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  Besty Unplugged - My Life Story Part II

  by besty in

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  <<part i. i dont recall discussing the great disappointment of 1975 as a family.

  i was only 5 and my older and wiser brother was 8. what i can remember was the muted sense of excitement we both felt in 1977. shortly after elvis died my dad announced we were moving off the island back to the scottish mainland.

  i didnt connect the death of elvis with our big move, and rightly so.

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  Fascinating. Don't keep us waiting. By the way, how small ARE you anyway? You mention it a couple of times...
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  Hades and Tartarus in the NT. Pagan influences?

  by Piercingtheveil81 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was watching a program about greek mythology when the subject of hades and tartarus came up, hades referring to the greek god of death and tartarus referring to the place of the dead or what could be called hell.

  i began to wonder why would the bible writers use such words if they were trying to avoid paganism and convey different ideas.

  if hell were not a real place as witnesses say why would peter use tartarus, a word clearly known to be a place and not a condition of the dead.

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  Okay, why isn't my link clickable? What did I do wrong????
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  Hades and Tartarus in the NT. Pagan influences?

  by Piercingtheveil81 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was watching a program about greek mythology when the subject of hades and tartarus came up, hades referring to the greek god of death and tartarus referring to the place of the dead or what could be called hell.

  i began to wonder why would the bible writers use such words if they were trying to avoid paganism and convey different ideas.

  if hell were not a real place as witnesses say why would peter use tartarus, a word clearly known to be a place and not a condition of the dead.

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  Cadellin

  Piercing: The amazing Leolaia posted about this very subject in great detail. You will find it fascinating http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/68556/1/Tartarus-in-2-Peter-2-4
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  My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 5

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 4. i swear, i thought it was only a couple of years at most since i wrote part 4 of "my life and how jwd came to be".

  i re-read it after someone posted to it and brought it back on active topics and it was kind of prophetic in a way ... well, i had the 5 years part right if nothing else:.

  it would be nice to visit the site (or whatever one is around then) in 5 years time to let people know how we're doing and find only a few of the same people still around.

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  Thank you for what you do. You must realize now how valuable it truly is.
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  Confessed my Doubts to my Wife

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well - i today i had the opportunity to tell my wife i no longer believe in the things that i have spent my life immersed in and that i didn't want my life run by 9 geriatrics in brooklyn.. her reaction was understandable her first questions was "what have you been reading"?.

  i didn't mention this site but told her i was shocked by something i heard regarding the wts's ngo status with the un, dissapointed by the new light on the generation and disturbed by the flip flopping on blood fractions.

  i explained how these things were at best hypocritical and at worst have meant some people have lost their lives unnecessarily because of the societies previous position.

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  Altar Ego--No one can because mankind isn't. The ruins of cities have been discovered that are more than 6,000 years old, like Catal Huyuk in Turkey and if anyone wants to correct my spelling, please do! The standard answer is, of course, that radiometric dating can't be trusted. Which is nonsense, as a bit of clear-eyed research will quickly show.

  Forgive me for hijacking.
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  DNCall Unmasked - Part 3 of 5

  by DNCall in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  startfragment.

  by the 1990s it became necessary for me to seek work outside of music.

  barbara, who had to help support our family in the mid-1980s, was working as a legal secretary and suggested i consider doing the same.

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  Thank you thank you thank you for sharing your experience. Some of the songs in that 1982 songbook are notoriously bad--even the most ultraconservative Witnesses snicker at the "molested bees" and at the rhyming "mendacious, efficacious" etc. in another song. And yes, the "controlling body members" line in Make the Truth your Own always struck me as really weird. Also, the dirgelike Lazarus song which suddenly and unexpectedly turns into a joyful little hopscotch. Too strange.
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  An Open Letter From Jeff

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  but i don't write this for sympathy.

  actually, i just thought you all would like to hear how i am doing, esp with a little space now between me and the borg.

  (its been 3 years).

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  Cadellin

  Jeff, I always enjoy your posts. You are doing a lot of good--maybe more than you realize. "Did you know I regret how I left?" Why is that? How did you leave?
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  About time to "Batten Down the Hatches"

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife has been out of work now for over a year.

  she is tail-ending her unemployment very soon.. our county is experiencing close to the worse rates of unemployment in the country right now [ elkart, indiana - obama's economic poster child ] is just 50 miles away.

  our county has a rate nearly equal to theirs.

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  I'm so sorry. It sounds like you're handling it very intelligently. We are just hanging on, financially, watching our debt tick upward month by month. I start working in Sept.; until then, it's touch and go. Actually, it'll be touch and go after that too. God, my whole life has been touch and go, now that I think of it.
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  International Conventions - $7 Million for Paris Alone - Where's the money?

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "package" for americans to attend the paris convention this year was $2600 per person including airfare ($2000 w/o airfare).

  the optional dinner vouchers were an additional $160 per person.

  all this for 5 days.

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  I have a close relative who's paying $3,000 to go to Hawaii for the convention--from the West Coast of the US. She's paying $150/night to share a hotel room with another sister who's also (I assume) paying $150/night for accom. And that's not the Deluxe class, that's for the next one down. SOMEBODY's making off like a bandit on this scam. Any former Bethelites on board who can shed light on the exorbitant prices to attend int'l conventions?
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  I want to leave but don't know how

  by God_Delusion in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi.. i have been a witness since birth (will be 30 years in june 2009).

  got baptised when i was 15 (pressured into it by my parents, plus, i was promised my first home pc if i did get baptised before turning 16).. both my parents serve in the uk bethel.

  i have an older brother and younger sister, both of which are witnesses.. i am married to a witness and live in cyprus (i am english).

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  Cadellin

  Shoot, that was supposed to be set off as a quote...