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  would you still be a JW?

  by BR25 in

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  from coming on here from time to time i notice there is many disfellowshipped ones and alot of those who didnt like their freedoms taken away from them.

  ignoring what you have researched and know now how many of you, honestly if there was no disfellowshipping and say you were allowed to have more freedoms such as playing sports, how many of you would still be witnesses?

  once again ignore ever coming on here for insight and so forth.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  I left because of the dysfunctionality.

  I saw first hand how the elders treat children who go to them for help because a parent is molesting them.

  I remained faithful for many years, even making up excuses for how the elders treated me.

  but then I had a daughter, and when she began approaching the age i was when i was abused, the cognitive dissonance became to much.

  You can treat me like shit, but no, I will not allow you to treat my child that way.

  the older I get, the less I can understand the actions of those elders. They were fathers and grandfathers, how could they turn their back on a child? Not only that, but they also demanded that I not speak of it to anyone else.

  How could I possibly allow men like that be the spiritual heads of my innocent daughter? Not a chance!
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  Polygamist compound raided- 52 GIRLS REMOVED AFTER COMPLAINT

  by sf in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.mercurynews.com/religion/ci_8821119.

  by miguel bustillo.

  los angeles timesarticle launched: 04/05/2008 01:33:03 am pdt.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Next time I target practice i will be aiming at a pic of Warren jeffs.
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  Man Proving Stonhenge Could Be Built by One Man - Aliens No Longer Needed

  by Perry in

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  http://youtube.com/watch?v=lrrdzfromx0.

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  This guy makes it look pretty easy,

  Why didn't I think of that?
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  How many have had a problem with the confession idea to elders?

  by Hope4Others in

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  2. friends

  i use to, well i still do think its no better than the confession idea to a priest.. 1. how many elders step down and are removed and what then?.

  2. how many people have access to the file cabinet?.

  3. my biggest thought is how many that are no longer elders repeat the dirty little secrets?.

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  I don't think it really matters whether the elder has stepped down or been removed. In my old hall I heard all the juicy gossip both in my own hall and several of the surrounding halls.

  I have never known anyone as gossipy as some of the local elders. The more lurid the details the quicker the word got around. And no, I didn't hear it from elders wives, I heard practically no gossip from the wemmin. I heard it when the elders would spill all the details to my active, but not even a MS husband.

  Honestly, those elders could not keep there mouths shut and apparently there was nothing anyone could do about it. Looking back, I don't see how I managed to have any respect for those men at all, but somehow, I did.
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  What Was The Silliest "Offense" That You Were Counseled For?

  by minimus in

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  when i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".

  so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.

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  My husband and I had a small retail store, and one febuary we had one of our employees re-decorate a display window. Well a couple of days later an elder stops buy and wants to talk to us. he doesn't call first, he just walks in during store hours and says, "I need to talk privately with you and your wife"

  So good dubs that we were, we stopped working and immediately took time to speak privately with the elder. He says that someone has been offended by our display window. It's febuary, and to many red items had been used for display, some may think we were promoting valentines day! My husband and I began laughing, we couldn't help it. The brother got all defensive and began telling us that we needed to be humble and submit to counsel.

  My husband finally told the elder "would you like to speak to the employee that made the display? Knowing that all our employees were witnesses, he said "yes". My husband disapeared for a moment and then returned with the offending employee, well it just so happened that this elders wife worked for us and she had been the one to put together the display!

  When my husband came back in the room and presented the offending employee, the elders jaw dropped to the floor. My husband and I left the room trying not to bust out laughing. The poor elder got read the riot act by his dear wife and a few minutes later left our store with his tail tucked between his legs.
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  Worst Kingdom Melody lyrics- your votes?

  by JimmyPage in

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  my votes for worst kingdom melody lyrics: song 125- "jehovah is on my side" (try singing these lyrics without laughing like beavis and butthead): "i know that in this crucial hour my faith will yet be tested/ around me swarms the devil's crowd like bees that were molested/ but i can ever beat them off beneath divine protection/ on those who love to bear his name god sets his deep affection.

  " or how about song 201- "rejoicing with god's nation" (grab your thesaurus for this one): "in a land so good and spacious/ free from strife and things vexatious/ look!

  a happy crowd vivacious/ in god's service that is efficacious.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  From house....to house

  From door.....o door

  While the music goes, plink-plink.....plink-plink.......plink-plink
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  I'm selling my SOUL on eBay!

  by nicolaou in

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  all bids gratefully received.. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&item=280214220256.

  (you need to cut and paste that link into your browser unless some clever mod can make it clickable).

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  Will this soul work in America?

  Or will I have to get one of those adapter thingys?
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  Did you see any sad living conditions in Field Service...?

  by Casper in

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  im sure all of us at one time or another witnessed homes that broke our heartshere are a few of mine.

  some of the homes i had been invited into out in service really left an impression on me.

  call it naive or whatever, it was a real eye opener in some cases.. one in particular that i remember was a poor family with 8 little girls, stair step in age, the oldest no more than 9. this was an rv of the sister i was with.... very nice people, but the living conditions were appalling.

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  I'm A Passivist...My God Wasn't!

  by new boy in

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  2. beliefs

  were is the sense...to this?.

  i wouldn't go to war...i was a co in viet nam.

  i couldn't even get into a fight at school without getting into trouble.. yet my god...jehovah was is a jealous god an angry god....a god who when he got missed off would destroy a whole planet...remember the flood....(the bible said he felt bad afterwards)...that was nice.. now he is getting ready to do it again....6 billion people worth....and why?.

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  If you have a bad heart condition, then you are worthy of destruction.

  But if you have a bad heart condition, how do you get a good one? Your bad remember, so if you wanted a good heart condition then you would allready be good.

  But if you had a good heart condition, why would you ever decide to make it bad? Wouldn't that mean your heart condition was bad to begin with?

  This was a little cognitive dissonance that haunted me from young childhood on.
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  Things to wear at mtg that will raise eyebrows but won't get you into 2...

  by cognac in

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  much trouble... or, things to do at the mtg that will raise eyebrows but won't get you into to much trouble.. i've been thinking about this since i still go.

  i'm surprised at how much a person can get away with if they are in a hall that they have no family in that particular kingdom hall.... at the memorial i put on so much dark eye make-up i was shocked my husband didn't say anything walking out the door.

  instead, i got compliments, lol, not exactly what i planned on.... one of my friends who faded went to the memorial and she had a pretty low cut shirt on.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Apparently, in my old hall, a very well endowed sister can get a tattoo deep in her cleavage, and then where a wonder bra so that it's no longer deep but popping right up near her chin. She can even git on stage dressed this way.

  Well, it's OK if that sister is the wife and the daughter of elders