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  alternative medicine/healing...tried any? is it nuts?

  by oompa in

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  i have gone to chiropractors for years...and some are pathetic quacks....some really help me.

  i had severe tendonitis in my elbow and tried reg.

  doctors for six months...was helped more in one visit to a acupuncturist!

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  Minding your own business (JW mind control)

  by MsMcDucket in

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  here i am an apostate that just found out that an elder's 18-year-old daughter is dating an unbeliever.

  i don't know why this is bothering me!?

  is it because i want to call them and cause trouble?

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  Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(

  by reniaa in

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  i've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!

  i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.

  they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".

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  "Captives of a Concept" Don Cameron Interview

  by Pickled in

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  here is a link to a youtube interview with don cameron, author of the book "captives of a concept" .

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgwzrhgi6m .

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  Stuck in the "Truth"

  by IMustBreakAway in

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  i notice from comments posted that many here who post (and untold scores who lurk) are still "in".

  perhaps their social / family circles are too constricted for freedom of mind, and or, they are too afraid to rock the boat.

  or too young to strike out on their own and are dependent on jw parents for support.

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  About me

  by Bryce in

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  i've been doing the home study with the jw's for almost a year now.

  i've never attended the kingdom hall meetings because i didn't want to -- i used my parents' objection as an excuse.

  but now i'm at a problem - i believe more as the christadelphians believe, and i no longer want to do the study with the jw's i know.

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  Could U Please Cite Some Personal Interesting Observations About The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  for anyone that looks at this thread, could you write something either profound or simply interesting so as to make the reader see the truth about "the truth"?

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  New study shows JWs have the lowest retention rate of US religions

  by M.J. in

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  the pew forum has put out a report called the "us religious landscape survey.

  ", as reported in the boston globe: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/more_americans_2.html .

  of note is this quote from the actual report summary: .

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  IMPORTANT: Elders Mtg at Patterson

  by confusa in

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  a witness just informed me about a couple that we know who had their assembly recently, and it was announced at the private elder's meeting that there will be a special meeting with all the elders in the us in patterson.

  it was mentioned that we are now living "in the end of end of times" and that the un is talking about prohibiting religions.

  has anyone heard of this??

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  week long elders training class for 08 confirmed

  by isaacaustin in

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  announced at my parents service meeting last night

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