Posts by jamiebowers

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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One years has passed since getting the boot. My story, past, present, and beyond.

by BreathoftheIndianNose in

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so 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.

jamiebowers

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Help me plan a birthday party for a 'sort of' JW

by skeeter1 in

a 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 .

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 in

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

jamiebowers

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Two witness rule in 1645

by trujw in

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].

jamiebowers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Spencer_(New_Haven)