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went to convention this weekend
by Ex-smoker in
1. jw
2. friends
sat away from my folks with sis on the top row.

listened to my mp3 player all of fri and half of sunday.

slept for the second half of sunday.
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Ment to post this in friends........
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1. jw
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so anyways it was meeting night to night and like always i had to go i showed up late of course so i can miss the first song.

i wasn't wearing a jacket of course so i stood out like a sore thumb.

during the bible highlights i wanted to bring out john chap 14:6jesus answered, "i am the way and the truth and the life.
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Another wasted thursday.....
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1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so anyways it was meeting night to night and like always i had to go i showed up late of course so i can miss the first song.

i wasn't wearing a jacket of course so i stood out like a sore thumb.

during the bible highlights i wanted to bring out john chap 14:6jesus answered, "i am the way and the truth and the life.
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its great having a free mind
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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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Proved Dub Dad wrong
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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
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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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I dont know what to do
by Ex-smoker in
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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.