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  Why I, You, We keep coming back here

  by Bridgette in

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  i always say i do not believe in demons, but i find that perhaps i do.

  not the kind that haunt and lay in wait for bad little, straying jw's to make a false move with a ouji board, or a misthought purchase at a garage sale, but the kind that haunt a childhood, that steal souls--the scarist kind--the human kind.

  i was inspired by farkel's post this morning (btw, farkel's posts are never boring) to write this, and try, once again to exorcise these demons.

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  What does everyone here DO anyway?

  by In_between_days in

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  hi everyone,.

  i am a new poster who is putting off their own personal story of finding this site for a while..... i find alot of people here utterly fascinating, and would like to know..... exactly what is everyones professional field of work?.

  i would like to be a full time poster on this forum, but alas, the $$$$ are quite light in that field of work.. apologies if this has been asked before.. just curious.

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  We thank you Jehovah

  by ballistic in

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  when the new song book "sing praises to jehovah" was introduced from the great publishing company in 1984, it was clearly and frankly admitted (suprisingly) that some of the old songs had to be dropped due to the fact they were copied from other religions and some even infringed copyright in this regard.

  however, from an early age "we thank you jehovah" had always reminded me of "god save the queen" and this song was not dropped and continues to be regularly used down to this day.. i realise in later life that the two songs are indeed similar in a musical sense.

  you can almost play one song on top of the other in places and the starting chord structure is identical.. also, the two songs both seem to have a certain feeling of reverence which i am not sure is conjured up by the timing and the harmony alone or by the meaning the songs have in terms of their lyrics and use.. it turns out the british tune has been used many times over by different people and even by other countries, as european visitors to britain in the eighteenth century noticed the advantage of a country possessing such a recognised musical symbol - including germany, russia, switzerland and america (where use of the tune continued after independence).

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  Why say Jehovah anymore?

  by Bang in

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  the wtbts uses the word 'jehovah' to lord it over people.

  it's great that they picked on a made up name - it's a gift horse in the mouth for you to be so at liberty to drop it.

  (i love sayings, you know, a gift , horse / pride, and from their own mouth?)..

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  A JW opinion of "apostate" thinking

  by crownboy in

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  i found this description of "apostates" on a pro jw site to be interesting, to say the least.

  it's amazing how these people sound like they're reading straight from the watchtower, or something.. .

  http://ofnet.homestead.com/apostate.html.

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  Contradictions-1/1/02 WT

  by Mister Biggs in

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  scanned for your convenience.. contradiction #1:.

  um, doesn't the gb elevate itself above the so-called 'rank and file'?

  not to mention the elders, the minsterial servants, the pioneers, auxillary pioneers, co's, do's, and attendants.

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  love of musics got me :)

  by zev in

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  everyone has their favorite thing...... mine?

  i listen to wolf fm, internet only radio.. (its an 70-80's station).

  that and cd's i make from downloads of mp3's of 70's and 80's music.. whats yours?.

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  My Story

  by DINKY in

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  after years of hard drug use, my boyfriend (now husband) and i finally quit when i got pregnant.

  i went strictly to "marijuana maintenance.

  " while staying home with my new baby, a witness started calling on me and eventually offered me a bible study.

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  First Post

  by DINKY in

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  hey guys!

  i've been lurking for 2 yrs and finally decided to post.

  seems like y'all need some new blood around here.

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  My Story

  by SmokeEater in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been going back and forth between this board and other exjw boards, and decided it's time to put my story out.

  i think it's theraputic in a way.... well a little background.

  my father is black, and my mother native american (this is important down the road).

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