Topics Started by Cynisister

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New Policy on Inactive Ones?
by Cynisister in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this may have been discussed, but i just recently was told that a km this past year stated that inactive ones are now to be treated as if they are df'd.

is this so?

cynisister.
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Another "Generation" change?
by Cynisister in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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Awake magazine 1973 The Dangers of playing Chess!! Why it's Evil.
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 "...the spirit of competion between players can lead to unplesant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in games to the chess board.

but in some homes tensions linger long after checkmate.

chess has been a game of war since it originated...a play substitute for the art of war....a danger of stirring up competition with one another even developing hostility towards another, something the bible warns christians to avoid doing...what effect does chess have upon one?
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Voting a conscience matter??
by Cynisister in
1. jw
2. experiences
happy new year one and all!,.

the local elders sent a letter home with my hubby, pretty much stating that after "many" attempts to visit and speak with me, this letter is once again asking to meet because it came to their attention that i voted in the last pres.

election.
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Did your wardrobe of clothes change when you left the JW'S
by Hairyhegoat in
1. jw
2. experiences
mine did and i have not put a suit on since escaping the cult.

the mrs has given all but 1 away to the charity shops and i have loads more room in me wardrobe now.

what items of clothing did you get rid of when you got out of the cult ?
14
Letter from elders
by Cynisister in
1. jw
2. experiences
the local elders have been trying to visit me (my hubby still attends meetings and he has told them i don't wish to speak with them), they left a copy of a watchtower (on helping inactive ones to return) in my door when i was not at thome, and this last sunday asked my husband if it's ok to write me a letter saying this is what they have to do.

they can't freely stop by as we have large dogs that would keep them out.. does anyone know if this is going to result in my being df'd??

i don't want that to happen yet as my husband's parents who are quite elderly, would be devastated.
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DC Talk on Generaton
by Cynisister in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
as i will not be in attendance for this year's district convention, i would love to know exactly what the talk on the new meaning of "generation" actually states.

i visited my recently widowed mother (who found the "truth" when i was a toddler, and therefore i was raised in the religion - quit it totally 3 years ago) and had a lively discussion on the implications of this "new light".

she seemed really disturbed about all the "new anointed" ones coming out of nowhere.
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X-Witnesses and Faders - have you had a help them return visit yet?
by eyeslice in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
with the watchtower study about helping 'lost sheep' return, i have been half expecting a visit.

i have mentally rehearsed how i should handle the situation, which is fairly tricky as i still have family in.

but no call yet.
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What Scholar said this?
by Cynisister in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in the dec. 15, 08 wt (i just scan the mags that my still "loyal" hubby brings home from the kh to see if there's any "new light') a supposed scholar is quoted in par.

6 of page 17 as saying in regard to acts 20:20: "paul had spent three years in ephesus.

he visited every house, or at least he preached to all of the people.
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Did you ever really have true blue friends being a Witness?
by Cheetos in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
looking back i don't think i really ever had any good friends being witness, cause if i would have some out of all those people and so called friends i thought i had, you would think one of them would have looked me up over the years.

what a farce.