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  30 years of bound volumes make it to the curb .....

  by troubled mind in

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  our box of watchtower and awake bound volumes have sat out in the garage the past five yrs .

  this week is city wide clean up so we finally toted them to the curb .

  those suckers are heavy !

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  Feels pretty good doesn't it James ?!
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  30 years of bound volumes make it to the curb .....

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our box of watchtower and awake bound volumes have sat out in the garage the past five yrs .

  this week is city wide clean up so we finally toted them to the curb .

  those suckers are heavy !

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  Sphere : I try not to encourage BAD behaviors The volumes were from 1977-2004 almost thirty yrs .

  Recently I was at my parents home and noticed there are still volumes from the 50 -60's there . Mom was the JW and has passed ....Dad just never throws anything away . In their basement there are books from the 30's . One day I will be cleaning that all out too .
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  Found something really cute while cleaning out the garage ...

  by troubled mind in

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  going through an old filing cabinet i found pages from a diary i must of kept when the kids were little .

  the first page was entitled 'funny things the kids say '.

  entry from 1985 : ( our son j*** was 4 and his brother t** one .

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  Going through an old filing cabinet I found pages from a diary I must of kept when the kids were little . The first page was entitled 'Funny things the kids say '.

  Entry from 1985 : ( Our son J*** was 4 and his brother T** one .) Today J*** asked me if T*** will grow up to be a girl ?? !

  What funny things do you remember your kids saying ?
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  30 years of bound volumes make it to the curb .....

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our box of watchtower and awake bound volumes have sat out in the garage the past five yrs .

  this week is city wide clean up so we finally toted them to the curb .

  those suckers are heavy !

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  30 years of bound volumes make it to the curb .....

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our box of watchtower and awake bound volumes have sat out in the garage the past five yrs .

  this week is city wide clean up so we finally toted them to the curb .

  those suckers are heavy !

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  Our box of Watchtower and Awake bound volumes have sat out in the garage the past five yrs . This week is city wide clean up so we finally toted them to the curb . Those suckers are heavy ! My husband asked if we should just take them to the hall and leave them on the door step ,but i said NO there is more pleasure leaving them in the garbage pile .Out also went his old cheap suits and my collection of floral below the knee dresses !

  Some young adults came by dumpster diving and asked if we had anything good ....hahaha I told them about the clothes and when they asked about the books I told them they were a collection of literature from a religious cult . When I told them it was JW's the guy asked if he could have them to BURN because he hated 'those guys ' .

  Can't wait to see his GF dressed up in those floral dresses .
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  A Religious Sub-Culture That Many Americans Have Never Heard Of, Yet Which Has Thousands Of Churches Across The Country, Churches That Critics Claim Can Foster Physical And Sexual Abuse, On ABC NEWS' "20/20"

  by whereami in

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  sounds like it's worth watching.. .

  elizabeth vargas' yearlong investigation into the independent fundamental baptist church airs friday, april 8. .

  try to imagine the pain and humiliation of a teenage girl, just 15 years old, who says she was forced to stand in front of a new hampshire church congregation and confess her "sin" of being pregnant.

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  Gary Neal so no wonder why you understand the JW condition so well !
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  A Religious Sub-Culture That Many Americans Have Never Heard Of, Yet Which Has Thousands Of Churches Across The Country, Churches That Critics Claim Can Foster Physical And Sexual Abuse, On ABC NEWS' "20/20"

  by whereami in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sounds like it's worth watching.. .

  elizabeth vargas' yearlong investigation into the independent fundamental baptist church airs friday, april 8. .

  try to imagine the pain and humiliation of a teenage girl, just 15 years old, who says she was forced to stand in front of a new hampshire church congregation and confess her "sin" of being pregnant.

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  Watching this now .........OMG ........it is making me so angry !!!! You could just insert JW and it would be oh so familiar .

  I wonder how many Witnesses will watch this and recognize the similarities ??? Or will most watch and say "Oh how terrible ,see how bad worldly religions are ."
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  Good talk with mum and dad

  by boyzone in

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  she's 77 and both mum and dad have been witnesses for nearly 30 years.

  they've been pretty hardline in their time but just recently things have changed.

  today, to my joy, mum wanted to celebrate her birthday so i bought her a big bunch of flowers and a box of chocolates (yeah i know, not very imaginative) and intend to take them out to lunch tomorrow when i've got more time.

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  Very good experience ,thanks for sharing . Amazing how when people are given the opportunity to use their own conscience ,they come up with more reasonable conclusions than the Society .

  I also am surprised the Elders have not shut down their little study group .....Around here that kind of thing is nipped in the bud pretty quickly .
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  suicide and wts funeral rules

  by diamondiiz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just found out that a husband of an old friend committed a suicide and i was wondering if there are any letters to elders or any wts rules concerning funerals for those who committed suicide.

  i've looked in the elders book and letters to boe index and didn't find anything.

  some posts here say they can have the funeral at the kh and some here said they couldn't hold it there because suicide was involved.

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  In our area the congregations are acutely aware of depression and the terrible effects it can cause . When a young man committed suicide here they had his memorial service at the hall conducted by an Elder . In a close by hall another suicide victim had their service at a funeral home with an Elder conducting . So attitudes have softened and individual circumstances are considered . As others have brought out you are pretty much up to the mercy of the local BOE.
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  Hi, new to this forum. Figured I'd let everyone know about my story before I got involved.

  by JonathanH in

  1. jw
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  if you just want the juicy details where i leave, i'll make disclaimer where it begins, if you just want to know what happened with the elders and organization after i realized it wasn't true, i'll mark that seperately.

  we didn't do jack shit in service, or in the congregation.

  maybe this was how jehovah came about?

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  Welcome Jonathan ,I like my coffee with one sugar one cream ...

  Very interesting story ,thank you for sharing . I hope one day your wife will also be on board,she sounds wonderful . In my family I was the one that quit ....I know the horrible feeling it is to look into the eyes of hurt of someone you dearly love . Over the past five years slowly we have worked through that initial shock ,and now I freely share stories form the forum with my husband . So you just never know .