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  Ending Bible Study

  by Maria Nieves in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been studying with jehovah's witnesses for approximately two years.

  initially, i liked the studies and felt that i was growing closer to god.

  however, as the studies progressed, they seemed to become increasingly negative and i did not like what i was being taught.

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  Skimmed over earlier pages myself.

  Just want to add that the guy I studied with totally smothered me and was controlling. I knew what was happening but thought I was smarter than that and remained polite. ( I had a great hunger for learning the Bible and still have much respect and interest in it ) For whatever reason I wanted to get baptised asap just to get him off my back. Once I did it didn't get any better as it was just only more work and 'privileges' Ultimately I had no choice but to switch congs. and lessen to work load and enjoy life more. Then began my fade.

  They really do have issues with personal boundaries, as in non existent..

  PS : Yes on selfishly racking up hours for themselves. Brother study was a pioneer and invited me over for supper, study at their house so his wife could sit in and count, it was unreal !! It was extremely costly to my own mental health. Last time I ate there close to 20 years ago I peeled out after pedal to the metal. I was driving a diesel Jetta at the time and if it would of been a higher powered car I think would of smoked out first and second !
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  Do You Take Any Special Vitamins or Meds That You Would Recommend?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we get older , we tend to feel the aches and pains or some tiredness like never before.. i have some friends who are in excellent condition and i’ve asked what their secret was.. some swear by cbd oil as a cure all for aches and localized pain.

  greek yogurt is a natural food that can attack gut fat as does taking probiotics.

  have you found anything that makes you more energized?

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  I'd like to try CBD oils for sleep as well. Any recommendations ?
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  Do You Take Any Special Vitamins or Meds That You Would Recommend?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we get older , we tend to feel the aches and pains or some tiredness like never before.. i have some friends who are in excellent condition and i’ve asked what their secret was.. some swear by cbd oil as a cure all for aches and localized pain.

  greek yogurt is a natural food that can attack gut fat as does taking probiotics.

  have you found anything that makes you more energized?

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  I've become salt intolerant over the years, BP shoots right up. Eliminated chips, salty peanuts and dressings. Use non slated everything, really helps. Have one if not two salads a day with chicken or tuna and cut way down on red meat, maybe one steak diner a week at most now. Water, drink at least a litre and a half a day, probably two or more on a good day. Sugar as well, cut down quite a bit on deserts but is way less harmful for me than salt is. No more alcohol drink near bear instead. Coffee one or two max a day, half sugar. One meal replacement per day on average for breakfast, Vega One all in one is best for me I find, Isagenix shakes are more fattening. Have that with a banana. As for mulit-vitamin I take the Isagenix AM/PM packs, very expensive and am actively looking for something as good at lesser price. Works for me as I was in very rough shape at 215 after getting out of the JW treadmill, claimed my life back. Long term damage to me was the high BP that the "best life ever" engendered.

  Oh and lots of mountain and fat biking combined with free weights and stretching. Doing ok for my 55 years, 5'9" 185 looking for 175-180 this summer.

  Hope this helps
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  A look at Robert Alter’s translation: The Hebrew Bible

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a look at robert alter’s translation: the hebrew biblethree volumes labeled as, "the five books of moses"; "the writings"; and "prophets.

  "verse numbers appear in the margins.

  my take: some view this as a plus, since this allows for continuous, undistracted reading.

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  good post, following
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  36 years old today!

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can't believe how fast time has gone by.

  my mom taught me that the world was gonna end by the time i was 25..

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  Good for you on being awake at 36 Joliette ! I 'knew' about 'The Truth™' since childhood but started attending meeting at 37.. lasted a little under 10 years until I burned out from the never ending JW treadmill.

  Read NewBoys bethel adventures and out the door I went.

  Gut feelings, listen to them.
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  Please tell me I wasn't the only PIMO elder to do this...

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so a recent post by a troller linked to a youtube vid of the midweek meeting stream: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5119948566298624/great-announcement.

  just assuming everyone knows that this is the congregation in pt.

  richie, fl that wt uses for all the shut ins approved for logging into www.stream.jw.org with the privilege of getting their meetings at home.

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  Interesting, yes lots of copycats. Being new and stupid I'd come up with my talks on my own. Pulled off one or two really good ones but left me so exhausted from the stress build up I struggled to do anything decent for a while after..

  Used to increase the point size on my screen to fill the pages faster, what an ordeal for an introvert, never again !

  Good post, best life ever right.
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  Diversity is White Genocide

  by corrie54 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  asia for the asians, africa for the africans, white countries for everybody!.

  everybody says there is this race problem.

  everybody says this race problem will be solved when the third world pours into every white country and only into white countries.. the netherlands and belgium are just as crowded as japan or taiwan, but nobody says japan or taiwan will solve this race problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.. everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every white country and only white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.. what if i said there was this race problem and this race problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into every black country and only into black countries?.

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  One if my machinist's in Moroccan, nicest most hardworking honest guy you'll ever meet. Hired him on ten years ago and never misses a beat. He's up for retirement next year and willing to stay on a few extra years. Sure his family has issues with Islam, himself PIMO does the bare minimum and rarely of ever goes to mosque. Does not do the Friday thing as most do not here in secular Québec. Put both his daughters through uni. Brings us Cous Cous when they come off Ramadan and we stuff our faces in the shop, invited all of us over to his place once when he first hired on. His sister in law dated my programmer and they'd hit the sack for a bang hehe. ( just like JW, pious on the outside and horny as hell on the inside, pork pork pork ) Anyhow he really changed my perception of immigrants here. That and the kids that work at the local Tim's and Subways's beside it are mostly honest, hardworking and personable. Staff made up of Haitians, Arabs, Asians and am on first name basis with the guys at the subway's Italians, Syrians and Lebanese. Well brought up and ambitious one wants to become a real estate agent, others are all in their early college years.

  Oh my neighbour is a 63 years old Haitian general machinist, one man show. Another great guy and hardworking to a fault. He's there right now at work on a Sunday as I am. He's been there 25 years.
  

  Flip side of coin is the 35 to 55 or so years old of same origin that have auto repair and body shops in the neighbouring building to our shop are not so stand up.. I'd say at least half are shady so my generational argument may have some merit.. or maybe a blue collar / white collar thing who knows

  Anyhow just throwing that out there as it's interesting
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  Is The Person Who Helped You “Get Into The Truth” Still Around?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i helped, unfortunately, many people to become baptized jws.

  recently, over the last few years, i saw many of my students who were still “ in the truth “ lament that i was no longer associating or active in the faith.. i do feel bad that i did such a good job that most of them still are in the cult.. are your teachers still around or did they wise up and leave the lord’s organization?

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  The guy that 'encouraged' me to go the the hall in '00 is in south america running a cong. as PO. That and waiting for his inheritance by staying in and active in JW land. ( dad was a CO ) The two guys I studied with are elders, one sort of woken up but justifies it all by sugar coating everything. The other is PO of a somewhat local to me hall and has made a carer of it, in for life. Very brainwashed individuals, that latter one especially.
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  Remember The Green Song Books

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  then new and improved purple song books that came out in 1966. then there was the brown song book and a even newer one in 2006. .

  thousands of hours wasted singing those stupid songs and their stupid lyrics.. song 106 "watch how we walk and watch we talk.

  i remember inserting different works in the lyrics to relive the boredom.

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  As a new convert I actually though at least a few were fun to sing along with and maybe one or two had a nice melody, was it #15 ? Some ended nicely with a long piano note if whoever was at sound would let it taper off. Many I found hokey but was interesting to 'witness' a little bit of that backwards culture I felt. Yes the new song book is atrocious and happened right around the time I started my fade to dissociation. Whoever came up with the idea for a new song book dropped the ball big time.
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  Big Announcement in Montreal

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.

  this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.

  wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.

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  Confirmed : Westmount and Lakeshore ( metro Montreal congs.) closing !