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  1995 The Year That Saw A Turning Point

  by The wanderer in

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  of these events occur was the watchtowers theme.

  the countdown .

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  Dagney

  The decade of the nineties we were all talking about the problems...

  • Lack of Jesus in anything
  • Emphasis on hours/works, not mercy as God requires
  • SOS at the meeting
  • Shunning/DF policies

  etc. etc etc

  The generation change we joked about, but deep down, we knew it was not funny at all.

  The year 2000 brought much information to light in the media of the advances of the last 100 years. Significantly for me was learning (DUH!!!!) that life was NOT better before 1914...it was crap for all but the wealthy. Another lie I never paid attention to. I could not preach that anymore.

  In the summer of 2001, after listening in via phone to a Sunday meeting, an overwhelming feeling came over me that I didn't belong with these people who were talking, and this organization did not want me either. I never went back to the meeting after that day save to hear a few friends give talks, a couple of memorials, and a couple funerals.
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  New Help For Stroke Victims

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  information week magazine ( april 16, 2007) is reporting on a new device that helps stoke victims.

  rewire their brains.

  mit's clinical research center and spaulding rehabiltation hospital came up with.

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  Dagney

  Thank you so much for posting this metatron!

  My best friend's mother (both JW) had a stroke on Saturday, and I will share this.

  (Gulp...wish me well facing all the people from my old hall when I go to the hospital tonight.)

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  Were you a "Born-In", or were you "Converted"?

  by Warlock in

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  2. friends

  i was converted in the early 1980's.. warlock .

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  Dagney

  Born in.

  Left summer 2001.
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  Would you have married a non JW

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you were a good active jw, would you have considered marrying a non jw or was this completely out of the question..

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  Dagney

  Thought about it a lot. Had two looooooooooong term relationships with non JW.

  Aside from the obvious, I figured everything would be a source of contention but the meeting attendance and blood issue with children were the ones that stopped me.

  I should have married one, but I didn't have the guts to do it. I am very sorry about that.
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  Is Anyone Looking Forward To The Sopranos Coming Back???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am.

  i think they wait way too long though for their series to come back on!

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  Dagney

  Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait...the dish recorder is programmed and checked double checked.

  Did anyone watch "Rome?" That was one of the best series ever.
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  Did you ever get tired of hearing the WT's reason for why suffering exists?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  right now, the wt is publishing their "very soon" series of the awake!.

  soon - an end to suffering.

  the articles are the typical "why does god permit suffering", followed by the issue of universal soverignty, the fall of adam and eve and a concluding "very soon now god's kingdom will bring an end to worldly governments.".

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  Dagney

  Absolutely! And their explanation is like a story given to 4 year old (no offense to 4 year olds) to explain why their pet Scruffy died.

  Every decade/century has had unbelievable suffering. Why wouldn't a loving God cut the cord and bring on his fanciful paradise at 1 billion earthly inhabitants? 2 billion?? 3 billion???

  Don't get me wrong, I love being able to live. But their story does not hold water on the "suffereing" aspect.
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  MY OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MEMORIAL TONIGHT (just got home)

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, as per usual, the memorial talk bored the hell out of me, but i found it, in one way to be an improvement over last years when they had the most boring speaker on the planet there http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/111544/1.ashx this guy at least knew how to speak.

  unfortunately, he didn't have much of a script to work with.. there was the mention of adam sinning and mankind needing a redeemer etc., no mention of when the israelites left egypt though.

  that's probably the first year i've ever seen where this hasn't been mentioned.

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  Dagney

  The report from my friend from my old hall.

  He was happy to report there were 360 in attendance, with pub cards of 150. The speaker was the CO, good speaker so there were visitors.

  He also said there were a lot of people (so what is a lot??) that were there in street clothes, who just came from the invite, they had it in their hand. He asked me, "that was the campaign right, invite everybody! Well it worked!" (I'm like "what worked?" but don't want to go there.)

  I keep thinking it's gonna die down around here...but the numbers are still there.
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  Why did they not try to 'Save' me?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have pondered this question on many occasions.

  when i began to have 'doubts' and began to 'question' some doctrine, and particularly the lack of christian love, very little effort was made to 'snatch me out of the fire' as elders are admonished to do.

  i have always wondered why we as jw's would spend countless hours trying to start bible studies with 'wordly' people, while at the same time ignoring those who are moving away from dead center of the organization.

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  Dagney

  My theory is that a lot dubs have a vague sensation somewhere deep down inside that they might be wrong about the whole thing. If some publisher needs admonishing, they'll get right on that... because the elders hold the power in that equation. But isn't it always someone they view as "weak?" When they are confronted with someone they always viewed as "strong," they are unsettled. Why? Because they already know why you aren't doing what you're "supposed" to be doing. And they don't want to go there.

  That's what I think also.

  At first I was nervous; I expected that doorstep confrontation "Do you believe the WTBS is Jehovah's sole channel" thing to happen at anytime. I was working on my strategy as to what to say to slide around an answer.

  They never came. I think I had two calls.

  Now it is almost 6 years, and nobody asks anything. Only one asked if I was going to the memorial. I am grateful I have been left alone...it allowed me to sort through my emotions and gave me the time to feel confident of my decision.

  But it is still curious to me...I mean...it was my whole life, 40 + years.
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  Most annoying Kingdom song

  by Billzfan23 in

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  mine would have to be "dark days are here!

  men live in fear!....

  " followed by the annoying change to a happy beat before the chorus "but the bible gives us a reason for cheer.." .

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  Dagney

  **sigh**

  The one that had the word "succor" in it that nobody would say.
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  No Propecy Fulfilled in the Last 79 Years

  by Nosferatu in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it amazes me how the wts keeps on telling its members about how they're seeing bible prophecy being fulfilled today.

  however, just look at when the last significant jw prophecy was recorded: 1928.. what happened in 1928?

  it was the fulfillment of the final trumpet blast of revelation at a jw convention in detroit, michigan.

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  Dagney

  Thank you!

  I have asked that question time and again, "Is there ANYTHING that the WTBS fortold been fullfilled?"

  No one has answered me as of yet...

  Me of the "little faith class".