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  What is Jacko's status as a JW????

  by mrd83 in

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  i know he was raised as a witness and he wrote the apology letter(which was published in the watchtower) as well as giving the wts a boatload of money($$$millions$$$) over the fallout of his thriller album.

  recently he proclaimed his faith in jehovah as if he is still a jw and his father who kicked the crap out of his kids(requisite to raising a fine jw family) as well as his mother are attending court.

  what is this guys status??

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  freedom96

  In 1987 Michael Jackson da'd himself with a quick, short statement.
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  Please Keep whyamihere & her little son in your thoughts today

  by HadEnuf in

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  2. friends

  hello everybody...my daughter (in-law), whyamihere/brooke, has been at the hospital all day with her little boy, 1 yr. 4 months old...who has had such a bad case of the flu that they had to hook him up to an iv for fluid.

  he was sick all last week and then was getting better...then took a turn for the worse yesterday.

  can't keep anything down.

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  freedom96

  Best wishes to all.
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  Watchtower and Awake in the waiting room

  by kj in

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  2. medical

  i found a couple of nice wt and awake magazines in the waiting room at work today.

  i decided to dress them up with some flourescent green labels with the freeminds.org, silentlambs.org, and quotes' website.

  hope the jw who left them will come back and check them out .

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  freedom96

  I like the idea of the stickers, or references to good anti-witness websites.

  The general public needs to know that the WTS is a powerful, destructive cult and should be avoided at all costs.
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  Relationship with God

  by Carmel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  on another thread someone defined spirituality as your relationship with god.

  i would contend that anyone that thinks he/she has a "relationship" with the deity is fooling themselves.

  first, you can't imagine an unknowable essence and second, if you try you are dilusional.. any thoughts?.

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  freedom96

  I think to each their own. I don't have to justify my faith to anyone.

  I will not judge others for what they do or don't believe.
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  What was your most embarrassing moments in the " feild service"?

  by new boy in

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  2. friends

  i know its an old thread, but its fun and educational.. i had many, but the one that come to mind the most is.

  the orgy!!!.

  it was southern calif. about 1969. i was 20 years old.

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  freedom96

  Mine was when I was giving the prayer before field service, and out of nowhere I started praying to Jesus instead of Jehovah!
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  Is there a slowdown in congregation get togethers?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i was just reading thelisteners post from an earlier thread, and it got me thinking just how little time dubs have to associate togther.. it seems to be more and more the fact, that the only time dubs see each other to "associate" - if you can even call it that - is at meetings and conventions.. even at conventions though, the dubs are told not to go outside for lunch, regardless of whether it is a nice day of not.

  (note, this may not be true at all conventions).

  where is a jehovah's witness supposed to get this period of refreshment so he can do more?

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  freedom96

  When I was growing up, once or twice a year for several years they had a congregation picnic. As a kid, I so looked forward to those. But, they became less frequent, and now, I don't think they even do it.

  I attended 3 other congregations in my young adulthood, and I never heard of any large get together.
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  It's Proof! Why We Can Trust the FDS (The OD Book Chap 3)

  by ezekiel3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the new organized to do jehovah?s will (od) pages 18, 19. this is from a new chapter (3) in the book ?trusting the faithful and discreet slave?.

  why trust "the faithful and discreet slave".

  there are many reasons to have complete trust in the slave class.

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  freedom96

  Sad that most witnesses will read that and not even question it.
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  Update -- wife given permission new union without my permission

  by belu in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  since my last post i found out that my wife lied to get a "vow of faithfullness with another man.

  in march of 2004 she asked me to sign an agreement document to give to a lawyer in order to get our marriage annulled.

  i agreed only on her promise not to give it to the congregation to be with another man but only for her lawyer.

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  freedom96

  My ex wife wanted to get remarried. Long story short, she told lies about me. Now, in reality, I don't care what she does, but I did not like being lied about. So I contacted her PO and her book study conductor.

  They flat out told me, that though there was no proof whatsoever, simply the fact that I was inactive, and she was, they would take her side every time.

  As far as they were concerned, she was free to marry in the hall.

  The bottom line is, people are going to do what they want, when they want, and to whom they want, and there is nothing we can do about it.
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  Hi There

  by Quentin in

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  2. friends

  parents became jws 1953. i grew up under the old congregation regime, congregation overseer, assistant overseer and theocratic ministry school overseer, along with assorted ms. father df 1956 reinstated 1962. i was baptized ?63.

  in 1972 was being groomed for ms position in new kh until i married a girl who was?gasp!!!

  ?only an ?interested person?, that is to say she was ?just studying?, divorced too (another gasp!!

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  freedom96

  Welcome!
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  when you were babtized and dedicated did you feel a void?

  by swiftbreeze in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this has always troubled me:.

  i was studying to be babtized although i was raised around the "truth" i still had to have an official study.

  so i was taught that i had to go to jehovah in prayer stating my desire to be dedicated and babtized.

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  freedom96

  I just wanted to get it over with. Never was in my heart, to be baptized as a witness. But back then, I was getting married, and in order to get married in the hall and with everyones blessing, I had to be baptized first.