Topics Started by wantstoleave

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"At least He/She died before 'Armageddon'..." How do you counter this....?
by ziddina in
1. jw
2. friends
we've seen this, or have heard of it..... a tragic death happens - often it's even caused by watchtower edicts, like shunning or "no blood" policy.... and the brainwashed - or brain-dead - witnesses resort to yammering watchtower propaganda - "at least he/she died before 'armageddon', so maybe he'll / she'll have a chance at being 'resurrected'...".

we've all seen the insane level of hypocrisy within the watchtower society... i've several examples in mind, wherein the witness parent shunned a witness child, leading to the child's suicide or indirectly to his/her death, and then the witness - make that witless - parent stands there at the funeral mouthing that "at least he/she died before 'armageddon', so maybe he'll / she'll have a chance at being 'resurrected'..." line of b.s.

..... what can one say to block that self-congratulatory blather??
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I'm BACK!
by sabastious in
1. jw
2. friends
made 100 posts yesterday and couldn't post thereafter.... have 86 left for the next 24 hours... don't get lippy with me or i'll have to post like a madman again!.

-sab.
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Who did you love Jehovah or your boyfriend/your girlfriend the most while you were in the org?
by asilentone in
1. jw
2. experiences
we were taught to love jehovah more than anything in the world.

right?.
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A message to the Special Pioneer brother who knocked on our door Sat Mornings if we missed Witnessing as Newlyweds!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
george ________ you are an idiot.

we were both newly married and working full time and enjoyed a saturday morning sleep-in and would you believe this idiot "special pioneer" would drive up with a witnessing car group and knock on our door saying: "hi brother 007, we missed you at the group this morning...." yes thats because i was having sex, thanks for ruining it.

he was a single, rumored gay brother, about 40 years old who could never find the right sister.
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New Little Miss Neal arrives...
by garyneal in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife and i became proud parents to a 7 pound 2 ounce baby girl on september 16, 2010 at 4:50 a.m. est..
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First Date...
by White Dove in
1. jw
2. experiences
a man i met at work (customer) gave me his e-mail address, so i contacted him.. we've been e-mailing for a few days now, and it's time for a first date.. i suggest starbucks.. he insists on the park.. it's 106 degrees!

i suggest starbucks, again because it's too hot to walk in the park.. he says that maybe we should cancel because the heat doesn't bother him.. he said, "i'm a very practical man...maybe you can't handle the heat.".

this is my first phoenix, az summer.
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The pain got too much so I wrote to my daughter....
by Lozhasleft in
1. jw
2. friends
i just wrote a message to my youngest daughter - its been over a year since we were in touch.

she moved to live with an older sibling and cut off contact with me.

she's only 17. its been heartbreaking.
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What's wrong with my friends?
by Alan_56 in
1. jw
2. friends
i really can't stand it when i can't go to someones house just because they are "worldy".

why can't i just be a normal teenager and be able to choose my friends whom ever they may be?

i told my mom i don't have any witness friends then she told me "well you better find some or else your gonna have some serious problems".
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Have your prayers EVER been answered?
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
have you ever prayed for something and actually gotten what you asked for?

specific examples would be nice to hear about.. .

nic'.
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I was never DF'ed, I wasn't abused, I never lost a loved one to the ban on blood
by OnTheWayOut in
1. jw
2. friends
strange title, huh?.

the point is that i wasn't "burned" in some incredible way by wts and i don't carry a huge chip on my shoulder from some incredible injustice from wts or the local elders.. i say this because some people have constantly accused me of being really screwed over by my experience because of my comments on others' threads.

i explained myself there for my reasons, but wanted to repeat what those reasons are here in my own thread.. i explained on some post somewhere that i had felt that i experienced "divine intervention" in my life at one time and that same intervention ended my suicide attempt.