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  What's the word?

  by bagpuss in

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  if you could sum up your time in the borg with just one word, what would it be and why?.

  for me it would be guilt.

  guilt about not doing enough ministry, not enough study,doing too much secular work, the list seems endless.on the odd occasions i felt i'd done quite well you can bet we'd have a talk saying more,more more!.

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  waste
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  I'm sorry...................

  by defd in

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  i thought about the thread i started yesterday and said that the people on night shift jwd are boring.

  i apologise.

  what i meant was that because of the lack of activity it is boring.

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  Owwww...... I just had a few drinks and damn did that flash thing hurt on page one Enigma.
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  Had a major illness disappear after leaving WT?

  by by grace in

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  i'm looking for people who have had the experience of becoming very sick with chronic pain, an auto-immune disease, or some major health problem (collitus, diabetes, etc.

  ) while being involved with jehovah's witnesses, who then had a complete reversal after leaving the jehovah's witnesses.. i am planning to write a book about my experience, and i'd like to get an idea of how many people out there have had a similar one.

  i was diagnosed with advanced grave's disease (hyperthyroid), which is an auto-immune disease, and it amazingly "went away" shortly after i left the organization.

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  Depression.
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  Is there any hope of you coming back to Jehovah?

  by LeftBehind in

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  my brother is a self proclaimed apostate.

  i see now that there is a wide variety of posters here.

  so to those that have left the witnesses what would it take to get you back?

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  The load is suppossed to be "light". I would have killed myself because of the pressure and guilt that I felt. Guilt at not getting in 10 hours a month every month, guilt at not being totally enthralled with what the speaker was saying, guilt if I didn't have the time(or didn't feel like it) for studying for every meeting.

  When I left 12 years ago I completely thought that I was going to die soon at armageddon. At the time I needed to actually live some for myself, at the time I did leave room to go back. Now after getting somewhat educated, after seeing the world without the JW blinders on, after reading Crisis of Conscience, I would never go back.

  When I left, I left behind friends and family. I never made a big deal out of it because I always knew that everything was conditional. Long times friendships were only based on how many hours I put into field service.
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  GAGS I HAVE PROUDLY PULLED ON JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES :)

  by Nate Merit in

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  in 1984 (shudder!

  ) my bud mark smith and i picketed the kingdom hall in ann arbor, michigan.

  our signs had a watchtower drawn on them and said 'this religion is a snare and a racket!

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  Well, I don't care if this had been done last week, I'm still aching from laughing. "Elders only"... oh, the pain begins anew....
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  Excerpt from Awake!, January 2006

  by daniel-p in

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  last night i was reading the new awake!

  magazine (no, i'm not a glutton for punishment), in bed with my wife sleeping beside me.

  on page 5, i read: "of course, some people see no good news on the horizon.

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  Don't leave us in the lurch now, is mold a friend or a foe?
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  It’s the end of the world!!!!!

  by seven006 in

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  here is some new light about the end, straight from the governing bodyin california.

  http://www.endofworld.net .

  dave .

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  No way is Alaska invited!!!
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  WAS YOUR JW HOME DYSFUNCTIONAL?

  by stillAwitness in

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  some days are just worse than others: my mother screamed at me for like 10 minutes because i was running late for the bookstudy!

  i don't even wanna go to these things!

  and ever since that damn km that came out a couple months ago telling family heads the importance of having a regular family bible study my father won't even let a week pass by without us all gathered around the living room doing a question and ansewr out of the secret to family happiness book.

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  I remember my mom telling the "friends" about how her family was dysfuntional when she grew up. I (sorta) laugh at that since thats exactly the home that she created when I grew up. Right now I can't think of one particular thing, it's more of just the whole package, the whole mindset that I was expected to have while growing up. I'm not really the pessimistic type but I really don't remember any time of being happy while growing up but the unhappiness stays. I do remember one time similar to yours when I was about 11, we were studying for the ministry school and I didn't have the outline(what where those things called, I forgot) and my step-dad would read the paragraph and then ask me a question and get so mad because I wasn't so totally entralled with every word that he read, but then my mom would finally answer while and read it right off the page. What a way to make a kid feel stupid, Dave.
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  Alligators and crocodiles?

  by gringojj in

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  someone with no knowledge of nature could semi-succesfully argue that lions could possibly eat straw.

  but what about crocs?

  how can someone argue that these reptiles will possibly be able to eat anything other than meat?

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  Or rattlesnakes. They inject their prey with venom and the venom works to both paralyze the rat and also work as a digestant. Are they going to change and inject an apple with venom so as to digest it?
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  The New "In-Phrase" - with greediness

  by stillajwexelder in

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  from the elders school it appears as if the new phrase on everybodies lips is "with greediness" have i got this correct?

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  Hmmm...but the elders greedily gobble up all the juicy details....