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  New Age Gamer disassociates himself from JWs

  by easyreader1970 in

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  at the kh before the meeting with the elders.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enb0nzybt8.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duxbf1-xumw.

  may the force be with him.

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  Very painful. This cult can really screw up your life. The good thing is that he is young enough to truly start all over again.
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  ok what did I do wrong here

  by loosie in

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  my thread about the ex-diva, ex-slave, and x-masturbater got locked.

  there was no obsence images there.

  i wasn't selling the shirts.

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  shopaholic

  Went to read the article at the link in loosie's thread and then came back to post a reply and the thread was locked. Anyway, I thought it was hilarious. I couldn't imagine anyone actually wearing that shirt in public. Didn't see the point of the ex-diva t-shirt.
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  I have to pick my kids up from a 'congregation party' after :-/

  by digderidoo in

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  i have to enter a room full of em!.

  my kids have gone with my mother to a congregation party.

  apparently there will be line dancing, barn dancing, scottish dancing, you know the normal way they party hard..... anyway they wanted to go, for the food i think, so i wasn't going to stop them.. but i have to enter that room tonight to collect them.. pray for me.... paul.

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  Have you considered having your mother bring them out to the car when you arrive to pick up your kids?
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  No Gentials in New System? Does the WT say that?

  by asilentone in

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  read dune's post 788/789.

  if you can find wt article about the possibility of no gentials in "paradise", please post here.

  thanks!.

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  They state that all who are resurrected will be "as angels are".

  Yes, they for sure said this because all of my friends started getting married after this was covered in a Watchtower lesson. I had several friends propose to me so that just in case we died we both would have had some nookie. I took a pass since I had just started college. It was the same for older adults, everyone just started getting married like crazy after that. Folks would just show up at the hall one day and be married. It was insane.
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  Widespread speculation you'll never see in print?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  jws are very good at whipping up speculation without ever putting a word in print.

  maybe they learned something from 1975.. what are some of the things you remember hearing that are not "official doctrine" but lots of jws believe it anyway?.

  i've heard a lot of speculation that armageddon would either happen on nisan 14 or in october around the time they reckon the gentile times ended in 1914.. name some of the topics you've frequently heard unsanctioned speculation about.. .

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  Yeah, supposedly the end will come during the fall, most likely October, since this is when most prophetics event occur.

  Also, the end was suppose to come in 2007 because in 2006 it was clearly mentioned in several talks at the pioneer assemblies and from what I hear the elders KM school as well that we will not have another year in this system. It really got everybody all excited.

  The special campaign in 2006, I remember thinking that it was not all that special. However, other folks were thinking it was just the "sting" to false religion that would start the attack on JWs
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  who go ONLY to the memorial???

  by oompa in

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  i was planning on going to a meeting or two with my wife.......maybe one or two a month.....but if i do...... i still really do not want to ever go to another memorial......they have weirded me out for years and most of jw friends know that........but you know once you skip a memorial it is like you are marked for death already....i mean word gets around fast "omg...i just heard oompa did not go to the memorial!

  so how is this gonna fly if i go to a couple of meetings a month, but skip the memorial?

  and if was gonna try to appease my wife by going to some meetings.......should i just bite the bullet and go to the memorial........and then maybe only do the memorial?......i always thought that was sooo funny that we had a bunch of once a year jw's.........they loved coming and rejecting jesus every year..........oompa.

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  but you know once you skip a memorial it is like you are marked for death already

  So true but if you are going to go to only one meeting, it should be the memorial.
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  pics of my granddaughter...who will be 1 year old in a couple of weeks

  by coffee_black in

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  i can't post the pics...only the link... my son just sent this today... .

  i sat up posting on this board waiting for her to be born on my birthday... but she waited until the wee hours of the next day to be born... i can't believe it has been a year.... http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/my/images?tk=04eed0a3-e1d4-4375-b84f-b08fda8ef801.

  hope it works.... coffee .

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  She is absolutely precious. Beautiful smile and the hair is so cute!
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  Would you turn in your neighbour if he was a polygamist?

  by sammielee24 in

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  there are large numbers of muslims all over the world - i wonder what the laws regarding the marriages are in other countries and what would you do if you suspected your neighbour was one?

  sammieswife.. polygamy uk: this special mail investigation reveals how thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives.

  by sue reid.

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  No. When you really think about, its not such a bad deal.
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  Doesn't this quote ring a bell?

  by WingCommander in

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  "when our own thoughts are forbidden, when our questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished, when contacts and friendships outside of the organization are censored, we are being abused for an end that never justifies its means.

  when our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger.

  when we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult.

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  When we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult

  This was me for very long time. The sorrow was physically painful. True words indeed.
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  Just finished reading I'm Perfect, Your Doomed

  by cawshun in

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  i was disappointed in this book, i kept reading it hoping it would get better.

  i guess i got spoiled by this forum.

  i have found better writings and stories here and a heck of a lot more humor.

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  Intended to add it to the reading list. Thanks for the reminder. Maybe you're too far "gone" to enjoy the book.