Happy Harvester

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  Lesbian Teen / JW Parents NY Times

  by DannyHaszard in

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  ?my parents had this big argument over whose fault it was, why i chose to be this way.

  ?new york times - sep 19 6:15 pmzy-tasia gaines.

  was born (1990) and raised in brownsville, brooklyn, and my mom raised me to be open to everything: to all types of sexualities.

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  Video games cause lesbianism?
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  JWD Prophets! You called it, what next?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  you guys are amazing.

  for some time posters here have been saying that big changes were afoot and that the "members only" wt would be used to announce this new light.

  i admit i was apathetic and thought, ok, maybe.

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  I see the closing down of kingdom halls and meetings held only in private homes or rental buildings, with individual congs footing all the bills for it.

  I see the society using all the kingdumb hell monies to pay off lawsuits for sex abuse scandals and to defend itself against wrongful death suits and to pay out more and more and more settlements to more and more and more victims of their b.s. re3garding the blood issue and sex abuse coverups.
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  Exciting announcements at service meeting

  by truthseeker in

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  we've already had a post on this, but there were other interesting comments.. the brother giving the announcements said that there would be a new understanding of jesus' reference to the generation as discussed at the annual meeting.. an elder giving a service meeting part review of different watchtower articles from the current year brought out the new light concerning 1935.. he asks: "when is the sealing of the anounted ones?".

  elder answers: "there is no specific date".

  later after the meeting, i asked an elder if the new understanding of the remnant now meant that younger people could go to heaven.. he answered with an affirmative "yes" and that we would be getting the new understanding of the generation jesus spoke of in a future 2008 watchtower.. .

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  Imagine all the gossip about the JWs now holding A.A. meetings in the KH!
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  Exciting announcements at service meeting

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've already had a post on this, but there were other interesting comments.. the brother giving the announcements said that there would be a new understanding of jesus' reference to the generation as discussed at the annual meeting.. an elder giving a service meeting part review of different watchtower articles from the current year brought out the new light concerning 1935.. he asks: "when is the sealing of the anounted ones?".

  elder answers: "there is no specific date".

  later after the meeting, i asked an elder if the new understanding of the remnant now meant that younger people could go to heaven.. he answered with an affirmative "yes" and that we would be getting the new understanding of the generation jesus spoke of in a future 2008 watchtower.. .

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  I think this opens the way for an international disfellowshipping party at the next memorial. Imagine if all the d'f'ed people show up and drink the wine and eat the bread! And then go outside for a smoke in the parking lot . . .
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  Gods Org. now and then...a history of sure abandonment

  by oompa in

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  i have read this nice letter to the boe reposted by eclipse, and there is something briefly mentioned at the beginning of it i find interesting:.

  indications are that jehovah may have removed his spirit from the organization as he did to his people in ancient times.

  should people ever "cling" to those who say god is using them?...adam and eve.

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  "History doesn't repeat. It rhymes." -Mark Twain
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  feeling for the edges of apostasy

  by inkling in

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  no matter where at the end of this journey i actually end up spiritually andphilosophically, one thing i am sure is that family ties are worth fighting for.

  i distinctly want to avoid being disfellowshiped for any reason, if at all possible.

  and, (since i am not about to go on a hedonistic crime spree) my biggest riskof being disfellowshiped is on the grounds of "apostasy", i am assuming.

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  Well, maybe, just maybe, you should avoid telling them that you don't want to be a Jehovah's Witness anymore. And don't get caught smoking, heh heh!
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  Secret Santa 2007 (forum gift exchange !!)

  by Angharad in

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  2. friends

  well christimas will soon be here !!.

  for those that are new we have done this for the last few years, what it involves is that those who want to join in will post to this thread and then pm me their name and address.

  i will then collate the names and addresses and assign everyone a person to buy a gift for.

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  I'm in.
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  have you found it difficult?

  by 4digitcode in

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  to make friends since you're out of the organization?

  maybe these things take time.

  it's hard to establish new friendships when ones i had for years floated away in an instant.

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  I've made a few good friends here and there. Unfortunately, it is difficult to realize that some of them are crazy until after you've known them awhile. I guess that's what comes from growing up with crazy people. Anyway, some of the friends I have are professional and well-adjusted, thank goodness. If not for them, I'd have lost my mind a while ago. Things are very, very difficult right now.
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  call me inkling

  by inkling in

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  i am witness, "in good standing", and (at the.

  moment) technically still a ministerial servant.. even as a child, i asked far too many questions.

  for my own good, doing much to bewilder and .

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  Welcome and good luck! You may not need it though, since you are a master of communication.
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  An Organization Made of Glass?

  by metatron in

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  take a look at most religions: if you change a doctrine here or there, it usually makes little difference.. you can be a catholic and take birth control.

  you can believe in evolution and still be active in most.

  protestant churches.. but what about the "truth"?

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  There hegemony is not as brittle as glass. It bends with "new light," year after year, generation after generation.