Posts by palmtree67

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What response would you give to this JW illustration ?

by troubled mind in

my jw in laws send us these types of emails every once in a while .

never is there any real personal correspondence from them and it irritates me.

i have sent emails back before critiquing the logic of some of their emails.. i will be sending a response to this latest one ,and i would appreciate some ideas .. i know many of you on this forum are so excellant with your words i would enjoy your input .. the first thing that came to my mind after i read the illustration was "i am so glad i am no longer on the endless tread mill of witness logic that has you running forever from scary imaginary spirit beings ".

palmtree67

Please give us the dignity of being real people, with real feelings, real struggles, real emotions.

We are not rabbits.

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Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness

by missellie in

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friends

hi, i was wondering if any of you have any statistics when it comes to the percentage of jws or ex witnesses reporting to suffer from mental illnesses?

i have tried to google this but not got very far..

palmtree67

In my experience:

I know WAAAAAYYYYYY more Jw's with fibromyalgia, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc. than worldly people.

The nurse I work with and I were just discussing this the other day, that almost every JW patient we have has one of these 3 problems. At a greater percentage than the average population.

Tonight I was with 25 wordly people and NONe of them have any of these problems. If I had been with JW's, I'm sure at least half would have at least one of them.

Bizarre.

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And death will be know more!

by the sage in

have you lost a love one recently?.

or been reminded of the loss of a public personality, of past or present?.

we can take comfort, jehovah has promised.. english standard version: re.21:4.. "he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and(k) death shall be no more,(l) neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.".

palmtree67

"death will be know more" ??

How do you expect to be taken seriously, when you don't know the difference between "know" and "no" ???

Smarten up.

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How do they do it?

by Trevor Scott in

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friends

i've been out of "the truth"tm for a few years now.

my exit was the direct result of so-called "apostate" information on the internet.

i literally stumbled upon an "apostate" website while googling something and thank god resisted my initial (programmed) response to run for my life.. i spent the next 6 months researching using every website, book, and individual i could get my hands on before finally sending in my da letter; but the fact is, that first website contained the real truth about the watchtower religion and in all honesty, i recognized it almost immediately.. so what i wonder is, how do those "jws" that frequent sites like this do it?

palmtree67

Bookmarking for later. Josie's post needs deeper thought than I am capable of right now.

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My Boyfriend's not a Witness...

by Hikaru in

alright, with my last post it should be obvious i'm in conflict...if it's not, then yeah.. my boyfriend is not a witness.

he understands that witnesses can't marry or date non witnesses.

but i guess could say we've been stalling...looking for a solution a gray area to that black and white situation...but with time getting as it is...stalling doesn't work anymore.