50% of what? How do they know how many people actually got the tract? How many of those things are just blowing about the streets of millions of housing plans
Amber Rose
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Get Your Barf Bags Ready.....
by Sunspot inthis was just posted on an aol jw board:.
jehovah and jesus are really reaching out for those sighing and groaning over the detestable things happening in the earth.. .
thought you might want to hear some interesting news.. .
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How long can a person hide?
by Amber Rose inhere is my dilemma.
i am grown and married but i stlill go to the same congregation as my mom.
my dad is not a jw, just my mom and sister but she lives an hour away so it is just my mom and i. as i have come to realise that the wts is 100% pure junk, going to meetings and hearing "the friends" talk has become unbearable.
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Amber Rose
Thanks everyond for your comments. You helped me get some perspective on the issue. I knew what I needed to do all along I guess I just needed a little nudge. Thanks.
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How long can a person hide?
by Amber Rose inhere is my dilemma.
i am grown and married but i stlill go to the same congregation as my mom.
my dad is not a jw, just my mom and sister but she lives an hour away so it is just my mom and i. as i have come to realise that the wts is 100% pure junk, going to meetings and hearing "the friends" talk has become unbearable.
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Amber Rose
Here is my dilemma. I am grown and married but I stlill go to the same congregation as my mom. My dad is not a JW, just my mom and sister but she lives an hour away so it is just my mom and I. As I have come to realise that the WTS is 100% pure junk, going to meetings and hearing "the friends" talk has become unbearable. I had been going for a while just to keep up appearances. Fortunately, the last month or so I have had solid excuses for not going but I knew that it would not keep up forever and it is starting to wear thin. I'm going to have to go back. My mom is going to get on my case about where have I been. How long do I keep going? My husband refuses to go which makes it even harder for me, when people ask where he is and give me that look of "you poor little thing struggling to come to meetings, what an awful marriage you must have. " I wish I could just come clean and say I no longer think this is the truth, I'm not going to meetings anymore, but I know this would devastate my mom as this means I die at Armageddon, and she is very emotional. So it comes down to do I suffer eternally at meetings or send my mom into an emotional breakdown? Is there a third choice? Can I make this a win-win situation? Any Suggestions?
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Scriptures the Org never quotes in talks or publications.
by wanderlustguy ini just read a post today that caught my attention, and gave me an idea.. name off some scriptures the society rarely or never quotes and the subject they pertain to.. job 1, 1-3 and job 3, 1-5, birthdays..
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Amber Rose
I think you're thinking of Jeremiah 5:8.
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The Watchtower After Hours: Phone Sex!?
by Anitar inwell, it's good to know what the watchtower's priorities are these days.
they're facing dwindling numbers in the industrialized nations, a growing number of child abuse lawsuits, a pedophile database of over 23,000 members just waiting to be exposed, and what do they have on the front page of their website?
phone sex!!.
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Amber Rose
Oh, so it is ok to "pummel your body", just not while using the phone. But what is this about being "led as slave" ? ;)
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Watchtower Parody Page - Funny? Stupid? You bet! (Well, stupid...)
by AlmostAtheist inyou may be sick of seeing these, but i'm not sick of making them!
i hope you enjoy reading it even a tiny fraction as much as i enjoyed making it... .
(all links go to the same place, except the "search").
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Amber Rose
I love it!
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Are YOU Basically The Same Person Now As When You Were A Witness?
by minimus inthey say "the truth" changes people from nasty, wicked people to meek, honest hearted "ones".
now that you're out of "the truth", are you back to your old ways??
did "the truth" ever really change you??
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Amber Rose
I have stopped fighting myself.
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Do you remember giving talks?
by klydia ini'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.
i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?
did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?
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Amber Rose
Amber, how did you do? Did you get a "G?"
No, they don't grade that way anymore. Now you have a textbook that has excercises for each lesson and they just mark off if you completed the assignment and did the excercise. Actually, my husband who is a regular on this board wrote the talk for me. HeeHeeHee!
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Do you remember giving talks?
by klydia ini'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.
i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?
did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?
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Amber Rose
I gave a talk this week.
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The truth about the donation arrangement
by Wolfgirl ini never knew this...just found it today.
made me giggle.. payment of sales tax on literatureon 17 january1990 the u.s. supreme court made a ruling that sales tax must be paid on religious literature.
the following month, a letter from the watchtower society went out to all congregations stating that there would no longer be a set price for literature but that they would be given to the public on a donation basis.
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Amber Rose
This is what I find shocking: I probabably rank pretty high on the list of Most Oblivious JWs Ever, plus I was like 10 at the time that they made the change to voluntary contributions. People on this board seem to be shocked that there was a "real reason" for this change yet I always knew that they made the change because they didn't want to pay sales tax. How is is possible that a dumb little 10 year old knew more than some of you. (Not that I'm calling any of you dumb).
Amber