It took some time, but my family and I now have an unspoken mutual understanding. They don't say anything to me about not being a witness, and I don't say anything to them (or challenge them) about being a witness. Sometimes it makes it awkward, and I sometimes I wish so bad I could show them things to wake them up, but it in reality, they probably wouldn't listen or believe me, and it would only serve to alienate them. I talk to them frequenltly and see my neices and nepthew often.
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My family is held so tight
by whatlite? indoes anyone have any suggestions?.
my sister has not spoken to me in almost two years.
she thinks i am an apostate for knowing the watchtower joined the un.
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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!
by Wild_Thing ini have been doing some research and came across this.
you can go here directly .
click on the image to toggle between big and small.
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This is from September 24, 1921, Oakland Tribume, Oakland, California. They actually state the 1925 date as being the end of the world.
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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!
by Wild_Thing ini have been doing some research and came across this.
you can go here directly .
click on the image to toggle between big and small.
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I hotlinked it. How about here: http://wildthing44.bravehost.com/1919%20Apr28%20Oakland%20Tribune%20(Oakland,%20California).jpg
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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!
by Wild_Thing ini have been doing some research and came across this.
you can go here directly .
click on the image to toggle between big and small.
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I have been doing some research and came across this. You can go here directly . Click on the image to toggle between big and small. I have a few others that are just as good, but I thought this one was the best so far. They paid for a full page ad to declare the end of the world! Sheesh!
I didn't shrink the image because then the small newspaper print becomes unreadable.
From April 28, 1919, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.
Edited: I decided not to embed the image because it is so big.
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Help! In Need of File Hosting Website
by Wild_Thing indoes anyone know of a website that will host a large jpeg image for free?
the image is about 5000 x 7000 pixels.
resizing is not an option due to the nature of the image.
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Does anyone know of a website that will host a LARGE jpeg image for free? The image is about 5000 x 7000 pixels. Resizing is not an option due to the nature of the image. Flickr just resizes it and it comes out as all black!
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Do you remember the first anti-JW site you visited on the internet?...
by Hecklerboy ini remember doing a search on jw's and ending up on www.watchtowerinformationservice.org.
which led me to www.freeminds.org.
and then it led me here..
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Timothy Campbell's Beyond JW website
Same here! Loved it! It was very non-threatening.
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What's the most stupid comment a JW told you?
by JH ini remember when i was new in the "troof", i was walking in a mall and a jw window washer saw me, and asked, "what are you doing here"?.
yeah, he had a good reason to be at the mall, cause he was washing windows, but i had no business there.... i guess he thought that i was being seduced by material stuff.... and i was stupid enough, not to tell him, mind your own business fu**er....
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When I was a teenager I told my mom that I didn't want to be a witness anymore. Her quote:
"Sometimes I feel the same way, but there's nothing else out there!"
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how can we answer them?
by Cordelia ini've tried and i've tried now i need help, how do you answer:.
jws who think it's fantastic that jeh is providing this new light all the time, i say about the rev book amongst other things and they just think it's a sign they are in the right religon coz '''what other religon would admit it's faults?
'' doesnt matter they been studing wrong light last time!!.
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jws who think it's fantastic that jeh is providing this new light all the time, i say about the rev book amongst other things and they just think it's a sign they are in the right religon coz '''what other religon would admit it's faults?''
There are dozens of examples of their history where they were wrong, and no, they admit none of it. They either deny it, or they provide some lame excuse to explain it.
Read 'Crisis of Conscience'. I felt guilty reading it for about the first two chapters. After that, I just felt angry I was actually raised in an organization like that.
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TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Wild_Thing inhas anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?
time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.
go to the time website and search for yourself!
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Okay, Renee, if you do it, I'll try too and see what happens...
I would love to show these to my family! The trick is to either send them anonymously or come up with some way to say ... look what I found! I think they would read them because they are not 'apostate' material, but they might not if they suspect I have an ulterior motive. Very tricky!
I am in the process of searching old newspapers for early watchtower references. If I find anything juicy, I'll let y'all know!
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TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Wild_Thing inhas anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?
time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.
go to the time website and search for yourself!
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These are very cool, thanks for the posts... and may I say I love your nod to Maurice Sendak, dear Wild_Thing!!!
BabaYou're welcome ... and thank you! I'm a fan of the book!