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  Those of us who left the WT for less than noble reasons

  by Aussie Oz in

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  sometimes i feel like a second class apostate...not that anyone has ever said anything to make me feel that way, i just do, you know what i mean?.

  i left the jws because i just couldn't fight my flesh anymore.

  the battle inside was going to kill me literally.

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  jamiebowers

  "To thine own self be true" sounds pretty noble to me.
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  untitled

  by LoneWolf in

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  hi, folks,.

  there is something that is, for me, sacred.

  that is the family relationship.

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  jamiebowers

  You have a lovely family. It isn't any wonder considering the husband and father that you are. Happy 50th!
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  Do you have to deal with a psychopathic person?

  by moshe in

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  def: psychopathy (/sa?

  'k?p?i/[1][2]) is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness.

  psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime.

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  Our dog Princess was put to sleep today :(

  by factfinder in

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  i miss her very much.

  :(.

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  I'm so sorry.
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  Herbert the Entertainer!!!!!

  by NoRegrets in

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  anyone ever see or hear any of this?

  it's some amateur original jw music by a guy named herbert!

  he also dabbles in ventriliquism that is equally as terrible as his music!.

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  That's just sad.
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  WTS meet Penn State, Penn State meet WTS

  by iamwhoiam in

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  if child abuse affects football...its on the news.... http://abcnews.go.com/us/penn-state-scandal-paterno-speak-tomorrow/story?id=14894985.

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  I was thinking the exact same thing as the title of this thread when I read the article about Penn State this morning. What a crying shame this whole situation is!
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  Has anyone here actually convinced someone out of the truth here?

  by bottleofwater in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm talking about even people in their own congregation, or even a simple comment at the meeting that shut people up..

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  A poster here who goes by Tuesday here and Tim Kilgore on Youtube says he's helped over 400 people ut of the borg wih his videos. I believe him.
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  Confused...

  by raxxxx in

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  hiya and... i do not really know where to begin... currently a jw... slightly starting to fade... got a girlfriend baptised... i am baptised also... my head is a mess... i do not know what to believe anymore... never really fully trusted elders as it comes to 'leading the flock'... got burned a few times with their ... decisions etc.

  read a few articles in here about their alleged false beliefs... do not really know what to do... wondered if any of you felt like that at any point... when something that you trusted and followed most of your life... does not seem to be what you thought it was... .

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  You poor, sweet thing! Just about everyone here has stood where you now stand. Don't feel alone, because you're not. I read somewhere that it's estimated that there are more exjws than there are jws. Listen to all of the good advice here about keeping your mouth shut while you research. If it gets to be too much, you may want to see a counselor and start making friends on the outside, if you haven't already. You have made a good start by joing JWN. You will find a wealth of information, online friends, and maybe even friends in real life.
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  transitional progress

  by chickpea in

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  2. experiences

  stopping in quickly to update re: the progress.

  my transgender son is making in his journey.... this month he finally cleared all the requirements.

  to begin hormone replacement therapy and now.

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  jamiebowers

  ...he has waited nearly
  3 years for this and endured myriad circumstances
  that would have brought me to my knees...

  That just goes to show how important the transition is to him and others like him. I can't imagine what it's like to go through so much just to be yourself. Good luck to both of you.
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  JWs and the General Public: A Tragi-Comic Paradox

  by Room 215 in

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  it's bizarre to me for a religion as public as they are, and as obstensibly devoted to delivering the one and only message for the ages, with their tireless pounding on the public's doors, that they are remarkably averse to delivering their message openly -- on the air and in a public forum.. i suspect they know most of their core beliefs are indefensible, and downright cartoonish in their unwillingness to come to terms with unassailable facts of sicence and history relating to evolution, the age of the earth, the flood etc.

  and know they would be laughed off the stage at any public airing.

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  jamiebowers

  Don't forget that the door to door "ministry" is busy work for the sheep. It keeps them out of trouble by not giving them a lot of time to think, educate themselves, and partake in recreation.