Posts by leftbelow

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Firefight at Fort Stewart!

by Bendrr in

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this past weekend i went down to fort stewart.

georgia state defense force had been asked to supply troops to assist in the training for national guard preparing to deploy to afghanistan.

our job was to play the role of afghans and taliban.. gsdf has our own barracks at fort stewart.

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My baby brother is stationed at Ft. Stewart but presently injured (combat exercise) Very cool story. I will have to ask him about it

Thanks

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Share Your Blessings: What Has God Done for You?

by leavingwt in

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"count your many blessings, name them one by one.

" (words of the song).

i'm interested in hearing from believers.

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I will make this one personal being as I have temporally put the telling of my story on hold.

Earlier this year my marriage was in shambles (due to my bitterness over the WT). I was withdrawn and very lonely. I prayed harder then I have ever prayed before and didn't even know what I was praying for I just knew I had to have a change in my life. I was drifting toward either being agnostic or atheist. But I had always believed in God and I knew I had to give it one more try.

Someone at my wifes work told her about the Church she attended and my wife knew I needed something and I could never go back to being a JW. So she suggested WE (this was big because she was still trying to be a Witness) go together to this girls Church. It was uncomfortable at first but when the young (he is only 29) Pastor of this church came out I felt like for the first time in a long time I was hearing the word of God. He openly encouraged people to ask the tough questions about God and religion. And I ask soem tough ones no one seemed to mind. It was amazing.

I was home. I for the first time knew what it was to have a relationship with God and not an Organization. I began to pray regularly again and my marriage improved mostly because through this new relationship with God I could let go of the bitterness and anger. But also my wife found that her own view of God had been distorted by the WTBTS. And she goes with me every Sunday. So one of the blessing's was me finding my faith in God again. And another is me and my wife worshiping together again.

After about a month of attending something truly incredible happen. After 4 miscarriages and 8 year of trying to have children we were again pregnant. Now what makes this so amazing is we had been told after my wife had an ectopic pregnancy that we would never conceive again. I am not the guy who believes in miracles but please let me have this one. We are 23 weeks and everything is looking good. I can't wait to hold my little girl in my arms. That will be the ultimate blessing. I may not deserve it but I sure do want it.

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WATCHTOWER 15/10/09 RE. D/F'D FRIENDS

by BluesBrother in

this is the 4th study article, to be studied christmas week as it happens.

title - "maintaining friendships in a loveless world".

para 2 "today, what a pleasure it is to be associated with a worldwide organization whose members follow the pattern set by first century christians.

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That is the biggest pile of horse crap (I made my comment PG) Because it has nothing to do with serving Jehovah its all about serving the WBTS

Damn it these people piss me off. The GB mostly but lets not forget all those power hungry self serving elders who support this tripe

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Grief & Relapse for Ex-Cultists

by rebel8 in

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free download .

a la gorski and kubler-ross.

see if you can relate to it from this perspective..

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Thanks

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Everybody say hi to my husband...

by cognac in

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because we have a stinken spy on our hands!

oh, and he wants to let everyone know that he is unbreakable in the truth.

as a matter of fact, hes going out in service both saturday and sunday.

leftbelow

Welcome and let me say I was also a Sat. and Sunday Field Service guy. One of the few in my hall. I really did enjoy Field Service (I know I'm wierd)

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How many of you knew about the"Jesus is not your Mediator" teaching when you were JWs??

by Lady Liberty in

hi everyone.... just curious how many of you knew when you were active, about the societys official teaching regarding jesus the mediator.

i was floored to find in my research, that they teach jesus is the mediator for the 144,000 only.

and it is only by our association with them that we might have salvation.. i don't know about you guys but i was blown away when i learned they taught this.

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I didn't know until I came here.

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My Assignment For Ray Franz

by sacolton in

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today i met the widow of ed dunlap, who was of the watchtower writing committee and a great thinker.

he found that the watchtower was not in harmony with the scriptures, so they disfellowshipped him.

when ray franz was disfellowshipped, it was ed who took him in and gave ray a job and a place to stay.

leftbelow

Wow very nice. God bless her and you for helping her

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Sometimes I feel like I am going crazy with the WT teachings

by verystupid77 in

i went to the meetings this week because we have the co's visit.

i have not been in about five months.

oh my god some of the stuff you just cannot make this stuff up.. ok so like many of us i feel that there have been things done that are wrong in the "truth".

leftbelow

Your not crazy, they are!

But it's hard to sit there and listen to that crap and then realize (at least for me) that I used to believe that. The further away you get the more bizarre it seems.

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Kids say the craziest things

by leftbelow in

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my nephew age 4 (son of my jw sister) was being encouraged to get ready for meeting by my crazy kool-ade drinking jw mom.. nephew- i don't want to go.

my mom- why.. nephew- i don't like the kingdom hall.. my mom- oh of course you like the kingdom hall.

my mom was not pleased.