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  They made another run at me.

  by kilroy2 in

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  2. experiences

  i was watching law and order last night at 10pm when the door bell rung.

  i was in my red long underwear and jumped up to put on my jeans went down stairs to answer the door, i always turn on the light and look thought the peeper to make sure charlie manson is not knocking, no manson but two of my local elders from the hall.

  i have not had any one from the hall take a run at me for at least a couple of years.

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  I was just thining about that. Why in the world would someone come knocking at your door at 10 at night?

  How rude! I would of definetly told them to come back another time or I would threaten to call the police.
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  They made another run at me.

  by kilroy2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was watching law and order last night at 10pm when the door bell rung.

  i was in my red long underwear and jumped up to put on my jeans went down stairs to answer the door, i always turn on the light and look thought the peeper to make sure charlie manson is not knocking, no manson but two of my local elders from the hall.

  i have not had any one from the hall take a run at me for at least a couple of years.

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  Georgia is great anyone trying to come to the South.

  No hurricanes but still get that nice southern weather.

  Good luck!
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  What's your expierence at a DUB wedding/reception?

  by stillAwitness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm invited to wedding/reception tomorrow (on christmas-naturally) only reason i'm going is because its my one chance to get new shoes, dress, the whole bit at my mother's expense (since she seems to think i will find my future middle-aged elder husband at one of these functions)

  i definetly plan to buy one of those mini-bottles of seagrams and get buzzed of course.

  who wants to listen to 10 different speeches from family and friends about "how wonderful this spiritual union is of so and so) yawn!

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  Great responses! Brought back some memories of my own! So true about how the sisters would dance afraid to shake "what they mama gace them"

  I never allow a brother to dance with me. Just to be stubborn. I detest how they all act so damn sweet and all gentle-man like and yet they can't seem to keep their eyes off my chest.

  Ah yes! Looks like it will be a long night. Perhaps 2 bottles shall due. And a bigger purse.
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  What's your expierence at a DUB wedding/reception?

  by stillAwitness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm invited to wedding/reception tomorrow (on christmas-naturally) only reason i'm going is because its my one chance to get new shoes, dress, the whole bit at my mother's expense (since she seems to think i will find my future middle-aged elder husband at one of these functions)

  i definetly plan to buy one of those mini-bottles of seagrams and get buzzed of course.

  who wants to listen to 10 different speeches from family and friends about "how wonderful this spiritual union is of so and so) yawn!

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  Really Blues?

  The ones I go to they've got "wordly music" But nothing worse than some Ray Charles and the Electric Slide.

  Heaven forbid someone pop in Usher's "Yeah"
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  My Unhappiness is because of Witness Thinking I have not given up

  by joelbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its pretty clear to me that my continued depression and anxiety is mostly tied up with even after all these years, still basically thinking like a witness.

  1. i expect things to be perfect.

  i expect myself to be perfect and am continually disappointed.

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  I have been pretty sucessful of purging myself of the witness thinking but for a long time I was allowing men to control me because of that whole "women should be in total submission to her man" teaching.

  Beacause of it I was tied in a number of abusive relationships. I am also very wary about trusting people who are dare I say? Not a JW

  I know-that is crazy since I don't trust those who are and yet making friends at school is cool but the thought of going into their house or inviting them in my car is scary for me.

  You're always taught that with the wittnesses you are safe but those in the world beware! Its hard to shake out of that thinking sometimes when I meet new people.

  Give yourself sometime. I find just laughing about certain things help.

  Nowadays-when a guy askes me why I'm always so "damn stubborn" I say "oh that? That's just cause I'm in a cult. Ready to go to dinner?"
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  What's your expierence at a DUB wedding/reception?

  by stillAwitness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm invited to wedding/reception tomorrow (on christmas-naturally) only reason i'm going is because its my one chance to get new shoes, dress, the whole bit at my mother's expense (since she seems to think i will find my future middle-aged elder husband at one of these functions)

  i definetly plan to buy one of those mini-bottles of seagrams and get buzzed of course.

  who wants to listen to 10 different speeches from family and friends about "how wonderful this spiritual union is of so and so) yawn!

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  I'm invited to wedding/reception tomorrow (On Christmas-naturally) Only reason I'm going is because its my one chance to get new shoes, dress, the whole bit at my mother's expense (since she seems to think I will find my future middle-aged elder husband at one of these functions)

  I definetly plan to buy one of those mini-bottles of Seagrams and get buzzed of course.

  Who wants to listen to 10 different speeches from family and friends about "how wonderful this spiritual union is of so and so) YAWN!

  What makes DUB wedding receptions so different anyway? I sometimes see the servers and wedding planners looking around like "why do I feel like I'm at church?"

  How have you seen DUB weddings planned differently from location, receptions, music and so on?

  Even to the kiss! Don't they always give like a quick peck when they give the "You may now kiss the Bride" Like its inappropriate or something to really give em a good smooch. I was at one wedding at the hall and the husband was all shy about kissing her and everyone in the audience was like: "kiss" How sad is that!
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  The WTS 's fear of the internet

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they pressured their own followers into not setting up websites to promote the jw religion,they have demonised the internet as if on every webpage there is someone ready to destroy the faith of a jw, and they are monitoring websites that are hostile to them to see if they can find ways to legally close them down.

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  why do they fear the net so much if they have the truth as they like to parrot so often?

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  Ya'll should hear my mother every morning:

  "Be careful with that internet! I want Jehovah's holy spirit to stay in my house.!"

  "Computers are not alive mom. They only do what you want them to do."

  "Well be careful at whatever it is you are doing! Jehovah is watching!"

  Every morning same we have the same convo and all I do is go online to check my bank statement. yes, Jehovah is watching mother-while I balance my checks and go take a dump.
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  SATAN GAVE US LIFE

  by lime05 in

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  its funny that jehovahs witnesses oppose satan and are looking forward to him being destroyed after armageddon seeing as if it wasnt for satan using the serpent to tempt adam and eve to eat the fruit we wouldnt even be here today as humans wouldnt have inherited sin and imperfection, death wouldnt occur therefore there would have only been one generation of humans after adam and eve fulfilled the purpose of filling the earth.

  obliviously the current generation of humans wouldnt be here now so we can now come to the conclusion that satan gave us life.

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  But Adam and Eve were to fill the earth. Why would it of been only one generation??

  Eventually, there kids' kids' kids' kids' and so on would of gotten around to us right? Time would not of slowed down.

  But then again, Jesus would of never had to die for us...

  Hmmm? Ever wonder if this is how it was supposed to be? That maybe satan tempting eve, Jesus dying for us-all this was supposed to happen this way from the very, very beggning right there in that gardern?? Man, life is so confusing!!!
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  The Blood doctrine - A Medical or Scriptural issue?

  by Jourles in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  if you were to ask any witness whether or not the blood doctrine is scripturally or medically based, you would receive the same answer 100% of the time.

  "scripturally, of course.

  there is one component in particular which shows the wts uses medically based information to cement its postion on what is and what is not allowed for a witness to accept.

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  The WT are the modern-day Pharisees of Jesus' Day

  Twisting the law, burdening the people with needless rules and regulations.

  One thing about history is that it always repeats itself.
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  Help Needed

  by Genesis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi there its my first post here and i need some help (sorry if im on the wrong board).

  in march 2005 i was very weak spiritualy and began to read apostate litterature.

  by one month i was wishing to quit the wts.

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  stillAwitness

  Dear Genesis,

  Bonjour! Comment ca va? I was in Quebec for 2 months when I was 14 to learn french. That was $1000 down the la toilet. Anyways, i am 22 and you sound like me when I was 17. That was when I started having doubts about the "truth" Ironically, at that time-I had been finally caught of my long time secret of having a wordly boyfriend (thank you to all those who ran to their elder fathers to tattle on me) and so became a downward spiral of confusion, hopelessness, unansewred questions and fears.

  When I did go to the elders with my many questions I was soon accused of having "independant thinking." That just made me even more suspicious and so I would spend countless hours doing research online. And I urge you to do the same.

  For awhile- yes I was scared that I was gonna die in Armmageddon, that I was not gonna make it to the Paradise. I actually started getting over that fear not too long ago. It will be a long journey for you Genesis. If you ever need to talk you can email me at [email protected] Cause I have been there and I would never ever want to go back.

  I do urge you to be careful as to who you talk to!!! Those you think are your "friends" in the congregation will go to the elders most likely once you start talking about your doubts to them. Best thing to do is FERMEZ LA BOUCHE!

  So do you still talk to your parents? Are they tryin to get reinstated? If not perhaps it is time you made that move to live with them instead? I still live at home and that is the only reason why I consider myself still a witness.

  Hopefully, you will slowly get over all your fears. I am still VERY afraid of being D'F but thats just because again I still live at home and I have this suspicion that the elders would urge my parents to kick me out or at least not help me financially if I was to be D'F. So until I am at least half way done with school, have saved some money and the whole bit I will stay put.

  Wow. You've never even held a girl's hand? Man, I was baptized at 14 but lost my virginity of 17. Of course again, even later on I actualy thought of confessing this "sin" to the elders. I had to stop myself for a second. Many times- I did still have that witness mentality.

  Again, I urge you to keep quiet! Those you call "friends" in the hall will tell the elders on you if you babble away about your concerns! It happend to me! Trust me on that one.

  Bonne Jouneur!

  -StillA