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  What Was The Silliest "Offense" That You Were Counseled For?

  by minimus in

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  when i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".

  so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.

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  one aspect of mind control is thought control by using "loaded language"

  by megaflower in

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  we all know the wts has its own set of words and expressions that make them unique and sets them a part from other organizations.

  lets see how many we can come up with.

  i'll start.

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  The Watchtower Society Shows Their True Colors Again

  by TooBad TooSad in

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  in the new may awake magazine there is an article "is philanthropy the answer?

  i knew what the answer.

  was going to be before i even read it.

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  JW's are the only ones carrying out the preaching work

  by odie67 in

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  this is what i was taught all my life.

  believed it to be true.

  no one preaches from door to door but the jw's.

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  Some Families the Women are Blessed!...Other Families The Men!

  by new boy in

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  which was your family?.

  i wanted to write this thread after reading pec's profile...wow!!!.

  he was raised in a family were the men were cursed....if you had a penis you were in trouble.. that was true in my family too, my mother was sexually abused as a child...she hated men all men...so me and my father had no hope...being males.. in my exwife families the men were the chosen ones..the women were worthless.. what sex was favored in your family?

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  Ex-JWs... feelings of isolation, agoraphobia...?

  by Moxie in

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  2. experiences

  hi all... :) sorry for the novel.... i'm just wondering if there are any others out there who share similar experiences as me or have any comments and insight.... when i was a jw i was very, very social and active with friends and family in a wide range of activities.

  i would even have considered myself the party-starter ;).

  i used to plan events and social get togethers for all kinds of situations.

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  How long were you...

  by Honesty in

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  in the truth before you found out it isn't?

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  Damage Control

  by sandy in

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  i'm going to the assembly tomorrow to see my 13 yr old niece take the big plunge.

  the most important day of her life.

  how could i miss that?

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  Local Needs.

  by strawberry cake in

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  2. experiences

  this week, my husband and myself were the subject of local needs.

  our older children were there...we stayed away.

  reported by my sons... it started thus.."do not leave the organization!

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  I think I may have accidentily pitted the POs wife against her husband...

  by cognac in

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  well, you know how the whole thing came out about only using the "society's literature" came out a few months ago?

  well, a few days later i went up to the po to basically tell on myself that i used strongs concordance and exactly which website i go to for a lot of my research.

  he said that was fine and that the society was just avoiding people spending hours on non wt literature just either wasting there time or trying to prove the society wrong.... ok, so fast forward to this past weekend, i was over his house with my husband for dinner.

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