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  R.F. Update: I guess it's working....

  by R.F. in

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  .....dropping of the face of the jw world is what i'm talking about.

  hello all, thought i'd fill anyone interested in on what's been going on with me............. well life has been great.

  my relationship with my parents is great even though it's been a year since i've severed all jw activities.

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  Got a Memorial invitation.....

  by R.F. in

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  i received one a couple of weekends ago while i was out of town.

  some local jws left it here in the door jammed in between a couple of wt mags(mags that i still receive).

  little did i know that there was a campaign for it's distribution.

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  Reinstatement to inactivity.

  by R.F. in

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  2. beliefs

  a person is disfellowshipped, works hard to get reinstated and once they finally are, they go straight to inactivity and you almost never see them in the kingdom hall again.

  when i was an active jw i couldn't understand why a person would go through the process of reinstatement only to become inactive.

  i understand why now .

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  Elders: How were/are you to be towards the disfellowshipped?

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  2. beliefs

  as we know that the elders are the only ones officially allowed to seek out disfellowshipped ones for the purpose of helping the get back into the congregation.

  i was wondering though, how are they to treat the df'd when out in public?

  are they instructed to completely shun them then?

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  What if regular meeting attendance wasn't a requirement?

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  we all know how regular meeting attendance is the ultimate way of measuring the "faith" of those among the religion, other than field service reports.

  what do you think would happen with the attendance numbers if you were only encouraged to go as a sort of option, if you weren't hounded for not attending regularly?

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  Quick question about KMs

  by R.F. in

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  2. beliefs

  do the boes give kms to the inactive?

  in the time that i was considered "irregular" they would send me the km by way of my dad, but it seems that i haven't received any since i've been on the inactive list since a few months ago.

  i'm certainly not upset over this, and i frankly don't care, but i'm just curious as to if the org thinks the inactive shouldn't receive one.. robert.

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  Thank You All

  by R.F. in

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  i realised that the end of the year is upon us, and now that i think back, it sure has been one hell of a year.. i have never been through so many changes within this short a time span ever in life.

  between the death of my formerly held jw beliefs, the death of a very close family member, the death of an engagement, and the extremely high life-threatening surgery which almost caused the death of my mother (because of the blood issue by the way), things were very rocky, and of course i was hit pretty hard by those things.. i wanted to thank all of you for the support you've given me throughout these 7 short months.

  alot of times, it is a great source of help just to sign in, not post, and just read some of your experiences.

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  Tennessee vs LSU

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  the sec championship game is on between these two teams.

  where are my fellow tennessee fans here on jwd?.

  i'm glad tennessee got in this year even though i was hoping florida would, but tn is my next favorite team so it's good.

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  Just finished talking to an old JW friend....

  by R.F. in

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  ....and it was all that i expected.. she and i were extremely close at one time, but we sort of lost touch with each other over a year or go or so, not getting to talk to each other much within that time frame.

  she's a very hardcore pioneer as i once was.

  i think that's why we got along so great.

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  Avoiding an Elder

  by R.F. in

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  i'm almost six months past walking away from the religion, and one of the elders has risen and thrown a monkey wrench into my entire plan.

  things have been great actually.

  since i've managed to shed myself of congregation responsiblities, the elders have gotten off my back quite a bit.

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