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  Be very glad you don't live next door to me.

  by Lady Lee in

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  in the last 7 years 3 neighbors have died.

  all were not expected.. when i lived in winnipeg our neighbor died.

  he was healthy one day and gone the next.

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  this sundays wt oops!!

  by siy in

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  i was just looking at the sundays wt study " the spirit & the bride keep on saying come" on page 16 para 8 it says.

  "millions now living may never die" [caps mine] but if you look at the first pic.

  with " the world has ended" it says "milions now living will never die" [caps mine].

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  the bride keeps on saying ...come.....come.....come.........................
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  Dancing with some JW friends tonight

  by jwfacts in

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  i was walking past a bar tonight and recongised some old jw friends inside dancing to a live band.

  i went in an attached myself to them and spent the night with them.

  it was quite funny as they were very comfortable with me but also exuded unsure guilt about the whole situation.. it seems to stress jws when we seem exactly the same as before.

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  I couldn't agree with you more . It really seems to shock them to find out we have not turned into the monsters their imagination have created . I also think it makes a bigger impression on them than if we try to discuss doctrine because that is what they expect ......normal just throws them off balance .
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  Elder who conducted second school cannot read

  by life is to short in

  1. jw
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  i tied in to the meeting tuesday night and i was blown away that the elder who they had conduct the second school is one who cannot read well at all.

  not that i have any room to talk as i cannot spell to save my life, but i know that and i would never put myself in a place to counsel ones about bible reading and such.

  in fact i have not applied for jobs and such because i know i have a handicap with my spelling.. i was so blown away that they use this elder like they do.

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  We had an Elder that was exactly the same way . He would sometimes sub for the BS conductor .....those times were nothing short of painful . Not only could he not read ,he did not comprehend . He would totally miss the point of the paragraph and a few times I forgot my subjection ,and spoke up to give the correct answer ...then I just quit going .
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  The point in time when I realised that I would one day no longer be a Jehovahs Witness

  by jambon1 in

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  this was after my 'honeymoon' period of being a new jw.

  yet, it was still a couple of years before i actually left.. i remember sitting in the kh listening to the meeting & my mind wandered.

  i started looking around the congregation.

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  Remember people making the comment "Can you imagine "not" ever becoming a Jehovah's Witness ?

  Since I was born in I really never thought too much about it ....then one day I imagined my life being happy and less stressful and not afraid of Armeggedon right around the corner all the time , and i liked what I imagined so I made it my reality !
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  The point in time when I realised that I would one day no longer be a Jehovahs Witness

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
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  this was after my 'honeymoon' period of being a new jw.

  yet, it was still a couple of years before i actually left.. i remember sitting in the kh listening to the meeting & my mind wandered.

  i started looking around the congregation.

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  Jambon1 , I also had that lightbulb moment . I too looked around my hall and thought to myself ,'how can I go in field service and encourage others to come into this mess ?'

  Our hall was made up of many extended family members, and people I had known all my life so again you know alot of the background stories . Many dealing with emotional ,and mental problems taking either prescription drugs or alcohol just to cope . The pioneer sister that lives under the thumb of a control freak of a husband ,the Elder that drinks to cope with his hypocondriac wife .The sister that gossips about everyone else's lives so she won't have to focus on her own problems . Just much of the same I have seen over and over observed on here by others .

  I flinched every time I heard about how wonderful it was to be in association with our brothers, or how blessed we are when we come into the 'truth' and give up family and friends for the hundred fold of new freinds we make at the hall .....yeah right

  I really believed all that for a very long time and made all the right excuses for times when i knew it was a lie . Then one day after living it for sooo long I just couldn't lie to myself anymore and had to admit these people are NOT special by any means and I can't fathom them being much different in a new world . Why in the world would I want to spend eternity with any of them ,I can't stand being in a car group for a whole morning with most of them .
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  Idol gives back

  by JimmyPage in

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  was it just me or did alicia keys sound like sh*t the other night?.

  the black eyed peas did, too, but fergie looked great, so who cares!.

  what did you think of stairway with steve vai?

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  We thought those acts sounded off too !! I wonder if there was a moniter problem ....or is it the artists are getting to use to studio help !
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  I love Jesus but I drink a little

  by purplesofa in

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  clip from ellen show, funny.

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  http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/ellen-gladys-hardy-p1.php.

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  Thanks for sharing that ...what a hoot !!! I love Ellen .
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  I just put a bullet in the head of....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  ....my final jw relationship.. i did it.

  i killed the relationship.. my cousin rick and i had been inseparable as jw's.

  rick is five years my junior, and in many ways i tried to look out for him like a little brother when we were younger.. i have wrestled with an on again/ off again attempt to stay in touch with rick since i left jw's.

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  (((Jeff))) I don't think there is anything more I can add that others have not already said other than , Sometimes we just have to do what We have to do.

  Your a very strong ,caring person and it sounds like your cousin needed this wake-up call . Who knows he may let it sink in, and realize the error of his past .

  It certainly is sobering to realize we were to some degree just as dependent when we were JW's.......
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  It's quite simple really...

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember when i first started questioning the wts/jws.

  there were so many scandals and teachings and history to explore and research.

  i needed to learn everything i could about every little inconsistency, every mistake, every scandal in order to convince myself that i was on the correct path to freedom from this false religion.

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  Thank you so much for this thread !

  This is something i brought up with the Elders too .......He was saying remember it was the Organization that taught you the truth about the soul , trinity , hell ......... I interupted him and said "Excuse me but I feel it was the organization that LIED to me ! "

  " When I was a child in the early seventies I was well trained on how to preach at the door, to much old ones, how they were a blessed generation because they lived since 1914 and would see the fulfillment of the END . Also our magazines proudly proclaimed 1914 on the front cover ......then it all changed ! And the blood fraction teaching changed .No longer is it absolutely NO Blood ...it is now almost all fractioned up to acceptable /unacceptable parts ! " What will be next ???

  He tried to come back with "NEW LIGHT " understanding and I said "NO" it is just new mens opinion changing . I said the old governing body members are dying off and now you have younger men taking their place and giving thier opinions ...that's all ! "

  Also noted I will go to the garage and pull out the 84 W Bound volume to save .....any others you suggest keeping ? I have 1977-2005