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  What positive things can you take from being raised JW?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  rather than getting too down about wasting the best years of my life in a cult .

  i have a really great imagination.

  you have to have one to get through five hours of meetings per week at a young age.

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  I got to travel around the world with free accomodation...

  and learnt how to sleep in a toilet cubicle from boring talks.
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  Christianity in a nutshell

  by serotonin_wraith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let's see exactly what people are holding so firmly to, while all the time believing they aren't actually deluded.. section taken from: .

  http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1816,are-the-new-atheists-avoiding-the-real-arguments,edmund-standing-butterfliesandwheelscom.

  first, let's take a quick look at the basic biblical narrative:.

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  either way God and Jesus suck. A "loving" God lets things happen (half of it in the name of religion) and doesn't bother to do anything or give any real answers. It's all bulls$%t.
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  Did You Ever Say "Thank You For Disfellowshipping Me?"

  by Magick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's been a while since i cared about the current events of jehovah's witnesses.

  after leaving, my sadness turned to anger then bitterness, then dismissal.

  but recently, it's all come back to haunt me like a bad disease.

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  I'm waiting for the chance to say a big f$%^king thank you. Best thing that I could ever hope for. (and I want to use the "f" word when I do)
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  Have you changed your mind about ABORTION?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not after a discussion on the rights or wrongs on abortion, what i'm asking is whether or not your views have evolved over time.. perhaps leaving the watchtower was enough to allow your true feelings on abortion to find expression.

  maybe abortion is one of those subjects where you still find yourself in agreement with your old jw self.

  did becoming a mother change your perspective in any way or solidify your views?.

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  sparrow

  Since I read that post that quoted the WT article why God is ok to kill unborn children at Armageddon because they "haven't had the breath of life" - yes my mind has changed. First time my now wife and I did the horizontal mumbo I freaked out the next day when I found the "day after" tablets. Now - I don't know - I'm still making up my mind but I don't have the guilt trip over my shoulders making my decision for me. Hopefully I won't have to make the decision. We are careful and we are not that far off our plan of when we have children.

  If it happens to my children - I will lay out the facts as I know them and they can make the decision.
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  2008 District Convention Theme

  by R.F. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay, so it should be very soon when the theme for the 2008 convention will be made public.

  what do you think the them will be?

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  sparrow

  "why vasoline can help with what we are doing to you"
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  nine pages of BS from October AWAKE

  by purplesofa in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i hope that some of you lurkers out here really take a look at some of the thread in this section of the board.

  this awake magazine says not one thing about how families are asked to trust their elders and how these very elders were and are abusing their children.

  it mentions nothing about watching out for these trusted men in the congregations.............oh it brings out the internet, other family members and fathers and males in particular.. it will tell you how much your child needs to do to prevent something like this from happening.

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  marking for later and...

  Mike - I'm sorry about what happened to you. That is SO wrong and makes me mad. I really don't know what I would do if I was in that situation. I really hope your daughter is smart enough to see what's going on later on, leaves the mother and heads for father.
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  Disfellowshipping is good for a person

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my spouse was df'd 4 years before we were married.

  within 13 months she was "re-instated" and by the time we were married had almost healed from the "loving" treatment she endured in her "disfellowshipped state.".

  she sincerely believes that her life was enriched by being disfellowshipped because, as a third generation jw she had never "made the truth her own.

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  sparrow

  And thx to everyone here. Had a defining time the last 6 months alot due to this place.

  P.S Does anyone have a spare liver I could borrow for say...30 years or so. Promise I will give it back
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  Disfellowshipping is good for a person

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my spouse was df'd 4 years before we were married.

  within 13 months she was "re-instated" and by the time we were married had almost healed from the "loving" treatment she endured in her "disfellowshipped state.".

  she sincerely believes that her life was enriched by being disfellowshipped because, as a third generation jw she had never "made the truth her own.

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  I pulled up a random page and thought I would comment on a thread!!! Just so happens I pulled up this one and I totally agree! DF'ing is the best thing ever!!! You can cut out heaps of people you don't have to make chit chat to you don't even like. And then the ones that still talk to you, you can work on because they shouldn't be talking to you anyway so they ain't all that good!!! woo-hoo.

  Anyway, it's my first birthday party Friday so anyone in Sydney that doesn't mind coming out west a little - let me know!!!

  Happy First Birthday to me, Happy first birthday to me. WTF was I thinking the past 32 years, happy birthday to me!!
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  What happens to marriage partners in the 'New System'?

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  scenario 1 ..................when one 'faithful' partner dies in this 'system' and is resurrected and the other survives through armageddon.

  scenario 2...................both partners die and are resurrected into the 'new system'.

  as members are now dying off this is the reality facing those longterm aged members of the borg.

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  If I die can I have 10 mistresses - all with a keen desire to try new positions my perfect body will be able to bend into?
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  my mother sent this to me-

  by Younglove1999 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my mom sends me this to me and i hate these jw forward things- .

  i want to have a good response when she asks if i got it- because i feel like it has nothing to do with jw's, just a coincidence.

  i feel like she thinks i hate god, but it has nothing to do with him- it's the religion itself.

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  sparrow

  LMAO runningman - I can see him sitting in the corner mumbling "find a happy place, find a happy place" - in vietnamese of course.