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  Society's use of 2 John 9-11 to justify total shunning totally wrong!

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  the watchtower society appears to have totally twisted the meaning of the original greek work for "greeting in 2 john 9-11 to justify not even saying a polite "hello" to disfellowshipped or disassociated ones.

  the following from http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/disfellowship.htm sums it up very nicely:.

  "likewise the term to never say a greeting to him needs to be understood in light of first century practice.

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  Long time lurker, 1st time poster

  by Mattieu in

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  well where do i start, perhaps will go into more detail later, though briefly - 40 years young, raised in the truth (kingdom baby, which meant i was never going to make it to primary/secondary school/work/get married/have kids....) former ms, regular pioneer, learnt 3 foreign languages, served in foreign language group, married (wife still goes to meetings), beautiful kids, baptised at 15 years of age, regular pioneer at 15, grew up in divided house.. .

  hmmm, will go into my issues with all things organisational later, though firstly want to apologise, for being a self righteous spiritual pratt who did things by the book and sat with other elders/mss and prejudged others for not doing enough and having a wrong attitude about all matters spiritual and organisational.

  i stepped down as an ms over a year ago (they were grooming me to be an elder), havent been to a meeting in 3 months, i knew it wasnt the truth for a number of years and have struggled badly the last few years.

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  Did you ever feel "Gods' Holy Spirit"?

  by Quirky1 in

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  i can actually say i never did.....

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  Book study comment on DF'ing tonight SUCKED!!!

  by maryacclaim in

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  so i went to the meeting tonight with my mom, cuz she's visiting.

  i know i know, that's my first mistake.. so, they're going over this part on disfellowshipping, and they start going on and on about how it's jehovah's love for the congregation that "he disfellowships.".

  yeah so its not the organization that disfellowships, its jehovah.

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  Hey, whats wrong with Smurfs???

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was baptized in early 90s and live in eastern europe.. from your comments i noticed, that some time in the past jws had a problem with smurfs... like being afraid of or avoiding ... i never heard anything about that in my dub life... .

  so is there some story behind that?

  did you play with smurfs as kids?

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  "Genesis" spankings

  by donny in

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  2. friends

  i recently met a woman here at work (a contractor) and discovered she is an ex-jw.

  eventually we got around to telling why each of us left the religion.

  she said the main reason for her was not doctrines, but because she was tired of the physical and emotional abuse she received.

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  How many TIMES can a JW be DF'd before the ELDERS dismiss them PERMANENTLY?

  by african GB Member in

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  2. friends

  i know a "sister" who has been df'd 10 times for adultery within a period of 15 years..... she is married....her hubby was an elder until she got df'd for the 1st time...he was then deleted....apparently the sister was not happy in the bedroom, he was always away doing cong duties, including jcs....... she keeps getting reinstated, and usually it does'nt take long for her (not the usual 6 months).....apparently she is a very good actress (she cries like a baby in the jcs )..... how many times can she keep getting df'd and reinstated like this until the elders say it is enough?.

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  african gb member.

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  Is Obama the One all will follow? 2012

  by maryacclaim in

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  2. friends

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  Born Again/JW

  by maryacclaim in

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  If its not the way. Which way is?

  by maryacclaim in

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  2. friends

  i read a lot of the topics and subjects in this forum, and can't help but to ask, if the witnesses ideas are not the way, then which way is?.

  i was a witness for over 25 years and have been out of the organization for over 3 years now.

  yet, i have a hard time seeing anyone else's way as the right way to go.

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