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  Need book

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  hi guys, your a wealth of knowledge .

  i want to find the books where charles t russell claims the pyramid shows when armaggedon is on the door step.. i live in manchester uk...where i go to/write to/e-mail?

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  Your Coping Stategies

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  when you left the jw's you most likely faced problems and had some coping strategies or did certain things to help you keep going.. what were your coping strategies?.

  for me i think i surrounded myself with my real family and i got some friends that i knew would stand if i fell, and if they fell i made sure they knew i would stand, loyalty got me through.. also i began attending church after a year, obviously i was cautious of what i was stepping into but it worked out very well

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  Raymond Franz

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  raymond franz was a member of the governing body and was a jw for many years till he left.. he wrote a book which provides a great insight into jw's but what is really good about it is he isn't bitter when he comes across and so far i am really enjoying the read.. also in there are copies of letters sent from him to the society or the other way around and i recommend anyone who can find it should read it!.

  http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/cocbr.htm.

  i am only just into it and i am hooked.

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  Sad and True

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  ah, i am 17 and my mum is just 40.. she hasn't planned for her pension, she won't dedicate to a proper job or anything though i am trying to push her into anything.. the thing is, i don't just want her out of her faith, i want her to have a future where she can live and retire, she can't work forever and what if she got sick?.

  ah, it drives me crazy what the witnesses do, maybe one day she might wake up, get angry with the wbt society and sue them!

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  As an Ex-JW what have you learned?

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  i have had to mature quickly after leaving the witnesses i was almost 'lost' and spent sometime being stupid.. i have learnt that forcing religion on to people is wrong, if they don't see something themselves then its not true or honest.

  they need to decide everything themselves.. parents are also in a position where they need to be careful, they take their child to a religion that affects the child in so many ways, it ruined my childhood and its now a rod for my mums back..

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  Are apostates bitter?

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  for anyone out there who think apostates are bitter, let me tell you...no they are not, and they're not apostates.

  that is a label from jw's.. firstly, my story.

  http://stjohnsmossley.org/karltestimony.htm.

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  Any ideas?

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  i want to get some 1914 watchtowers, where can i go?

  i am in the uk...

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  I asked and down came the wall

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  my aunt is a lesbian.

  i am no longer a witness but i wanted to see how bulletproof jw beliefs are.. so jehovah is against homosexuals and they will be destroyed at armaggedon but with his power homosexuals can go to meetings and stop sinning, was my mums explanation....erm.... people with a different genetic make-up who can't help being what they are will be able to stop these feelings before the new order, in that case its a miracle, jehovah doesn't do miracles right now....that's something alright.

  ok now how on earth are they supposed to cut off physical emotions?

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  JW literature

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  recovering from being a jw is hard as hell, all your structure and life is built on study, ministry and meetings.. leaving is like someone after stacking up boxes to make steps, pulling the bottom box away...but the people who make it through become strong people and rebuild their lives, make new friends and move on.. what i want to ask is could you read literature by/for jw's now you have left?

  i think yes, my reason being is i know that they play with information and then change ideas, there is evidence of this in older literature.. as for current literature i wouldn't bury my head, yes i don't agree with what they say but i am not afraid to point out things.

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  JW's and you

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  when you meet a jw at your door, what is your response?

  do you invite them in and try and convert them?

  (i have been tempted but it would be an argument not a discussion.

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