If it's any consolation (and I'm sure it's not ), the creaters have a new show coming out this fall that looks pretty good. It's about what goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood. It has a lot of big faces in it, including Josh from West Wing!!! Can't remember what it's called.
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IT'S OVER - I'M INCONSOLABLE
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the west wing...may have finished in the u.s. before this but it has just finished in the u.k.... in the history of television there has never been a better programme
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For those not sick to death of talking about this...607 BCE
by Swamboozled injust got this link sent to me by my sister in law and i just keeping staring at it trying to decide where to start.
i know that arguing with a jw is like throwing miracle wheat in the wind...but i want a comeback!!!
http://www.2001translation.com/587_or_607.htm
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JUst got this link sent to me by my sister in law and I just keeping staring at it trying to decide where to start. I know that arguing with a JW is like throwing miracle wheat in the wind...but I want a comeback!!! Can anyone help!!!! http://www.2001translation.com/587_or_607.htm
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Books
by RPT inwhat is the best book i can give to a jw to convince her its all a big con ?
maybe she will read it maybe she wont but at least i said i tried my best.
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OH SNAP!!!! Make sure nobody sees you!!!! LOL!!!
I'll put on a nice dress and put them in a bookbag. People will be so relieved to see me out spreading "truth". If they only knew.
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Yeah...it sucks to have your little girl ask after one of her first meeting why women can't give talks. "Well sweetie, you can do anything you want in life, have any job, do anything you set your mind to...except give a little speech on that little stage". YUCK!!!
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what about celebrating?
by Swamboozled inanyone still not celebrate birthdays?
holidays?
i was wondering about everyone's position about this as i plan to throw a huge make-up birthday party for each of my kids this year.
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anyone still not celebrate birthdays? holidays? I was wondering about everyone's position about this as I plan to throw a huge make-up birthday party for each of my kids this year.
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Old habits die hard...
by Swamboozled ini still have to mentally remind myself to say "bless you" when someone sneezes because i was taught by jw's that this is a pagan (superstitious) practice.
i always thought it was so rude not to say it, but bit my tongue.
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I still have to mentally remind myself to say "bless you" when someone sneezes because I was taught by JW's that this is a pagan (superstitious) practice. I always thought it was so rude not to say it, but bit my tongue. Now I have to remind myself...SAY BLESS YOU! Anyone else have something they had to remind themselves to do to undo the brainwashing?
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by RPT inwhat is the best book i can give to a jw to convince her its all a big con ?
maybe she will read it maybe she wont but at least i said i tried my best.
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Crisis of Conscience told me everything I needed to run as fast as I could out of the Kingdom Hall and never look back. But, like the others, many won't read it stating it as apostate literature. You may put a note on it that says "truth should be able to stand up to even the closest of scrutiny: what is there to hide if it's the truth?" I have an overwhelming urge to gift wrap copies and put them on doorsteps. I still may do it.
Good luck!!!
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What rebellious actions did you or other do in your congregation?
by JH inwhat rebellious actions did you or other do in your congregation, not enough to be disfellowshipped, but went a little too far.
sometimes we have to unwind .
i remember sitting in a brothers car.
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they were playing stupid games like holding up a watchtower or Awake and you had to guess what month, and reading bible scriptures and you had to guess what book and more points if you guess chapter and verse. I was so sick of it all, they even had a guard at the door in case any worldly people tried to enter, I told the guy at the door to let me know if any worldly people show'd up I'd leave with them, Can you believe they actually had walkie talkies??
Holy Crap!!!! LOL!!!
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Intro and ? that has probably been asked a zillion times...
by Swamboozled ini don't want to bore with the tedious details...but long story short: my husband was raised a jw.
he da and married me 6 years ago.
i was so appalled at the fact that his family shunned him that i insisted on a sit down with his mom to explain.
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I don't want to bore with the tedious details...but long story short: My husband was raised a JW. He DA and married me 6 years ago. I was so appalled at the fact that his family shunned him that I insisted on a sit down with his mom to explain. Everything she said made sense to me at the time and I wanted desperately for my husband to have his family back. So I studied and he started the humiliating process of coming back. I was baptized and he was reinstated a couple of years later. While I was studying I was warned against researching on the web and reading "apostate" literature. "Demons prey on the new ones" I was told so I never looked into it too deeply. The my daughter from a previous marriage starting having to miss out on what I think are important things in childhood...friends, organizations, sports etc. I was bothered by thoughts of her having to miss the prom and her constant questions about whether her father would be killed at armageddon. So I started looking into things and 'lo and behold. Boy do I feel like an ass! I talked to my husband about it and he started looking into things too. Needless to say we feel like Mr. & Mrs. Ass. We stopped going to meetings immediately and even missed the assembly this year. We have so far successfully avoided shepherding calls. We don't want to dissassociate because husbands parents are old and we want that relationship. So we told family that we needed time away to sort things out for ourselves. So my question is this. My mother in law defended all of our points (most from COC) by saying that we are all imperfect and the Society makes mistakes. She challenged us to find the "true religion". We said we don't think there is one. She says the bible talks of one. I'm sure many of you were confronted with this arguement. How did you respond.
Sorry it got so long.
MA
So happy to be normal again!!!!
