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  Shawshank Redemption and leaving Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i doubt very seriously that i am the first to make the connection of exiting jw's and much of the movie "shawshank redemption".. frequently, the injustice that many experience as baptized members of jehovah's witnesses cause them to want to resign, to leave.. but it is a prison of sorts.

  if you leave and announce it, you are shunned.

  and no one will talk to you.. shawshank is such a remarkable movie to me for its simple, underlying theme; finding meaning in our suffering, and never stopping the fight against injustice, esp against our own freedom.. the best part of the movie is the line "you can either get busy living, or get busy dying.".

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  Elder Disfellowshipped Last Night

  by wifeofjw in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my jw husband tells me last night a elder was disfelloshipped.

  totally unexpected by the cong.

  well, my hubby was really upset by it.

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  LaidOff Bethelites: Weeping And Gnashing of Teeth

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't let any of the watchtower's propaganda deceive you.

  i encountered some private conversations among witnesses about the subject and it's ugly.

  yes, there is suffering as many of these victims try to live on charity and can't find jobs in the worst economy since the depression.. some of their private observations include shock that you need a college degree for nearly any job and that the watchtower society couldn't have picked a worse time to do this to them .. all the while these complaints are discussed, i try not to show that i am astounded by their bizarre "logic".

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  Southern IN

  by swa in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  any members here from the area?

  just curious.

  p.m. me if you don't want to post for all to see..

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  Watchtower Sends Legal Notice To Website Regarding Coyright Infringement

  by Bangalore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower has sent a legal notice to the owners of the eds blog for posting copyrighted material without permission.

  here is the link to the trancript.

  the site owners response is also there.. .

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  Reverse Engineering the WTS CD ROM

  by besty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has anyone ever done this?.

  would be cool to be able to run custom searches like the overall incidence of certain words or scriptures on an annual basis.

  i'm sure smarter than me could come up with some handy uses..... thoughts?.

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  "Remember, nobody can REALLY love you unless they know and love Jehovah first."

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "unless they know and love jehovah first.

  they love "jehovah".

  they discuss how to make sure that though they are in charge, everyone doesn't see them, they see the great and powerful jehovah.... oh.

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  Straight from the C.O.

  by swa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello all, i have been lurking, looking, reading, and digesting for around 2 years and it seems the time is right to post.

  i recently had one of those moments at the kindom hall where i found myself looking around thinking "am i the only one who gets it, why doesn't anyone else have this puzzled look on their face?".

  said during is second talk to the congregation "all of our food, our magazines, and all our wonderful books, and videos come from/through these 9 men".

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