Next you will see how exciting it is to find the perfect gift for someone else on their birthday. I just love hunting for the perfect gift...the right color and size if it is clothing, or something that someone would never buy for themselves, or something unexpected. It's a real thrill!
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My First Birthday!!!!!
by Gojira_101 inmy birthday isn't until the end of july but yesterday i got my first birthday gift in the mail.
my best friend (stubborn disbeliever) sent me my gift early.
i know what it is, but seeing it all wrapped up and knowing on my birthday i can open it...it really struck a cord with me.
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One years has passed since getting the boot. My story, past, present, and beyond.
by BreathoftheIndianNose inso as of today, it is my one year anniversary of being out.
i simplified it so that most people who know nothing of jws can understand.
in addition to writing this as self therapy, i plan to use it to educate others in my life who need to know more about where i come from.
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Help me plan a birthday party for a 'sort of' JW
by skeeter1 ina relative and friend of mine is turning the monumental "60" in 3 weeks.
he has "studied" with the jws since childhood, but never became a baptised member.
something is holding him back .
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jamiebowers
You could sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" instead of the birthday song.
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Then (1960) and now (2013)
by theron ware ini 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 ini 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 inhi 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.
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Today Is TotallyADD's 5th Birthday
by Reopened Mind inno, 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 inhttp://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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AEDs: What's more important , $$ or lives? (You probably already know the WT answer. )
by Open mind inaccording 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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jamiebowers
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 inwell,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.