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  How do I hear/feel God?

  by doinmypart in

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  this is a serious question.. i know people that hear/feel god (and see postings about people's experiences), but i have not experienced this.

  i have never heard anything audibly (or otherwise) nor "felt" anything inwardly.. i've prayed, read, quieted my thoughts, etc...but still nothing..

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  The Humbling of Anthony

  by Duncan in

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  i didn’t really care for anthony very much.

  at the time of this story he was 13 or 14 years old, a clever and precocious kid down the hall.

  he was extremely zealous about the truth and took it, and himself, very seriously.

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  Anthony had that precious "theocratic" quality, freeness of speech.

  He'll be fine.
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  Woman jumps into pool during Long Beach DC!

  by puffthedragon in

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  http://youtu.be/dht3cedgg6e.

  watch the right hand side of the screen.. .

  i am trying to imbed it but can't make it work.

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  She probably had to sit through one too many summer conventions! Then the thought came: "I wonder if I could..."
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  The Vent of Whathehadas

  by whathehadas in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wish i could go back and get away from all the time i spent sitting in those kingdom hall seats.

  i wish i could go back and take back all those comments made for the watchtower and book study.. i wish i could go back and take back all the money spent on buying suits and book bags.. i wish i could go back and take all the money......no wait....some of the money that i placed in the donation box.. i wish i could go back and hang with all the friends labeled as bad association.. all in all, i hate that orginization.

  the time spent there worrying about my "spirituality" and trying to be happy amongst fakeness.

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  Of course the "good" that can be found in WT (and individuals who are JW's) can be found elsewhere. The point is....we weren't "elsewhere" or able to get there, or we would have *been* there! We were all doing the best that we understood at the time, with our individual limitations, be they material, intellectual, etc., and WT is where we ended up. That's why I say I don't regret anything: it's where I was, it's what I was able to access, it had "bad" and "good" just like any other option (whether or not those options were accessible to me in my particular circumstances at the time). It isn't about the cost; people "pay" whatever they have to when their backs are against a wall, and that's how we were...or we wouldn't have taken the WT Way. So, having done it, why gripe? Grieve, maybe, but not gripe. Take it for what it was (good and bad both acknowledged to the degree appropriate for each) and move on. Or complain, crumble, and be crushed. Your choice.
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  untitled

  by Gorbatchov in

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  yesterday i visited the local congregational meeting.

  some elders did parts of the meeting.

  i mentioned they acted tired, worn out and on routine.. they walked slowley, tired to the stage and did so walking from the stage.. it seems they are fed up with it.. gorby.

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  Typical propaganda, Gorby... Slow and tired do not mean fed up. They mean Slow, and Tired.
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  The Vent of Whathehadas

  by whathehadas in

  1. jw
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  i wish i could go back and get away from all the time i spent sitting in those kingdom hall seats.

  i wish i could go back and take back all those comments made for the watchtower and book study.. i wish i could go back and take back all the money spent on buying suits and book bags.. i wish i could go back and take all the money......no wait....some of the money that i placed in the donation box.. i wish i could go back and hang with all the friends labeled as bad association.. all in all, i hate that orginization.

  the time spent there worrying about my "spirituality" and trying to be happy amongst fakeness.

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  If what you did back then was the best you knew and could understand at the time, why are you complaining now?

  I don't regret any of it. The way I look at it, there were things I needed to learn and help I needed to have, and WT/JW's-as-individuals provided that assistance in a manner that I could comprehend and accept. Now, what came along with the "good" may not have been all positive, but when is everything ever "perfect" in life?

  As bad as it was, there was good in there too! Acknowledge both....and move *forward*.

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  The WT doesn't believe in infant baptism, but does an 11 year old really understand what they're getting into isn't just a pool with a lot of people looking on?

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a scene from today's "safeguard your heart" district convention of jehovah's witnesses.

  (with thanks to ignacio luis gutierrez).

  http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/182579_326510270757133_1763913794_n.jpg.

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  If, by "understand what [he] is getting into" you mean a commitment to do "right" or "good", the answer is yes; an 11-year old can certainly understand that much.

  If you mean understand the convolutions of the WTBTS, even an adult can't understand that!
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  Song 101 - Making Known the Kingdom

  by AnneB in

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  "there was a time we did not know the way a christian ought to go...".

  i have no idea why this song came into my consciousness just now, but..... why wouldn't a "christian" know the way?

  isn't that what jesus (the christ) spent his public life teaching???.

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  What's troubling me is how we could have sung that without questioning!

  Why *wouldn't* a Christian known the way to go? Because they hadn't meet up with Watchtower yet???

  All those years "in" and never gave a thought to the meaning of what I was singing.
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  Song 101 - Making Known the Kingdom

  by AnneB in

  1. jw
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  "there was a time we did not know the way a christian ought to go...".

  i have no idea why this song came into my consciousness just now, but..... why wouldn't a "christian" know the way?

  isn't that what jesus (the christ) spent his public life teaching???.

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  "There was a time we did not know the way a Christian ought to go..."

  I have no idea why this song came into my consciousness just now, but....

  Why wouldn't a "Christian" know The Way? Isn't that what Jesus (the Christ) spent his public life teaching???
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  Kendrick in good standing in Oakley Congregation ... wow !

  by RubaDub in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  can anyone imagine the what the elders in his current congregation must be going through ?!.

  in their ideal world, they would have df'd him once they knew there would be a trial so they could play the card "he's not one of jw's.

  " but since it occurred in a different congregation and he was already punished, there is little they can currently do.. wow, imagine the buzz in the kh when the info started leaking out.

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  What about the old standby, DF'd for "bringing reproach upon Jehovah's name"? Wonder why they aren't they DF'ing him for that?