He may be sincere, but it's also a CYA letter, isn't it? He can show the brothers his documentation that he has tried his best, and now the bloodguilt is off of him for your choices. If Jehovah's spirit ever was with the Borganization, I would think he's removed it by now, due to the disgusting corruption running rampant today. This could explain losing 500 congregations in Japan, for example, and perhaps in other countries.
Virgogirl
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Received a letter from an Elder
by JH ini was gone for a few days and when i came back today, i found a letter in my mailbox.. basically it's a friendly letter asking me to come back to the congregation.
in his letter he says, i tried to contact you often but couldn't.
i know it's not easy trying to be a witness when no one in your family is a witness.
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International Convention Scam ...
by Taylor S. inmy mom said recently that she had 'applied' to go to the international conventions.
today she reported that she'd been approved.
i asked how much it was gonna cost her.
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Virgogirl
Taylor, I just hope they wouldn't put your Mom in some crappy hotel. It's very sweet of you to offer to take her yourself and look out for her!
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Stupid things JW's say: Todays stupid phrase "young ones"
by Check_Your_Premises inwe all know that cults use loaded language as well as redefine words and phrases to have their own special meaning.. not to long ago i was talking to a very devout jw sister (totally brainwashed just doesn't describe it) about my daughter.
she kept talking about the "young ones".
she must have said the phrase twenty times over the course of the conversation.
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Virgogirl
When I found a room mate and got my first apartment, my Grandmother advised me, "Well, make sure you keep everything theocratic!" I didn't even bother asking, just what the heck does that mean?
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Higher Education
by XBEHERE inhello all...just cant stay away from you...hehe .
at our recent co visit, at the elder/ms meeting where co goes over a branch approved outline with us he spent 10 min on the subheading "avoid snares of pursuing higher education"...something like that, my notes are at home but you get the gist.
he essentially spent the time bashing university education citing among other things that a full 30% that go to college dont find employment in the field that they studied in.
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So, if 30% don't find a job in their chosen field, I'm betting they do find a good job in a closely related field, one they wouldn't get without the college education. He's not telling that part, that you will likely get something close to what you wanted and it willstill pay a lot more than a menial job without college! And, that is just initially, upon graduation...a person can keep trying to find the exact position they trained for, ya know, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!" Oh, that's not in the New Whirled Translation, lol!
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How did you meet your spouse?
by serendipity inin our local sunday paper, there's a regular feature on how married couples met.
i've been touched by some of the stories.
i'm curious as to how you met your spouse.
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Virgogirl
My husband and I were sent to training by our company, along with several others. They put us up at a n extended stay hotel that served a free evening meal at the clubhouse, and we hit it off. When the classes ended, he suggested we could still have dinner sometimes. I said I wasn't interested in dating anybody, to which he said, it would only be dinner, and definitely not a date. That fooled me, and we dated for about nine months when he asked me to get married, I said I had no intention of marrying anybody and he said "O.K." On the third time he asked me, I said "Yes" and we've been married for five years.
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perspective on growing up in a jw family after i had my son
by limbogirl incurious to see if anyone else can relate to this....i've been away from jw-world for many years yet really began to have a lot of issues resurface for me when i became a parent two and a half years ago.
.........specifically, i began thinking a lot about my parents raising me and i'm just blown away at the way in which they chose to fill my head with jw teachings from such an early age.
i can't imagine ever teaching my little boy about wicked people, demons, satan, destruction at armageddon and so forth at such a young age.
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I remember that awful orange book with the Armageddon and destruction pictures of the wicked, bodies flying and grimaces of pain and fear on the faces, They would sit me down to look at the pictures and keep quiet during the meetings or in the cargroup. There were talks from the platform about Satan and demonic everything! I was bothered by terrible nightmares as a child and would wake up shaken and screaming "Jehovah, help me!" They called them my "demon dreams." 'Oh, she's having another of her demon dreams. Nobody seemed to draw a connection to the topics of the meeting earlier that night, and my nightmares. It truly was barbaric, but considered perfectly normal to expose the children to those topics at a very young age.
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Our trip to London, England and Paris, France -- Pictures!
by cruzanheart init was a wonderful trip!
in addition to showing our children the famous landmarks, we were able to have lunch with narkissos in paris, and with englishman and ignored one in england.
narkissos has no problem with his picture being posted (i don't think the others do either, but our jw friends were with us too that day and are in the pictures so i don't think they'd want their photos on an ex-jw site -- at least not yet!).
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Virgogirl
How fun! Love to see more of your pics!
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Wifely Submission?!
by freedomlover inokay, what i want to know is honestly how many of you guys out there were actually attracted to the jw's because of the wifely submission thing?
and girls, how many of you actually had issues with the submission thing even when in the org.
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Virgogirl
One of the biggest reasons I had to run like hell! As a teenager, I could see the "eligible young brothers" in the Kinkdumb hall were dumber than rocks, and how could I be in subjection to them? Nope, wasn't about to marry them!
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Wanna see Santa's willy?
by HappyDad inscroll down and you'll see santa's willy!
whoo hoo you're gonna love this..
for crying out loud......act your age........ there is no santa merry christmas to all........... happydad.
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Virgogirl
Of course we do! lolol! You tease!
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It Seems That My Children Are Not Trained
by Gary1914 ini just returned home from the kingdom hall.
i am an elder.. after the meeting all the elders were called to the back room.
i thought this was an impromptu elders' meeting.
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Virgogirl
It won't get any better! The poor little mites are just bored out of their minds! And yes, they are hinting that you can't be an elder if your kids aren't perfect little examples. I grew up an elder's child, and the stress made me physically sick. Please think about not putting them through this misery! Show them lots of love and allow them to be children.