Posts by Finally-Free

Personally I don't think being tactful or making excuses works. JWs are experts at getting around this. I would just say that "I appreciate their concern, but I know where the kingdom hall is and am perfectly capable of getting there if I choose to do so. And no, I don't want to discuss my reasons. Pressuring me to come to meetings will only serve to strengthen my resolve to stay away."

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Does your family still think you are coming back?

by kid-A in

hope springs eternal in the wts.

despite having left before even being baptized, i would have to say my parents still wholeheartedly believe i will someday come around, .

get baptized, become active and maybe even become an elder !

Finally-Free

The last time I was asked I said they'd be more likely to see me kissing a pigs ass on national television than sitting in a kingdom hall.

They don't ask anymore.

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Jah-Jireh retirement homes web site...GONE?

by Gill in

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does any one know where the jah-jireh webs sites, the sites that deal with the jw retirement homes have gone?.

i've been interested in them for a while, (with my age and that) but they've disappeared from the web!.

does anyone know why they might have come of, been taken off, disappeared from the net.. the only reference i can find to them is a list of retirement homes with a religious bent.. thanks all!.

Finally-Free

You know, even if I were still a JW in good standing I would not want to live in such an environment. Too much of that fake "spiritual paradise" can get nauseating very fast. Even when I was still a "believer" a 2 hour meeting stretched my patience to the limit - I survived most of them by dozing off.

Imagine living in a place with kingdom melodies piped into every room. The selection of videos is mostly stuff published by the society. Same with the reading material. The raciest video available is "The Adventures of Milo and Otis." You can enjoy afternoon tea and cookies while watching demonstrations about how to do telephone witnessing. You'll have "morning worship" each day as they do in Bethel, as well as Monday night watchtower "family studies". Each person will be assigned a paragraph to comment on, as is done in Bethel. Each week there will be talks that encourage the elderly to "honour Jehovah with their valuable things". A watchtower lawyer will visit the site each week with pre-printed wills and powers of attourney. These visits will be within 24 hours of the aforementioned talk about "honouring Jehovah with their valuable things". The lawyer will have 2 elders in tow ready to act as witnesses to the new wills and powers of attourney that the elderly "voluntarily" sign without feeling pressured at all.

Ok, enough of that. I'm making myself sick. I want to live in an environment where I can eat what and when I want, cuss when I want, and watch what I want on TV without someone leaning over my shoulder and saying, "You know, that's not very upbuilding, brother.".

Live in a JW retirement home? I'd kill myself first.

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Does the Bible Have a Hidden Code?

by undercover in

from the wts website:.

bout two years after the assassination of israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin in 1995, a journalist claimed that with the assistance of computer technology, he had discovered a prediction of that event hidden in the original hebrew bible text.

the journalist, michael drosnin, wrote that he had tried to warn the prime minister over a year before the assassination but to no avail.. other books and articles have now been published claiming that this hidden code provides absolute proof of god's inspiration of the bible.

Finally-Free

The clear and straightforward message in the Bible is not too difficult to understand or apply, but many people choose to ignore it.

If this is the case then how can they support their claim that they are the only ones on earth who can interpret it correctly?

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What's the most cash that you ever had in your hands?

by JH in

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i'll add this to my 2005 corolla and i'll get my new 2006 corolla on thursday... .

Finally-Free

$141,000

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Christmas not Xmas!

by hibiscusfire in

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if you are celebrating christmas do not x christ out of it.. if you are celebrating christmas do you know why???.

hibiscusfire

Finally-Free

Because there isn't anything else in this thread that you have said to recommend you as a person or as an Xtian!

Was that really necessary? There were plenty of valid points made in this thread. Is there any useful purpose in attacking the person?

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Christmas not Xmas!

by hibiscusfire in

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if you are celebrating christmas do not x christ out of it.. if you are celebrating christmas do you know why???.

hibiscusfire

Finally-Free

There must be someone out there who is afraid to say the same.....
Don't X Christ out of Christmas!!!!
Hibie
I'm coming after you NOW!!!!!

My sister would agree with you on this, but she doesn't get on the internet much. I won't tell her about this board though, because she and I disagree on almost everything. She's trying to convert me back to Catholicism. W

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