I have never understood how relatives of someone who is df'd can speak to them one day and close them off completely the next day. As long as it benefits them, then it's okay and they can find a way to justify it. But, as soon as you lose your worth or value, then you are out like yesterday's garbage. I have heard that the WTBS have said that you can talk to df'd family membrs as long as it doesn't deal with spiritual matters. This policy seems to vary from one location to the next. Once again, this shows the unity of information that the WTBS puts out to its members.
karnage
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I lost my parents today cause of the Dubs...Uggggh!!
by FreedomFrog ineverything has been going well for me for awhile until tonight.
mom calls and announces she can no longer talk with me.
i'm sad because i don't get to see mom and dad or my little neice that's sierra's age.
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karnage
Welcome back! The lost sheep has found his way home.
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Did anyone ever rebel to play school sports
by Billzfan23 inhow many of you who grew up in the truth truly loved a sport and fought hard against your jw parents to get to play it?
post your experience here.
my determination to play come hell or high water led to my mother turning me over to the state as a youngster, which then lead to foster care and freedom until i foolishly came back to the borg as an adult.
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karnage
I played basketball, football, and ran track. My dad was on the verge of being df'd, so I asked him instead of my mother when it came time to signing the permission forms. When I was a senior in high school and I was playing football, I was studying to be baptized at the time. I caught hell at every study for my being on the team. 1 Cor. 15:33 was the theme scripture every waking moment of the study. Eventually, I gave up the quest for being baptized and continued on playing sports in my final year of high school.
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Merry Christmas to All on this Forum
by love2Bworldly injust wanted to wish everyone a merry christmas!
hope someday all who post here feel comfortable celebrating fun pagan holidays.
it's nice to be together with family and friends on holidays.. .
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karnage
Merry Christmas... Happy holidays and Happy New Year's to all!
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What if you refused to be disfellowshipped?
by Billzfan23 inwhat if you were df'ed for apostasy - yet you continued to show up at meetings with a big smile, slapping folks on the back and shaking hands with them, raising your hand to comment on every paragraph, even being visibly annoyed when you are not called on?
file a restraining order?
lock the door?
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karnage
Wow! They would call the cops on you?! That is a real Christian thing to do! I'm sure that would send a real nice image to those in attendance at the meeting. Can't imagine what I would think if I were in attendance for the first time and I saw something like that happening.
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95 percent of Americans had premarital sex
by JH inhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/health/12/19/premarital.sex.ap/index.html.
reality check: 95 percent of americans had premarital sexnew york (ap) -- more than nine out of 10 americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study.
the high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.. "this is reality-check research," said the study's author, lawrence finer.
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karnage
Sometimes, you have to take the car out on a test drive before buying it! Just because someone may seem compatible outside the bedroom doesn't mean that they will be inside the bedroom. I am sure that we have all figured this out by now though. I am part of the 95%.
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Guess what happened with the new CO?
by MinisterAmos ini'm not particularly fond of the way that the bros fawn over the ranking members when they visit.
after all, there is no rank in the jws right?
that's what they say anyway.. so i rebel and don't go at all when the co or do come to visit.
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karnage
That was a GREAT story!! That is what I call thinking quick on your feet.
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Child dies because he did not want to go to the meeting
by VanillaMocha73 inhttp://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16252892.htm
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karnage
No matter how you put this... this was a true tragedy. Imagine what the spin would be if the autistic child had this happen while in the Kingdom Hall?!
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My gift to my hubby
by MsMcDucket inas many of you know, my husband is a disabled veteran.
the truck that we have wasn't working out with his disability.
we had a lift on the back, but it was taking more energy for him to use then he had.
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karnage
That's excellent! Congratulations to him and kudos to you!
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Have You Been Ambushed?
by karnage ini was at a gas station the other day, and while i was pumping the fuel into my suv, i noticed a man standing at the far end of the gas station.
i looked over at him, and he was dressed in khaki pants and a white shirt with a tie.
i continued pumping my gas and then all of a sudden, the guy was behind me.
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karnage
Thanks for the warm welcome. I have been around for quite sometime, but this was just something that I couldn't keep quiet about. Hortensia, your little experience made me smile. It seems that no matter how remote you "think" that you are, they will find a way to get to you. I remember the times when I would go out in service when I was in my early 20's. I never thought of chasing anyone down to offer the "Awake" or "Watchtower" magazines. It's almost like it is an act of desperation. Whatever happened to being tactful?!