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  Trader Joes

  by asilentone in

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  i have never been there, but i am thinking about going to trader joes sometime soon.

  if you have been there, what did you buy?

  do you like them?

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  Bible study with PO/sister and wife, did not go well......

  by insearchoftruth in

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  last night....did not go well at all, at least in my opinion.

  i feel that the sister from her conversations with my wife started on a quite defensive mode....did my best to stay level headed, but i know there were times i was frustrated, and it showed.. .

  the husband and wife were about 40 minutes late, due to traffic, and they were not prepared to discuss michael/jesus, and with respect to the doctrine change, he merely provided me a 1995 and 1997 wt article, when he and i spoke on the phone, he said he was going to show me in the bible, he sort of danced around this a lot, but not to my satisfaction.. .

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  : )

  by Narkissos in

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  this may not be my last post on jwd but i feel the time has come for some kind of "goodbye thread" nonetheless.. i first ventured on (french-speaking) xjw forums in 2003, when my own jw past was already old history and practically meaningless to any of my acquaintances in so-called "real life".

  looking back, beyond mere curiosity i certainly felt the need to revisit this almost-forgotten chapter of my life story.

  what especially drew me to jwd and made me stick to it for the past five years was undoubtedly the extraordinary diversity of this board, and the wealth of experience, information and reflection it offered.

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  Wanting to talk to my mom

  by lostsheep82 in

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  so now that i've read as much as i could in the last 2 months and made my decision that this isn't the organization i thought it was, i'm scared, terrified, and feel helpless in some ways.

  my mom is a devout jw, a pioneer, her husband of the 'anointed', and they are very 'spiritually strong'.

  i'm wanting to compile a mini book to send to her with all the reasons and proof from wt books and magazines with quotes and stuff.

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  JWs insensitivity to human tragedies

  by behemot in

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  insensitivity to tragedy, especially when it interferes with their plans, seems to be the norm among jws.. the story about the kansas city k.h.

  suicide, and the concern local jws are showing, mainly toward the rebuilding of the hall, reminded me of something that happened in rome, italy at the 2000 international assembly at the olympic stadium.

  i was there as a delegate.. on saturday morning, just before the start of the program, a 27 y.o.

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  Do You Consider Yourself a "Bright?"

  by XJW4EVR in

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  i have recently been exposed to this term, and i am currently doing research for a paper on this movement.

  i am wondering if there are any on this board that would affirm this label for themselves.

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  Lawyers at Bethel

  by nbernat in

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  i heard that bethel pays for brothers' undergrad and law school expenses if they serve as lawyers, is that true?

  also, just to see the hypocrisy, would they accept someone who went to harvard law even if they weren't a regular pioneer?

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  Excommunication/Disfellowshipping is pagan practice--by request!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  excommunication/disfellowshipping is pagan practice!--by request!

  request from researcher: hi atlantis or n. or whoever!

  one of my friends on the board said that she downloaded the 1947 awake pdf that "bereanbiblestudent and invetigator 74" posted, and in the first issue on page 26, it said that excommunication or disfellowshipping was a pagan practice.

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  Do You Still Believe In Anything JWs Taught You?

  by minimus in

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  are there any beliefs that you learned from the witnesses that you still believe in?

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  my inactive family hates that I researched why the jws are wrong

  by sosad in

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  they don't want to hear it, they think i am being hurtful having so many books about cults, jws in particular etc etc.

  i never talk about it but they saw my bookshelves in my office during a recent visit and are besides themselves.

  they want to know where the anit catholic literature is - (my husband and kids are catholic, i am not).

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