Topics Started by Ex-smoker

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its great having a free mind
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
so anyways im still going to meetings cause of my folks, my dad mainly.

but i stopped wearing the jacket, it is actually quite liberating.

ive also started wearing a chain with the na( narcotics anonymous) logo on it.
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Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...
by logic&reason in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

sit down, listen for 45 minutes.
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Proved Dub Dad wrong
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
so any ways i lost my job last week and decided to grow a goatee.

i stay with my dad and we were having a conversation and he pointed at my goat and said "shave that" i said no.

he said jws dont have beards.
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Just Venting
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
well tonight i was at the meeting and i got really pissed.

during the local needs part the gave the c.o.s report of the congragation then the po started harping on the fact that 50% of the cong is low hour publishers.

he started saying how we need to keep up with the avg of 9.6 i looked over at my dad and he looked so sad.
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Interesting Book Study Stories
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
with the news that the book study arrangement might be going away, alot of memories come flying back.

we used to have the study in our house for a couple of years and every week we had to clean our messy house so that it would look spic and span that night.

the cleaning sweeping, doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, and vacuming it was such a pain.
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Bible translations
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
before i got ahold of the info about the jws on the net i had started to read the christion greek scriptures.

now that i know about changes of words in the nwt i want to read a different traslation.

any suggestionis as which one i should go with?
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Thank You !!!!!!!!!!
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
first off i just want to appologize for my bad grammer it was never one of my strong points.

second i want to say thanks to every one who responded to my first post the advise was great.

i was having a convosation with my mom about certain shaddy history and the idea behind recreation(resurection) when my sister chimed in (she's baptized by the way)with what she thought was a questionable veiw later she(my sis wanted to talk in private and to my surprise she isnt brainwashed.
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How the new "generation" study went down in the meeting today
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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.
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I dont know what to do
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
ok so i was raised in the truth and a lot of jw belifes are indoctrinated in me(big suprize) the main ones being that the dead are conscies of nothing and that jesus is gods son and not god.

i never got baptized and at 17 i started to doubt all orginized religion but in the back of my mind saying that if theres no hell why serve god.

at 21 my life was a mess i was addicted to drugs and thought that it was satans system that was doing this to me and i should give the truth a chance again so i moved back home.
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FUN TEST! I am 37% JW!! Post your percentage here plz
by Tired of the Hypocrisy in
1. jw
2. friends
i found this online.

i have not seen it on here before so i thought i would post it.

it is a test to determine if you belong in the jw religion.