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  President of Trinidad at the memorial??

  by Burger Time in

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  2. friends

  this email is making the rounds, i just got it from my mom.

  interesting, wonder if anyone will be voting for him....email in red.

  nice little surprise for the sister who invited him.

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  wizardca

  why is it that i want to say 1) this was already posted and 2) I saw those pics many many moons ago?
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  Vaccines,Alt Srvc,GB, NEW/Old Light---I think i'm starting to see the light

  by dirtyknections in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  [edited: see duplicate thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/158726/1.ashx].

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  wizardca

  It's a cell phone out in Florida. Yay Internet. Mmm...mobile to mobile minutes...mmmmm.
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  Am I nuts or what?

  by JK666 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this evening i am letting my ex-girlfriend's 18 year old son borrow my convertible for his senior prom.

  we have been getting along great lately, he invited me to play tennis with him, and had me come watch him pitch for his high school baseball team.

  until this week, he hasn't told his mom about seeing me.

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  wizardca

  ok so im curious too, what happened?

  hopefully he cleaned the footprints from the windshield....LMAO. think about it.
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  Respond ONLY if you are not an elder/ms...just for fun thread!

  by restrangled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course i am neither.....but as stated am related to too many heavy duty jw's its hard to fathom.. so.....who are you?.

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  wizardca

  i am not a ms nor an elder. i once was a pioneer. i once wished to be a ms, but no longer due. i have family in the borg, one is an elder and one a ms. another used to be a ms and another ms and elder. but that is not who i am. it is part of me as it occured and helped mold my life and thoughts. today, i am who i am, but im not you.
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  wizardca

  Was born into the Borg. The whole 1995 doctrine changed confused the heck outta me and planted the seeds of "er?". Stayed in the Borg due to family and being underage. Then a few years later started seeing MS being appointed and me being passed over. I wrote several of the talks (recently too) of those being appointed who were only doing the #2 talks. I was doing #4s and doing everything else a MS but they didn't want to appoint me. I hated going in the Field Misery. I realized that those who survive armageddon of the anointed couldnt go to heaven because that would be the rapture and we cant believe in that (see Reasoning book). I saw the way the congregation treated a sick family member of mine poorly; I was never part of the "click" ever and basically ignored but by a few people. I saw the hypocrasy of an elder intimadating a woman into having an affair with him and both got df'd. UGH.

  Oh and the clincher: I was regular selling pioneering but couldn't make the hours so I was fudging numbers big time...i wanted an education and had to work...so i asked for personal territory (it was the craze at the time) was ignored on my request, though I think that would have kept me in the borg. When I met with the group and said I was going to no longer pioneer, they got pissy and said i was materialistic (i had bought a newer used car since my old one was dying. car was well within my budget) yet it was ok for an elder could go buy a new lexus. He wasn't materialistic but i was. That started the major downward spiral outta there. SUCH BS. :)
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  Another JW charged with raping children

  by Burger Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  click here for link

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  wizardca

  was he a JW when he raped the girls or did he convert after the fact?
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  Do you ever miss it? Ever?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for me - rarely would be the correct word.

  i don't miss the indoctrination.

  i don't miss the wasted time in service.

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  wizardca

  In the beginning I did miss some of it...guess it was ingrained in my head and life to go the Kingdumb Hall. As time has passed, I mostly no longer have that feeling. Though on rare, very rare, occasions I miss an old part of what it was, things that were done as a group growing up which they no longer do anyways. Cryptic enough for you? lol.
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  2008-Watchtower is so cheap! - books cheaper covers, smaller Calander??$$

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i've noticed since the watchtowers tax problems,and publications now being offered without a price for "donations" the quality has gone down to save money $$$$ first the new calander is half the size of the original a4 size....it's hard to write your witnessing hours!

  remember the hard cover books that last forever...now paperback!!

  monthly awakes and study article only watchtowers for witnesses, saves alot of paper and printing.

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  wizardca

  paperback bibles??? whaaaa? seriously? i shall have to ask to see one of these!
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  Christians: Do You Uphold the Sabbath Law?

  by serotonin_wraith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if the biblical commands are to be followed, and god's morality outweighs or controls our own, i must say i feel the law about not working on the sabbath seems to be ignored for the most part.. some of the laws found in the ot have now been set aside by many christians - not stoning disobedient children, for example.

  believers may show how jesus' arrival on earth fulfilled certain rules which only applied to the jews of the time.. can the same be said for the sabbath law?

  it still appears in the ten commandments, and i was under the impression those rules had to be followed today.. if all sins are equal, it's a little odd how we don't hear of any groups picketing at supermarkets every week with signs saying 'god hates sabbath workers'.

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  Mathew 5:17, 18 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

  By fulfilling the law Christ satisfied it's requirements in our place. In other words, the 'required' obedience is accomplished in Him. Therefore, in Christ do we keep all the law faithfully, and cannot be accused. In this way, we are no longer judged by any of the everlasting laws, for we are under the Grace of God. The law doesn't condemn us.

  Snipped from: http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/oldlaw.html

  Or did I miss the point of the post entirely?
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  whats it like going on the "work" ministery

  by looloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a lot of ex dubs i know have said they did not enjoy it at all , and i certainly got the impression it was more of a duty than a privelidge by ones who are still in it , they even asked if they could use me to get thier time in !!!

  at work .

  i used to think to myself that at least the born agains look as though they actually enjoy worshipping god considering they are serving satan !!!!!!

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  wizardca

  hated it. of course we went to places i normally did business at. it was saturday, they were busy trying to make a living. i always felt bad interrupting them since I would have been annoyed if i was them.