Merry Magdalene

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  FATIMA ( was Lucy Murdered?)

  by hamsterbait in

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  i have been doing a lot of research on this.. i am convinced that something momentous happened in 1917, and the celestial phenomena of 1938 had something to do with it.. i am also certain that the church got rid of sister lucy, and put an impostor in her place.. so there.. hb.

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  dentures?
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  FATIMA ( was Lucy Murdered?)

  by hamsterbait in

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  i have been doing a lot of research on this.. i am convinced that something momentous happened in 1917, and the celestial phenomena of 1938 had something to do with it.. i am also certain that the church got rid of sister lucy, and put an impostor in her place.. so there.. hb.

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  WT says Thank God we're here for you!

  by ozziepost in

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  2. bible

  appearing as their feature article today on their official website is this from an awake!

  article of last year: .

  true christians shining in the darknessbefore the weeds of false christianity are collected and destroyed, however, jesus illustration indicates something else that must happen.

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  Since Nos made my comment, I will only add

  but they do offer free Bible education.

  and worth every penny! I guess you really do get what you pay for sometimes

  ~Merry
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  "Are you Malcolm ?"

  by AlphaOmega in

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  yesterday i spent ages looking for a pair of glasses that i seldom wear.

  i looked at work, then at home, then in the car.. i checked a bag in the car 3 times !

  i couldn't find them.. this morning i awoke determined to find them.

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  Malcolm...Time...hmmm...All that comes to me is Malcolm McDowell in "Time After Time"...

  

  Hope your mystery leads you somewhere infinitely interesting...

  ~Merry
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  What 1st made you come to JWD??

  by karter in

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  2. experiences

  id been out for a few years my wife brought a computer when she was at the meeting one nite i typed in jws here i am today still learning.

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  i guess we will look at sites we know something about.

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  I was watching Link TV one evening and they showed "Suffer the Little Children" about JW policy in child molestation. I had not been a JW for many years but was still shocked. After that I looked online for Silent Lambs to learn more. The site was down, so I ended up at Rick Ross's for some reason. From there I linked to Randy Watter's site, FreeMinds,, and from there to here...

  ~Merry
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  Was your decision to leave the jw's based upon worldly friends/influences?

  by chicken in

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  hi guys, i'm new to the forum :) i'm a worldly girl and got a friend who is a jw so im quite interested to hear from all of you :) also how did you're worldly friends compare to your jw friends.

  thanx in advance x.

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  Welcome, chicken!

  No worldly friends. Maybe some influences from the multitude of books I read. But mostly the things I was taught from infancy in the JW world just didn't add up right.

  ~Merry
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  Introducing my new avatar

  by coffee_black in

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  it's my son, david.... thought i'd give equal time to my son as well as my daughter... i like to look at them...ok?.

  coffee .

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  My Current Battle

  by KW13 in

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  ranting individuals need not reply.

  i need encouragement and general advice, personal accounts etc.. am i a christian or am i not?

  i've come to a point where i'm not sure whether or not i want to believe in anything, at the moment i'm confused as to whether i am a believer or whether i am someone recovering from indoctrination.. i feel that i've not had a 'pure' opportunity to decide if i want to be a believe and although the thought has been in the back of my mind, the conditioning has made me delay it and my current circumstances and poor health are forcing me to face it - i fear facing it will make me worse because its yet another thing i am not really mentally strong enough to deal with.. is it natural i fear what being an atheist means for me.

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  All I can say is, I find it so important not to force yourself, label yourself or box yourself in. Your choices don't have to be either__ or__. You can't be something you are not, you can't believe something you don't, so please don't think you have to. Give yourself permission just to be right now. Take the pressure off so you will feel free to question and explore the questions with increasing depth. Your feelings and thoughts can go a thousand different ways; they're not chiseled in stone and I don't believe they are meant to be. It's ok to grow and change.

  Some may think this is rather rich coming from a "believer," but this attitude is what made it impossible for me to remain a JW long ago and impossible for me not to become a Muslim more recently. But I didn't force anything, in spite of my impossible desire to know, understand and be able to do everything completely and perfectly and all at once. Believing certain things doesn't mean I have stopped questioning. It doesn't mean I don't constantly re-think what I believe and why. It doesn't mean I don't struggle. I do. And I think that makes for a richer, truer life.

  Best wishes to you, Karl (and you too, the Borg). It is possible to care passionately about exploring the issues without worrying yourself to death over them.

  ~Merry
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  Fun Songs.... share your favorites

  by Scully in

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  here's a favorite of mine: escape (pina colada song).

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvdhzwk7cs8.

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  Merry Magdalene

  mahna mahnahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7XOFfjiL-U

  ~Merry
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  did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation?

  by looloo in

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  2. child-abuse

  if so, did it bother you that he had been reprooved and forgiven rather than reported to the police?

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  This is just horrible.

  I think when the Society said that incidents are rare among JWs they meant rarely acknowledged and properly handled.

  I believe there were 2 in the small congregation I grew up in. When I was older I heard that grandchildren of both of them said they had been molested by them. Nothing was done about it that I know of and I think both are dead now.

  One of those molested was a friend of mine. She told me that when she told her dad (an elder and frequent assembly drama and other parts participant) what his dad had done to her, he slapped her face and told her never to say anything like that again. Her private family life was a real horror story but they appeared to be the ideal JW family, and that's what's important, right?

  The other accused molester once loaned me a book, slipped it to me quietly when i was a young teen, saying it was something he thought i would enjoy. It was a very violent and sexually explicit account of a young man's time in prison. *double-u tee eff* I was a bit shocked. So much so that I didn't even feel I could tell anyone about it. It was much later that I heard what his grandkids said about him.

  ~Merry