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How many of you still have friends in the org?
by Nellie in
1. jw
2. experiences
a good friend of mine moved away 10 years ago.

needless to say, we lost touch over the years, but our family always spoke of them warmly and with with great affection.. last week, their daughter looked my son up on my-space and we reconnected.

they've left the organization, basically got fed up with the hypocrasy of the membership.
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How Jehovah's Witnesses are told to treat disfellowshipped Relatives.
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in another thread it was mentioned the witnesses do not shun disfellowshipped relatives, so i thought i would copy a few articles that show the watchtower says quite definitely that they are to almost totally shun relatives, along with some examples that i know personally.

i personally know many that have not been contacted by their parents for years;my cousin was my best friend, and for a year before my disfellowshipping week after week i spent hours with her and her child, who spent 4 months of his first year in hospital.

on the day of my disfellowshipping i was informed that i am no longer welcome there, and i have not seen my second cousin for 6 months now.
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Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO
by apocalypse in
1. jw
2. experiences
how much can one person gag?

it is interesting to note that clive thomas (canadian branch office) spoke during his part in such a way as to betray the fact that he was personally aware that what he was saying was false.. it's one thing when a local onion gets exuberant about parroting the gb's nonsense.

it's quite another when a bloodsucker like clive comes from the branch and does a "bait 'n switch" the way he did.
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Name the good things that Jw's have or believe....
by AK - Jeff in
1. jw
2. experiences
we always seem to get focused on the bad - and there is plenty of it for sure - and anyone who follows my posts knows i am no wt apologist by any stretch.

but focusing on the postive is a good thing in the 'moving on' process i think too.

what do you think jw's had right?.
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slip of the tongue of elder
by DannyBloem in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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this morning the speaker was late and they had to change the wachtower study with the public talk.. the young elder introducing this, was maybe a bit nervous of this happening (although it is certainly not the first time this year), and told that the public intercourse of the wachttower study would be held first, instead of the public discourse.
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Please Help Me Help My Mom To See The Stupidity Of The Blood Doctrine
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
she constantly parrots acts 15:29 to "abstain from blood".

she showed me the latest awake that says something about how's there's a rare disease from taking blood transfusions that "hundreds" have gotten.

i told her "hundreds in billions is nothing".
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If Noah had built the ark, but hadn't preached, he wouldn't have been saved
by Bonnie_Clyde in
1. watchtower
2. bible
that was just one of the wise comments i heard at today's wt study.

i'd like to see the proof.. also, "no one was saved by hanging onto the outside of the ark.

they had to be deep inside.
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Back from Germany...
by Toronto_Guy in
1. jw
2. friends
on thursday i got back from germany, after having spent a week...was only planning to attend 2 world cup games, but ended up getting to 5 (bought some tickets outside the stadiums!

)...its a very cool country, lots of history, travelled to hamburg, frankfurt, cologne, nuremburg, berlin and leipzig...of course the atmosphere is amazing right now with the world cup, fans from all over the world.... the only drawback was passing a kingdom hall in hamburg...something like "jehovah zugen"...lol...but i bought a big canadian flag and wore it around, even though canada is not in the world cup!

it was nice to be able to do that, something i could never have done before as a jw...also got a bit drunk one night, that was fun too...its not always easy to have lost family, but its amazing to have the freedom to do things i never could before.... nice to be back and reading everyone's posts again..
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Great Educational Tool for those studying or thinking of studying with JWS
by sf in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was doing some web surfing and catching up on my reading and came upon a post i hope may help some lurkers and seekers understand better what they are getting themselves into or may have already gotten into, by studying the bible with jws.. i surely hope it is not going against any rule to copy/paste this.

i will not include anything but the text.

i will say though that it is from a longstanding exjw support board that can be found here:.
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0-16. My Story.
by serotonin_wraith in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was raised from the womb until the age of 16 as a jw, i was never really a part of it.

i never got baptized, by the end i hated everything about it.

the worst part was not being able to voice any opinions i had on the religion, not unless i wanted them to fall on deaf ears and be considered immoral.