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  If You Still "Had" To Go To Meetings What "Disrespectful" Things Might You Do?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i know some who go to meetings because they feel they have to because of family or other considerations.. imagine going to a meeting and having your iphone with you!.

  how would it look if you had a watchtower in your hands along with a tv guide?.

  think about going to a meeting with strong booze breath.. any other suggestions?

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  Why should I have to sign a letter saying I want to disassociate ?

  by troubled mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't understand why the elders want this letter so badly ....for one i don't remember signing a contract to become a jehovah's witness ,why do i need to resign ?.

  also i was baptised in 1978 before the baptism questions changed , i dedicated myself to god not an organization .

  my vow was to follow the direction by holy spirit as revealed to me through the bible, not the watchtower ...... if i belonged to the luthern church and quit going after three yrs they drop your name off the member list ........but if i chose to come to easter or christmas service everyonre would still talk to me i just wouldn't be a member any more .. .

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  30 minute C.O. talk against the phrase "Take It Easy"

  by lepermessiah in

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  2. friends

  my buddy and i were recalling some of the worst talks we ever heard.. one classic we remembered was one by a new c.o., who gave this talk on his first visit.. the guy was an arrogant tool, and he thought he was the voice of god.. we couldnt remember the title, but all we remember was a 30 minute rant against the phrase "take it easy".

  we thought it was supposed to be talk encouraging pioneering, but it quickly took a turn for the worse....... "we often hear worldly people use the phrase "take it easy" - as christians, we do not take it easy!".

  "we should never hear the phrase "take it easy" here at the kingdom hall".

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  Help Please - Wife Misses Friends, Wants to return to KH

  by Mad Sweeney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the topic says it all.

  i am frustrated and dumbfounded.

  i understand that she misses the social activity with her "friends" but we have been "very" busy socially the last several months with new friends and she's been having a great time.

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  Not Sure What To Do....HELP!!!!!

  by lostinnj83 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello..i have been lurking for quite some time and am finally ready to make my first post!.

  i was raised a witness and am still "active" in the congregation and am married to husband who is also and have been having some doubts for some time and voiced some of them to my husband a few months back and he immediatly called the elders who provided a sheparding call.

  doubts were mainly on the harshness of the disfellowshipping and the blood issue.

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  How did you find the strength to leave?

  by SAHARA in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  to all of you exjws, i'm sure you've been asked this question one way or the other many times and i'm sure the answer is different for many of you, i'd like to know directly from you never having a chance to hear or read many exjw's answers to this.

  knowing that you would be cut off from your family and friends and other consequences for your decision to leave, how did you ever get the strength to do it?

  i mean really, i find it fascinating to know that there are so many of you who were at one time very devout, if not at the very least loyal to one of the most successful mind-contol organizations ever who believed all if not most of what the society taught and still you found the courage to risk everything once you accepted that it isn't what it claims to be.

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  I like the people in my Kingdom Hall!

  by lavozsa in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this may sound like a funny title, but it is actually true.

  just to give a brief background on myself, i've been a jw for nearly 12 years now.

  i didn't grow up in a jw family, nor is anyone else in my immediate family a jw (except my wife and her family).

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  How Do You Feel Being Thought Of As An "Apostate"?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does it bother you if witnesses regard you as an apostate?.

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  Alone?

  by chron82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just wanted to introduce myself.

  my name is chris and i'm on my way out of the only "society" i've known.. i was raised a witness and have been a ministerial servant for a while now.

  i recently notified the elder body that i will be stepping down and it will soon be official.

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  Please Name Your Favorite Food And Drink

  by Scott77 in

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