Yes, I think they should at least acknowlege you. I've been ignored by a few, gotten a message back from some, and was friended by a couple. With JWs/ex-JWs so much just depends on where their mind is at these days. Sadly, when they don't get back to you there isn't a way to know.
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If you find old friends on Facebook & pm them shouldn't they write back?
by Bubblie ini found two fleshly brothers on there and wrote both of them.
one of them i pioneered with years ago.
i think he is df'd or just left.
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My JW parents met my wife, but would not see me...
by Confession inso it was time for the 25 year reunion of tawas area high school's class of '84.
because i was class president, i've been responsible for throwing all the reunions we've held.
while i come to michigan on business a few times per year, i don't usually make it all the way up to the little, northeast, lake huron tourist town where they live.
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startingovernow
Oh that is just so sad! I know of more than one JW elder parent who does not follow the shunning rule with their children. I would think that at thier age, your parents would put love for you over some rule of an organization. So sorry.
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Real Reasons Some Go to Bethel
by startingovernow ini've known known a lot of bethelites and it never ceased to amaze me when asked why they wanted to go there the kind of answers i got.
some included:.
my mom used to have dinner ready for me every night when when i was pioneering before i got married.
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startingovernow
I've known known a lot of Bethelites and it never ceased to amaze me when asked why they wanted to go there the kind of answers I got. Some included:
My mom used to have dinner ready for me every night when when I was pioneering before I got married. When I got married I got tired of having to cook dinner every night and pioneer. So my husband and I applied to Bethel.
The circuit overseer's wife told me that going to Bethel would be a way for my husband to be able to serve Jehovah full-time and I should be supportive. I agreed to do it for one year only.
The weather (snow and rain) makes it difficult to get my time in pioneering...I knew Bethel would allow me to serve Jehovah full-time uninterrupted (sounds good but now I realize she just didn't like to get wet or cold). This same person admitted to me to praying for a change in assignment - and according to her Jehovah answered her prayer - she went from a mundane menial labor to an office job.
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If They Weren't a Cult Before.....
by AllTimeJeff ini just wanted to officially change something on my viewpoint.
i have thought about this for a few days.
i used to think that while they were in some ways controlling, that jw's did not meet the criteria of a cult totally.
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startingovernow
Thanks for getting back. Does anyone know how they can enforce the following:
All answers to the nonsense questions must come only from the paragraph and the conductor and the commentors can only use scriptures that are cited in the paragraph.
I can see the conductor doing it, but to expect the audience? How does that happen without shaming/embarrassing people?
And ATJeff, I sent you a PM
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Here I Am in the Borg's Latest "Borganization" Video
by AllTimeJeff inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrfu9gyecq.
i don't know how to put a youtube video on, but at about the 55-59 second mark of this, you can see.... the back of my head.
studying with my ex in the gilead library.. somehow, i am glad my face didn't make it, although it is bittersweet to see a few people.. thanks to a@g for making this monday a trek down memory lane.... .
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startingovernow
I missed this, and the video was removed. What is this all about? Was it the United video that had Gilead graduation in the past? I fell for the surfer dudes experience, "perfect surf everyday." Would love to know if that guy is still a JW. Anyone know?
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If They Weren't a Cult Before.....
by AllTimeJeff ini just wanted to officially change something on my viewpoint.
i have thought about this for a few days.
i used to think that while they were in some ways controlling, that jw's did not meet the criteria of a cult totally.
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startingovernow
They have reigned in all WT conductors. From now on, no WT conductor can use any research he found. All answers to the nonsense questions must come only from the paragraph and the conductor and the commentors can only use scriptures that are cited in the paragraph.
Do you have a reference for this statement, ATJeff?
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"But Mom, they're Theocratic"
by Gram inthis was my argument to be allowed to go out with our "group" back in the 1960's.
"the young ones", as they are now called -- anyway we hung out from several local congs.
ages from about 15 - 25, give or take.
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startingovernow
Wow, the 60's and 70's must have been a different time in many ways. No regular fun for me, and certainly no Watchtower Study with young people.
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easier to leave...born ins or joined later???...i know the answer........
by oompa inwell at least i know it from my own friends and geographic region........... but i will wait to hear your response....i am fourth gen btw...and unfortunately birthed.... and did a good job at raising a fifth dammit....oompa.
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startingovernow
Interesting responses. I would say that it matters not so much whether someone was born in or joined but how much they thought it was the Truth. For me, if it was just based on hypocrisy and lack of love I would have left a long time ago. But then would I have not been proving Satan a lier. I'm embarrassed at how much crap I put up with before becoming inactive, but even after that I still was in mentally. I still viewed anything from "apostates" as dangerous. I came in my own and could have left on my own at any time, but well not really because I really believed Jehovah had sought me out and so to read anything contrary to what the FDS said would make me prey to the demons, and to leave Jehovah meant he would turn away from me. Once I read CofC and CCMC all that fear was lifted and I had no reason to stay in.
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The Grieving Process after Leaving the Cult
by cantleave ini really want my wife to see that we have spent our wholes lives in a lie, a lie promoted by mind controlling cult, but i have a problem and this is it........ my wife was extremely close to her grandmother, she lived with her in her teens and loved her to bits.
when her grandmother died, 5 years ago, my wife was devestated, the only thing that allowed her to combat the grief was the hope of the ressurection, being able to see her grandmother again in the new system.. it is in my opinion, this hope that keeps her going in the "truth".
if the she leaves the truth i am sure, that like me she will not fall back on any other religion, she will probably become more humanist and agnostic if not atheist.. this realisation will mean that she will never see her grandmother again.
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It is possible that you could show her that she is in a cult without destroying her faith in what the Bible says, since we are talking about two different things. Just because you no longer believe in a resurrection doesn't mean she has to in order to question her WT teachings. There are plenty of people who stop being JWs but still have faith in the Bible and what it says.
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First shunning today!
by sooner7nc ini'm at work right now.
i'm out walking the halls at the hospital i work at checking on my workers, making sure that everything is being cleaned properly, etc.
i turn down one hallway that passes in front of one of the diagnostic departments, and i see someone, an elders wife, sitting there waiting to be seen by the radiology staff.
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startingovernow
Of course there is always the possibility that she was too nervous about her test results and concerned with whatever health problem she has that required such a test that it wouldn't have mattered who passed her in the hall. It very well could have had nothing to do with you.