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  HI

  by youcanhaveago in

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  after years of lurking - i'm on.. am i doing right i don't know.. confused ?

  - yes i am..

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  Gilberto

  Welcome, I too lurked for years. I can remember when I first stumbled across the site I too felt there was much bitterness and hatred so I stopped reading. I later came to realise the emotions that people feel as they leave the org cause some of this anger.

  If you have been lurking for a while you will get to know the posters who are more laid back than others and know you can read their posts.

  The great thing about JWD is that we only have one thing in common and that is our connection with the watchtower. Apart from that we are all different and so will all react differently.

  You have made the right decision in coming here. Please post some more, but if you feel you can't yet thats also fine but keep reading.
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  Installing Watchtower Library

  by Twitch in

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  you know, it's funny.

  i have my dub parents pc here for a tune up and one of the things they asked of me was to install the latest watchtower library from cd.

  i said sure and am doing it at the moment.

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  Gilberto

  If it installs everything I wonder how hard it would be to hack into the files in the computer and do some judicious editing?

  I doubt you may make the WT look stupider than it is.
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  The story of Tom

  by iamfreenow in

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  tom was a friend of mine, a very good friend.

  he lived in a village on the outskirts of our territory, and was in his 60's and retired when he became a jw.

  tom studied with my husband ron, often accompanied by me.

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  though the JWs don't have the truth, I believe he benefiited more than most from being one.

  I think your right Marion. There are older ones in the cong who do get looked after by the brothers and sisters. But only if they kept going to meetings (in my experience).

  If more JWs were like Tom, especially elders, kingdom halls would be far more pleasant places to be than they are nowadays.

  I loved those character types, they would just say what they felt from the platform and had the congregation in stitches. Not sure about progression to elder though. He would be too dangerous to have in that position as he would not have toed the party line if he didn't agree with it.

  Love your stories Marion. Keep them coming
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  Maybe Interesting Blood News

  by truth.ceeker in

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  i had a meeting with my heart surgeon yesterday, and after informing him of our faith, my wife still holding onto to parts of the organization, the dr. said that, "there is a new form that just came out last year from your mother church in new york.

  " what this document does is (1) make it clear that the person is not allowing blood to be used, (2) makes it clear that the dr. will have a court order ready in case blood is deemed medically necessary to sustain life and (3) absolves the person's conscience of any guilt if it came down to it.

  i'm not sure if this document has been discussed before, but i thought that it was a bit intriguing.

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  Gilberto

  Best wishes to your daughter.

  I have heard about this before for minors. The reason being that the hospital would get a court order anyway if blood was required. The society have come to realise the bad publicity it causes and they can't win anyway because the court will always alow the hospital to transfuse.

  It seems your wife is starting to see through the teachings.

  Good luck
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  My life as a Jehovahs Witness

  by iamfreenow in

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  i have been writing my story today, before i joined the forum, and my friends linda and trev have encouraged me to post it.

  actually, i found it very therapeutic to write it al down.

  i hope it doeasn't bore you too much, as it is rather long.

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  Thank you for your story Marion.

  I will copy it to show someone I know who has come to realise the lies but needs some encouragement. She is in her sixties and has been pinning all her hopes on the new system so she feels completely at a loss with her life.

  I think your story will help her to see the courage she needs also the freedom that you actually can do what you want. Not relying on the watchtower to control every aspect of your life.

  Dansk this Km would fit with them selling their farm

  *** km 5/74 p. 3 How Are You Using Your Life? ***

  Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world’s end

  Other quotes about 1975 can be found at

  http://www.reexamine.org/quotes/1975.htm
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  Let's All Say "Thank You" To The People Who Run This Site

  by Arthur in

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  i realize that threads like this have been done before, but i don't think that it hurts to do one again.. i personally appreciate this website so much.

  it has been an absolute treasure-trove of information, research material, emotional support, and simple enjoyment.

  and, it's free of charge!

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  Thank You!
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  Jeff Foxworthy....You might be a JW if....

  by Lady Liberty in

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  hello all.... sat around the campfire this weekend and laughed our butts off coming up with jeff foxworthy type humor.

  it was so funny we thought it would be fun to run a thread here... i'll start.... "if your only yearly vacation is a "trip" to the district convention...you might be a jw.".

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  ...you feel smug when thousands die in an earthquake
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  were there any FIASCOS IN YOUR CONGREGATION?

  by badboy in

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  any takers?

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  Well it fianally all came out thank to Jah's holy spirit

  Didn't that prove you had the truth. That Jehovah would always reveal wrongdoing, (in his own time though)
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  Death and Ex-JWs

  by Mysterious in

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  it's a long weekend so it's time to bring out a big issue, death.

  i know it's something most ex-jws (at least for a while) struggle with when they exit the organization.

  i think a weird moment for me was yesterday when my boyfriend's parents called.

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  For me I am not sure I really could comprehend living forever, I could think about being alive today and I would want to be alive tommorrow so I could carry that through and so living forever was maybe okay.

  So it was not an issue that bothered me on coming out. I still feel that I want to be alive tomorrow and so on. I may be wrong, but as you get to an old age you will start to accept and come to terms with death. Having said that, I feel very sad at funerals when you see and feel the pain of bereaved ones somehow death doesn't seem fair.

  Sseeker4 sums it up for me

  We need to live the life we've been given now to the very best of our ability. Good work, good friends, creating, loving, laughing - whatever it is that gives us satisfaction and joy. ;No one is really going to change the world all that much, but we should do what little we personally can to make it a better place for our having been here.
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  My life as a Jehovahs Witness

  by iamfreenow in

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  i have been writing my story today, before i joined the forum, and my friends linda and trev have encouraged me to post it.

  actually, i found it very therapeutic to write it al down.

  i hope it doeasn't bore you too much, as it is rather long.

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  He wouldn't behave on the ministry, and eventually we stopped taking him after the day just after his 13th nirthday when he asked the young girl who opened the door if she wanted to go to the cinema with him instead of offerring her a magazine

  Nice one!