ties with the individual are to be immediately severed.. what gets ignored in this eagerness to shun is what the apostle paul actually said about the.
matter.
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love2Bworldly
Well they are very blinded and don't follow the Bible on a lot of things. If they were really interested in people's spiritual welfare, they would openly welcome everyone to the KH--not just their little clones.
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Are you now BEARDED or BEARDLESS????
by zagor injust wondering how many are now wearing beard and what's the main reason for it.
rebellion perhaps?.
i just love my new goat beard and moustache.
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love2Bworldly
I think neatly trimmed facial hair is very sexy!