Topics Started by lighthouse19something

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"Pioneer Syndrome" - Pioneers from the 1990's are getting very sick in 2009! Theories?
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
just heard sister g______ is very ill and not looking good at all.

shes in her 40's and looks like an old lady!

very tired she can barely manage to work a day or two because she has to...i myself crashed with glanduar fever and was tired for 4 years...still others have developed "pioneer syndrome" tired, always ill with no cure, increased need for sleep.
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Have you ever caught Elders in compromising situations?
by Cheetos in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i ran into two of them at a (r) rated violent movie during a very boring assembly once, i knew them and they knew me i didn't give a dam and they knew it, they seen me go out and i seen them go out of the theate so we were all even and grinning all the way back to events center.
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Name Things JWs Would Do If The GB Told Them To
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
this could be veryyyyyy interestinggggggg.
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Which would be easier to defend, JWs or Mormons?
by undercover in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
whenever i ponder on the beliefs and practices of the mormon church, i wonder how anyone can belief such rubbish.

even when i was an active jw i looked at mormons as down right kooky, what with their special underwear, the book of mormon, the american indians being isrealites, the tablets, etc, etc, etc.

i was glad as a kid that i wasn't mormon because at least as a jw we could drink sodas.... even after i discovered that i was in a f'd up religion and made my way out, i still see mormons as so out there, that there's no way you can defend their beliefs, yet so many people become or remain mormons.. when i compare mormon beliefs with jw beliefs, it seems easier to disprove or discount mormon beliefs vs jw ones.
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Relief for nighttime leg cramps
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in
1. social
2. physical
okay, i'm closing in on 500 posts, but have almost no 'new topics' to my name.

i don't feel like starting anything profoundly spiritual.

so, i'll share this tip that has worked for my kinfolk.. on both sides of my family, we frequently suffer from nighttime leg craps.
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New Name For Watchtower?
by sweet pea in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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ok everyone, just some fun here - no i haven't got wind of any change in the pipeline but, if the watchtower bible and tract society were to ditch the name watchtower altogether, what would they call the watchtower magazine instead?

all suggestions warmly welcomed......
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***** Name a reason people wont make it through Armegeddon *****
by FlyingHighNow in
1. jw
2. friends
let's start a list of reasons why you were told, or overheard people telling, won't make it through the big a day.

i'll start.. 1. they don't take showing up for cleaning the kingdom hall seriously and never show up.

i overheard a sour puss old elder say this to his wife after he just gave a scolding talk on it.
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What's the BEST thing about being "out" of the "truth"?
by B_Deserter in
1. jw
2. experiences
for me, it's having friends that i don't have to hide my lack of meeting attendance/service from.

it's amazing how they teach you that only jws can be your real friends, but in reality, it's all contingent upon your religious "performance.

" sure, if you're not going to meetings, they'll try to be "friends," by encouraging you to go back.
4
I'm getting married in a full gospel church- jw parents will attend!
by lighthouse19something in
1. social
2. relationships
my elderly jw parents have been attending the non-dominational church with me.

my father is still hard line, but goes if my mother does
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Is the JW religion slowly turning into 7th Day Adventist?
by White Dove in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a friend of mine says they seem to be.

her sister sent a memorial invitation and said, "will you be going to the memorial of christ's death?

" she said that the use of "christ" was strange.