For me it started with my work in home maintenance. I had a number of sweet little old ladies as customers. These people were religious and were so good to us. They would make sandwiches or offer us cold drinks, and really show sincere concern for our well being. I thought they were far more righteous than I could ever hope to be. Why would a loving god destroy them if they were not JW. It really made me assess my beliefs. That is when I started having doubts, and it grew from there.
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What made us different?
by Lo-ru-hamah ini am wondering, what made all of us different?
to explain.
obviously most all of us here were at one time brainwashed and endoctrinated with the rest of the rank and file of jw's.
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Do You Believe In The Bible At All?
by minimus indo you believe god used men to write his thoughts?
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ferret
Yes
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Peter Osgood died today
by bigmouth inaged 59. ossie the wizard was a footballing hero to people of a certain generation all over the world.
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it's hard to imagine childhood heroes becoming old.
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ferret
Who is Peter Osgood?
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Do you have a nice hand writing?
by JH ingee, i'm losing it.. .
i hardly write anymore.
i just type with my keyboard and print it out with the printer.
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ferret
Lousy!
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DID YOU DO FIELD SERVICE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD?
by badboy inone notices that some jws don't seem to do fs in their neighbourhood,is this common?
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ferret
Always took out rural territory. Houses were much further apart and I did not know anybody there. Never would do my own neighborhood.
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JW Dropouts
by unclebruce inin the mid 1960's a non-jw uncle of mine was at high school and enthused about the woodwork, electonics and metalwork he was enjoying.
when i asked mother about it she said "oh don't be silly, armageddon will be here long before you go to high school".
as it was i enjoyed high school but left to pioneer as soon as i legally could in 1972 (aged 15 and just in time to pioneer before the big a).
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Yes unclebruce: my grand father thought that he would not grow old before the big A, also my parents both deceased, I am now 67 years old and I heard that when I was a child. What bulls$$$.
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Where's Crumpet?
by slugga in.
anyone seen or heard from crumpet recently, i know she was having a bit of a hard time recently.... matt
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Hang in there crumpet,
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Did you give lots of money to the Watchtower?
by JH ini didn't put much money in the contribution box.
just buying a bigger car was my way of contributing financially.
i also was generous with the ones in need.. as far as the watchtower's contribution boxes were concerned, they didn't recieve much from me.
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Very little financially.
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So, I'm gonna be a daddy!
by Nosferatu infor those of you who read my continuing series about a girl i dated, i mentioned at the end of it that i'm gonna be a daddy!
i'm so excited!.
the wife is on week 8.. i'm trying to figure out how my parents, especially my father is going to take the news when i finally tell them.
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Congratulations NOS and MRS.
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Elders teach "Don't raise your hat to a lady! - it's worldly."
by ozziepost inback when i was a boy in the 1950s many men wore hats and so did my father.. one evening at the kh he was called in to the backroom by the elders for a 'meeting after the meeting',.
his crime?
he had been seen raising his hat when greeting women!!!!.
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Do they dictate what color toilet tissue can be used. Don't tell me there is a wt article on it.