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  Calling Any Northern Territory Lurkers...

  by brinjen in

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  2. friends

  come on, i know you're out there.

  we have kh's here, so there's gotta be a few ex-dubs from the nt lurking here...

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  penny2

  Have you thought about coming back to SA, Brin? There's a couple of us here.
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  My memory of the 1975 fiasco (born in 1970)

  by Lady Zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  drew sagan posted this fine thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160876/1.ashx in which a few people remarked that hardly anyone under the age of 40 even knows about the 1975 failed prediction.. i was born in 1970 and i do remember the 1975 fiasco.

  for what it's worth, here are my memories and how it was explained to me.. late in 1968 my parents decided to have me because, like many other jws, they thought that i would never have to deal with the world or go to school.

  they carefully planned to have me during the year of 1970 because they didn't want to go through armagedon with an infant, so they figured if i was 5 years old, i would be old enough to run, feed myself, and at least know enough to take shelter from the elements or hide.

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  penny2

  Lady Zombie, that's very interesting. In Australia, rather than getting into debt, it was more common to see JWs selling their home to live in a caravan and pioneer until the "end of the system."

  It was also frowned upon to continue schooling after the age of 15 (when you could legally leave school).
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  Aussie outback Witnessing experience! Have you done isolated territory!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  driving for miles between houses...sometimes i would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting.

  " why bother since my car was as old as i was .....20 years.

  people that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us!

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  penny2

  Yes, also in South Australia. We'd spend more time checking out derelict houses than talking to people.
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  how do you prove to a JW that they they were wrong about 1975?I

  by paybacktime19 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i need written proof in their own publications ..

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  penny2

  If you've got the Watchtower Library CD (most current JWs would have it), do a search on '1975'. Check the references from Watchtower mags pre 1974 - you will find quite a lot still on there.
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  The contagion is spreading - lots of people quietly leaving JWs

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from reading reports on jwd it seems that many are in the process of quietly leaving the watchtower organization.. it's almost become disease like - and spreading rapidly, even acutely in lands where access to information is greater.. people who i've known for years have suddenly disappeared - it reads like a stephen king novel.. what have you noticed?.

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  penny2

  I'd been contacted all of a sudden by three or four people who were in the process of leaving or had recently left.

  whitman, I'm so glad to hear that this is happening in Australia too!

  penny
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  People who make the truth EXCITING!

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been fading for years now and attend meetings very rarely these days.

  but something happened recently to make me think about going regularly again.

  a couple have returned to my congregation who used to be special pioneers here twenty years ago.

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  penny2

  We asked them to come over and visit us next week and I am looking forward to it.

  It will be interesting to read how the visit goes. Will you bring up any issues?
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  Hi

  by mask in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi im from new zealand & im 12 i was wondering if there is anyone in there teens here?

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  thanx .

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  penny2

  I don't think there's anyone here as young as 12, but welcome anyway, mask. Do you have a JW background?
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  Would you die for your beliefs?

  by purplesofa in

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  do you feel so strongly about a particular belief that you would make a stand for it through death?.

  what belief is it?.

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  penny2

  I won't give up my family for my non-beliefs.

  I guess that means I wouldn't die for my beliefs.

  I would die for my family.
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  Calling Any Northern Territory Lurkers...

  by brinjen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  come on, i know you're out there.

  we have kh's here, so there's gotta be a few ex-dubs from the nt lurking here...

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  penny2

  There is at least one ex-JW in Darwin apart from you Brin. He has his own website.
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  Are you now involved in a different religion or structured group?

  by feenx in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was browsing another post where wtwizard implied membership in another group, and was asked what it was.

  that got me thinking...since coming out the society, has anyone embraced another organized religion or group, public or secret?

  if so, what is it, and what made you join and continue membership?

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  penny2

  We are a support group that meet without an agenda at a restaurant
  once a month.

  That would be nice!

  But religion? No, never again!

  penny