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  Are You Sorry?

  by Yizuman in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jihgyjcji1g.

  are you sorry you knocked door to door?

  are you sorry you converted new members?

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  Mattieu

  I am part of the sorry generation!
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  What I do know is that there is peace to be found and there love to be had, after the organisation

  by LIftsong in

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  my mother became a jw when i was six months old so i was brought up within the confines of the organisation.

  i left properly in my early twenties and i am now 43 so a good 22 years of life, post being a witness have i travelled and documented thus far.

  mine was a typical experience of a child in the congregation and i was busy doing my best to be a little adult as the child within slowly fell asleep.

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  Wow Paul, a big warm welcome, I was getting emotional reading your story as I am a 40 year old father with children who like you you started young (my first daughter was born when I was a 22 year old pioneer). I was born into the truth and can relate to your memory of answering up along with other memories such as the first talk given, assemblies.....

  I made the mistake of waiting until my late 30's to begin the fade, my 2 oldest daughters had already stopped going and now I realise how much we have missed out in our relationships because of "spiritual responsabilities" I am attemting to make up for lost time.

  Mark I am very sad for you as the last person that said this to me ended up blowing his brains out with a shot gun

  Paul, over the years, so many elders and elders wives have made hurtful, insensitive comments that you look back and think they deserved one big slap across the face! I am so happy for you that you have arrived at the place you are in now with your daughter and got to enjoy the things the youth book said not too! I look forward to hearing more fom you,

  Mattieu

  PS _ Which country do you reside in?
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  Saddest day of my life

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  i followed my instincts that the changes my 14 year old son is going through ran deeper than teenaged angst and i made an appointment for him to see a counselor through the county so he could talk to someone.

  it took two months to get it.

  we went yesterday, he and i. i spoke for a little about our life now, including the separation, the house, the jws, the shunning, my husbands alcoholism and his treatment of the kids, my husbands familial bipolar and depression and adhd...and then she spoke to my son separately.

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  Hi LD, just got to work and having a coffee (having one with you in spirit), sorry to hear what you are going through. My heart and prayers really do go out to you.

  Mattieu.
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  Is the USA about to become the new Palestine?

  by Gill in

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  do the zionists, (not thejewish people but their real leaders such as the rothschilds,) plan to do to the usa what they have done to the palestinians?.

  are the american people about to be wiped out of existence to give the fabled land 'merica' of the freemasons / illuminati, to the zionists as their real, in their opinion, promised land?.

  the freemasons were promised, if they went west that they would find their promised land of merica.. .

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  As a descendant of white convicts (some guilty of stealing a loaf of bread) who were illegally sold into slavery and sent from England to Australia, I want my retribution and to reclaim England!

  Hang on a minute, white sandy beaches, sunshine, great shopping, cafe's, best wine in the world, fantastic lifestyle....... Who am I kidding (no offense to my UK JWN friends, but you can keep the rain, lack of sunshine, terrible cricket team) hooray for my ancestors stealing that loaf of bread! See you in 2010 London, but just for 1 week, then I'm heading home!
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  Could the Holy Spirit Lead in Opposition to the "Spirit-Directed" Organization?

  by compound complex in

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  of course, i realize that not all members of the board would have a belief-basis to answer the above.. for the sake of discussion, however, do you see examples - biblical [applicable in our day] or extra-biblical - wherein an individual intent on serving god in loyalty and truth could be directed by his spirit to act courageously against the society's enforced "conscience"?.

  thanks.. coco .

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  Mattieu

  Hi CoCo,

  I remember talking with an elder once about a brother whom he was being negative about (because of independant thinking). This bro was an ex-elder, a lot of experience, intelligent and understanding of people as he had been through the school of hard knocks in life. He had some different angles on some scriptures that were opposite of the wtbs, in particular the 1914 generation. I posed the question that this brother could be right, that the holy spirit seems to present in his personality and his life in general, so what's stopping him from having a correct understanding?

  Man, I was nearly executed by the firing squad that day. NO, only the gb or big wigs from Brooklyn can have the h/spirit give them new light/understanding. Then the usual line of waiting on Jehovah/being patient/dribble.....

  But in answer to your question, yes!

  Mattieu
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  Introducing me.

  by mraimondi in

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  not too much to say about myself.

  i find this board amusing and intriuging (oh, humans), with some tidbits occaisionally of good information that i probably wouldn't find otherwise.. .

  - fellow human..

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  Mattieu

  Intriguing, but welcome ray...
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  IF THIS IS TRUE IT IS MASSIVE!!!!!!!!

  by Hobo Ken in

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  i was speaking to a family member who is still a jw in very good standing and she told me that last week she was told by an elder of very good repute in my old congregation this:-.

  he has been told that any of the current governing body when they die will not be replaced!!!!!!!!!!.

  i cannot even begin to take this in!.

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  Mattieu

  thanks for noticing!!!!!!
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  If You Won A Million $$$ How Would You Spend It?

  by minimus in

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  imagine hitting the lottery and clearing a cool million!

  what would you do with all that money?.

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  Mattieu

  Buy a nice house on a few acres and look after my family (give most of it away)..... And oh, a nice bottle or two of Johnny Walker Blue label...
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  Kangaroo's on the road

  by Mattieu in

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  hi all, driving to work this morning (tuesday), traffic had to stop to let a mob of kangaroos bounce acrooss the road.

  they were the lucky ones, every day on my trip to work i see at least one dead kangaroo that has been hit by a car/truck.. as the suburbs push further out of melbourne, the kanagroo's become more desperate for food/water, hence it's normal to see them in our estate.

  at my local golf course, you have to play around the kanagaroo's as they are so used to humans they do not flinch if you are next to them.

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  Mattieu

  Shamus,

  The second you get your Aussie brothers out of here, you can ship those Canadian idiots back

  There is a reason why these Aussie guys have been deported migrated to Canada, they are even bigger idiots than the Canadian guys you sent over! Lets call it even, lol, I actually know a couple of Aussies that have gone over, trust me, they are all yours!

  Ah, petrol. Righhhhhhhhttt. No petrol sniffing where we are Shamus.

  What's with dingoes down there? Maybe you could get them to get those Canadian "brothers" and drag them into the outback.

  C'mon, even our dingoes have standards!
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  Kangaroo's on the road

  by Mattieu in

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  2. friends

  hi all, driving to work this morning (tuesday), traffic had to stop to let a mob of kangaroos bounce acrooss the road.

  they were the lucky ones, every day on my trip to work i see at least one dead kangaroo that has been hit by a car/truck.. as the suburbs push further out of melbourne, the kanagroo's become more desperate for food/water, hence it's normal to see them in our estate.

  at my local golf course, you have to play around the kanagaroo's as they are so used to humans they do not flinch if you are next to them.

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  Mattieu

  Shamus,

  Are you a canadian/aussie?? Flamin Canadians, they keep coming over here and taking our women and grog! We have at least 5 Candians bros in our circuit who have maried our women folk and decided to set up tent here, not to mention the 2 american lads as well, flamin heck mate!

  Yes, the roos jump out at night, though once they see the headlights, they freeze. We have been told that if they freeze, quickly turn your headlights off and then back on again and it should jump away. Yeah right! Like I have time to do that on a sweeping bend high on a hill! Most people just hit them as they always come of sceond best (dead). Though I have seen first hand the serious damage they do to the car (personal experience). Though I would much prefer a roo to a moose.

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  Got any petty aboot?

  I understand the aboot ( I always wanted to throw my shoe at the Aussie wife married to the Canadian bro, who after 6 months in Kahnahda, had this thick Canadian accent and saying aboot used to get me razzed up the most) but I dont get the "petty". In the words of Pauline Hanson "Please explain"

  Mattieu.