Christmas is amazing and the best time of the year. My son's joy is abundant proof of how much I and other JWs missed out. It only is as materialistic as you allow it to be.
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One thing that's good about being a witnessi
by dothemath ini went to the mall recently .....omg!
glad i don't have to go through all the craziness over christmas shopping..
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Here we go again. The next hate letter from our 2nd Son.
by Still Totally ADD inyes it happen again with our youngest son.
this last monday we got a letter from him telling us how unloving we are because we are no longer jw.
cult and not had kids.
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I agree that the approach you are planning to take is spot on. At the moment he feels in the upper position as he thinks you know you are doing something wrong and it is still the truth. Once you are firm that it is a cult and you will not be returning, but love him regardless, then he becomes the one having to justify his stance. The balance of power shifts. It may not bring him back to you, but it does seem to change the dynamics Of the relationship in youR favour.
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8 Year Old Getting Baptized!
by Atlantis ineight year old getting baptized!
(from a jw site.
this 8 year old sister was the youngest of the 31 who were baptized at a regional convention in bogo city, cebu, philippines on the weekend.
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She looks so young and small, not much older than my son. My son talks constantly about the meaning of life, where life began, religion, yet I couldn't imagine thinking he was ready to commit himself to a particular belief for the rest of his life.
My wife is a Filipina and her family are JW's, Catholic, Inglesi de Christo, and Mormon; and my wife I think believes in God but not religion. One JW changed to Mormon. They really love their high control religious groups.
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Did you expect all non-Witnesses to die at Armageddon?
by Apognophos inapologies if this has been asked before, but i couldn't find a thread where the focus was specifically this yes-or-no question.
reach back in your memories to when you were at the peak of your faith in the religion, and tell me honestly:.
"did you, personally, believe that non-witnesses would die at armageddon, even if they hadn't gotten to hear the message at all?".
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I believed it, since that is what the Watchtower taught, but was greatly troubled by it. My mother believed it and felt Worldly people deserved it. My CO father though did not, but felt God will judge hearts. That came as a shock.
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Window-washer is the cover of Feb 2015 WT, "How to enjoy your work!" Hahaha!!
by EndofMysteries in.
after all the jokes and satire on this website about jw's only being able to amount to window washers and house cleaners, the cover page of "how to enjoy your work" showing a window washer and cleaner in the back ground.
i almost wonder if some awakened, still-in, from this site is part of the writing department or illustrations and put that in there as an inside joke for us?.
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When I was in Bethel I spent the first year cleaning the factory. Window washing was the best part, except for the ladder that was 3 floors high, which I am sure must have been illegal. One of the branch committee wives would have a heart attack whenever I'd clean her window and plead with me not to.
The bad part was cleaning toilets. 20 every morning, and the same 20 again in the afternoon after lunch.
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Not on JW.org: THANK YOU!! Jehovah's Witnesses sue hospital after hospital honors NO BLOOD request.
by Balaamsass2 inhome articles wood news should jehovah's witness be able to sue after refusing blood...
should jehovah's witness be able to sue after refusing blood transfusion?.
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And JWs wonder why people do not respect their views on blood.
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After Years of Silence My Father Reaches Out to Me
by truth_b_known inbrief history:.
i was a born in.
my parents were uber-dubs, but never worshipped the organization.
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I believe in his old age he is realizing that family is more important that a publishing company in New York.
I have known of other parents that have shunned for many years start to become reasonable in their later years. I think they start to realise that just as the end has not come, not every unreasonable request of the org is necessarily true, and want to rekindle the family relationship.
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Waters Under the Oceans?
by The Searcher ininteresting article from the bbc.. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141029-are-oceans-hiding-inside-earth.
(genesis 7:11) "....on that day all the springs of the vast watery deep burst open....".
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The Bible writers drew water from wells, so there is nothing remarkable about them knowing of the water table. This does not make a global flood possible, it that is where you are going.
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A LETTER FROM MY MOTHER...since learning TTATT
by Blackfalcon98 inso ive recently: joined the forum, read cofc, began reading combating cult mind control.....and today i gotta letter from my mother.
i thought i'd share it with others so that i can gain some hidden insight, and perhaps just to encourage someone else here who has relatives who are still mentally locked in.
dear blackfalcon98.
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Interesting that they took offense to a short term beard for charity. Says a lot to their petty mindedness and lack of care for society in general.
i did Movember. Wish we had No Shave November in Australia instead as the Moustache looked very creepy on me.
Be careful with your mother. Mine said the same, but still shunned me when I got disfellowshipped.
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How did you feel when you got baptised? Seriously....
by stuckinarut2 inso recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
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Disappointed. I thought I would feel an outpouring of Holy Spirit since I was now officially a JW. But nothing, no feeling at all, other than the shockingly cold water.