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  The Official What happened at the Memorial thread

  by truthseeker in

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  i thought rather than everyone start their own topic relating their experience of attending the memorial, we keep it simple and have just one thread.

  if anything, it's saves bandwidth.. i will be going to the memorial tonight and will post my experiences afterwards.. all the other memorials i attended, i was an active jw, so this will be my first experience as a submarine witness.

  it's weird being on the other side so to speak.

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  palmtree67

  OOOmpa,

  In spite of the arguement on the way home, your memorial sounded like way more fun than mine.
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  Do They Tell You Where to Sit, Too?

  by cameo-d in

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  i was just reading a thread where someone was "seated" next to the same people year after year at memorial.. is this "seating" only done at memorial?.

  are you allowed to have a preference to seat yourself?.

  is there an unspoken mandatory seating arrangement?.

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  Hahaha, WTWizard!

  That actually happened to me tonight! I parked and for some odd reason was directed elsewhere.

  But I did get to choose my own seat. Although I found when you come late, you don't really get much of a choice.
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  You know your an ex-JW when......

  by restrangled in

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  you set out the trash on the night before friday...the biggest batch you've had in a long time and wonder why in the hell hasn't any other neighbor set out there's as usual?!!!!!!.

  i get back in and am informed its good friday tomorrow.

  r. (i am not dragging all this crap back in!

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  Your co-workers said "Happy Easter!" as everyone left today and you said, "You, too!".

  And you don't feel guilty about it.
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  Should Pot Be Legalized?

  by minimus in

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  i don't smoke anything but i know many that do--- some frequently, most infrequently.. personally, i don't see much difference between drinking alcohol and pot use.. should pot be legalized?.

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  Being new here - I am reading alot of the threads.

  It amuses me thaat one of the most prolific threads on this site has to do with whether pot should be legalized or not!

  But I have revealed enough already, so I will not say if I do or don't. Or have done, or have not.
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  What is Divorce like for a Baptised JW

  by survived75 in

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  2. beliefs

  could you please tell me just what happens at the congregation level when a baptised brother gets divorced?.

  does he just go ahead and do it legally or must he let the elders know?

  the situation i am wondering about is a fellow who was separated from his non jw wife for several years after she quit attending the kh.

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  Absolutely. Amen, brother.
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  Need your comments on Luke 20:34,35

  by truthlover in

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  dealing with the seven brothers and the one wife - jesus said, they will be as the angels, and cannot die anymore so my ??

  is if they are not going to heaven and will stay on the earth as "eunuchs" are they "princes" since they cannot die anymore and arent supposed to go to heaven, so sayeth the wtb$??

  and if the mate goes thru armageddon , apparently they will not live as husb and wife anymore ... any one out there with some insight on this?

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  This is one of the things that always bothered me.....

  The ones resurrected will not have sexual urges, but are still living amongst people who are enjoying sexual urges.

  Isn't this what did the rebellious angels in - they saw the daughters of men and decided they wanted that, too?

  Why would the same situation be set up in the new world - some enjoying carnal pleasures and others not allowed.

  I don't get it.

  If you're going to do away with sexual urges, why not do away with gender all together? And make us all men? Or women?
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  What is Divorce like for a Baptised JW

  by survived75 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  could you please tell me just what happens at the congregation level when a baptised brother gets divorced?.

  does he just go ahead and do it legally or must he let the elders know?

  the situation i am wondering about is a fellow who was separated from his non jw wife for several years after she quit attending the kh.

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  I am going through this right now.

  My elders DID NOT encourage divorce, in spite of the fact that they agreed my husband was mentally and emotionally abusive. On their counsel, i went back to him for a while, "to see if it would work". But when the elders told him he needed to change some things and he said, "I don't think I can." I knew it was over. That comment didnt give me anything to work with.

  I found the elders discouraged divorce in my case, no matter what.

  But I just got to the point where - the thought of spending eternity with that man, made me not want to be there.

  Whew!!!!! That was therapetic! And I'm not sure I answered the question......
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  Special Post: 1 year anniversary on JWN - My intro finally posted

  by Awakened at Gilead in

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  i came on jwd a year ago tomorrow, having realized that jws were not the truth, quite painfully, on march 29, 2008. i was here within a week, and within 2 months i was officially dad by my congregation.. ever since joining, i have never actually wrote down a comprehensive look at why i left the organization.

  what doubts caused me to leave?

  why did a gilead grad leave what i once considered so precious?.

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  I just read your link and Wow.

  You are so much smarter than I am. You put into words everything I feel. I never went to Gilead or anything, but have always been a HUGE studier. I couldn't put my finger on what bothered me, but you said it all.
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  Did You Like Being Told What To Do When You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i think many jws enjoy not having to think, make crucial decisions or dwell on what life is all about.. it's much easier to follow orders and be a "sheep".. when you were a witness, were you independent or did you feel most comfortable being in the middle of the pack?.

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  I have always had an obedient personality, so I don't mind being given direction, but only if I could see the sense of what was required.

  I can only be pushed so far, and then I "rebel".
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  NO MANNERS !

  by iknowall558 in

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  anyone noticed how the act of shunning is accompanied by a lack of manners and sense of human decency ?

  i get shunned by the school lollipop.

  who is a dub and who used to be my friend.

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  palmtree67

  Hi, I am the new girl here.

  I found this convo interesting because yesterday at work, the cleaning lady (who is a Witness, and I was just df'ed last week) felt the need to approach the doctor I work for and inform him that I was a df'ed Witness and that I was not "allowed" in her church, and she would not be speaking to me. (There's no reason why she would need to speak to me at work anyways.)

  Anyhow, the Doctor asked her why she was telling him this. He pointed out to her that he, himself could be an ex-Witness and maybe she was offending him right now. When he told me about the experience, he told me that if I wanted to go back to my church, he would be glad to write a letter for me, telling them what a great person I was and how much he admired me. I said, "No, thank you."

  Then he told me that if my church accepted people like her, and shunned people like me, then there was something seriously wrong with it.