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  Latest Watchtower Society News

  by qua in

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  there isn't any unless you have some (smile).

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  Flowerpetal

  I thought the article on Benny Hinn was interesting....
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  My Best Friends Still Love Me

  by Piph in

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  i had a talk with my best friend (who is still an active jw) the other day, and told her that i wasn't interested in remaining an active witness any more.

  i knew she would accept my feelings, because she's a wonderful person and is actually very emotionally healthy, but was afraid because i didn't really know how tight a grip the mind control had on her, and didn't know if she would feel obligated to back off in our friendship any.

  i was deeply afraid of that, because we're as close, if not closer than, sisters.. to my pleasant surprise, she not only totally accepted my feelings, but she already knew what i was going to say before i said it.

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  Flowerpetal

  Hi Phiph!

  Thanks for sharing your experience with your friends.

  It's really too bad when the org. stresses so much on d'fing/DA think and not let people make decisions and freely expressing them, without feeling like they are going to lose their best friends and/or family. Even though I think your one friend associates not wanting to be a witness anymore with not wanting to have anything to do with Jehovah, at least she expressed where she's at right now to you and accecpts your decision without judgement. If the org. could set at atmosphere for people to feel free to do that, and being non-judgemental toward those who want to leave, that would be a big step in the right direction. Hope your parents will take it well too.
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  Greetings

  by Dan76 in

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  just thought i would come by and say hi.

  i'm new here and very new to the idea that the wtb&ts isn't the truth.

  i'm not all the way there, but if anything, reading these boards help me get over some of my anxiety attacks.

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  Flowerpetal

  Welcome Dan and congrats on being a father-to-be!

  I am still "in" but am attempting the "fade."
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  Is the Trinity that damn important?

  by logansrun in

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  asked my dad the other day, a man who da'd himself seven years ago yet, amazingly, still believes 99% of what the dubs teach just what makes him believe the dubs have the "truth.

  " what were the first words out of his mouth?

  "well, they don't believe in the trinity...." .

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  Flowerpetal

  This is what I think is the most important thing:

  Luke 18:8b "Nevertheless, when the Son of man arrives, will he really find the faith on the earth?" NWT

  OR from the KJV: "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
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  THE BIBLE,God's Word or Man's?

  by Blueblades in

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  printed in 1989,who remembers studying this publication at the book study and what have you concluded then and now?.

  some chapter titles:how believable is the "old testament"?

  the "new testament"----history or myth?.

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  Flowerpetal

  For those of us who are "looking up old posts" challenged could you put the link up? Thanks!
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  Freaking savages--Muslim Women Killed in the West

  by ashitaka in

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  horrible.

  muslim women killed in the west.

  in the middle east, muslim are women are killed for disobedience, becoming too ?westernized?

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  Flowerpetal

  Teeny:

  My mother was married to an Iraqi.

  He beat her senseless for no reason. No reason. Do you understand? No reason.

  He liked beating women. That is how he was raised....IN IRAQ. Fine muslim values he learned.....

  I was in a chatroom on AOL several years ago and there was this Muslim guy in there that corroborates this story. He said women should be beaten at least once a day if not more. And he said he beats his wife daily.

  Teeny I think I would have done the same thing you thought of...
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  Did You Feel Pressured To Auxiliary or Regular Pioneer?

  by minimus in

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  a few times a year, the society really promotes pioneering.they will devote service meeting talks and parts stressing the need to regular or auxiliary pioneer.

  at the assemblies and at the district convention, they will try to shame you into pioneering.

  they give examples of 85 year old parapalegics that "made room in their lives" to pioneer.

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  Flowerpetal

  I was raised in the "truth" but worked for a while before I regular pioneered. I didn't do it till I was 19 and only for a year. I wanted to see what it was like, plus my mom's friend knew of a young sister (she was about 4 yrs older than me) who wanted a change from the city she lived in, and wanted to pioneer. So I thought this was the perfect opportunity. She even lived with my family and I. Well, as time went on, it turned out that we had different interests. Eventually I wanted to get married; she wanted to stay single and either continue to pioneer or travel (one of her goals was to see the entire world before she was 25). I don't quite think she did it by 25, but when I met her she had been to a lot of countries. Anyway, for that reason, and others I won't go into at this time, we stopped being partners and she went back to her town, and I got off the reg. pioneer list.

  During my high school years I would auxilliary pioneer with a couple of friends during summer school vacation. Back then even aux. pioneers had to get in 100 hrs. and place 100 mags. That was hard to place the mags. and it was a struggle to get the 100 hours in too esp. when you're a teen.

  Anyway, every once in a while after that, I would aux. pioneer. In fact, I was aux. pioneering the year a convention came to my city for the very first time, and they needed volunteers to work at "convention headquarters" which was a large KH built by wealthy JWs. This was waaaaayyyyy before quick-builds. I met my husband there.

  The last time I aux. pioneered was maybe 8 or 10 yrs ago. I worked with the reg. pioneers in my cong. and there were quite a few of them. One was pretty organized as far as territory was concerned, but the rest, especially this one sister, was sooo disorganized. All her literature was in the trunk of her car and she never looked at what she needed for the day until we were all ready to leave the KH for service. And they all had to congregate around her car to shoot the breeze for 10 minutes, and I would get tired of waiting. So the "joy" I was supposed to have in the "preaching work" was taken from me by the pioneers.

  Then a few years ago, the society started the Pioneers Assist Others Program. I was asked by the elders if I wanted to participate--which at the time I thought was redundant, because I was still working with the pioneers a few days during the week anyway. But it seemed nobody volunteered to work with them except one other sister. I told them I wasn't interested. I just felt I couldn't get any more involved with these pioneers than I was already or else I would scream. It's funny too that out of all those years, only one pioneer seems to be successful in getting someone interested enough to come to the meetings. And that started probably last year. But I'm not too sure if the lady will become a JW or not. Time will tell....

  Sorry for this being so long, but Min asked.....
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  Finally sharing my story!

  by morty in

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  for those who have not met me my name is michelle.

  (aka.mortons68)thank-you walter for the post earlyer last week for welcoming me.i have been wanting to do a post to introduce myself,but have not had the guts to tell my story.for one,i am very new to the computer , two, i was not sure about opening my life to complete strangers,and three ,my spelling and grammer is not that great at all.

  vicki,thanks for leading me to this site.

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  Flowerpetal

  Welcome Michelle and thanks for sharing! I agree with you that life is a journey as I am discovering, and you never know who is going to cross your path, as I have also discovered. It's great when it's someone you knew i childhood.

  I'm glad you and Vicki met up again and you will be a good support for her.

  Flowerpetal
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  Welcome sns

  by simplesally in

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  well, my friends, i have a friend who has just joined us.

  sns made her first post.

  i will let her choose what she wants to tell in her own time.

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  Flowerpetal

  Welcome sns and I hope you tell us what the letters mean!
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  "Outstanding" response to conventions?

  by expatbrit in

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  from wt media:

  outstanding national response to "give god glory" conventions.

  united states?jehovah's witnesses have successfully completed their series of "give god glory" district conventions for 2003 in the 48 contiguous states.

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  Flowerpetal

  LOL, Shotgun!