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  2006 District Convention Schedule (compact)

  by blondie in

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  http://24.214.147.153/dc/20061.htm

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  11:10 Accept Jehovah's Authority - Reject an Independent Spirit = Yes, dont think for yourself. Be good and put all those evil doubts to the back of your mind. Even the ones about the 2 witness policy & also, dont give asecond thought to letting your child heomorage to death. If you have doubts about these cruel & insane policies then you are spiritualy weak & have went down the same independant path as Adam & Eve. Now go purify yourself you evil sinner.

  11:30 DRAMA: To Whose Authority do You Submit? = Obey the elders instructions, even when they simply dont make sense. Also, read all our re-hashed articles in the tower and dont even think about questioning it, even when every natural fibre in your body disagrees with some points. Do this and you will be submiting to Jehovahs/FDS/elders/jw parents, blah, blah, blah.......authority.

  Intermision = Go and have some encouragement/gossip
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  End Dependent Mind

  by EnDependentMind in

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  "it is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country [religion] so distrustful of the independent mind.

  james baldwin .

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  Is anyone else thinking CULT, CULT, CULT!!!!?

  Yes
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  Studying the 'deep' books - it might be the final straw.

  by jambon1 in

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  i can remember studying the isaiah books 1 & 2 back-to-back.

  during this time i simply never wanted to go to the book study.

  it was all so repetative and boring.

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  For the record, I dont think they will do a new book.
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  Studying the 'deep' books - it might be the final straw.

  by jambon1 in

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  i can remember studying the isaiah books 1 & 2 back-to-back.

  during this time i simply never wanted to go to the book study.

  it was all so repetative and boring.

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  Sorry for jumping the gun folks.

  I just read the other post about this and it says much about the same thing. Great minds...........haha.

  J
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  Studying the 'deep' books - it might be the final straw.

  by jambon1 in

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  i can remember studying the isaiah books 1 & 2 back-to-back.

  during this time i simply never wanted to go to the book study.

  it was all so repetative and boring.

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  jambon1

  I can remember studying the Isaiah books 1 & 2 back-to-back. During this time I simply never wanted to go to the book study. It was all so repetative and boring. You felt that all the time spent in relation to the book study was a waste of time.

  I never saw the end of the Daniel book as I duly exited the truth half way through it. But someone I know commented that they were "soooo glad it was over", when it came to a finish. How will this person deal with 2 years of the UN book?

  IMO, this will be the beginning of the end for some in the truth.

  Deep books = research = Internet = UN scandal/dates = doubts = the end.

  Well done the GB, you may have just hammered in the last nails in the coffin.
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  I can't believe they still include crap like this on the CDROM

  by XBEHERE in

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  *** yy chap.

  5 p. 39 par.

  9 masturbation and homosexuality ***.

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  One elder actually stated in a comment during the Sunday Watchtower study that masturbation causes blindness and even conjectured that people who wear sunglasses are likely masturbators.

  It is laughable!

  I wear sunglasses but I`ve never fiddled with my plonker for a while!? What does that make me? A closet homosexual willie fiddler who is pondering coming out?
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  I can't believe they still include crap like this on the CDROM

  by XBEHERE in

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  *** yy chap.

  5 p. 39 par.

  9 masturbation and homosexuality ***.

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  In actual fact, if you play with your willie you will go blind.

  I dont know how I managed to read this thread btw!

  Get me my white stick!

  HAHA - what a load of old single fish.
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  How Would A "Good" JW View Any One Of Us Here?

  by minimus in

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  if a good standing witness ever knew we even might frequent this type of board or that we could be negative against the "truth", how would they react toward us?

  ?---------how are jws supposed to act toward those of us who have left but are not officially judicially removed from the congregation??

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  To your last question - I dont think there is an official stance to take but you can bet your arse that if you started spouting 'contrary talk' or just said how you really feel, it would get around the circuit like wildfire and you would eventually be avoided.

  I have confided in 2 individuals about why I have left - my doubts and dilemas. They are still really nice to me but keep a safe distance. One of them agrees with me so I suppose he does`nt want to hear it if he is still living the JW life.
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  Is this a trend? More repression == more lethargy...

  by james_woods in

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  i have been thinking about a linkage between several interesting threads over the past week or so: here is what i think we can derive -.

  * recently, a thread asks if jw are assimilating more into the world.

  consensus: publishers, yes for many.

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  jambon1

  I agree with what you say.

  If you go into any JW household a few hours before a meeting night you will see that most are simply weighed down with getting to the meetings. Especially if there are kids to battle with. Brings back very bad memories for me when I think about meeting days.

  It all basically added up to this; should get to meeting - dont have the energy - dont feel like going - decide not to go - feel bad all night because you have not gone to the meeting, so on and so forth, week in, week out. What a dull & desperate existance.

  BTW - Go to the same JW households on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday and see them all a bit more laid back and enjoying themselves = no meeting night.
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  Father's Day

  by pratt1 in

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  first, i hope all of you fathers out there had a great day yesterday with your families.. i had a great day with my wife and daughter, but i would like to share my experience with my dub mother and unbelieving dad yesterday.. i met my mom and dad at my cousin's home whose wife recently had surgery.

  my mom and dad spent the day with them preparing sunday's meal and meals for the next few days.

  as a side note my cousin was a dub in his teens but he left the borg at 16, because he wanted a normal life.. .

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  jambon1

  After quite a number of years in the org, I left recently. None of my family were ever JW`s. They have sacrificed a lot of occasions over the years which I now feel quite bad about. It dawned on me after I started thinking 'out of the box', that the birthday of your child is a very special thing. My parents had to subdue these natural feelings on my birthday for years. Theirs too, obviously went unnoticed by myself. Now I feel there is nothing wrong with acknowledging the birth of someone special.

  So, recently I sent my sister a card on her birthday. Like your experience, she was moved to tears. I feel that giving cards etc is a way of saying "I love you, I think about you a lot & I`m glad you are alive and part of my life". For years the foregoing has went unsaid by myself.

  Being a JW puts distance between you and your worldly family. They feel it and I think, are saddened by it. Meanwhile you stroll along in JW life and give their feelings little consideration, just as you have to numb yourself to a lot of other things in life.

  These are all things which you can now rectify. Enjoy and have a good life in freedom.

  J