Topics Started by These3Words

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If You Don't Believe In Jehovah's Organization You Can't Believe In Jehovah
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
so said my brother to my mother the other day while she was in the hospital.

he asked her why i wasn't coming back to the "truth".

she suggested that i wanted to enjoy a worldly life of fun.
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Keep doing this in remembrance of me
by totalee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
why is it ok to celebrate a wedding anniversary but not a birthday?

i can understand christmas, easter, halloween and valentines day but birthdays, thanksgiving, mother's day and father's day don't have religious or murderous origins.

also, at the last supper, jesus told his disciples to "keep doing this in remembrance of me".
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Good cop, Bad Cop...JW elder style
by Dune in
1. jw
2. friends
well i'm still a witness so i was out in field service yesterday with this brother.

our conversation hit the usual stuff cars, television, movies.

then he went on to relate how about a month ago, the two head elders (head as in, the other elders really dont matter)took him into the back room and fryed him.
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I have a couple of questions about the bible..Please help! Elders got upset
by DavidChristopher in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i tried to ask elders and they got upset with me.

if bad associations spoil useful habits, why did jesus do it?

why is nothing new ever discovered from the bible?
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Were your parents hypocrits?
by Mysterious in
1. jw
2. friends
did your parents hold you up to higher jw standards than they held themselves or force you to live up to things they never did if they were raised in the truth?.

i know when my mother was a teenager they used to watch bewitched all the time and no one took it seriously.

they never missed an episode.
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What are you REALLY like?
by jwfacts in
1. jw
2. experiences
it is strange chatting on the net, not knowing what everyone is really like.

do you pretend to be someone you are not?

i find it hard to know how to take people here sometimes, as words do not convey as much without seeing the facial expressions and hearing the tonal inflections.
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True happiness is a cold beer
by wombat in
1. social
2. humour
son was recently door-knocked by a pair of sombre j.ws.

who began by emphasising what a bad state the world is in and asked him to agree.

his response was "bull #hit".
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Using God's name in vain
by These3Words in
1. jw
2. friends
i"ve always wondered why jw's use god's first name, "jehovah" if that's what his first name really is, and is spelled correctly?

people usually don't call their father's by their first name.isn't that disrespectful?

shouldn't we call him "heavenly father?that way it applies to whatever higher power you believe in?.
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Looking for some advice
by MuadDib in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm a young man raised in the jws, been meaning to get the hell out of dodge for a few years now (basically ever since starting a history degree and learning why the jw conception of history, science, and indeed of reality is so utterly nonsensical, in addition to having discovered girls and fun).

i have no qualms about leaving the organization, i don't care what the elders or anyone else think about my decision - with the exception of my family.

i love my family deeply and i know that my decision will really hurt them, especially my mother (a full-time pioneer), and this is making me hesitate to do what i know needs to be done in addition to causing me a lot of worry and stress.
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Hello Everyone From a Newby
by Apostate Kate in
1. jw
2. friends
i just wanted to introduce myself.

i have read many threads here for several years, but never made a commitment to stick around.

tonight i understand why.