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  Smoking tobacco- ex-JW's have a warped view, so what should we do?

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  i used to smoke cigarettes.

  i quit as i was learning the lies of the watchtower organization.. i used to smoke between 1 and 3 packs a day depending on whether i went drinking or not.. .

  i didn't really quit for the religion, but as i was learning it.. i swore to quit when cigarettes got to cost me more than a buck a pack.

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  My father occasionally smoked cigars (non JW). My mother (devout JW) battled it until she had to have her carotid reamed out. My father in all his wisdom would say...it's not the tobacco that kills people but the stuff they put into the tobacco. I don't like smell of cigaretts and never picked up the habit but I believe that when you look at the ingrediants minus the tobacco it is as pure poison as meth. I don't know how the tobacco companies get away with this. Everybody jumped on the Chinese for poisoning our pets, babys, and toys but nobody goes after these SBs for what they do to people.

  DFing people for smoking is stupid. Show me literally where it says not to smoke in the Bible. What about obesity? If they Dfd all JWs for that there would be no more married sisters. (okay just a joke).
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  Is human death permanent?

  by The Berean in

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  the age old question ... is this all there is?.

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  Quantum Theory has some interesting things going on. We are probably just another form of energy that moves on when we die. I don't know about our "personality package". I think we do have a genetic memory passed to us. But for the time being the only answer I can grasp is that we will find out when we get there. Peggy Lee sang it pretty well.
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  losing my religion

  by imperialspy in

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  after 5 years away from the borg, it hasnt got any easier.

  in fact, in my mind, its got worse.

  the pain of losing a mother, father, two sisters and a brother, nieces and nephews, people i loved so dearly, has become ever deeper with every passing day.

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  On recommeandation of my counselor I started going to a Unitarian/Universalist Church. I found it to be a breath of fresh air. Well read folks who accept you as you are and no doctrines shoved down your throat. Great social connections and activities. You might want to give it a try. People have many personal beliefs there and it is not run from the top down but from the cong up.
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  WHAT WAS YOUR AHA! MOMENT THATIT WAS TIME TO EXIT THE BORG?

  by freewilly01 in

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  i had a huge light bulb on moment as i wasy in therapy dealing with a nasty anxiety disorder for many years and having a huge trigger in my life finally silenced.

  it was almost the last thing that i thought i would end up doing expecially if you asked my wife and myself even a year before our decision to " live " thats how i view it not decision to leave...........it was a decision to live.. .

  my therapist psychiatrist asked me who are you?

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  When I was included in ONE meeting with the elders and my "outed" husband and they asked, "Was there something your wife would or wouldn't do that caused you to turn to men?" That was it for me.
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  Poll Question: Would you personally want to live forever?

  by The Berean in

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  not i ....

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  dogisgod

  Yes. As long as I don't get old.
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  I need help regarding Michael's Jackson JW past...

  by JustHuman14 in

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  guys i really got some trouble here in greece with some jw's who claim that m.j was never a jw.

  they even claim that reporters and media are trying to create negative inviroment against jw's by saying that michael was a jw.. so you guys in u.s.a can you give me some links, or copies of u.s newspapers and media that show exactly the opposite..... thanks guys for your help.

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  Wow. I am shocked about Katherine. I guess I shouldn't be.
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  Just Wondering

  by dogisgod in

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  so the tues. book study is incorporated into ministry school night...does it run 2 hours still?

  the sunday meeting has been cut 15 min.

  where was it cut from...the talk?

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  So the Tues. book study is incorporated into Ministry School night...does it run 2 hours still? The Sunday meeting has been cut 15 min. Where was it cut from...the Talk? That leaves it to 5 meetings/wk into 2 nights. Is that correct?
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  New name for those who have left?

  by dogisgod in

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  hey guys, havent been here for a while but have you heard that the society is now calling those who leave "the walking dead"?

  i just heard this acouple of days ago but since my mom died i don't have a direct conduit anymore.

  sorry if this has already been discussed.

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  Hey guys, havent been here for a while but have you heard that the society is now calling those who leave "the walking dead"? I just heard this acouple of days ago but since my mom died I don't have a direct conduit anymore. Sorry if this has already been discussed.
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  "Jehovah Provides Direction to the Slave"

  by passwordprotected in

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  feb 15th 2009 wt pgs 24,25. .

  par 4 - subheading "jehovah trusts the slave".

  after quoting ps32:8 (ot)"i shall certainly make you have insight..", the paragraph claims that jehovah provides direction to the slave, stating "we can therefore have full confidence in the scriptural insight, understanding and guidance that we receive from the slave.".

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  My mom and I were talking over lunch about the FDS a few months ago. I asked her if she (very independant widow) would let a group of men she didn't know take over her life and tell her how to dress, tell her what to do with her money....especially to them, tell her where she should be at any time, how to think, how to speak, lecture on her sex life, tell her what God REALLY means in the Bible etc. Of course she said "No Way Jose" then why would you let these 17 penises do that very thing. She said that if all was taken away she would still have Jehovah. I agreed that that was all she really needed in the first place.

  Doesn't the Bible say ONE mediator? Jesus?
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  How do you best mend a broken heart?

  by Newborn in

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  not that mine is broken...yet....

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  dogisgod

  I guess it is time. The worst of it is when it keeps happening and you feel like your heart just will never get the chance to mend.