Topics Started by Elgiard

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Can't Understand Why This Is Allowed
by mariet in
1. jw
2. experiences
i moved to roseburg, oregon.

the jehovah's witnesses are allowed to set up a display and man it right outside of the local library, and they are there every day and hour the library is open.

i am [redacted], the director of the douglas county library system and wanted to respond to your website email of december 11, 2015. i have consulted with the county attorneys office about your concern about jehovahs witnesses use of the front porch of the library building in roseburg, and my understanding of the law is as follows.. .
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Try Other Religions
by Sofia Lose in
1. jw
2. experiences
sometimes i get a strong curiosity to start dabbling into other religions, other faiths, you know?

really different ones such as islam, judaism, hinduism, etc.. has anyone here looked into something else?

has your spirituality been satisfied by any other than christianity?.
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What was your eye opening moment?
by WasOnceBlind in
1. jw
2. experiences
if you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?.

i think for me it was the time i saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a da'ed jw.

i thought to my self "no way jesus would do that.
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"God loves me but He doesn't love you"
by stillin in
1. jw
2. experiences
damn!

how can you go around telling people that!

?.
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Do you ever fantasize...
by i_drank_the_wine in
1. jw
2. friends
...about funny revenge plots on the jw's?.

- dressing up properly, going to a random memorial where the people don't know you, and "partaking of the emblems".

- going to a random kingdom hall where the people don't know you, give a couple "real" jw comments to earn trust / cred., give a third comment that contains the "f" curse in it, then act like nothing happened.
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Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact - R. Dawkins
by unshackled in
1. jw
2. friends
the washington post published this richard dawkins response to perry's evolution is "just a theory" comment.

refers to him as an "uneducated ignoramus" and doesn't spare the republican party much either.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/attention-governor-perry-evolution-is-a-fact/2011/08/23/giqauifuyj_blog.html.

q. texas governor and gop candidate rick perry, at a campaign event this week, told a boy that evolution is just a theory with gaps and that in texas they teach both creationism and evolution.
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Did you hear your Disfellowship Announcement ?
by Pitchess Co-Gen in
1. jw
2. experiences
i got this topic from another forum .

when i was in my judicial committee (2009); after the decision came to disfellowship me one elder asked "pitchess are you gonna be there to hear your announcement .

now i said "no i'm moving 75 miles north of los angeles " ( they tried to get me to stay, but thats another topic ).
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Do You Think President Obama Takes Too Many Vacations?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
this guy enjoys his fun time!.
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Depressing
by mankkeli in
1. jw
2. friends
isn't it depressing to believe that this is all there is to life?, an elder told me today that philosophers, apostates, free thinkers and many other enemies of the truth alike do not offer any hope for the future.

but this is the only organisation offering the hope.. what do you think?, the thought of living for just 70 or 80 yrs and not returning back is very depressing or do some other line of reasonings offer any hope?.

i am just curious..
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Any Tourettes syndrome in your congregation?
by fade_away in
1. jw
2. experiences
a huge number of jws have mental illnesses.

i knew someone with a schizophrenic disorder and he would occasionally forget/refuse to take his pills which made for some very embarassing moments at the meetings and on service.

he would come to our house claiming he is jesus christ in the flesh and would get upset with anyone that didn't believe him.