maybe he is just going from experience. In my experience, i know about 18 disfellowshipped people, and i think im the only one that made it out ok.... we're talking crack addiction, prostitution, gang violence, republicans
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Why Do So Many DF'd End In Some Sort Of Trouble?
by african GB Member inmost ex-jw's df/da that i know end up living a dangerous life.
some get into drugs, prostitution, gangsterism,etc.
as a result they prove the jw theory that says "whoever leaves jehovah's organisation won't make it" right.. it's difficult for me to say this, but it seems like jw's are partly right on this one.. why do most ex-dubs end up in a predicament of some sort?
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Jehovah Street
by RR inis the society violating the 3rd commandment by naming the street of theuir branch on guam "jehovah street"?.
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3you shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain, for the lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
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mraimondi
dont know anyone by that name offhand...
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Did anyone see "Earth without people"?
by hubert init was on the history channel tuesday night.. if you kept in mind the j.w.
theory of a "paradise earth", you'd see it would be absolutely impossible for 6 or 7 , even 20 million people to "maintain" the earth to keep it in liveable condition, never mind a "paradise earth".. all that time i was watching it, i was hoping my daughter and son-in-law was looking at it, too.
i wanted to call them and tell them about it, but i am not allowed to "talk about anything that has a religious agenda" for fear of losing them.. did anyone else see it?.
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mraimondi
if you actually believed in the whole god thing, i think he might help the situation a bit, duh
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daron yale
the guglielmo sisters
holcombs
Cindy Jones
anyone from the following areas:
massena NY 13662
Brossard Quebec (near montreal)
Honesdale PA 18431
Lindenhurst NY
Bellmore NY 11710
Morrisville NC 27560
bowling green KY
phillip SD
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I Just Did the Math!
by journey-on ini know a dear 'sister', 60 yrs.
old, who has been a faithful witness all her life.
if she put in just 10 hrs./mo.
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mraimondi
converting people isn't exactly the only point...
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Are You Sorry?
by Yizuman inhttp://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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mraimondi
i didnt really do what everyone else did -- i really think at the time i was simply just inspiring people to read their bibles more. No harm in that, and i never went all that early. I really hope some listened, as long as they didnt get involved with the religion side of things.
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Shunning is a Great Anti-Witness
by outofservice ini spent an hour and a half last night on the phone with my mothers boss.she has worked for him for years and i have known him since i was a teenager.
he called because he could not believe she was not coming out here to see her oldest grandson graduate from high school.
he said i offered her a plane ticket and everything i could think of to get her to come and she refused.
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mraimondi
i was shunned by certain people long before i was disfellowshipped. I was pushing a car unsuccesfully in the snow in the northern regions of the american continent and they just passed me by after they realized who i was.
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Introducing me.
by mraimondi innot 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.. .
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dingdingding!!!! you got it ;)
not that it matters much.
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Family Worship Night Rule.....
by sweet pea in.
i have it on good authority that at the recent circuit assembly it was announced from the platform that there had been reports of groups of families and friends getting together to study on family worship night and that this was not to continue as fwn is for families only and not for other brothers and sisters to get involved in.. oh, and if you live alone, then you have to study on your own, you alone are your family, you are not to join anyone else's fwn (although i'm sure they didn't mean you couldn't join your blood family's fwn....).
the level of control never ceases to amaze me...... .
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mraimondi
thats horrible, this was a wonderful thing for be to be able to do back in the day, being single (it seems like you are one of three statuses: quickly married, single or df'ed) it was great to hang out with other people, made studying more interesting.