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  "Hello from Phats"

  by phats in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).

  so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.

  my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).

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  Q: What would you call them if Phats was able to influence his ENTIRE FAMILY to wake up to TTATT?

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  A: Phat's Dominoes!

  (Groan, rimshot.) I'll be here all week.

  Oh, and, WELCOME TO JWN!

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  "Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom!” Regional Convention 2014 - releases and info

  by OwnAccord in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  info from someone at the regional convention:.

  (sorry about the format).

  matthew 6:33 keep on seeking first the kingdom.

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  Thanks ownaccord!!!

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  The Venting Thread

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

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  Welcome aboard phats!!!

  And to answer the OP, here goes:

  People who make the committment of getting a dog..... but think it's OK to let it poop all over the place.

  (Never go out the door without two poop bags in your pocket or a permanent poop bag dispenser on the leash.)

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  The Venting Thread

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

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  My Experience and how I finally let myself see the truth

  by OneEyedJoe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first off - for those lurkers who feel guilty just for being on this site and reading this (even if you don't read any further, as it is your right to choose that course) i want you to know that you're not alone in what you're going through or in what you are feeling.

  if you read on, i hope my experience may be of some small help to you.. this may be long, but i'll try to organize it in a way that doesn't make it painful to read.

  to start, i feel it is most beneficial if i'm upfront and honest with my goals from posting this, which are (in order of the degree to which they motivated me):.

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  Join a gym together and go to a group class.

  Lots of nice "worldly" people there who will eventually be destroyed.

  Try to make some good friendships there.

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  Article: To save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients die

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  to save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients diedoctors at the university of pittsburgh medical center plan to treat trauma patients with an experimental procedure that induces hypothermia by replacing their blood with freezing saltwater.. .

  by kate murphy.

  the new york times.

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  If this becomes an established ER protocol, I bet they'll cobble together some version of a dialysis machine, except it won't actually be doing any dialysis, it'll just be "circulating" the blood. And, lo and behold, this new machine will take about an hour before the highly diluted blood starts making its way back into the JW's body.

  Hey, if it helps save some otherwise death-sentenced JWs, I'm all for it.

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  JUSTICE #4a - Blind Guides & Molesters

  by Amazing in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

  matt 23:24 (kjv) .

  jesus' style of illustrations often employed the use of extremes.

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  Not sure how you define "traction", but almost 2300 views isn't bad.

  Jay Walters, aka Amazing, hasn't posted here in a long time, but his strategy of awakening his family gradually by keeping his elder hat and using the family study to plant seeds of critical thinking skills was a blueprint that also worked well for our family.

  Thank you Jay!

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  Handing in '' Field Service Report '' even if you're very ill.

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my mom has not been to any meetings or participated in field service since august 2013. she cannot walk due to all her medical conditions.

  she is either in bed or sitting in a wheel chair.. our family hired a caretaker monday - friday to help her eat, take her to the bathroom and sit with her in case she needs anything.

  in the evenings and weekends, we have family members take care of her.

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  I remember when the "15 minute" option was put into effect. For someone like my aging Mother with multiple health problems, it truly has been a "loving provision". (I can't believe I just typed that.)

  What's unloving is the whole hour-reporting, number-centric approach to FS and the labels (regular publisher, irregular, inactive) and guilt that go along with it. I'm pretty sure my Mom has always been able to get in at least an hour or two a month, but for her, it's comforting to know that the 15 minute option is there if she needs it.

  The only way she will ever miss a month of FS is if she's in a coma. At this stage of her life, it's an integral part of who she is.

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  True Stories from the Tower - Part 1 "From Anointed to Pedophile to Bethelite"

  by BluePill2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.

  during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.

  as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.

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  JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.

  i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.

  i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.

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  Apparently "Jill", the owner of Just For You Invitations, has no problem creating a "Mass booklet" that even the priest liked!

  http://www.justforyouinvitations.co.uk/?m=201401

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  Thank you for making us the most beautiful wedding invites, mass booklets and seating plan. All our guests complemented our stationery choice. I think more than any other complement we had the personalised framed plan for our 25o guests looked just the part in the Irish Castle. Our Mass booklets even impressed the priest! Your talent and dedicated service are 1st class. A big thank you.

  Sarah and Liam

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  I wonder if she bothered to check with her elders on that?

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