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  Had a visit last Saturday from an elder....

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  he said he was just checking addresses because my house was on the "do not call" list, and he was checking to see if the same people lived here or had moved away.

  so i told him that nobody that lives in this house has asked jw's not to call, and that it was probably at the request of my ex-wife who knows i don't attend anymore.. so he gives me that ookaaayy look..... i'm out working in the yard and so we sit down in the garage to have a chat..... he doesn't know me, but i remember him from a different cong., and he doesn't know i da'd myself over 5 years ago.

  he also doesn't know how much i've learned and how long i've been waiting for this day!.

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  Why doesn't Satan use the old "talking snake" anymore?

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  if you ask any j-dub why jehovah doesn't do miracles anymore these days they would probably say something like, "god doesn't need to do that anymore" or something along that line.

  so what about satan?.

  at a time when he's suppose to have been cast down to the earth and knowing full well he has a short period of time, why doesn't he pull out the miracles again?

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  The back-room club...

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  i recently got a e-mail from a 1/2-in-the-truth witness youth who referred to the "back-room" club...anybody ever heard of this before?

  is this a new witness youth expression?.

  she's 15, and i think she was referring to being asked by the elders to come back in the back room at the hall after the meeting for counsel.

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  When did DF'ing & DA'ing start?

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  does anyone know exactly when the first mention of disfellowshipping and disassociating appeared in the publications?

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  Getting married next week!

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  yes folks, i'm headed to hawaii this sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.

  for those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when i couldn't support the wtb&ts anymore a few years back.

  i hate living alone....lisa and i have been together for a year now and she's just like mary poppins..."practically perfect in every way"!

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  Can you be DF'd for apostasy without promoting apostate views?

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  i saw something on this subject a few years ago in a publication from brooklyn but can't find it now.

  it referred to the 8/1/80 wt about what the greek word for apostasy really means, 'a standing away from', but showed that a person didn't have to share what he believed that differed from what the society taught to be df'd for it.. blondie!

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  Hello...

  by gymbob in

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  i've been reading you all for a couple years now, it's about time i post.. the first thing i would like to say is....thank you.

  without this forum, who knows what my life would be like.

  you all have been such a big help to me since i left the witnesses about 4 years ago, and i'm very grateful to you all!.

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