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  Wake up call!

  by restorebeauty in

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  what was the defining moment in your life when you said, enough is enough.

  i can't/dont'/won't believe this anymore.

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  dmouse

  Funnily enough I can remember the exact moment when I stopped believing in God.

  It happened about 15 years ago. I was reading a newspaper about a baby that starved to death because his mother was too ill herself to care for him. The police conducted an autopsy and the only thing in the child's stomach was bits of its own nappy (diaper). I closed the paper then and knew that there was no God of love. It was, as they say, the straw that broke the camel's back.

  What followed was several months of depression as I tried to come to terms with reality. It was a big shock to realise that I wasn't going to live forever and there was no magic answer to the world's problems.

  I wish I could go back to that state of blissful ignorance of being a JW but I can't, unless I develop amnesia...
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  even if the "new system" never comes

  by ConnieLynn in

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  last night i called to do the "check-in" thing on my mom.

  she had just been to the assembly and she was all fired up and decided to give me an earful.

  apparently, at the assembly all in attendance were told that "this is it" the end is nigh and they should do all they can to prepare for the impending destruction about to befall everyone.

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  dmouse

  "Don't try and steal my faith!"

  I had an almost identical response from my wife on one of the few occasions she permitted me to talk to her about her religion. She said "Please don't take away my faith" To me, this shows that she was starting to see that her beliefs are based on very shaky ground and she was forced to stop me before reality overwhelmed her safe little world. The fact is, they can't handle the truth.

  This 'my religion, right or wrong' attitude is typical of many JWs. After all, the one thing that the WBTS keeps plugging with their members time and time again is absolute unconditional loyalty.

  Funnily enough I was at a birthday party last weekend and I was surprised to see a long standing JW friend there. We had a very long chat and I was totally floored by her response. She told me that she KNEW that many of the beliefs of the JWs were wrong and that 'the end' wasn't coming anytime soon! But she didn't care! To her, all religions are a way of approaching God and she wasn't interested in the details - she just liked the JW way in general and saw no point in moving to another religion when they too would have false beliefs. Of course, she admitted she wouldn't say this to an elder!

  dmouse
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  New Tract-Youths What Will You Do With Your Life

  by Scarlet in

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  2. experiences

  i was wondering if any of you have read this tract that was given out at the district convention .. i found in this tract they are pushing the fulltime ministry more than ever before.

  they in so many words say if you are not a fulltime minister you are not serving god.

  it stated that youths today should not strive for academic success.

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  dmouse

  I have read the tract Scarlet, and I agree that it is so sad.

  I have found that the stand the WBTS take on further education is shocking to people 'in the world', and rightly so. The old men at the top who make the rules just don't care how many young lives they screw as long as they have a continuingly replenished power-base of young blood.

  The congregations are full of 'could-have-beens' - how often have you heard adult JWs saying that, in their youth, they had a special talent which they never followed up because they sacrificed it for the 'truth'.? Their mouths say they have no regrets but their eyes say otherwise, eyes hollow with fear that they have wasted the only life they will ever have. But fear of facing the truth prevents them from breaking free and they just drag more victims to this slow death.

  The Society is systematically destroying the ability of their children to make a future for themselves and replacing it with empty promises.

  'Sad' is too small a word to describe the situation, like saying the Jewish holocaust was 'sad'.

  The Governing Body are nothing but vampires, draining the life-blood from our children and creating new vampires to spread their evil plague across the globe.
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  WHAT MEN want in a woman (lady)

  by QUEENIE in

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  i thought men should have equal time in regards to this subject sooooo here goes / list a way dudes -- linda lou aka queenie

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  dmouse

  LOL, Vivamus...no I do NOT suffer from brewer's droop!
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  WHAT MEN want in a woman (lady)

  by QUEENIE in

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  i thought men should have equal time in regards to this subject sooooo here goes / list a way dudes -- linda lou aka queenie

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  dmouse

  ...as long as she shows up naked with a pack of beer I'm happy.

  (This is a joke by the way)
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  Time Travelers....... put on your seat belts

  by Crystal in

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  2. entertainment

  if you could time travel ...where would you go and what year.. i would go to new york in the 1940's...i love the fashion and the cars.. check out the new movie coming out .

  next year...i just love this stuff!!!.

  http://www.upcomingmovies.com/soundofthunder.html.

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  dmouse

  You do don't need a time machine to go back in time - just visit a Kingdom Hall, there you will be stuck in an out-of-date society of women being second-class, barbaric practices (being cast out and shunned), and the sort of outrageous religious bigotary adandoned by the rest of enlightened civilisation centuries ago.

  I wish a time machine could be invented, then I would send all JWs back to the middle ages when disease and famine meant that half of all children died before they reached the age of five. Then, when they came back, I'd like to see them try and cling to the belief that our time is worse than previous generations.

  I think time travel backwards is not possible, just imagine going back and meeting and accidentally killing a grand-parent, would you cease to exist? And if you cease to exist how could you come back and kill your grand-parent???

  But how about sending THINGS back in time? What would you send back if you had the chance?

  I've always wondered what impact it would have had if a modern book of medicine had somehow dropped into the lap of an ancient Greek physician.
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  WTS largest recipient of aid in India

  by Dogpatch in

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  i just received this in the email:.

  i was just researching .

  the net and i came across this link.

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  dmouse

  I don't understand this letter, why cannot the Society support the Indian branch with donations anymore?

  Is it because of new Indian government legislation?

  Or has there been too much corruption at Bethel and pocketing of funds into private accounts?

  Very strange; the letter gives the impression that much is being obfuscated in the usual WBTS fashion.

  So much for giving contributions for the world-wide-work!
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  What JW books should be called

  by sleepy in

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  2. friends

  ok we've had this before , but lets do it again.

  what do you think are more appropriate titles for jw books?

  heres mine, .

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  dmouse

  Making Your Family Life Crappy.
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  Poll: Affection or sex

  by Mimilly in

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  if...... you had to choose just one to have for the rest of your life, which would it be?

  affection or sex?

  by affection here i mean snuggling, kissing, hand holding, all the little things.

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  dmouse

  At the moment I am having to live without either, and that is unlikely to change, but what I seem to be missing the most...

  ...is sex.

  What a shallow man I must be huh?

  I hate questions like this....all you people in wonderful relationships while here I am married to a frigid JW drone; it makes me jealous.

  OK, if I had a choice, I would choose affection, for the reasons already stated.
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  How Far We've Come

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  i just wanted to add a note of optimism on the occasion of silentlambs.

  disfellowshipping.. some of us have known about sites like these for a few years.

  of us used to post on the old h2o site.

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  dmouse

  Amen!

  And don't forget the UN issue, they had to cancel their membership as an NGO because of people like us.

  Apostates, using the Internet as a tool, are FORCING the WBTS to change at a rate unprecedented in their history!

  The old boys at the top are weakening - they are afraid, very afraid.