Topic by Esmeralda

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Should I post here anymore?

by Mindchild in

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that is the question i've been asking myself.

i'm not trolling for attention with this post.

nobody has hurt my feelings.

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I Don't Sympathise With Suicides

by Englishman in

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let me explain.. firstly i have seen any number of so-called attempted suicides.

i've walked past an old girl friends house, seen her watching tv through the window, by the time i'm knocking on the door she's told me that she had her head in the gas oven and my knock stopped her.. my mother in law walks into the sea for a pastime.

every time she can't get her own way she walks in up to her knees and waits for someone to see her.

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Disfellowshipping-when did it start?

by target in

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does anyone know when the practice of disfellowshipping by the jws started?

i doubt that it was done from the very beginning.

i was asked that question this morning and it is not something i have ever thought about before.. target

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my cousin's brother sends a card...grrrrr

by Mulan in

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my cousin, sharon, who died in september.......was disfellowshipped three years ago.

her brother is still a witness, and wrote a thank you card to an elder in the congregation here.

this elder and his wife came to visit sharon a few days before she died, and before she started to lose her ability to make sense when she talked.

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Fear and pain and death...

by Cowboy in

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do you fear death?if so,do you fear it because of the pain that is likely to go along with it?or because of what will become of your soul(your self)after death?.

curiosly,i find that i no longer fear death.not that i want to die-i don't.but i wonder if this how i should feel.. i don't like pain,but i have a fairly high threshold of pain,i think.i'm sure there is much greater pain than what i have experienced,but though i avoid it when at all possible(including spankings...sorry chat babes),i'm not afraid that i can't deal with it if i have to.. likewise death,i just have no great fear of it anymore.i don't think that it's due to my beliefs about what will happen after i die...i don't have any.sure,i was raised a j.w.,instilled from birth with the idea that if i didn't survive armageddon,that i'd be resurrected thereafter.but i don't buy that anymore...neccesarily.nor do i believe in the heaven or hell concept...neccesarily.i do believe that if i'm the best kind of person i can be,then it will have to be good enough for whatever,if anything,lies beyond the life i'm living now.. in talking to others,though,i find very few(if any)people who don't have a pretty high degree of fear about death.it has me wondering,and i'd appreciate your comments.. cowboy.

we ride and never worry about the fall.

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Welcome WOL Refugees

by Thirdson in

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a trip to wol.com will only present you with a farewell notice.

big ray writes:".

it saddens me to have to close the site, however, doing so will also help me to improve my own circumstances that have been so hard for me to deal with recently.".

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A Message of Love, Comfort & Hope For 2002

by Farkel in

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one of jehovah's christian witnesses took the time and kindness to e-mail the message of the "good news" jesus said to spread to all the inhabited earth: .

"u are a idiot as u no from the bible jehovah does not care how big the organization from isreal to the early christians they were always the gross minority do i sense bitter jealousy?

of jehovahs people judas?

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How Long A JW ( Baptised )?

by hillary_step in

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i frequently read on this board that somebody has 'been a jw for over 25 years' and then learn that they are in fact 25 years and three days old.. i am very easily confused, in fact i actually got inside a car of similar color to my own recently and spent at least five minutes with a furrowed brow trying to force my car key into its ignition, fortunately, i realised my error before i was arrested.

so, just to humor me, can you all post how long you were/are baptised jw's?.

thank you -- hs.