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  Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has

  by jaffacake in

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  one of many favourite quotes from the watchtower's own official history (1995)

  proclaimers *** jv chap.

  14 p. 200 they are no part of the world ***.

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  All the new Kingdom Halls could be in the shape of a pyramid; the inside could look like that Egyptian temple in the movie Young Sherlock Holmes.

  It would give them an excuse to start collecting money for even more construction projects.

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  Children or no Children?

  by Sirona in

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  the jws used to always have discussions about whether to have children "in this system of things".. i used to always think it was pathetic to avoid having kids because of the so-called impending armageddon.. however.

  despite the fact that i've always wanted kids, right now i'm not so sure.

  just look at the things happening in the world.

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  Do you think when you were old you would regret not having them?

  I didn't think so at first. I started regretting it in my early forties. Talked to the wife about it, but she really disliked children anyway. W
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  Children or no Children?

  by Sirona in

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  the jws used to always have discussions about whether to have children "in this system of things".. i used to always think it was pathetic to avoid having kids because of the so-called impending armageddon.. however.

  despite the fact that i've always wanted kids, right now i'm not so sure.

  just look at the things happening in the world.

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  My wife and I didn't have any kids in "this system", thinking we'd have some in the "new system". We were "living in critical times" and we needed to put "kingdom interests first" in our lives.

  <pity party>Now I'm childless, no wife, and the youngest in my family. And too old to start again. I'll probably die cold and alone. </pity party>

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  When Did You Realize That You REALLY Were Going To Die?

  by minimus in

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  and not live forever on paradise earth?

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  I never really believed I wouldn't die. After my first few years with the JWs I didn't want to survive armageddon just to live in a world filled with assholes.

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  Anybody else see a problem with this website?

  by avishai in

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  let's start with this statement who most often commits domestic violence?

  overwhelmingly, it's heterosexual men in relationships.

  however, if we refer just to the act of hitting or physically hurting another person, research statistics from the 1980's and early 1990's shows women are as likely or more likely than men to hit or physically harm a partner.

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  I like living alone. I enjoy the fact that I'm no longer the "bad guy" whenever I speak up in my own defense.

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  Favorite Things

  by LouBelle in

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  these are a few of my favorite things: .

  glittery/shiney things esp.

  clips.. snowballs - i love them & have a little collection going.. big white towels - esp after a hot bath - wrap yourself up in pure luxury.. small handbags.. the small of a mans' back.. what are your favorite things.

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  What are your favorite things.

  1. Spicy stir frys
  2. Dark beer
  3. My cockatoo
  4. TCP/IP

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  They aren't making much effort to bring me back, and I'm glad !!!

  by JH in

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  i've been inactive for many years, but last march an elder came over to invite me to the memorial.

  after that he came back and offered a bible study, which i didn't want but stupidly i accepted because i felt kind of pressured, thinking that if i didn't i would be maybe df'd for some reason.

  so, i studied about half of the book with the elder, once a week, and went to a few meetings.

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  What do you have to lose if you just tell them to f*ck off and quit bothering you? Unless you have family who are JWs, or if you are employed by JWs, would getting DF'd adversely affect your quality of life?

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  How many of you had assembly parts?

  by rebel8 in

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  i was just remembering i had a part in an assembly part once.

  i was a fresh new pioneer (who never, ever made my time, lol) just out of high school.

  they gave me a brief part to say i was glad i didn't go to college and how i turned down a good job to pioneer.

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  I was never on the platform at an assembly, but I was the subject of an experience given by an elder in my hall. It was at the assembly where I was baptized. I was listening to the experience, thinking that it had some very minor similarities to my life, but I didn't have a clue that it was actually me he was talking about. Later that day someone asked me if I recognized myself in the "experience" given. I didn't, and I was also a little pissed that someone would presume to talk about me like that from the platform without first asking for my permission. The fact that most of what he said was untrue pissed me off even more.

  After that nothing changed. For the next 19 years as a JW the elders continued to tell lies about me, and they continue to this day.

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  Everything I Ever Needed To Know... I learned at the Kingdom Hall

  by POs Son in

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  today my mother, a devoted jw of 40+ years, expalined to me that studying the watchtower publications "taught her" how to study!

  she went on to describe how the weekly watchtower study taught her how to truly study, by underlining the most important part of the paragraph.

  funny, i do not recall that as the primary method of study for the rest of the world - most of the textbooks i have read did not have a numbered set of questions at the end of each paragraph.

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  Didn't they also say that a person could get the equivalent of a college education just by reading the awake magazine regularly?

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  Everything I Ever Needed To Know... I learned at the Kingdom Hall

  by POs Son in

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  today my mother, a devoted jw of 40+ years, expalined to me that studying the watchtower publications "taught her" how to study!

  she went on to describe how the weekly watchtower study taught her how to truly study, by underlining the most important part of the paragraph.

  funny, i do not recall that as the primary method of study for the rest of the world - most of the textbooks i have read did not have a numbered set of questions at the end of each paragraph.

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  Real world studying is much different than what the JWs do. The watchtower spoon feeds them, and makes it easy by adding questions at the bottom of each page. Today, if I go on a 5 day course the text book is, on average, about 800 pages. No questions for each paragraph. Plenty of practical hands-on exercises to perform. No simple one word answers like "Jehovah???". And often the course materials still don't address some of the exam topics, so outside research is necessary.

  If I relied on Watchtower style studying I'd be unemployed.

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