Yes I think I may have, because the thought of sitting through a Jw meeting makes me feel sick. sadly, I have started developing the same symptoms when contemplating bible study..
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Do you have a spritual eating disorder?
by Awakened at Gilead inwith all the talk of puking on the site lately, i wonder if many of us don't have spiritual eating disorders.... after all, many posters say things like "i'm puking in my mouth" while reading a pro-jw poster.. perhaps some have to really spiritually puke after attending a jw meeting to get the wt influence out.. so are you a spiritual bulimic?
a spiritual anorexic?
or do you just get that spiritual nausea when you see anything jw related?.
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New to board
by Maryblondgrl inwell hello all....yes...i'm a newbie.... and yep...i am an inactive witness.
haven't been to a meeting in a while.
my entire family are witnesses, actually had a relative that proclaimed to be of the 144000...thats how deep....this is third generation witnesses here in this family.
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Do You Really Like/Love Who You Are?
by minimus indo you love yourself?
do you think that other people enjoy being around you?
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I am liking myself more. I can be the person I like being. Rather than a Watchtower clone. I can dress with my own style, read what appeals to me, speak as I am impelled to speak. Yes, Now I can really be who appeals to me. I hope to really love who I am.
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Why have GB set aside another bible teaching?
by hamsterbait inwt june 15 p28:.
" jehovah rejected israel as a nation.".
yet romans 11:2 says: "god did not reject his people whom he first recognized.".
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GB sidles out of 1919 and puts 1914 in the bin. (WT study.)!!
by hamsterbait inhas anybody noticed in many recent watchtowers that christ is now said to have "turned his attention to the earth in 1914.".
unlike the 60's they do not say christ "came" in 1914. the "proclaimers book " p137 says the bible students came to discern that "christ did not return, (even invisibly), in 1914.".
the way is now paved.
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Is this a spoof?
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How many JW that are not raised in the truth have left the organization?
by THE_CHOSEN_ONE inaccording to watch tower statistics about 30000 thousand people per year left the organization.
my question is: how many of them in are not raised in the truth?
sorry for my poor english.
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I was baptized aged 28 and left at 42.
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Bethel moving from Brooklyn.
by strawberry cake inan old pioneer friend told me recently that the bethel is moving from brooklyn.
she learned this at pioneer school from the cos who taught the school.
also they warned of many changes to come.
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Thanks for info. So they're not moving to a compound in Guyana then?
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Bethel moving from Brooklyn.
by strawberry cake inan old pioneer friend told me recently that the bethel is moving from brooklyn.
she learned this at pioneer school from the cos who taught the school.
also they warned of many changes to come.
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An old pioneer friend told me recently that the Bethel is moving from Brooklyn. She learned this at pioneer school from the COs who taught the school. Also they warned of many changes to come. Has anyone else heard this. xxx Strawberry Cake
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Why I don't want to associate with pioneers
by JimmyPage insometimes i get flak for not having more "spiritual" associates.
the reason i don't really care for pioneers is that whatever interests or hobbies they have get replaced by the whole pioneering thing.
they become less like normal people and become more a clone of what a good dub "should" be.
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I was a pioneer. I gave it my best shot. I followed, as best I could all the suggestions from the WT on what 'Godly devotion' was (not!) I was wrong. I was had. It's all a crock!
Pioneers,publishers,elders, MS..all the same, just following the directives from the cult leaders in Brooklyn.
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What was your first Religious Experience ?
by Casper injust wondered how others first learned about religion.
i know "born ins" were taught from the start but the rest of us had to start somewhere.
my very first memory of anything supposedly religious was at the age of six... my grandmother took me to a "tent revival".
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I was about 7. I was on my own at a church Christmas fair. At this church fair I bought a raffle ticket to win one of three beautifully decorated christmas cakes.
One was of a winter scene, made of marzipan and icing.One was a chocolate log and one was made of strawberrys and cream. ( a strawberry cake) I wanted to win my favourite....the strawberry cake which was second prize.
I then wondered around looking at the stalls. For some reason, (this surprised me even then) I stole a toy from one of the stalls. I felt so bad. The guilt consumed me, as I walked around the church hall in my own world.
I decided I must put it back. So I prayed to God for forgiveness and put it back. I felt such relief and peace after I had done this. Later, when the raffle was called....can you guess? I won second prize... the Strawberry Cake. I believed God had rewarded me...I'm 42 now and I still believe it.
My adult experience was when I was about 25 and had come out of an emotionally abusive marriage. I was standing in a market place surrounded by people shopping and I felt like something was pushing me to the ground ( a heavy weight of depression, a dark cloud)I felt tearful and exhausted. I had this desire to curl up on the floor in the middle of the market.
Someone I knew said hello to me and I could not answer..it was as if I had forgotten how to speak. I just stared at them. They walked on.
At that moment I knew I was going to have a nervous breakdown....So I prayed, in my head..God help me, give me strength, I can't cope. I pleaded and begged hard. Almost instantly, a feeling of strength came back to me, I stood up. I could cope. I strode home, with a realization that I needed God in my life. I then started going to different churches and then to the JWs as I was familiar with them through my mum once studying with them. All my years as a zealous JW was me throwing myself on Jehovah as I felt I could not stay strong without him. Now that I have left the Org of false religion , I find I still have God (I still pray..)and I don't need organized religion to have God.
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