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  Did Elders fail to meet requirements they made of you?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  our po and his wife were both pioneers.

  he is young and a sarcastic bastard.

  one time he stood in the back of the hall while the meeting was going and said to me "this headship business is a bunch of crap!

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  Which English King would you want to meet?

  by IronGland in

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  edward i or richard iii would be my choice.

  i like the plantagenets.

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  Can inactives be D/F'd?

  by tabbycat in

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  2. beliefs

  can inactive ex-jw's be disfellowshipped?

  i've always been interested but can't ask my mother (still a jw) for fear of upsetting her.

  if i was d/f'd, would it really mean that even my immediate family would 'shun' me?

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  CAN MEN AND WOMEN JUST BE "FRIENDS"?

  by Mary in

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  or will one of them invaribly end up being attracted to the other?

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  Movies to make a JW THINK

  by M.J. in

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  2. friends

  i've heard various suggestions of movies to show a dub.. those of us with a spouse / family in the borg might find it pretty useful to rent such movies as just another way of chipping away at the indoctrination, or drawing attention to the wts control tactics.. one movie i saw which was somewhat helpful was one called "equilibrium", which was suggested on this board a while back.

  its about a society that has acheived peace and order by requiring everyone to repress their emotions through sedatory drugs.

  the good thing about this one was when it showed how everyone was so indoctrinated to follow the directives of the organization in charge, with every person keeping an eye on everyone else.

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  Data Protection Act - a question

  by tabbycat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  very nervous about being here, even though i left years ago.

  i wonder if anyone can give me some advice.

  when i was a jw i was 'counselled' a few times (shortly prior to leaving), though i was never publicly 'reproved' (?

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  witnoid weddings

  by katiekitten in

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  2. experiences

  when i was a kid weddings in the troof were a big deal.

  probably because they were the main if not only excuse for a knees up.

  if someone was getting married they were not in control of the decisions about the reception.

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  One of the 144,000

  by out of the box in

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  2. experiences

  i wanted to share this story.. we were (many years ago) going out in service.

  i was in the car with annointed one driving, his wife and the person who had 'brought me into the faith' and my daughter.

  we went through an intersection where this old man (annointed one) was not paying attention.

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  Seeker4's 500th Post - My letter to the Elders (2nd Posting)

  by Seeker4 in

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  2. friends

  here's the letter i wrote to the body of elders i served with for decades, when they invited me to a judicial committee meeting two months ago.

  i have not heard a word from them since i wrote this.

  i posted this monday night (may 30, 2005) to celebrate my 500th post, but it ended up in the "heated debates" section, when i intended it to go in this area.

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  Do you think of yourself as an apostate

  by barbar in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many of the people on this site say that they are apostates.

  but that is not the way i feel about myself.. i am not angry with the "witnesses" or the organisation, i don't feel that i wasted my life.

  i just think that i was stupid to believe it for 30 years (well sort of believe it, i did have severe doubts on and off).

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