Posts by Decided

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If you wrote book about JW's what title would you give it?

by LogCon in

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many, after leaving or being cast out of 'the society,' have felt so strongly so as to write a book.

some well thought out and good reading.. my questions are the following:.

if you were to write such a book what title would you give it ?.

What is / was the first thing(s) you looked forward to doing once you were out for good?

by SecretHeart11 in

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one of the things that keeps me going is thinking about the things my family and i will be able to do once we are all out, together, and free at last.

(and we will be out together, i'm staying positive!).

i soooo look forward to christmas.

It's not what I look forward to doing but what I enjoyed not doing. Meetings, service, giving talks, looking after the KH, going to DC, WT conductor, service meeting arranging, home bible studies etc.

I really don't like Christmas and most of the holidays, too many birthdays to keep up with etc.

I just like living each day with wife and visiting my brother who is about the only relative left alive.

Ken P.

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Question to atheists: if there is no creator/god---

by prologos in

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if you are sure there is no god, do you then believe that we,our minds, are the highest intelligence?

not just of the universe, but the cosmos?.

Decided

All I know for sure is we all die in a few years here on earth.

No one knows what happens to what was life after that. The God of Christains will put us in a hell fire forever if we don't believe in him(according to some christains) others think we go back to dirt.

Life is a mystery and so is death is some ways.

Ken P.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Say They Are The Most Educated In The World. How Would You Prove Otherwise?

by minimus in

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they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.

how would you counter that belief?.

Decided

In my school my JW brother had the highest IQ in his class and I was second in my class, my best friend was first. I think the TMS and the meetings did help me learn to read a little early in my childhood. But later in life collage would have helped to get a better job.

Ken P.

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No more circuit assemblies

by justmeok in

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i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

anyone heard this yet?

supposed to start new service year.

Decided

They had food prepared at the assembly by us crazy voluntiers. I worked at about every assembly I went to washing dishes, emptying trash and about every thing else that needed done. I remember one assembly I went to and I didn't voluntier and it was so nice to be able to sit during the talks.

In NY we went out in fieldservice and the people there were so different than the NC folks. They asked why are you here ringing my door bell.

My main interest at the assembly was the young sisters. I met my first wife at NY. She was from NM.

Ken P.

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At what point did you destroy your Blood card?

by BU2B in

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i know for me it was soon after lurking here for awhile and reading some threads on the issue.

i remenber when i tore it into little tiny pieces.

it felt so liberating..

Decided

I don't remember when I got read of it. I did have a blood transfusion a few months ago and I didn't feel any guilt at all. My blood platelets went down to nearly 0 and I had to stay in ICU for a week. I'm OK now. They didn't find out why it got that way.

Ken P.

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Do You Own A Firearm? Would You??

by minimus in

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2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.

2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?

but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..

Decided

Down south almost everyone has a gun. I had an uncle-in-law who had a 45 pistol that he had gotten from a German when fightimg in ww2. He was a drunk that got mean with his wife and once tried to shoot her with it. For some reason it didn't fire that time. Later my parents got him to go to the KH and he quit getting drunk and did well for several years. One day he was eating with his wife and just fell over dead on the table. So many memories I have from those days.

Ken P.

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What do you miss about your pre-JW years?

by ohnightdivine in

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i'll start with my experiences during childhood up to high school years... i was raised in a typical catholic family (not very adherent, just keeping up with traditions but it was all that we knew).. just to let you know, i am alone in the "truth".. 1) short prayers with my mom before going to sleep.

it was short and i think that as a child, god was more real to me than when i became a jw.

i would say, "dear god.

Decided

I misunderstood the pre-JW years. I thought it ment before we left the JW cult.

Ken P.

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Questions on Evolution and the Existence of God and...

by ILoveTTATT in

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i know this is one huge rant, but i want to put my own questions and doubts in writing.. i am a fading jw who has become agnostic... i still believe in "god" and "jesus," but i simply cannot explain to people why i believe in them.

i just do.. about the existence of god: it is an infinite regress.

"all things were created by someone"... well... who created god?

Decided

We will never know the answers since we will all be dead before life changes enough to prove it.

Ken P.

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What do you miss about your pre-JW years?

by ohnightdivine in

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i'll start with my experiences during childhood up to high school years... i was raised in a typical catholic family (not very adherent, just keeping up with traditions but it was all that we knew).. just to let you know, i am alone in the "truth".. 1) short prayers with my mom before going to sleep.

it was short and i think that as a child, god was more real to me than when i became a jw.

i would say, "dear god.

Decided

My young days playing in the woods with my good worldy friend and family, brother and cousins. Back in the 40s it was a different cult, we could enjoy life as a young person. I played on the basket ball team at school, was in the senior play, in the band etc. Dated some worldly girls.

Ken P.