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  Hi Everyone

  by BorgHater in

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  i recently found an ex-jw site and have been posting there.

  i came across this site also and have been enjoying reading your posts and the discussions you have.

  you're a fiesty lot on these boards and i love it!

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  truthsetsonefree

  Welcome BH. As already mentioned nice name.
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  Relapse: I'm considering returning to the Kingdom Hall.

  by Blue Grass in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm a long time lurking of this site(2 years) and a first time poster.

  to provide a little background of myself i was not raised as a witness but started studying when i was 19 and got baptized at age 21. a few months after i was baptized i left due to the constant worship of the faithful and discreet slave and the lack of emphasis on christ.

  for reasons i'm not sure about yet i decided to attend the district convention last week.

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  Bluegrass, just remember that there are many religious groups that can satisfy a need to be around moral, Bible oriented people without being as controlling as WT is.
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  simplify your life...that was maybe a good jw idea.......but how??

  by oompa in

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  once your kids move out.....and you hit midlife crap..........just how much do you or should you do this?.....here in usa......times are pretty awful moneywise/workwise.......i just feel the need to downsize bigtime..........anybody gone supersimple and are now superhappier??........thanks......oompa.

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  I think that this is a concept made up by people who lived in simple times. It's true that we can over complicate things in our lives through poor planning, or dysfunctional behaviors. But it's also true that our lives are complex because we have grown as a species. We know more about science, health, human psychology. We need to remember that the Bible was written two to four thousand years ago! They just had less to think about back then. So I know give a lot of credence to this simple life stuff. I'd rarther have all the things that we have today and screw the simplicity.
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  I'm a Neutral Jehovah's Witness

  by Martini in

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  dear brothers and sisters,.

  i martini, will confide in you that i have become a neutral jehovah's witness.

  i wonder if i'm not coining a new phrase here!.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Welcome Jotace. Your Mom reminds me of mine. Full brainwash indeed.
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  Seattle murderer-rapist "Brother" Curtis Thompson gets 5th life sentence

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  background information for those who do not know:.

  curtis shane thompson was raised by his jw mom.

  in 1985 he was arrested and subsequently convicted for four violent rapes in the seattle area.

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  truthsetsonefree

  If you have bad credit and you want to finance a new car, you may be required to have a cosigner. Someone who agrees to make your payments if you fail to. The courts should require people to be cosigners when they support the release of criminals. Meaning they agree to go to jail if the criminal reoffends.

  Interesting concept. While impractical I wish there were a better way of screening jurists at times. Sometimes people who have poor judgment and little idea of cause and effect make major decisions that subsequently hurt others. It's infuriating.
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  ZIMBABWE BETHEL ON IT'S LAST LEG, BETHEL GETTING CUTS. . . Email making the rounds.

  by whereami in

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  and we sometimes think we have issues here.... .

  oh jehovah how much longer until you're vindicated.

  remembering our brothers in zimbabwe.

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  Expect to see real problems like this more often as WT's fiscal problems grow.
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  Without pain could any God exist?

  by The Berean in

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  if our world was a paradise with no sickness, pain, or death, would anyone have ever considered the concept of a supreme being?

  who would care how we got here?

  would not eternity be taken for granted?.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Excellent points.
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  Class Action Website

  by lettib74 in

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  please check out the new site!

  thanks to all of you for your suggestions!

  also, this is the first website i have created so it's very basic for now.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Good idea on a pic. I'm dropping you an email later.
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  2009 Drama - Kudos to Bethel. Sorry.

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my overall impression of this year's modern-day prodigal son drama was that it was one of the best i've ever seen.

  "best" if the goal is to try to convince young jws to stay in the org.. the amount of cheesiness was at an all-time low, imo.

  there were a few exceptions, but i got the impression that bethel is getting pretty good intel from the field and incorporating it into the program.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Intel from the field. Heck, they read some of the best of it right here!
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  Be realistic in 2009! Why Politics will NEVER turn on Religion in our society!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. bible

  communism is dead and the usa is a strongly christian, tolarant, democratic nation, it just won't happen here.

  muslim nations are fanatical about their dedication....no chance.

  it's silly to think of religions as a whole being banned....this is just a witness bad dream, never happen in a million years..

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  Separation of church and state....no matter what measure are taken to sanction the business practices of religion to stay in compliance with the law, religion will NOT disappear by political action.