Ironhead

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  For those who became JW's as adults.

  by lowden in

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  were we gullible?

  weak?

  lonely?

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  Ironhead

  I fell for the bs also. I basically hated religions involvement in war, and I can never forget serving in the forces the military chaplains emphasising that if don't believe in god, you won't get his blessing during battle. The fact that the duds as an organisation are neutral, and was searching for god, made me listen to them.
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  What about Sex and violence in the Bible?

  by Gill in

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  awake october 2006. what about sex and violence in the bible?.

  'what is the difference between the violence and sex shown on tv and that described in the bible?

  the references to sex and violence in the bible are written to instuct, not to entertain.

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  Ironhead

  I was thinking the same Lowden. That account sickens and upsets me every time I read it. That levite was a stinking coward.
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  How many 'real" friends did you ever really have in ther "truth'

  by The Lone Ranger in

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  sure we got to know a lot of people, we knew a lot more people then the average person, but how many real friends did we ever have?

  a friend that we could trust, that we could confine in.

  i can say i had just one, bro x and even then i still had to be careful, bro x is an elder now and he tells me that im the only real friend hes ever had, he cant freely talk to anyone.

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  Ironhead

  ONE! I'm married to her.
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  Disco Banned?

  by Wordly Andre in

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  i am a bit too young to remember this but, was disco really banned by the jw's??

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  Ironhead

  There's an Awake article sometime in 1978. I can't remember what month, but I specifically remembered that they were going on that disco music was associated with homosexuality. i have to find that awake in the attic, my CD-ROM is playing up.
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  One Word [FLUFF]

  by chuckie77 in

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  ok everyone,.

  give us one (maximum 2) word(s) that best describes yourself.... for me, its adventuresome

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  Ironhead

  Fun-loving.
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  DID YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ELDERS IN YOUR CONGREGATIONS?

  by badboy in

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  any takers?

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  Ironhead

  I've served in 3 different congregations. In my first congregation, all but one elder in that cong was great. Really genuine loving brothers. Practiced what they preached. The second cong, P.O. was a haughty bully boy. Many moved out because of him, it was in that hall when my problems began. Last congregation, one elder, who wanted to get into my wife's knickers, spread nasty rumours about me, BOE believed them until the truth came out. Yet that jerk is still an elder. I can't wait to tell you all about this, but since my wife's family is still in the org, I'm not saying much at the moment until she approves.
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  Remember those toolbox-like briefcases some of the brothers had?

  by WingCommander in

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  i bet some still carry them.

  you all know what i'm talking about; there were at least 3 brothers in the congregation that had one.

  thank god my father wasn't one of them.

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  Ironhead

  I know one elder who took his to work. I don't know why. Everyone in the office use to say that he thinks his management, walking around with that large thing. To annoy him, I hid it one morning, it took him hours to find it.
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  Kingdom News 37 sneek preview

  by Midget-Sasquatch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  well i setup an account at reexaminer.org eager to make a contribution but find that uploading was disabled (for now anyway).. so here's this year's supposedly hard-hitting expose on "false religion" aka kingdumb news 37. i hope these links work for all of you.

  http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5070/kn37p1wf7.jpg.

  http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4599/kn37p2rn0.jpg.

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  Ironhead

  Excellent work Midget-sasquatch. It's amazing that the wts have condemned themselves by the wording of this tract. False Religion? I found it amusing the section on spreading false doctrine. For example how many false prophecies they've come out with and never been fulfilled. Tolerating immoral sex particularly about child abuse, look at the recent cases. How will false religion ends? This is the funniest section. Haven't the society rode the scarlet coloured beast themselves, with the UN NGO? If they believe that false religion has dishonoured God this way, then woe to the WTS.
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  Poor Witnesses

  by KW13 in

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  my mum managed to secure a reasonable paying job, it asked that she worked basically full time till the new year because the place has just opened but it would give her a pension (instead of trying to live off a small state pension) when she is older, and there are a few nice 'perks' including staff discounts.. well, despite her managing to get the job while many failed to secure a position, and managing to get through the different interviews and processes she will now drop the job, before she even does the training, yet alone starting it because the wife of an elder on the phone convinced her to take up her daughters 'ironing round' and also give herself more free time, for jehoover things - although she mentioned my mums health and asked if she had energy to do that.. anyway, while i was sat next to mum she said "yeh, i can't see this system lasting much longer" - a stupid gambol i think, its all based on chance.. i shouted at her after, i said why are you doing this?

  you need to secure your future, because you don't know what might go wrong with this ironing round thingy and its going to mean travelling to peoples homes, you may lose customers and not gain them, and then i asked how long she's known about 'the witnesses' and we worked out, that since 1985 to now, she came from being disfellowshipped in 1996, meaning for at least 10 years she has been waiting for this end of the system...a long time eh?.

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  My wife had an ironing round, and she practically struggled. One week she had tons of work. Next few weeks nothing at all. Most weeks we were living off my wage, with the overtime included. I lost the overtime, and we struggled financially on my basic wage. Within two weeks she got herself a new job, along with a college course. I just wish they'd keep their noses out of peoples business.
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  CELEBRATION time for me... just got my semester grades back...

  by FreedomFrog in

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  for my it class i passed with a 99% yay!!!!!!!!

  and for my com class i passed with a 96%.

  i don't know if you remember or not, but way back when (about 9 weeks ago) i came to all of you asking what you thought of human euthanasia.

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  Ironhead

  WELL DONE!!!!!