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  JW nostalgia?

  by R.Crusoe in

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  lots of 'worldly humans look back with affection and positive emotion at their past life and loves and adventures!

  this is especially true for periods in life humans have often devoted themselves to!.

  it is lovely to see and hear ones with natural experiences and happiness to relate!.

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  Scan Request Please - Kingdom Ministry 8/2002

  by AlphaOmega in

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  2. bible

  i'd be really grateful if anyone can scan a good quality copy of this kingdom ministry.. ***km 8/02 p.3 display christian loyalty when a relative is disfellowshipped***.

  ...or maybe someone has one that they'd like to part with for a fee.. there is a scan that has been posted here, but i am looking for one where the source isn't obvious.. .

  many thanks.

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

  by reniaa in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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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  Issues That Made You ANGRY While You Were A Jehovah's Witness

  by minimus in

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  when i look back, i think of some things that really angered me about the organization.

  i was raised as a witness and i was taught from a very early age that "reaching out" was the most important things i could do in life.

  i was to reach out for "privileges" and get baptized.

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  Reasons You Hated Being A Jehovah's Witness

  by minimus in

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  my biggest reason: the religion is stupid.

  plain and simple.

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  Divorced? Question..........

  by Outaservice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

  probably more so than the population in general.

  if you have been divorced do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?

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  Anyone near central PENNSYLVANIA ??

  by HSS1971 in

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  2. friends

  just trying to connect with some old acquaintances to discuss and compare notes.

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  If it wasn't for "....................." I'd still be in the "Truth".......

  by ScoobySnax in

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  for me i think if it wasn't for the fact i'm gay, i'd still be an active witness.

  this year, even my mum has said that it wouldn't be "appropriate" if i was to go to the memorial.

  now the memorial is something i've never missed, so that kind of stings a bit.

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  Which meeting did you hate the most?

  by lfcviking in

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  for me it was the tuesday night book study.

  i didn't like reading, opening/closing with prayers and the uncomfortable, close, claustrophobic setting it was in.

  this meeting was the first one to be binned when i started to fade.

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  What was the 1st thing you did that wasn't allowed after leaving the JW's?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i haven't left.... 1 thing while i'm actually in is being here though.... i'm happy here.

  i actually feel for the first time really "right" about something... .

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