Posts by cawshun

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How the new "generation" study went down in the meeting today

by slimboyfat in

i made a big effort to get to the watchtower study today.

i have not been to the meetings much for months, but i figured this was a pretty historic "study" and i wanted to see reactions and how it would go down locally.

well a few things struck me as a bit odd in the study itself, and in the audience response as well.

cawshun

What an educationg thread, thanks everyone for your input.

cawshun

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I Keeping Thinking of the Pictures of Paradise

by TooBad TooSad in

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i remember one picture of a pretty little girl holding a plastic bucket in paradise next to a tame lion.. i asked my wife if there is going to be polution in paradise?

of course the answer is no!!!!!.

to make this bucket you will need plastic.

cawshun

too bad too sad,

That was great, I bet your wife is really thinking about all you said even if she did give you a fairytale answer.

Also, it was hillarious, the elephant crap in the neighborhood, love it!

I know that no matter how nice they make paradise sound, being there with nothing but jw's, I would rather be dead.

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HI! I am one of the 63% who have left

by outofservice in

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hello everyone hope there is room for another newbie.. i feel like i know all of you from reading your posts over the last months.. and i must thank you all for your great and very informative posts.

it has really reinforced all the things that i had been feeling for years.

my husband and i were both raised in the "truth".

Welcome Outofservice, Its so refreshing every time a jw has an awakening, it gives me hope for my family. I have never been a jw, but my daughter married a born in and is now baptized. I hope for the sake of my grand-children, they wake up just as you have.

You will really enjoy this forum and all the information you read here will keep you out of that mind control cult.

Your children are so fourtunate you saw the new light of truth.

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Happy to finally join the family

by JustWantTruth in

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so wonderful to finally be able to communicate with you all.

like lurk3r mentioned, i feel like i have known you all for so long.

first, off i would like to say to leolaia you are my idol, and i would love to just sit with you and pick your brain about a variety of topics.

cawshun

welcome, the more the merrier

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Greetings!

by viva in

new here, lurked for a while, glad to be able to join.. my introduction from jw recovery:.

"i am new to the board, so a short introduction is in order.

i am 26 years old and just out for about a month (update: four and a half months).

cawshun

Viva, you have courage and I commend you on not going into detail about your sex life with those perverts. There is NO REASON ever for them to know details of a persons private life.

I hope your family has an awakening some day and you can have them back in your life.

I know you will be a lot happier out of that mind controlling cult.

cawshun

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The Watchtower Teachings Blog

by sacolton in

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http://jehovahswitness.tumblr.com/.

i was raised as a jehovah's witness and spent 36 years attending their meetings, believing what i was taught, shaping and molding my life to fit in with their unique beliefs and raising my children to follow in my footsteps.. .

the purpose of this blog isn't to attack jehovah's witnesses, who, for the most part, are decent, moral people.

cawshun

Thanks for the info sacolton, the more information out there the better. I'll be sure to check out the link.

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I Get to Witness About the Witnesses......

by AllTimeJeff in

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for those unaware, this sunday marked the 2nd week i have attended a local unitarian/universalist service.

i have given them a try because i no longer feel that isolating myself from people is good for me.

also, they are creed-less, dogma-less, and liberal.

cawshun

That is great Jeff, the more education out there the better. Keep up the good work!

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Has anyone lost a friend or known of someone who committed suicide over BORG-induced guilt?

by Alpaca in

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i am not going to use any names for this because i don't want to cause potential hurt to anyone.. there was a very nice family in my congregation when i was a teenager.

step-dad, mom, and her 4 kids.

the dad became an elder, had a great business, the mom spent lots of time with the kids.

cawshun

I have a friend, not jw, who has a friend that is not a jw but the wife was, she raised the kids as Jw's. They boy commited suicide at age 17. The dad was furious ( he was divorced from the mother at the time). He said his son couldn't live with the guilt of not measuring up, feeling like he was never going to be good enough to be the perfect jw. How sad a life wasted for what?

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What will happen around the end of 1,000 year reign?

by asilentone in

of course, we know that satan and his demons will test people's loyalty to jehovah shortly after 1,000 years temporarily, alots of people will die around that time like salts of the sea!

after satan and his demons are completely destroyed forever, i am sure alot of people will be very happy to have sex again to populate the earth again.

can you visualize what will happen to the "salts of the sea" before they perished?

cawshun

I thought a 1,000 yrs to Jah is like a day. The seven day's of creation, we know were not actual days.

So could the 1,000 yrs reign be like a day? Numerology, isn't that pagan? Go figure

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Just finished reading I'm Perfect, Your Doomed

by cawshun in

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i was disappointed in this book, i kept reading it hoping it would get better.

i guess i got spoiled by this forum.

i have found better writings and stories here and a heck of a lot more humor.

cawshun

I feel the book catered more to her OCD ( obsessive compulsive disorder). Unless the OCD was brought on by being in the cult. Not sure, I think OCD has to do with a chemical imbalance of the brain.