Topics Started by featherimiss

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Could you live with not talking to your JW family for the rest of your life?
by ÁrbolesdeArabia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one of greatest obstacles to leaving the organization is the destruction of the family unit.

as lady-lee wrote about oompa, i thought of this topic, the society says "this is their way to get wrong doing people to return to the loving arms of jehovah after they repent of their sins" .

i know of men and women who are in good standings and hate their fellow spiritual jw family, i am willing to bet, wager that "jw-hatred" exceeds the worlds hatred, something about a self-assured group versus the "not so self assured' creates one plucked up structure.
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Do JW now believe that they are not the only true religion?
by featherimiss in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hi all...it's been a while since i've visited the site.. i was speaking to a jw friend of mine last night.

and she said that they stated at the latest convention that they were not the only true religion.

is this true?.
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Email from my grandmother yesterday.
by elder-schmelder in
1. jw
2. experiences
here is an email that my grandmother sent me yesterday.. .

shawn, it's very difficult & sad to come to this decision, but because of your attitude towards the truth & us personally (thinking that we are stupid) we're going to treat you as a disfellowshipped person from now on.

actually, you're worse than them because usually they know they have not kept their oath to jehovah & don't speak abusively of the organization and don't turn apostate.
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Governing body member engaged... Again!
by OneDayillBeFree in
1. jw
2. experiences
just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!
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Sitting Still at Meetings has Become an Impossibility
by venusinfauxfurs in
1. jw
2. experiences
since i know the truth about jw, and still have to go to meetings for family reasons (and because i don't want to leave my friends, either) i get so sick in my chair in the hall.

i can't pay attention, i can't sit still knowing it's all such a waste of time and a big fat lie.

i get weird symptoms like: the feeling that i'm going to almost pass out, very sweaty or very cold, and weak legs though i'm sitting down, and the urge to get up and run away.
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Was it EX JW literature / WT's or the BIBLE which woke you up? Post scriptures if any....
by EndofMysteries in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i considered myself immune to ex jw stuff.

no amount of old watchtowers or anything would change me.

it was seeing treatment of others by elders and the bible itself, which woke me.
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HELP I need some ex-elders help for a phone conversation with my JW parents
by cyberjesus in
1. jw
2. experiences
ok this is the deal: i was dfd 14 years ago, i was just planning to go back last year.

i had planned to come back with a clean conscience so i started to study and research the wt to prove to myself this was the truth, the elders had met with me to suggest me to submit a letter of reinstatement, in the same meeting i told them i had some questions that i needed help with before i was to go back.

they said they were gonna answer those questions after i was reinstated :-d so i went by myself and started doing my research.
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Where Are You From?
by finallysomepride in
1. jw
2. friends
alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .
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big d wants to meet a lady
by BIG D in
1. jw
2. friends
ok , i know im new and many dont know me, but time will change that, i have dated some, and i think dating someone with the same life experiences that we all have, would be great!.

i know this site is not for that, but heh, im here , your here?.

big d .
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I need help telling Mom
by momzcrazy in
1. social
2. family
ok guys, i have really come to respect your advice.

now i need some please.. my sister and i left the borg at the same time, coincidentally, for different reasons.

she told mom already, as they are in the same hall.