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  Meetings

  by lavendar in

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  2. experiences

  my family member says he only attends two meetings per week.

  and only goes out on field service whenever he wants to.

  are some halls less strict than others?

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  JWs at my door last Saturday.....

  by lavendar in

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  2. friends

  it was a husband & wife, and they started their shpeel.

  i asked if they were witnesses.

  i told them my son is a witness, so years ago i started doing quite a bit of research about their organization.

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  Awful, horrible: still no official WTBTS statement about the child abuse case

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  how awful, how un-christian beheavior, how horrible for believers with a conciense.

  the wtbts, the corporations, the pr staff in brooklyn / patterson gave no official comment about the child abuse case.. only the lawyer of the "local congregation" gave some remarks.. humiliating for the victims and also for fellow believers with a conciense and good hart.

  they only can questioning why the wtbts is hiding..

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  No Facebook?

  by lavendar in

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  2. friends

  are jws not allowed to join fb?

  if so, what is the reason that the wts gives them??

  and also if so, what is the real reason??.

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  some help please....

  by lavendar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i would like to email some (hopefully) "eye-opening" information to my jw family member....and i would like to do this anonymously.

  i have opened another generic email account.

  1) can emails somehow be traced back to the sender??.

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  Marking 7 Years out of the Watchtower

  by lovelylil2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  boy oh boy where to start?

  lots of changes over the last seven years.

  this week i had been reflecting on just how drastically my life has changed for the better since loosening the grip of the watchtower society.. in brief, my life seven years ago this month looked liked this; my family was very unhappy after nearly a decade of serving the "happy god" of the watchtower and being part of the "happiest people on earth".

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  What will they say as to why they don't celebrate ThanksGiving??

  by lavendar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i plan on inviting a close family member ..(who has been a jw for several years).. to share thanksgiving with us this year.

  my husband and i have never been jws.

  what exactly is a jw's reason for not taking part in thanksgiving??.

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  I'm brand new and my mind is 'tight'...please come in 'with ease.'

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello....my name is 'joliette' ...i'm a 2nd generation african american jw's (well, actually 3rd generation) my great aunts are all jehovah's witnesses.

  my late grandmother was not.

  i'm from milwaukee, wi.

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  Does this mean he's a MS??

  by lavendar in

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  2. friends

  my husband and i (never-been-jws) drove past our family member's kingdom hall the other day.

  we saw him out front with several other guys mowing the lawn, trimming, sweeping, etc.

  the thing i'm wondering.....does that mean he's a ministerial servant now?

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  Something i've never understood, perhaps you could answer for me?

  by highdose in

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  2. friends

  i have never understood how adults that have had a life in the normal world could be brainwashed into this cult?

  ok i know it dosn't happen very often, about 1 in every 10 years in my experiance.

  but it dos happen all the same?.

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