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  post - df experience

  by Solace1998 in

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  it was a shock to many when i was df'ed -- .

  but i found afterwards, many did not want to obey the arrangement... one sister cornered me at a local supermarket, and made sure everything was okay with me, and if i ever needed someone to talk to, that she and her hubby were available... .

  there is more to this, but another sister i worked with was quite ardent about talking to me about much more than just work .

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  That is one of the problems disfellowshipping creates. It allows members of the congregation to judge others...even when that person is reinstated, they still judge them. I always wondered why when someone is reinstated the boe still has them on probation for a year and decide when they get privledges back...would love for them to show the scripture that allows them to do that. The whole practice of shunning allows all in the congregation to judge others.

  How many times does the WTS councel the congregation about judging others? Its a learned behavior that the WTS taught so well.
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  Another trip down memory lane

  by lost_light06 in

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  the boe in my childhood congregation was probably the nicest and most sincere group of elders i have ever come across, at least the boe i grew up with.

  i still hold each of them in high regard, they were truly very kind and caring people.

  however, apparently before i was born (pre 79) and when i was a small child there was quite a bit of trouble in that cong.

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  I remember there was a whole congregation in Hammond Indiana disbanded becuase of apostacy...I don't know for sure the year but I believe it was around the big purge of apostates.
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  post - df experience

  by Solace1998 in

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  it was a shock to many when i was df'ed -- .

  but i found afterwards, many did not want to obey the arrangement... one sister cornered me at a local supermarket, and made sure everything was okay with me, and if i ever needed someone to talk to, that she and her hubby were available... .

  there is more to this, but another sister i worked with was quite ardent about talking to me about much more than just work .

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  Solace those that spoke to you and had concern for you are Christ like...they know in their hearts this is what Jesus would want them to do.

  Those that shun you and would not help you push your car are doing what Satan would want them to do.

  If they would just read the bible and not the WTS literature they would know shunning is not scriptual. Even the WTS said excommunication was pagan...of course that was before they decided to practice disfellowshipping...I guess "New Light" changed and it was not pagan anymore.
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  Is it just me?

  by almostbitten in

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  i've listened to a number of jws speak about the "new world" and it strikes me that many of them plan to carry a lot of materialistic and worldly expectations with them.

  for example, i heard one lady complain about the williams' (venus and serena) success as tennis players, that they should be out there preaching and waiting to play tennis in the new world.

  another one came from a visiting elder speaking at the local hall.

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  I remember a group of jw's speculating about having cars and other convienences and this one brother says to everyone...I'm not getting up early in the morning to go to the factory and build your cars! They all just kinda of stood there and thought for a bit and they all walked away puzzled about what h just said...I was laughing because he he kinda of shattered their idea of a " Techadise."
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  thinking of getting an ass. deg. after dubdom

  by dogon in

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  i have ran a small company and worked to be semi retired.

  at 44, i am looking at maybe going to school on line.

  it seems that i may be able to do something other than construction.

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  I'm 44 and in the near future I plan on going to flight school to get my commercial helicopter license.
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  Really Good News: JWs lost a defamation action against French Deputy

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  paris july 11 (agence france presse).

  the jehovah1s witnesses lost a defamation action friday .

  which they brought against deputy jean-pierre brard, vice president of the.

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  Really Good News: JWs lost a defamation action against French Deputy

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  paris july 11 (agence france presse).

  the jehovah1s witnesses lost a defamation action friday .

  which they brought against deputy jean-pierre brard, vice president of the.

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  Thank You Barbara! Maybe the WTS will run to the UN for help in this matter?
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  What does your congregation do socially now?

  by truthseeker in

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  if you're still in or hear about jw social activities through the grapevine, what does your congregation do now socially?.

  my hall does absolutely - nothing - with the exception of high school graduations.

  i read a few posts about jw socialising in the 70s and 80s and honestly, reading about it is completely foreign to me - i grew up in the 80s and never experienced the "good times" of jwdom.. it seems most people do their own thing.

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  I have been df'd a year and a half and I believe they still have a once a year picnic...I never seem to get an invite though.
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  Apostate Talk

  by Wordly Andre in

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  why is it that jw's are so afraid to talk to anyone who questions the beliefs, or in general says anything bad about the org.

  case in point here i have a friend his family are all jw's not the best of the crowd but they are trying, anyway his brother and i were talking and i was telling him about how some of my cousins have left the org, and even showed him a funny picture of all of us wearing jehovah's witness protection program t-shirts there were about 7 of us in the photo.

  he ended the converstation very rapidly and left.. i was not really telling him anything that bad, and i was just mostly joking with him, honestly i didn't think he was all that much of a jw, before he got married he lived with his gf, i have heard he likes to party, and for the most part you'd swear he wasn't a jw, not even baptized.

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  When the "brother" defends the WTS he feels Jehovah will forgive him for the drinking and strip clubs.
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  JW SPORTS LINKS

  by badboy in

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  apart from williams sisters,know of any other jws wih sporting links.

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  Jerry Hairston: Played for the White Sox for 14 seasons and was a team mate of Chet Lemon until Lemon went to the Tigers.