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  the wt 1989

  by Adrianoblue in

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  i just read a quote from our poster "albert einstein".

  he wrote the wt from 1989 stated that armageddon will occur within the 20th centurie.. ist that information correct????.

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  wantstoleave

  Wow!! How have they altered it in the bound volumes? Have they reworded it or changed the thought instead?
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  Astronomers spot 'most distant object in the universe'

  by Doug Mason in

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  from the online news at yahoo for 29 october 2009:.

  scientists have observed the most distant object in the universe, thought to come from a star that exploded more than 13 billion years ago.

  the research team, published their findings in the journal "nature".

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  wantstoleave

  How do scientists measure time? I've always wondered how they can say a dinosaur lived 'this' long ago or that planet is 'that old' etc.
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  If you are still in, do you wish sometimes to be DF?

  by Albert Einstein in

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  for a year now(after 18 active years) iam 100% anti jw, hate meetings and all the jw stuff drives me crazy..... but my wife (that i trully love) and 100% of her family is still actively in.... i work hard to deprogram my wife and to make sure my little kids will never become members of any cult..... i told my wife, if she will consult elders and they would come over to talk to me, i would be df on that evening.

  she believes that, so she doesnt seek any "help".. iam inactive and visit meetings about 2 times a month, just to acompany my wife... hate kh, hate to listen the bs there, to see the zombie faces.... sometimes i wish to be df ... it would create some troubles, but from that day i would never go to kh, probably be shunned by the zombie people, who are able to talk only about "how healthy it is to eat carrot, because there was an article about it in awake.....".. life would be much easier after all.... your experience/opinion?.

  albert.

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  wantstoleave

  I would stop going altogether too. Being one foot in, one foot out is frustrating and depressing. And although you're probably 100% 'out' in your mind, by going to the occasional meeting, you're setting yourself up for a fall because it goes against everything you now believe/think. I hope you can come to some sort of decision :)
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  Hi - new kid on th block

  by nearlyfree in

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  i have been looking at this website for about 2 months now and feel i am now ready to say hi and intoduce myself.i dont want to give out too much info at this point in time as i still am in the org, but have only been to 2 meetings since the district convention in august and last time i went out on service was in march.

  i was basically raised in the truth as my parents became jw when i was 2. i was married in my late teens and after 21 years of being married to a total control freak he left me (yay).

  anyway since me ex left, i had been doing a lot of thinking about being a witness, and i wasnt really going to a lot of meetings - just didnt feel like it.

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  wantstoleave

  Welcome nearlyfree!

  Definitely use the 'I have been stumbled' bit. Alot of us have experienced being stumbled from mismanagement by elders. (Don't know if you read my story, but my ex wasn't Df and should have been). And yes, there will be an Aussie meet up in Sydney we're hoping. Go to the thread and see if you can join us on facebook :)

  Look forward to getting to know you.
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  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. From the Nov 1 WT

  by life is to short in

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  the november 1st public wt has an article on "do you need to learn hebrew and greek?

  " funny is it not that they feel we do not need too.

  anywho on page 21 of said wt.

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  So they are saying not to learn another language? Then why do they encourage ones to join for instance, chinese or spanish speaking congregations? Or to go abroad to help 'where the need is great'....should they not learn the local language? Or are they discouraging the regular publisher from learning a language so they don't go into further study? Hypocritical.
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  Just Re-read My First Post

  by cantleave in

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  four months have past since i made my first post here.

  it generated 9 pages of discussion- thanks to renaai.

  i was called trevor by ninja at one point.........hopefully it is apparent that i am not.

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  wantstoleave

  Congratulations for coming so far! You've done an amazing job I only wish we lived closer, so I could get to know you and your family in the flesh.
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  how to the dubs explain away the dino's?

  by highdose in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1223244/colossal-sea-monster-unearthed-eaten-t-rex-breakfast.html.

  you can't ignore this, yet there is nothing about it in the bible.

  i noticed that the jw's seem to just brush over it, since they clearly can't explain it away or pretend its false!.

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  wantstoleave

  Wow that is some dinosaur/sea creature!!!

  My dad always said maybe dinosaurs were there to eat down the vegetation?
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  Are you running on empty?

  by compound complex in

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  ever feel as if you've no more to give?.

  cc.

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  Yes, constantly
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  Conversion Went Badly

  by VoidEater in

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  my aunt's father, a formerly life-long adherent to the apostolic church, became a witness last year.. i just learned he went to the last assembly and died.

  tripped and hit his head on an armrest.. i'm waiting for the next round of email that talks about jehovah protecting his people with guardian angels.

  maybe he missed the memo that this guy was entitled to divine intervention..

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  Oh Im so sorry to hear of this accident

  Parakeet, love your #2 point! SO accurate!! It's been so drummed into me that even now when I don't seem to have 'luck', I wonder what I've been doing wrong that Jehovah isn't with me. And now more so since I've begun fading.
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  How long did it take before you started talking to others about being an ex-dub?

  by the real life in

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  i was just wondering if any of you took time to speak openly about being an ex-witness.. sometimes, when it came up naturally, i told some of my friends; in other cases, i felt really uncomfortable talking about it.

  in fact, it's a little strange, but i felt more comfortable telling casual friends rather than the people closest to me.

  i often felt like it was a huge revelation to make, often to find that people weren't really that shocked.

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  wantstoleave

  I'd like to say I'm fading but I kind of have one foot in, one foot out so to speak. I would love to shout from the roof tops that I'm no longer a witness, but I think I'd be more conservative and not advertise it. Other than telling those who need to know, such as my childrens teachers (because they think we're witnesses), I wouldn't need to tell many others. I've not told any work colleagues I'm a witness, so that's why I wouldn't have many to tell. If it came up in conversation, I'd probably be inclined to change the subject. Probably because it's still fresh.