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If You Still "Had" To Go To Meetings What "Disrespectful" Things Might You Do?
by minimus ini 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 ini 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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happy1975
Troubled Mind,
I'm so sorry to hear that you're going through this. My husband and I just went through something similar and I wouldn't wish the elders on my worst enemy. We were harassed for about three weeks (unannounced visits to our home, endless phone calls) we refused to write a DA letter (which in my opinion is just to make stuff easier for THEM, which I refuse to do) and then they DFd us. They DFd us about a month or so ago and we've rec'd no letter or anything.
Good luck - hang in there.
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30 minute C.O. talk against the phrase "Take It Easy"
by lepermessiah inmy 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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happy1975
One that sticks in my mind is a talk that railed against the saying 'don't work too hard'. The speaker totally took it to the next level saying that if we used that term we were encouraging laziness and sloth.
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Help Please - Wife Misses Friends, Wants to return to KH
by Mad Sweeney inthe 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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happy1975
My husband went through this a bit. I just made it clear to him that I had no intention of going back like, EVER but that I didn't care either way what he decided to do. I think in his case it was more of a thinking out loud or 'what if....' type of thing. He never acted on it and events have happened since then that I'm confident turned him off forever.
BTW Mad Sweeney, I love your avatar, I know you didn't pick it but it's my fav of all the monsters!!
Good luck and hang in there.
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Not Sure What To Do....HELP!!!!!
by lostinnj83 inhello..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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happy1975
Lost,
Rest assured that the position you are in right now mirrors that of so many others. I stopped attending before my husband did (he followed soon after) but I don't have any other close family in, so I didn't have that as a consideration. This was a WONDERFUL turning point in my life but also quite a ride.
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How did you find the strength to leave?
by SAHARA into 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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happy1975
I had absolutely no choice but to leave. The mind control and restrictions of being a witness nearly drove me to a breakdown. It was then that I realized I needed to research just what I had devoted my life to. Once I realized the lie behind 'the truth' it was over for me. Granted, by loss consists of some childhood friends, none of my family is in anymore. The most painful thing for me is realizing that I spent nearly 30 years devoted to a lie.
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I like the people in my Kingdom Hall!
by lavozsa inthis 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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happy1975
It's really too bad, but each one of those relationships is conditional and won't stand up to your questioning the society. Welcome to the board!
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Social Networking Media to Hasten the Demise of Watchtower
by Scott77 inthe social networking media technologies like facebook, will over the years, continue to present insurmountable challenges to the growith, stability and eventual demise of the watchtower as an organisation.
realizing this inevitabilty, its therefore easy to predict that over the coming years, more and more talk about the perceived 'threat' of internet will be part of standard talks in kingdom halls, assemblies and convections.. what do you think about that?
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happy1975
No need to 'lure', IMO. When I did a search of 'jehovah's witnesses' years ago, this is one of the first sites that appeared. If people are looking, they'll find.
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How Do You Feel Being Thought Of As An "Apostate"?
by minimus indoes it bother you if witnesses regard you as an apostate?.
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It's no different from any other label that someone might try to use on you, i.e. fat, skinny, tall, smart, dumb......The witnesses try to use it to sum up the whole of a person's being, but just like any other label it can't do that. I don't own the label or think of myself as an apostate. Frankly, they can all kiss my @ss.
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happy1975
what serenity now said!! We could hang out.....
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