I strugle every day to just live one more day to be honest. I have lost so much. I do know of a former jw who commited suicide. I try not to dwell on suicidal thoughts due to the pain it caused his family. I will relate what happened to this poor man at some point.
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Do You Personally Know Of Anyone That Committed Suicide?
by minimus inlately, i've come to find out that a more than a few people in the area had killed themselves.
most of the people i know of were in their early twenties or forties.
for those loved ones surviving them, it was mostly a shock!
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JWs having trouble renting town hall for Memorial due to alcohol ban
by dozy inhttp://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-groveland-alcohol-20100315,0,6854922.story?page=1.
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Oh would it not be ironic for a group of apostates to sit in the front row and drink the wine
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Advise on housing contract
by acolytes ini would value your opinions on how best to handle a dilema i have with a rental contract i signed.. 1-a year ago i agreed to let out a property i owned to a tennent.
i spoke to the council and they said i was responsible for the water and sewage and so i areed to pay it.
(would i failed to understand that it was my responsibility to pay the council but i was entiltled to ask the tennent tp pay me these monies.. 2-i also failed to take into consideration the basement , landing and hallways in working out the rent which is based on the kvm size of the house.. therefore on point 2 alone he is paying me 25% less a month than the correct monthly rental-.
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First how long is your lease for ?
next you need to check and see if the law allows you to bill the tenent for the water bill I know that some jurisdictions do not
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stop spamming joeleejr44
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Oh my , This is dispicable.
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Do you suppose NastiCanasta is a 'mole' from "Watchtower" Facebook Group?
by ziddina in(sure hope this is the correct place for this topic).
i was reading nasticanasta's comments on a couple of threads, and it occurred to me that, since so many have gone into the jehovah's witness sites on facebook and have - uh, let's say, 'played a role'.... do you suppose a few of those ardent, blindly faithful jehovah's witnesses have buzzed in here to wreak revenge?.
a - ha!!
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"my dad was High Ranking DO"
DOs are ranked? If so by what criteria?
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Were You "Afraid" Of The Elders?
by minimus indid you view them as men who truly cared about you?.
did your heart sink in fear when an elder came to talk to you?.
were the elders nothing special to you?.
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Growing up my mother used the elders as a club, I dispised these men after a while due to their failure to realize what was really going on was my mother was using them to frighten me and further abuse me. You see my mother physically abused me as a child . It is interesting to me when i was a teenager (still being physically abused) and said I was going to the elders, she would say "how dare you take personal family matters to the elders if you do i will kick you out. I was told this at 14 years of age.
Eventually I did tell an elder, What was his response? "Well this is a tough situation you know your mother is from a diffrent culture" he said.
never did he even ask her about it. The coward. After this I was no longer afraid of them . You see I knew then that they where just men and really where not men of god deserving of respect. The sad part is I am now so very cynical of all institutions government, religous, and secular. I know this is a sad way to live (lonely) but I am working on rebuilding my faith in humanity.
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Is THIS the best of all POSSIBLE worlds?
by Terry inis this the best of all possible worlds?.
if it isn't, wouldn't that be the best possible proof that a benevolent and all-powerful deity had nothing to do with creating it?.
if a loving and benevolent creator was going to create a world--why make one with a built-in self-destruct mechanism??.
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Wow I don't know if you realize it Terry the question you asked was addressed in Voltaire’s work Candide. In this work he uses satire to attack the view of the church and the politicians of his day for their belief that " All is for the best in this the best of all POSSIBLE worlds" He demonstrates that this is not the case by using satire to prove his point. There are many striking similarities in his satire that can be revealing about the logical errors of the WTBS beliefs for example...
One of the episodes related in the novel is that of an evil rich man who loses everything in a ship wreck (armegedon) The passengers on the ship drown . Voltaire asks why would god kill the innocent just to punish the guilty. Look at the response the charecters have.
—You see, said Candide to Martin, crime is punished sometimes; this scoundrel of a Dutch merchant has met the fate he deserved. —Yes, said Martin; but did the passengers aboard his ship have to perish too? God punished the scoundrel, the devil drowned the others
Isn't this remenicent of the of the belief that Jehovah will destroy all those at armegeddon who are not JWs. They give the credit to god for saving themselves , however they feel that god the most powerful being of all can't or won't stop the devil from killing all the others including babies children and those who have never heard his message.
Note: please forgive my writing style I know i am not eloquent
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Satan Is in the Vatican, Catholic Exorcist Says
by recovering inwhen i saw this headline i could not help but wonder if the real reason the wbts is leaving the headquarters in brooklyn is related to the sex abuse scandals (if you follow the logic of the priest quoted in the story below) perhaps the headquarters is possesed by satan and that is the reason for the pedophilia scandals.
satan is in the vatican, catholic exorcist says .
aol news(march 10) -- the rev.
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When I saw this headline I could not help but wonder if the real reason the WBTS is leaving the headquarters in Brooklyn Is related to the sex abuse scandals (if you follow the logic of the priest quoted in the story below) Perhaps the headquarters is possesed by Satan and that is the reason for the pedophilia scandals.
Satan Is in the Vatican, Catholic Exorcist Says
AOL News (March 10) -- The Rev. Gabriele Amorth, the man who has served as the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years, says the signs are there: The devil has infiltrated St. Peter's.
Specifically, Amorth cites recent sexual abuse and pedophilia scandals as well as what he deems a cover-up in the shooting deaths of two of the Vatican's Swiss Guards and one of the guard's wives as proof that the Catholic Church's most famous site is less than pure. for the full story click on the link below http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/satan-is-in-the-vatican-says-catholic-exorcist-gabriele-amorth/19392201 -
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How many people are online now?
by Quirky1 init would be nice to see who is online with jwn at one time...
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here in new england