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  I'm curious- why 'god'?

  by rimfiredancing in

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  i know how i got sucked into the b0rg- i was a very spiritual, very young and very emotionally damaged 19 year old (raised in a violent on all levels home, the usual stuff) who was having- and had always had- a lot of 'supernatural' experiences that had caused my mother to declare me 'evil' (and try to get me exorcised on the odd occasion).

  i'd become confused and was trying to work out if these things were, in fact, a sign of my rejection from 'god'.

  if i'd known then what i know now about the christian god, i'd have told the jw's to stick it.

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  Home Schooling

  by WTWizard in

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  it seems that there are a lot of witlesses that opt to home school their children.

  i had a family in my former congregation that did that, because the kids did not want to be around worldly people (sounds familiar?).

  it also seems that they are speeding things up, so the children can get out there and pioneer that much sooner.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses Are NOT Conscientious & They Don't Really Care!

  by minimus in

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  witnesses try to make it sound as though they are very very conscientious people.

  they care about you, your spiritual welfare, your everlasting welfare....but nothing could be further from the truth!

  if they truly cared, they would see to it that they reached people to give them the lifesaving truth.

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  can any one help

  by ladylove in

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  i cant believe after 20 years of not being a jw that i found this site.. if anyone is willing to read this, and has any knowledge on the subject, i dont want to hate my father.

  i am looking for biblical proof that shunning your family is ok, if it exist.

  brief history .

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  Why Religion?

  by hillary_step in

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  i have no issue with a person having a spiritual dimension, but i wonder why people have difficulty accepting that the religion that an individual makes up inside their head is no more or less worthy than the ones other people have made up in their heads.. why do people feel the need to have others tell them what to believe and how to think?

  simplistic though this may sound, this is at the basis of all religion.

  does religion scratch the itch of our insecurities?.

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  Things You HATED About Being a JW

  by minimus in

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  there were a few things that i hated about being a witness.. i love music and live concerts.

  quite often i'd have to play my music privately or hide an album cover for fear it might "stumble" someone.

  i hated worrying whether someone was going to somehow get "stumbled.. regarding going to concerts, it seemed that certain artists only came to town on a meeting night and i'd miss the shows.. what did you hate about being a jehovah's witness?.

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  My wife is attending an "Assembly"?

  by Shadow1 in

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  my wife has gone to attend an "assembly" can anyone tell me what goes on at these meetings?.

  -"un-believing mate" still very new to all of this.. .

  shadow1.

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  greetings from Australia

  by rimfiredancing in

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  i have been lurking here for awhile- i think i first came to this board 8 years ago, a couple of years after i'd walked away from the jws.

  i have found that even after all this time there are still things that come up for me, particularly about feeling 'safe' in the world, feeling ok. .

  i'm moving back to the forest in a few weeks, due to my disinclination to be around large groups of people and the reactions i have to the toxicity of civilisation.

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  "Ears tickled"

  by poppers in

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  is that phrase from the bible?

  i know i've heard it here a couple of times - is that one of the dub's pet phrases unique to them?

  i am curious because i've been on oprah's website looking through the threads devoted to her latest book club selection, a new earth, by eckhart tolle.

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  Need some advice

  by KICKED OUT in

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  i have not been on here in a long time but i have always valued the advice of everyone, so here goes.....i am dfd and my wife has never been a part of the org.

  we are getting ready to have our first child in may.

  my mother who is now living in patterson(at one of the motherships) speaks to me every 1 to 2 years.

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