hi judith - i don't know your situation, but my point of view is that today's new light is tomorrow's old light...5 years from now I am sure that many of the things taught today will be laughed at and the JW's will be glad that "the light keeps getting brighter and brighter..." i was initially very angry and threw out some publications, but I have the CD-ROMS, the two Live Forever books, the two Truth books (i think its the Truth book, where the reference to 1975 was removed on the 2nd edition), and thats about it...
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35Thowing away WTS Publications
by Judith inin the past weeks, i have been throwing away my 32 year library of books.
the feeling of freeing myself from the weight of the lies contained within the pages was my objective.
i have always been afraid of letting them go just in case it was the "truth.
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Who's Who?
by KJV ini am new here and have been away from ex-dub world for about eight months.
many of you here were posters on h20 and have come on this board with a different moniker.
i was "milky" on h20.
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DIM
I posted as disko
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Research help
by DIM ini'm having very stressful dealings with my parents lately....can anyone please help me or direct me to the right place on the 1995 or 1999 cd-roms about (a) where it tells you to investigate your religion and (b) where they bash other religions.
thanks.
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here's the letter i mailed my parents 2 days ago. i had to stretch the truth a bit with regards to being an "apostate" but other than that its dead on (i took out all names):
Mom and Dad,
I wanted to write to you after the emotional phone conversation between me and mom. I want to assure you that I love you both very much and I really don’t want to hurt you. I do not wish to discuss anything to do with those topics for the forseeable future as they only seem to disintegrate into an attack upon my character flaws and the reading of various scriptures at me, which I’m sure causes you great pain and I can assure you does the same to me. I am not “apostate” or anything like that. I have valid questions that cannot be answered and that is all. I respect your lives and where they have taken you and I wish that you would give me the same consideration. I would very much appreciate it if you did not tell my personal feelings to your friends. These feelings are between me, Jehovah, and you. DIM's wife feels the same way as I do about everything. If you feel that keeping DIM's sister away from us is the right thing to do, then by all means please do that. But if you do decide to do that please let her know that we love her very much and that we wish she was allowed to be with us. I wish things hadn’t gone as poorly as they had on the phone today, but they did. I hope we will not have a strained relationship in the future, as I love you both very much. Anyway, I hope to hear from you soon.
Love –
DIM and MRS. DIM
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Research help
by DIM ini'm having very stressful dealings with my parents lately....can anyone please help me or direct me to the right place on the 1995 or 1999 cd-roms about (a) where it tells you to investigate your religion and (b) where they bash other religions.
thanks.
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thank you for all of these suggestions...my mom called here on the west coast the other day and wanted to debate why we aren't going to meetings...i kept telling her i didn't want to discuss it, but she kept hammering at me. by the end my mom hung up on me in tears and she had my wife in tears. ugh. i'm avoiding another debate as much as possible, but i want to be prepared.
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Research help
by DIM ini'm having very stressful dealings with my parents lately....can anyone please help me or direct me to the right place on the 1995 or 1999 cd-roms about (a) where it tells you to investigate your religion and (b) where they bash other religions.
thanks.
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I'm having very stressful dealings with my parents lately....can anyone please help me or direct me to the right place on the 1995 or 1999 cd-roms about (a) where it tells you to investigate your religion and (b) where they bash other religions. thanks.
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What's your dream job?
by butalbee ini really hate my job, and want to resign.
would really love to persue my dream job as a professional loafer, but i wonder how much it would pay?
but seriously, though i always wanted to write novels, be creative and artistic.
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listening to records and drinking coffee all day
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New Light - what it really means
by gravedancer in"let's accept that the organization is imperfect because it is made up of imperfect humans.".
but let's analyse why that statement is made.
i have heard it used when i made points like: "how can it the organization be spirit directed if it makes mistakes and chanages its doctrines?
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DIM
One of my wife and I's best friends (who posts here as collegegirl) got her hands on an old yearbook and was quite amazed at all of the false teachings in it...i think it was from 1929 or so
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Totally Betrayed By A JW
by Dutchie inwhen i was an active jw, my closest friend was the wife of an elder who had been disfellowshipped because of an affair with a pioneer.
i loved her and we got along great together.
i considered her my very best friend.
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DIM
many many stories to tell, no time to post! but I can relate to everything that was said
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DIM heads west
by DIM inmy wife and i made it out west, arrived on the last day of february...what a drive!
badwillie, you must drive out when you come visit me!
ask your wife why ikea's directions suck so bad....this new furniture is driving me nuts!
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ah, thats good...we are looking forward to the rain! i'll be calling you soon Jeff, making good progress with our apt. - even my record player and stereo is all set up!
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DIM heads west
by DIM inmy wife and i made it out west, arrived on the last day of february...what a drive!
badwillie, you must drive out when you come visit me!
ask your wife why ikea's directions suck so bad....this new furniture is driving me nuts!
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wow, you are pretty close princess.....the weather has been great since we got here! where has the seattle rain been?