for me it was Bible reading, where you could express your own opinion, in line with present truth of course.
pre the change it was awful listening to some fool telling you his opinion of bible highlights
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only part of meeting you enjoyed
by martinwellborne infor me it was bible reading, where you could express your own opinion, in line with present truth of course.. pre the change it was awful listening to some fool telling you his opinion of bible highlights.
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How Many Here Have Any Ties To JW Relatives or Friends?
by minimus inare you completely jw free?
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cant say would give the game away
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A title for a book on leaving the Witnesses - Any suggestions??
by Witness 007 inhere are some of mine but there based on the witness publications that stick in my mind.. "you won't live forever in paradise on earth.
" "revalation it's grand climax in my pants.
" "reasoning with our scriptures.
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OVER THE YEARS I HAVE COME TO REGARD YOU AS, PEOPLE I MET!!!
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Bethell-monastery
by martinwellborne inanybody believe these places are just modern day monasteries with all their inherent problems of cooping up a bunch of folks who aint supposed to think about sex
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i agree, i have read of this before, and i would heartily recommend the book "who on earth is tom baker" for an insiders view on leaving a religious house. it made me laugh, almost die laughing.
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What lengths did you go to, to not miss meetings?
by exwitless ini posted this in another thread, but i thought it would merit a thread.
the elders in our cong.
likened missing a memorial to an "unforgivable sin".
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i am so messed up that i did not realize, until now when i am gone 6mths how tired we all were, stressed, ill, tortured, chewed up, used and spat out.
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that's when he finds out the republicans actually got in again, religionist as#'*les
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JWs are growing
by stillajwexelder inok i got my world population infor from here.. http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop.
if the jws have an average of 6.7 million publishers and there are 6.7 billion people in the world then simple math tells us the publisher to population ratio is 1:1000 .
i will update this thread as i get information which i do not have in front of me at the moment because i am at work.. in 1980 the worlds population was 4.5 million and yet there were 2.5 million witnesses - so the jw: world population ratio was 1:1800 .
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only in ignorance
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How could an ex-Jw become Catholic
by My Struggle ini don't mean this to be offensive to any catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the jw.
also, i know little about the in's and out's of practicing catholicism, as i have never had any interest in being one.
regardless i am always surprised when an ex-jw says that they have found the real truth in catholicism.
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i have no idea, especially if they have ever read "Vicars of Christ, the DARK side of the Papacy" by Peter de Rosa. an ex jesuir priest. i could harly put the book down for laughing, crying etc. it stunned me. without a word of a lie.
read of pope after pope who were atheists, sodomites, murderers, soldiers etc.
'#;*- it's unbelievable
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PO kids
by memphisbelle inthis is pretty amazing !
this girl is the daughter of a man who was a major elder in a local cong.
for years, he had no problem telling anyone within earshot how to raise their children, and tel them what they were doing wrong, and what wonderful pioneer - missionaries his kids were going to be.
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yeah, two in our old hall long gone, most unspiritual kids ever known
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the winner wa hay