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Being a JW: Like a Competitive Sport???
by leaving-jws inone thing i hate about being a jw is all of the competition.
i've been actively fading for about several months now.
but, to make the family happy i attended a meeting about a week ago.
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Does God have any one organized religion he supports?
by general inthis is an open ended question meant to iniate a debate.. .
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Something Good we can learn from the Organization
by general ineven though most of us here absolutley despise the organization, there is something we can learn from it and that is how to become sucessful business owners ourselves.
it can not be denied that the organization is a multi-billion dollar corporation as a result of the millions of dollars that pour into the hq each year from donations it receives.
we can study the watchtower's organizational structure and decide what we like about their corporate governance and what we don't like.
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Would you still remember most names of JW's in your congregation?
by JH in.
would you still remember most names of jw's in your congregation if you saw them again.. let it be the children or people your age or older.. gee, even when i was active, i knew less than half the names of brothers and sisters and their kids..
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Your great deep secret
by greendawn intell us one of your great deep secrets that you are willing, and don't mind, to share with other people.
one of my secrets is that when i was 14 years old (and before becoming a jw) i had sex with a girl my age and also her sister who was one year older than me.
fortunately their mother didn't find out though i think she was suspecting that something fishy was going on.
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How many did you get out of the JWs?
by greendawn inhow many jws did you convert to being ex jws or interested persons to being uninterested in the wts?
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A New Voice
by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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1975
by general indo any you ever remember the elders admonishing you to change certain behaviors, attitudes, and actions that could be considered a consience matter if it was stumbling another brother or sister...they always quoted a scripture "he that stumbles the faith of another will perish in gehena" (i think it goes like that...) correct me if i am wrong.. so i have been reading crisis of conscience and i am at the part about the 1975 debacle...my question is if " jehovah is directing the faithful and discreet slave (eka governing body, wts, etc) why would he direct them into making a colossal blunder on when exactly armeggedon was coming, thereby stumbling the faith of those in god and driving them away from him?
" in essence, its almost as if jehovah allowed them to drive the flock away, which according to the wts he is so "desperate to protect" hence the need for disfellowshipping and such.
yes, it can be argued it was the act "of imperfect men" but don't you think jehovah would have given them a flash of "new light" to correct the fallacy in their reasoning before the disastorous ramfications that occurred in 1975?
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Lets give JH our love and support!!
by ButtLight inhe, and his family are going through a tough time right now.
he got a call that his dad has a tumor, and also found something in his liver, believed to be cancer.
i just wanted everyone to let him know we are all here for him and his family!.
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