Posts by Scarred for life

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Have you ever deleted friends on facebook?

by asilentone in

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why did you do it?

i have done it on several occasions.

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Scarred for life

I use the "hide" feature and I block some people from seeing my posts and wall even though we are still technically "friends". You can hide all the games without hiding people's posts. So I don't see any of that game stuff. I'm not interested.

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I miss Mouthy.

by paul from cleveland in

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friends

Scarred for life

Yes, Grace, where are you? I've noticed that you haven't been posting.

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Have you ever deleted friends on facebook?

by asilentone in

jw
friends

why did you do it?

i have done it on several occasions.

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Scarred for life

Yes, I deleted my sister-in-law because she started saying nasty things about me after I expressed opposing political views from hers. Who needs that? FB is supposed to be FUN!

And I've deleted quite a few people that I only knew from online. I had some things happen that creeped me out. So I keep Facebook to real life friends only.

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Does ANYTHING About JWs Make Sense To You?

by minimus in

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i've been thinking about why people become jehovah's witnesses and why they remain in the religion.. it seems like almost everything they believe in is flawed.. the chronology, which this religion is founded on is a problem.. their understanding of bible prophecy is pathetically funny.

they teach everything in prophetic bible books ultimately apply to them.. their belief that the "faithful & discreet slave class" exists is ridiculous.

in all fairness, they cannot 'prove" anything they say about their organization as being "truth".

Scarred for life

I was a born-in. But I have thought a lot in the last 2 years about how my parents and my mother's family were sucked into this cult. My mother's family was at a point in 1953 that they were devastated emotionally and financially. I think they one by one fell for the tactics that peaches mentions above.

I still don't understand my father. I've even recently had a discussion with his brother about his thoughts on how my father got sucked in. We had never, ever talked about it before. It was a very enlightening discussion for both of us. But neither one of us understand how my father became a JW.

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How do other churches and religions finance themselves compared to JW's?

by ThomasCovenant in

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the jw's, including myself when in, seemed proud to make the point that collection plates are not passed around at the hall.. instead there are boxes at the back of the kingdom hall and in various locations at assembly halls for contributions.. plus the service meeting items detailing how else to contribute.. as far as i'm aware the catholic church passes a plate along the aisles.

but do other churches?.

are the witnesses correct to use this as a unique selling point?.

Scarred for life

Collection plates are passed on Sundays. Church members are encouraged to give and support the church. 10% is suggested. I doubt that most give that much but the pastor and staff of the church have to be paid. The mortgages have to be paid. The utilities have to be paid. There are also expenses for the various ministries of the church.

I don't find the collection plates and the boxes in the back to be any different myself.

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What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?

by A.Fenderson in

what's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.

my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.

it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.

Scarred for life

I agree about the Return of Martin Guerre.

And I really liked The World's Fastest Indian and I'm a woman and I don't like motorcycles. Anthony Hopkins is a great actor!

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1975 For Deniers

by Farkel in

1975 for deniers.

most of today's jws were not members in 1975 or in the 9 years prior to 1975, so they were not eyewitnesses to what really went on during that period.

i was a pioneer in that period, and i was an eyewitness to what went on.. those jws who are still active today and who were around in that period will typically say it was the "brothers" who "ran ahead of jehovah" and "read more into" the 1975 prediction than what was actually stated.

Scarred for life

This is a GREAT thread. I will also put my 2 cents in. I was there in this 1966-73 period. My parents and sister remained in until about 1977. Everything that has been talked about on this thread is absolutely true. I heard the "Stay Alive til 75" talk in 1968 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It began the frenzy and near hysteria that continued for 8 years. I didn't hear Fred Franz but my family and extended maternal family did. That September 6, 1975 date is the date that our congregation zeroed in on as THE date that Armageddon would happen. I had left the JWs in 1973. I was in college. I remember that day, though. I got drunk. But as the day turned into evening I realized that I had been right and nothing was going to happen. I cried and I laughed in my drunken relief. My parents never said a word. I had been listening to that doomsday prophecy all of my life but especially those last 8 years. That was the day that I knew for certain that my parents, my extended maternal family, and all those many , many talk givers had been lying to me all my life. I've never been the same. But I am so thankful that my children have not been brought up in that horrible, scary, negative cult.

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