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  Then (1960) and now (2013)

  by theron ware in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw from the age of 7. i was df'd for apostasy in 1971 at the age of 23. it has been 42 years since i have had contact with any jehovah's witnesses, including my family.

  last year i moved to tucson.

  when i read that a district assembly was coming to town, and that it would be at the convention center only minutes from my house, i decided to check it out.

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  jamiebowers

  Thanks for your answer. Yes, you'd be as big an apostate today as you were years ago. Studying Bible history....what nerve, LOL!
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  Then (1960) and now (2013)

  by theron ware in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw from the age of 7. i was df'd for apostasy in 1971 at the age of 23. it has been 42 years since i have had contact with any jehovah's witnesses, including my family.

  last year i moved to tucson.

  when i read that a district assembly was coming to town, and that it would be at the convention center only minutes from my house, i decided to check it out.

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  jamiebowers

  Welcome to JWN! I'm curious about the "apostate" beliefs for which you were disfellowshipped. Would the Watch Tower consider them as such today, 42 years later, or did you believe something back then that has become "new light" in the meantime?
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  Help me in my quest to free my sister

  by Ed Daly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi there everyone, looking for some advice on helping my sister who is studying the bible with a jehovahs witnesses to escape.

  shes been studying for over a year now and attends meetings occasionally.

  i have been looking for a way to help her for a while now and the answer fell into my lap last week, during her study last week she mentioned that her son was going to a birthday party.

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  jamiebowers

  Help your sister get a "proper grasp on the Bible":

  Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

  http://biblehub.com/colossians/2-16.htm
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  Today Is TotallyADD's 5th Birthday

  by Reopened Mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no, he is not 5 years old, he is 59 today.

  totallyadd like many of you was raised in the cult and not allowed to celebrate his birthdays.

  he was always on the outside looking in, deprived of cake and comraderie.

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  jamiebowers

  Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Two witness rule in 1645

  by trujw in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/george_spencer_(new_haven) in 1645, thomas hogg, another servant in new haven, was imprisoned for several months for very similar crimes.

  a sow gave birth to two deformed piglets that resembled hogg.

  however, hogg never confessed to the crime, and the requirement of finding two witnesses could not be met.[1].

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  jamiebowers

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Spencer_(New_Haven)
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  AEDs: What's more important , $$ or lives? (You probably already know the WT answer. )

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to osha, approximately 1,000 americans die each day from sudden cardiac arrest.

  the majority of these occur outside a hospital and survival rates in the absence of an automatic external defibrilator are very low, (1 to 5 %).. .

  http://www.osha.gov/dts/tib/tib_data/tib20011217.pdf.

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  Veterans groups in our small city donated AEDs to the police deartment about a year before my husband's cardiac arrest. He was the first person the police used it on. A friend and I started CPR to no avail until the police arrived. My husband's pacemaker showed that he was dead a full five minutes. He wasn't revived until after being shocked eight times. Thankfully, he CPR that was done kept enough oxygen circulating that he did not get brain damage.

  I was told that AEDs only cost $3,000, (that was three years ago). It seems like a small price to pay to save lives.
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  Another Pet Peeve About District Conventions

  by EmptyInside in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well,i haven't been to a convention since i started posting here.

  but,since my family is attending one soon,i was having flashbacks.. one of the many things that would irritate me would be running into old, so-called friends.

  these are ones that while in the same congregation we were close,but then,once they moved,nothing.. and it's usually them just still living five minutes away,but since they go to another hall and can't be bothered now.

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  jamiebowers

  WOW, I can't believe you've been out for four years! You are such a lovely young woman, and I can't imagine ignoring you if you lived ten minutes from me. It's their loss.
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  Got a angry letter from our oldest son today we are very hurt from it.

  by TotallyADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i got home today from work my wife showed me a 5 page letter from our oldest son.

  he basically said he does not what anything to do with us because of all the wrong things we did as parents to him and his brother.

  he blames us for not being there for him and we are toxic parents.

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  I'm sorry you two are going through this. I had a feeling that your unwell daughter-in-law was behind your son's anger upon reading this thread's opening post. She's a very mentally ill woman from what you've told me in private. Unless your son gets help from a real therapist, he is going to allow his wife, and the jw "therapist" by extension, to form his opinions.
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  con artist JW

  by outsmartthesystem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my good ol soon to be ex father in law told me a few years ago (before i had told him of my horrible apostate ideas) about a "client" of his.

  my fil used to be involved in the insurance/finance industries.

  he had a lady client that was about 20 years older than him.

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  Absolutely contact this poor woman's children. If you don't know who they are, you can give an anonymous tip to her county's Adult Protective Services.
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  I think I've planted a seed!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i could be wrong, but i can't help but be a bit optimistic.last night my parents and i had our "family worship night".

  i hate it, and i believe my mother does too.

  my dad only does it because he's an elder but last night even he was acting like he didnt want to do it.

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  jamiebowers

  I'm so happy for you! May I make a suggestion? Since your mom is not well, why not start FWN by reading some comforting scriptures to her and send her to bed early? Then you and your dad can research anything the two of you want....you on the internet and he with the Watch Tower publications. If your mom's problems are health related and may require a transfusion, the blood issue would be a good place to start.