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  Hello, I am new

  by LillyC in

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  i am not a jehovah's witness but i am very interested, i have many questions and hope they can be answered here.. i do believe in god, privately.

  i do say my prayers daily and do believe god helps me in countless ways.

  but i don't go to any church.. i have always been impressed at how smart, polite and nice jehovah's witnesses are and i always make time to speak to them when they call at my door.

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  compound complex

  Welcome, LillyC, to the forum!

  Best wishes.

  CoCo
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  Do any ex JW' s/ God believer's, Agnostics or Atheists believe in Karma? And WHY?

  by rip van winkle in

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  just reading a thread and the mention of karma popped up.

  ( it happens, lol).

  a lot of people believe in karma: what goes around comes around.. some months ago, while on another exjw site, karma was mentioned and i thought it a little odd, as they are atheist.

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  Hi rip:

  I like K in movies and in literature, but I have learned to separate reality, as I perceive it, from fantasy, as I or other writers imagine it.

  Nice topic!

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  Pushing the JW.ORG

  by Etude in

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  i took these pictures over a month ago.

  i had not realized that they were really pushing their site.

  this was at our farmers market, although they were not officially in the market area but off the side on the sidewalk.. .

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  I'm curious -- doesn't the use of of literature trolleys/carts further justify the need for SUVs to transport them, removing the back seat formerly occupied by flesh-and-blood publishers? Couldn't fit the contraption into the back of your coupe or convertible, and tossing it in the back of your pickup truck/lorry would be unseemly . . .

  CoCo
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  I Am Captive

  by compound complex in

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  i am captive in both heart and body, .

  walled in by mahogany panels and .

  useless fears of too long standing.

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  compound complex

  Thank you, cultBgone, and welcome to the forum!

  I appreciate your concern, but, for the most part, I have detached from the pain . . . for the most part. . . .

  Have a great weekend, you and yours!

  CoCo
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  I Am Captive

  by compound complex in

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  i am captive in both heart and body, .

  walled in by mahogany panels and .

  useless fears of too long standing.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Nancy!!!

  I just need look out my window!

  CoCo
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  I Am Captive

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  i am captive in both heart and body, .

  walled in by mahogany panels and .

  useless fears of too long standing.

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  compound complex

  What is this wall like brick and mortar that separates
  your proud heart from mine contrite and broken?

  At one time -- I recall so very well -- your soul
  and spirit were joined in joy to mine.

  You are near me -- how clearly I see you --
  yet your eyes are miles away . . .

  So, too, your wandering heart that
  has left mine destroyed. . . .
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  Fred Phelps is dead

  by zound in

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  two cults leaders in two days..

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  compound complex

  Two thoughts . . .

  1) In line with George Takei's words (posted by jgnat):

  No man is an island,
  Entire of itself,
  Every man is a piece of the continent,
  A part of the main.
  If a clod be washed away by the sea,
  Europe is the less.
  As well as if a promontory were.
  As well as if a manor of thy friend's
  Or of thine own were:
  Any man's death diminishes me,
  Because I am involved in mankind,
  And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
  It tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  2) When I saw the names "Fred" and "Phelps," I felt a familiarity and thought of the twins Oliver and James Phelps, known as George and Fred Weasley of Harry Potter fame, hence "Fred Phelps."

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  When did the arrangement change from congregation servant to elders

  by Deceived in

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  does anyone remember when the arrangement changed from having 1 congregation servant to the body of elders arrangement.. i have been out of the religion for so long i am getting a little rusty on the changes that happened.

  i am writing down my memoirs and right now i am recounting my teenage years as the daughter of a congregation servant.

  there was a big change in our family life when i was 15 because of the change in the arrangement.

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  compound complex

  I also remember they used to "rotate" positions every year, so P.O for one year, TMS the next WT conductor the next, and so on. This was disastrous, as guys who were not qualified in any way for the job found themselves in it, and the whole Congregation had to suffer agonies for a year at least.

  Can you not see the hand of the Holy Spirit in this monumental cock-up ?

  That's when I quit, Phizzy.

  I was the school overseer, whose piece-of-cake responsibilty was to review AID book material after each talk (we gave no public counsel) and later became field service overseer because I was a field service-aholic. I knew that I definitely could not lead the congregation as a whole.

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  Terry’s New Book

  by SAHS in

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  i just finished reading terry walstroms new book i wept by the rivers of babylon, and i just had to say that i thoroughly enjoyed it!

  i just purchased the kindle version from amazon about a week ago and found it quite hard to put it down.

  (heres the direct link: http://www.amazon.com/wept-rivers-babylon-prisoner-conscience/dp/1492902063/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=utf8&qid=1394547792&sr=1-1&keywords=i%20wept%20by%20the%20rivers%20of%20babylon&tag=vglnk-c1113-20.).

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  compound complex

  "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has."

  Margaret Mead

  Or, 'one committed man.'

  KUDOS, TERRY!

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  When did the arrangement change from congregation servant to elders

  by Deceived in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone remember when the arrangement changed from having 1 congregation servant to the body of elders arrangement.. i have been out of the religion for so long i am getting a little rusty on the changes that happened.

  i am writing down my memoirs and right now i am recounting my teenage years as the daughter of a congregation servant.

  there was a big change in our family life when i was 15 because of the change in the arrangement.

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  compound complex

  Greetings, Deceived:

  I was at the Gilead graduation in the spring of 1972. Brother Knorr said 'we are going to try the new arrangement (elder) here at Bethel to see if it works.' Not verbatim, but I do recall specifically 'to see if it works.' It was a very rough start, what with much fighting and recriminations as to who did and did not qualify, so I heard.

  It began in the congregations in the fall of '72.

  CoCo