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  A Death in Yellowstone

  by Preston in

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  my mom called me while i was at work today and told me that two people from my old congregation died in september.

  i guess it was "national" news but it flew over my head.

  drew and brent speedie were jehovah's witnesses that went to my old congregation and although they weren't "popular" or well known, i got to know them pretty well.

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  That is such sad news.
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  How many of you shunned others when you were a JW?

  by Lady Lee in

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  i know i did.. we had a young fellow who used to live at my grandmother's place.

  in may ways he was like family.

  after he moved out of my grandmother's place i saw him frequently.

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  Daystar, I too remember the wide eyed stare.. But I also felt sorry for them. I am a very social person and couldn't imagine being unable to speak!!!!! So I would smile and sometimes even sneak a wave to them.
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  shallow men

  by Ellie in

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  please tell me that not all men are only interested in the size of a girls chest.. come on you men, restore my faith in males.

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  My husband is very into breasts. Sometimes I feel like I am just there watching an affair between my husband and my chest. lol

  He even said the other day .. to my comment of I don't want to get fat.. " I don't mind if you gained more weight..you would get bigger boobs.. right?"
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  Good Comebacks - Any Help?

  by atypical in

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  i am trying to do the "fade" for the sake of my wife and family, but it is getting extremely difficult.

  my wife's cong.

  is even more nosy than most.

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  Daystar, was this the father of the person we were just talking about the other day??
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  Were you ever "caught", then lied to the would-be tattle tale?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i can just imagine the scenario.

  you're a jw, but you're waking up to it all.

  you know your eternal salvation doesn't depend on obeying every 'particle of a letter' in the law of the watchtower.

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  Rayvin

  Well.. If the Enya Bidniss woman is like my mother she may ask the brother/elder about the convo and if it was regarding the smoking. My mother some how has even gotten elders to mention if the person is reproved or not..etc.
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  This past sunday's wt had a hilarious paragraph...

  by Check_Your_Premises in

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  i think it was paragraph 18 or right around there.. the gist of ithe paragraph was, "some will lose faith because our predictions failed, some of our stuff doesn't make sense, or someone treats us like crap".. the answers were just a riot.

  i couldn't help but wonder if some weren't faders.. "i remember when i started in the truth, i thought, this stuff is crazy, but i just knew it was the truth because where else could i go".

  "where else can we go" (i would like to point out that this is hardly a ringing endorsement).

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  It actually says " those who become disgruntled because of fleshly thinking or unfulfilled expectations .."

  They wont say thier predictions failed.. but thier followers got the idea that certian things were supposed to happen at a certain time and if it didn't happen when they expected them too then its thier own fault.
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  This past sunday's wt had a hilarious paragraph...

  by Check_Your_Premises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think it was paragraph 18 or right around there.. the gist of ithe paragraph was, "some will lose faith because our predictions failed, some of our stuff doesn't make sense, or someone treats us like crap".. the answers were just a riot.

  i couldn't help but wonder if some weren't faders.. "i remember when i started in the truth, i thought, this stuff is crazy, but i just knew it was the truth because where else could i go".

  "where else can we go" (i would like to point out that this is hardly a ringing endorsement).

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  My mother , just today, brought up this EXACT paragraph!!! When I asked her what her point was she said ' I just don't want you to be disgruntled. " "oh... im not mom" .. "whew.. good glad to hear it" she said. " yea cause if i was still going to the meetings I would be disgruntled so thats why I don't go anymore".
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  LOST--- Awesome!

  by Rayvin in

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  on the oceanic-air website behind the words on the right i found this .

  "i survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere northeast of australia and southwest of hawaii.

  in the event that i am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.

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  Alex is the person she was asking if Sayed was. (???) did that make sense? I am saying that it couldn't be a girl since she thought sayed was Alex.
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  This past sunday's wt had a hilarious paragraph...

  by Check_Your_Premises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think it was paragraph 18 or right around there.. the gist of ithe paragraph was, "some will lose faith because our predictions failed, some of our stuff doesn't make sense, or someone treats us like crap".. the answers were just a riot.

  i couldn't help but wonder if some weren't faders.. "i remember when i started in the truth, i thought, this stuff is crazy, but i just knew it was the truth because where else could i go".

  "where else can we go" (i would like to point out that this is hardly a ringing endorsement).

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  Rayvin

  Sorry.. i came to this thread and read up to page 2 and wanted to say that when I was going to the Hall and I saw someone w/out a book and I happen to have an extra I am sad to say that when I lent one them.. I felt religious superiority over them and in a way hoped the eyes of others saw what a nice person I was. I always felt above others that weren't in "the truth". I now know how wrong and how --Not Humble-- I really was.
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  "Jehovah saves groups not individuals"

  by Rayvin in

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  2. experiences

  this is what my dad told me .

  i mentioned how i didn't want to attend a congregation where people were claiming to do good works in the name of god and knowing that they were doing opposite.

  he says " well, when the last days come.. when ever that is... jehovah saves groups not individuals" well what we're in the wrong group dad?

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  Rayvin

  Thank you all for your replies. The thing that bothers me is.. dad still sees me as one of the JWs that just doesn't go to meetings anymore. So is he saying that even if you are a JW if you aren't IN the group or seen as IN the group you aren't going to be saved? Maybe he is getting this idea from the flood or S and G. Where the groups seen as bad were destroyed with out him looking at each persons heart condition that was about to be destroyed.

  I don't know.. i am grabbing at straws.