back when i was in high school i was in DECA...i won national trophies for public speaking.......upon gradrution...i was offerd a scolarship to a major college....for public speaking.....but the elders conveinced me to go into the pioneer service...i did a dead end job to cover expenses...and it became my permant job when i got married a copule of years later.....with no college...and almost no help to find another job...to rake care of my wife and three kids...i feel i might have thrown my life away....well onr good thing about being on dialsys is ill get an education.donald
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has this happened to you???
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back when i was in high school i was in deca...i won national trophies for public speaking.......upon gradrution...i was offerd a scolarship to a major college....for public speaking.....but the elders conveinced me to go into the pioneer service...i did a dead end job to cover expenses...and it became my permant job when i got married a copule of years later.....with no college...and almost no help to find another job...to rake care of my wife and three kids...i feel i might have thrown my life away....well onr good thing about being on dialsys is ill get an education.donald
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left out in the cold
by donald inhello im new to this...my wife and i are still baptized....but weve not gone to meetings regulary...for some time now...even though we still go to the memorial.....and we are wondering if to go back.....here without being too specfic is our story.
i was rasied in the truth...she was not...she got baptized...about 3 years after we were married..i was made a m.s.
in 1990...but becuse of personal reasons i stepped down shortly after..i conecentrated on raiseing my family..and had to work 2 jobs to support them......3 children.....then a few years later my wife left me for some one else...and then i got very sick...and was told my kidney was failing....a elder came to my house and told me that if there was anything i neede that all i had to do was ask...well...a few weeks later i asked this elder...if he could get a couple of young brothers to hep me get rid off some boxes of stuff my wufe had left behind..because i could not lift them...he told me in a reproachful tone...get your family to help you...this after he had told me weeks before...to ask him for help........i thought at the time its no big deal....but then something else happen to call into question all about jw.
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i wish to thnk all those who have posted it helps knowing we are not the only ones going thru this...
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AN EXCUSE TO HATE?
by Terry ini ask this question rather seriously.
isn't religion actually an excuse to hate?
you quickly learn us vs them and who is who.
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buy thats very left wing of you...it just goes to prove the left is trying to destroy religion......( RE first post).....ive said it before and ill stand bye it.......the left is out to destroy tatrational americia
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Does WTBS believe in UFOs???
by ShadowX ini personally don't really believe in it, well certainly didn't see anything yet that would convince me otherwise.
but browsing wtbs cd-rom i've come across quite deliberate reference about ancient ufo sightings which are intriguing.
even though later article goes through usual wtbs reasoning that tries to put a lid on any inquiry by "faithful christians" i cannot but wonder if they are themselves actually believing it.
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well about 15 years ago i brought it up to a D.O....and his reply was that jeovah might have other creations that he has kept from us...so take that for what its worth....donald
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left out in the cold
by donald inhello im new to this...my wife and i are still baptized....but weve not gone to meetings regulary...for some time now...even though we still go to the memorial.....and we are wondering if to go back.....here without being too specfic is our story.
i was rasied in the truth...she was not...she got baptized...about 3 years after we were married..i was made a m.s.
in 1990...but becuse of personal reasons i stepped down shortly after..i conecentrated on raiseing my family..and had to work 2 jobs to support them......3 children.....then a few years later my wife left me for some one else...and then i got very sick...and was told my kidney was failing....a elder came to my house and told me that if there was anything i neede that all i had to do was ask...well...a few weeks later i asked this elder...if he could get a couple of young brothers to hep me get rid off some boxes of stuff my wufe had left behind..because i could not lift them...he told me in a reproachful tone...get your family to help you...this after he had told me weeks before...to ask him for help........i thought at the time its no big deal....but then something else happen to call into question all about jw.
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i wish to thank all you for your kind replies.as i feel more comfortable ill teel more....theres lots more..but right now im walking a fine line between am i doing the wrong thing or not.....but ill give another example now
About 1991...i was cut back at my job..in hours...i had three children near teenage years to feed,,,,and we all know how much they eat...lol......well i asked my boss that i saw some old sound equipment in the back...i asked if i could rent it from him....he said yes...and with my huge collection of cds.tapes,and records......i started a D J bussiness...when word got out of this one elder...without saying anything to me...tried in a elder meeting tried to get enough elders to side with him to get me on a committe....thank god there were enough fair minded brothers that shot him down.........i was just trying to help take care of my family...and one pinhead tries to have me DF..........such is the state of the truth now.....donald
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just asking???
by donald ini posted my story...and it got deleted...why just asking...thanks...donald
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ok i got it thanks....donald....bye for now
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just asking???
by donald ini posted my story...and it got deleted...why just asking...thanks...donald
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i tried looking under active topics but did not see it...and i did not swear...or use hareful speech...i just told a story.....donald
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Name Things You Can Get Counseled,Reproved or Disfellowshipped For
by minimus insince the jw religion is sooooo restrictive, it is good to think about just how wacky this cult is.....for example, you can get counseled for buying a 2 door car as opposed to a "pioneer" car (4 door).
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no you cant get counsled...BUT it is looked down upon...donald
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just asking???
by donald ini posted my story...and it got deleted...why just asking...thanks...donald
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i posted my story...and it got deleted...why just asking...thanks...donald
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left out in the cold
by donald inhello im new to this...my wife and i are still baptized....but weve not gone to meetings regulary...for some time now...even though we still go to the memorial.....and we are wondering if to go back.....here without being too specfic is our story.
i was rasied in the truth...she was not...she got baptized...about 3 years after we were married..i was made a m.s.
in 1990...but becuse of personal reasons i stepped down shortly after..i conecentrated on raiseing my family..and had to work 2 jobs to support them......3 children.....then a few years later my wife left me for some one else...and then i got very sick...and was told my kidney was failing....a elder came to my house and told me that if there was anything i neede that all i had to do was ask...well...a few weeks later i asked this elder...if he could get a couple of young brothers to hep me get rid off some boxes of stuff my wufe had left behind..because i could not lift them...he told me in a reproachful tone...get your family to help you...this after he had told me weeks before...to ask him for help........i thought at the time its no big deal....but then something else happen to call into question all about jw.
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hello im new to this...my wife and i are still baptized....but weve not gone to meetings regulary...for some time now...even though we still go to the memorial.....and we are wondering if to go back.....here without being too specfic is our story
i was rasied in the truth...she was not...she got baptized...about 3 years after we were married..i was made a M.S. in 1990...but becuse of personal reasons i stepped down shortly after..i conecentrated on raiseing my family..and had to work 2 jobs to support them......3 children.....then a few years later my wife left me for some one else...and then i got very sick...and was told my kidney was failing....a elder came to my house and told me that if there was anything i neede that all i had to do was ask...well...a few weeks later i asked this elder...if he could get a couple of young brothers to hep me get rid off some boxes of stuff my wufe had left behind..because i could not lift them...he told me in a reproachful tone...get your family to help you...this after he had told me weeks before...to ask him for help........i thought at the time its no big deal....but then something else happen to call into question all about JW
my x wife fell on hard times and to help her out (after all she was and still is the mother of my kids} i let her move back in to the house..while i moved into my travel trailer some miles a way while she got back on her feet.....when she did...i moved back into my house and she got a new place to live...the elders came to see me and question what i had done.....i told them i thought this was a act of kindness...and also informed them that no wrong doing was done......they did not belive me but because a another elder had seen me living in the trailer...the could not dishfellowship me........during this time my wife and i started talking about maybe getting back together(by the way she was disfellowshipped),,,,,and i was told if i remarried my wife i would be Disfellowshiped....now i had been thaugt that forgiving ones mate was to be encouraged...and that a marrige was to be put back together....and a couple of former elders told me that if they were sereving that it was not a D.S> offense..........so right there i saw two forms of thought.......but any way...i waited for my wife to be reinstated....and then we got remarried...................in this mean time my kids had a life of ther own ...away from the truth.......when i asked the elders to call on them too see if they might come back...they refused too.....telling me that it was my problem...............also without going into detail....they made my father step down as an elder even though he did NOTHING wrong...was never under a committee.....and has served the WTS for 45 years ans gave jobs and money to many brothers........and the brother who treid to out him was later DS...........then there is my brother...when he became a fireman for a job...the elders told him that he could be DS for that.............there many more things i could tell you about my case and other things i know....but time and space does not allow it....lets just say right now i dont know what to think...or do.......im really depressed over this and with me being on dialsys..i just have lost all hop.....i thank jehovah that my wife is ther for me now....and so are my children......i any one has any thoughts or comments or encourgment ill be happy to listen...thanks for you r time......donald