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why jw's commit suicide?
by notalone in
1. jw
2. friends
we all know the rate of suicide is high among jw's.

my question is this- was there some subliminal messages that encourage this.

i was a born in and my entire life i would have these thoughts that could come out of nowhere,"kill yourself.
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Didn't go to memorial this year
by silent in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife and i had business to attend to out of town today and i had thought if we made it back home in time, we'd go to the memorial.

as it turned out, we didn't get home in time and we missed it, but we had a real good talk with each other on the way home.

we are largely successful faders and at the very least, i like to try and make the memorial.
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our secret dating got caught...
by trueloveneverfails94 in
1. social
2. relationships
we both are 21 years old.

we both are 21 years old.

i am almost done with my study and working on to become one of an unbaptized publisher.
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Chronic relapse - what do I do?
by wayoutthere in
1. jw
2. friends
my first post here and unfortunately it is asking for help.. i was a born in jehovah's witness and from my earliest memories, i know i hated being one.

i hated the embarrassment of being the "outsider" at school and i hated not being allowed to have any friends.

of course i had the obligatory friends in the kingdom hall - none of whom were my age exactly and none of whom i would have personally chosen to be friends with if i had been left to pick them myself in a natural setting.
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Looking for 4 years of my posts!
by clarity in
1. forum
2. announcements
dear simon, did you ever explain where all our previous posts have gone?.

if you did ...i missed it.. my current info states that i have only posted 2 times & responded to only a few posters.. seems to me my count was about 3,000 the last time i looked......plse tell me how to access my old stuff or has it been destroyed now?.

clarity .
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Waking someone up using WT Article on "Doubts"?
by cappytan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
has anyone had success in using this article to convince their family member or spouse that critical research of what the society presents is important to build faith?.

this article has this passage that jumped out at me:.

of course, not all doubt is bad.
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Need to vent: Wife just went in full cult mode, huge fight. she is so brainwashed
by goingthruthemotions in
1. jw
2. friends
out of the blue my wife started to ask me about my feeling about the borg.

i told her i didn't want to talk about it...she persisted.

she already knows how i feel, i told her that my biggest beef is that they use mind control, and yep she went in to how i was an apostate and how she doesn't want to be married to an apostate.
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Is this proof that the flood was regional?
by silent in
1. jw
2. friends
i stumbled across a scripture today.

it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.

the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.
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Illegal immigrants in the organization?
by silent in
1. jw
2. friends
i had a thought today that might prove interesting.

i'm wondering if there are any illegal immigrants who are witnesses?

surely it would be a great position to be in as an illegal immigrant because you could play up your plight and prey on the sympathies of others within the congregation.
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Wrestling with change, technology, jealousy, and spiritual need...
by silent in
1. jw
2. friends
hey gang, i'm a fader and i've made a few posts in the past, but i mostly lurk.

i had a visit with a family member the other night and they know how i feel about my life as a witness growing up.

my life as a witness was not fun, i had no friends "in the truth," was picked on relentlessly in school, and basically my life as a witness left me with not one real good memory.