Topics Started by tiffy0212

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My "Leaving" Letter
by lambsbottom in
1. jw
2. friends
through what i have learned from reading bro.

russell's writings about the ransom for all, coupled with the blood issue, i feel the need to let my friends know that i am making a stand for truth.

i could have lost my wife to the blood issue during pregnancy.
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Saturday afternoon session
by tiffy0212 in
1. jw
2. friends
has anyone sat thru the saturday session allow nothing to distance you from jehovah.

satan's subtle efforts pride, money, health, career, recreation, family and of course technology.

i would like to know what this is all about this family thing.
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Why are anniversaries okay?
by MrFreeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm sure this topic has been brought up before.

i was at a jw graduation party yesterday and realized "if birthday parties are not okay because they supposedly bring undue attention to an individual, why are graduation parties and wedding anniversaries okay?

" they both glorify individuals and put them on a pedestal.
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Do You Personally Know Of Anyone That Committed Suicide?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
lately, 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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I called the elders today, they are meeting tonite about my husband
by tiffy0212 in
1. jw
2. friends
today i found my husbands patient advocate card, and guess what my name is not on it.

it has been filled out by all of the elders.

took a copy for myself, and left him a note to let him know that i had a copy.
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What happened to your marriage after you stopped believing?
by JerkhovahsWitless in
1. jw
2. friends
i know some posters here went through or are going through some painful things right now because of no longer believing when they have a husband / wife that still does.

others were able to free the minds of their spouse.

i'm assuming the latter is a lot more rare.. anyone that wishes to share their story, please do.. i'm looking to pass the info on to someone who doesn't totally believe, but may marry a jw.
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A JW attending funerals at a church.
by garyneal in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my mother-in-law attend the funeral of her father-in-law (my wife's grandfather on her father's side) at his church (a baptist church).

before we went in the church, she (mother-in-law) told me that she wanted to warn me that if they get into the singing and praising of god, don't be surprised if i see her not participating.

i said, "because of that whole, interfaith thing, right?
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Tommorow I'm going to........
by cantleave in
1. jw
2. friends
buy a lottery ticket.

not because i really want to, or i think i am going to win (logic tells me the odds of winning are ridicuolsly low).

no i'm going to buy a ticket because i can.
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I'm starting to tell on my husband
by tiffy0212 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
yesterday a brother called the house and asked for my husband.

i told him i'm sorry he is doing his study and i will not call him to the phone.

i told him we do not talk to each other and he would have to call him back around 11:30. he called back around 11:40 and sure sounded different then his first call.
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Well my "winter' yard decorations have caught the Elders attention !!!!!
by troubled mind in
1. jw
2. friends
wow i guess the elders still do exisist !

i wasn't sure since they have only stopped by once in the last almost four yrs.. here is what has them all in a tissy........ i guess the lighted deer and lights on the railing screams christmas .....i was going for cheerful winter ,guess i overshot.. .

here is how the conversation went :.