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  What's preventing YOU from stopping meeting attendance?

  by nicolaou in

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  we all 'exit' in our own way and at our own pace but i'm curious, why carry on stuffing yourself into that stiff suit and tie or meeting dress years after you realised the truth about 'the truth'?.

  they kept you a prisoner, what's stopping you from leaving now that you have the key to your own cell?.

  loved ones?

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  ssn587

  I quit attending during the CO visit, just stood up and walked out never been back or going to.
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

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  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  God is an E.T.?
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
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  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  Really the question is did God make mankind or did mankind make God?
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  ssn587

  Crafty benefited also.
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  How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health

  by RodrigoGuerreiro in

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  2. experiences

  first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").

  she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?

  you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .

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  I was asked that once and told the ass that when at the gun range it's great even better than being out in service or at meetings, he got that deer in the headlights look and just walked away, another nosy witness overheard and just stood there for a few seconds then asked you have guns, then I told him well duh you think i me throwing literature at the targets, he shut up and walked away mumbling to himself. Never heard about it from the elder Gestapo.
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  I am glad to have found the true religion

  by A Believer in

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  it really is great.

  i remember browsing this forum the day after i had joined it, and their was a knock on the door.

  i thought it was one of my package from ups but instead it was two sisters.

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  ssn587

  Delusional, you must also believe in talking snakes and donkeys, you are convinced that the absence of empirical evidence is evidence of a man made savior. Like I said, delusional.
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  Question for those that have been Disfellowshiped for apostasy VS succesfully fading

  by NikL in

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  2. friends

  there are quite a few here who have been disfellowshipped for apostasy.. then there are those that have successfully faded.. why the different outcome?

  are the ones that got df more out spoken?

  or does the discrepancy lie with the elders?.

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  I have no idea of what status I'm in with the local congregation. Haven't been to a meeting since 2011, do see some from that congregation time to time, some smile, others ignore and a few want to shake my hand and ask how I'm doing. I just ignore them, met one elder at McDonald once we grabbed a bit and I asked him if you can be appointed an elder while being an active pedophile and he responded yes. I then told him that's why I don't attend at least one of the reason, and that I wanted nothing to do with a group that would accept a pedophile in any capacity. Am just glad to being able to get on with my own business and could care less about any of them.
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  Article: A Look at Canada's 12 Most Wanted Fugitives (Look who is #2)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-look-at-canadas-12-most-wanted-fugitives.

  december 6, 2016. by sam cooley.

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  I have no doubt the enabling elders in our Temecula congregation knew he was a ped when he got there.
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  Article: A Look at Canada's 12 Most Wanted Fugitives (Look who is #2)

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
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  http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-look-at-canadas-12-most-wanted-fugitives.

  december 6, 2016. by sam cooley.

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  Knew him years ago, was surprised when he was on the most wanted ped list in USA. In fact had been out in service with him and our families.
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  Were you aware of the shunning policy when becoming a JW

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those who became jws, were you fully aware of the societys cruel shunning policy whilst studying?

  i absolutely had no idea such a policy existed until years later.

  it really only hit home when reading the horrendous stories on the internet around 2002. .

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  I wasn't aware of all or in fact any of the negatives during studying only a few years afterwards. My neighbor was in a study being friends I informed him of the negatives, and he subsequently told them to take a hike, he evidently mentioned me as his source and being pissed off the couple who had been studying with him called Bethel on me I just told them to leave get off my property or I would remove them physically, they left. Never heard anything about it afterwards.