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  Were You Also Molested by Tom Pulsipher?

  by feenx in

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  2. child-abuse

  a little background on my question: i recently was contaced by a cousin of mine who lives out of state because he wanted to apologize to me for anything he may have done that was unkind to me when we were kids (he's a couple years older).

  he also elluded to "images" in his head (what i'm going refer to as memories) of doing terrible things to me.

  this is the closest that any of my cousins have come to remembering or acknowledging the abuse we all sustained from our grandfather, thomas (tom) pulsipher.

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  is it ok if jehovah's wit...........

  by grewupJWnoselfesteem78-95 in

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  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses leave out and change words that appear in the original greek text because it does not fit doctrane ?.

  are people/organisations that do this not cursed by jehovah ?.

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  What was the 1st thing you did that wasn't allowed after leaving the JW's?

  by cognac in

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  2. experiences

  i haven't left.... 1 thing while i'm actually in is being here though.... i'm happy here.

  i actually feel for the first time really "right" about something... .

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  Can raising a child JW contribute to later psychiatric disorders?

  by journey-on in

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  2. beliefs

  i read about the high incidents of mental illness and psychiatric disorders among jehovah's witnesses and it .

  started me thinking about why this is and how so.

  then i made this list and realized how much a child's psyche.

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  1975 Letdown increasingly becoming topic of conversations among witnesses

  by Meeting Junkie No More in

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  2. experiences

  i have noticed that more and more, witnesses seem to be discussing the 1975 debacle amongst themselves, and agreeing that it is amazing that witnesses as a whole are all still here and the world is still here, and their kids are now in high school, or married, or whatever.

  they also seem to be discussing the importance of retirement plans, in direct contradiction to what cos and dos are spouting at the annual conventions.... the last time this happened was at a recent funeral, where another long-time witness had passed on.

  the interesting thing was that a younger group were discussing this, and some of them weren't even around in '75!.

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  I'm a Pioneer Married To a Wonderful Brother Reaching Out to be an MS...

  by cognac in

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  2. experiences

  and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.

  so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.

  all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.

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  For My Brother Aaron - I Grieve

  by wanderlustguy in

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  2. friends

  five months may as well be an hour.. .

  i grieve - peter gabriel.

  it was only one hour ago.

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  Need some clarification on something my mom said

  by Gringa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been out a long, long time.

  3 rd generation.

  my younger brother died a few months ago, he was 40 years old and had left the "truth" as a teenager.

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  where to go from here?

  by jacethespace in

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  2. beliefs

  some of you on here know that i have been fading for sometime now and stopped going to meetings for quite a while but the past month or so i have returned.i am still just not sure whether at the end jws will be found to be gods people or not.. well today i attended the early sunday meeting eager to try and do what i still think could be right and despite the doubts i have about the watchtower.. now to be fair a number of people came and spoke to me said hello and stuff.the majority just didnt bother.but what really got me today was a number of people who i thought were my friends were just hateful.i even held the door open for one of them and they just were so hatefull and gave me funny looks as if i had the plague or something.i left feeling like this is no diffrent to any other religion.

  some nice and other people not so nice.all i could think of on the way home was so much for jehovah never forgetting what you have done for him.im starting to wonder whether the bible is really gods word after all.. i just feel im at a fork in the road and dont know what to do for the best..

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  I sure hope Obama is our next President

  by Elsewhere in

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