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  Now versus 7 Years Ago.....

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we have been out of the organization since 1-1-2004 - at least that is the way we mark it to remember.

  we began to read ray's books in late fall/early winter of 2003 - a thousand pages later and a few weeks - viola - we were out to never return.. i was contemplating just how significantly i have personally changed in that period of time - not the stages, though there have been many stages.

  but the raw contrast of my opinions, moral stance, and view of the world is amazing.

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  changeling

  Beautiful! :)
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  Another question about disfellowshiping

  by XPeterX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if the elders decide to disfellowship someone and after being reinstated it is proved that he didn't commit the wrongdoing,what happens then?do the elders apologise to him?.

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  changeling

  I knew a sister who was DF'd when she remarried after a divorce. Years later her first husband (non-witness)admitted he had cheated on her before they were divorced, thus breaking the marriage bond and freeing her to remarry. I don't know if she received an apology but no apology could erase the years she spent hanging her head in shame and being shunned as she went to the meetings attempting to be re-instated.

  I do know that her second husband (also not a JW) was not impressed...
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  I don't know what do

  by XPeterX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last saturday night my older sister,24 years old,not a jw,went to a party.to make a long story short she almost got raped by a guy who found the chance to do so (he has been accused of rapes in the past too).then my sister called 3 of her neo-nazi friends after the party to attack him.so they took knives,clubs,and crowbars and went at his house.he managed to escape and didn't apologise for anything.now they are planning to kidnap him,drive him in a deserted place and beat him really bad and make him regret it.what should i do now after all this?i can't sleep at nights..

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  changeling

  Your sister needs to call the police ASAP and press charges of attempted rape. If she doesn't then you should do it.

  Get that scum bag off the streets legally and leave the neo-nazis out of the picture.

  Oh, and your sister needs to get some new friends.
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  JW mother or not?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over the next 15 years, police checked in with sagala each year and sent her a questionnaire, but she had no new information.

  she said she periodically tried to contact her estranged husband's friends and family in mexico with no luck.. eventually, sagala said she tried to move on with her life.

  she started a long-term relationship withanother man, gave birth to two more children a girl and a boy and threw herself into worship at her jehovah's witness church.. sagala tried to recreate the life she lost with her first two when her new babies arrived: she gave birth at the same hospital, incorporated parts of their names in her new children's names and dressed them in the same tiny outfits she had saved.. "i went to church, i prayed, because as a mother, i'm not strong enough for the burden i have now.

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  changeling

  Not. At least not baptized. She could have said "church" to be understood. Then again, JW's don't go to the KH to pray (sounds like a Catholic thing)... Nah, this story's not right...
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  When people are in great danger from a source that they do not suspect

  by dgp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when persons are in great danger from a source that they do not suspect or are being misled by those they consider their friends, is it an unkindness to warn them?

  they may prefer not to believe the warning.

  they may even resent it.

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  changeling

  The WT teaches that witnesses who do not exert themselves in the ministry may become bloodguilty for missing opportunities to save people who could otherwise die at Armageddon. This instills a mentality that is not so much concerned with the people they preach to but about saving their own necks. This is quite different from sounding a warning of impending danger. One typically does this to save others. In both cases the recipient of the information has a descision to make, but in the case of many JW's the warning is given to save the warner's life first and formost.
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  The Ones Who Walk Away form Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin

  by changeling in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.markaelrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/omelas.pdf.

  blondie mentioned ursula le guin in other thread and it reminded me of this short story which i dearly love.

  i wanted to share it with all of you.

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  changeling

  Hopscotch: Exactly!!! :)
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  The Ones Who Walk Away form Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin

  by changeling in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.markaelrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/omelas.pdf.

  blondie mentioned ursula le guin in other thread and it reminded me of this short story which i dearly love.

  i wanted to share it with all of you.

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  changeling

  Google it and read it on another site Syl...
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  The Ones Who Walk Away form Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin

  by changeling in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.markaelrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/omelas.pdf.

  blondie mentioned ursula le guin in other thread and it reminded me of this short story which i dearly love.

  i wanted to share it with all of you.

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  changeling

  ????

  You can't see it? I can...
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  Watchtower says the ORGANIZATION is Jehovah's wife and our Mother???

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower may 1st 1957 "....we must recognize not only jehovah god as our father but his orginization as our mother...obedience to the living god and his wifely organization as well...".

  very catholic of them!!!!!

  jehovah is married to new york bethel!!

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  changeling

  Does any one recall letters from the WT being referred to as "letters from Mother"?
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  For those growing up with a non-JW parent

  by JWinprotest in

  1. social
  2. family

  just curious to hear from those that have gone through a similar situation.

  my dad was extremely opposed to jw's and went balistic when my mom converted.

  he did everything in his power to keep us from becoming witnesses, (forcing us to stay home from meetings, forcing us to go to church with him on holidays) but i think that worked against him, because we viewed it as persecution.. here is my question though.

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  changeling

  Tell him before it's to late. It will mean the world to him. :)