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  Unbelievable Assertion!!!!!!!

  by The Searcher in

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  we had our special assembly day this weekend.. what the district overseer stated in his talk totally stunned me, and made me feel sick to my stomach.

  he said, "christ is directing us through the governing body, and we cannot get holy spirit except through them!".

  i do not wish to reveal all my thoughts on his statement, but i pray to god that it acts as a wake-up call to at least some of the audience.. suffice to say that the gb is now the mediator to our mediator, and from now on, i will have to pray for holy spirit through the name of the gb!!.

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  Found Sheep

  Well I like it the more "insane" they sound the more sane will leave

  Kool Aid - drink up
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  What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!

  by megaflower in

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  "we should be mindful".

  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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  Found Sheep

  Already said but

  True Christians would..... (what ever they want to guilt you to do or not do with no Bibical reason)
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  Our S

  by Auntfancy in

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  Found Sheep

  I like your other story better
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  Our Story

  by Auntfancy in

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  hi everyone, i have been on here for a little while and haven't introduced myself to you.

  i can't tell you how much all of you have helped me sort many things out in my mind.. i was raised in a very good christian home and married my hs sweetheart.

  i left home and moved half way across the country with a husband and a brand new baby.

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  Found Sheep

  welcome nice story Kinda different twist a born in and a convert both getting out

  FS
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  the journey of my children in awakening

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. experiences

  at the request of some, i have gone through many of my posts of the last 3 years to collect all my methods i used to awaken my children to the truth about the truth.. from oldest to newest (i will do them in a few posts so its not an endless scroll thru).

  had a bit of a chat today about the internet (which i know he likes to use at my place).

  in his use of the net today i found one site he visited was one i had visited to get a pdf of a society publication.

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  Found Sheep

  That was nice could make a movie of it you are a great dad
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  Good example of a Brain study.

  by jam in

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  if you can read the following paragraph, you have a. strong mind.. 7h15 m3554g3.

  3v3n 7h1nk1ng 4bou7 17, b3 proud!

  c4n r3ad 7h15.. i cdnuolt blveiee that i cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd what i was.

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  Found Sheep

  I can read it and I'm dyslexic it looks like every other word I read
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  And yet another new member.

  by AMO in

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  hi guys & girls.. though you can sit back down in your seats now, sorry but not a jw, never have been & never will be, am a totally happy with athiest life, lol.. started lurking here about a year ago, started dating a jw woman didn't i, i here the face palms, lol.

  lucky for me i found this site while trying to find out more about the jw's very early on & knew exactly how this was prob going to end.

  but i thought what the hell lets see where it goes.

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  Found Sheep

  welcome yes anyone interested in knowing the truth about jw's is welcome. TOo bad you didn't wake her up. 40 year old virgin needs help
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  At least I am not going to die soon

  by zed is dead in

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  had a bit of a scare today.

  i just was going to get some meds refilled, but i was having a panic attack when they checked my vitals.

  they insisted i go to my doctor immediately.

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  Found Sheep

  yes panic attack 200's/over 100's can be normal- seen 248/150 after some ativan back to normal
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  yet another newbie..

  by ragnarok75 in

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  i've been lurking here for some time and now that i've registered here's a little bit about myself... i'm in northern europe (so english is not my own language,but i have indeed studied it for more than 18 months) and i was born into this hateful cult in the "momentuous" year of -75.good that my parents stayed alive till then!.

  as far back as i can remember i had doubts both about the doctrines and the whole existence of god.however,i instinctively knew that these doubts are not to be mentioned.so i learned to be a fake at an early age.though having read many other stories here i realise how easy i got it.i now understand that we lived in a rather liberal area and also my family was quite liberal eventhough my dad was an elder since mid -80 and mom was really "strong in the truth".i never brought up the religion at school or with friends and was never bullied or anything.it helped that i was good at sports,especially football (soccer for americans) and football is also the source of my biggest hurt in childhood.i know it may sound very trivial,but the fact that i wasn't allowed to join a football team felt just so unjust and painfull and it lasted all through my childhood.whenever we had a new gym teacher,the first thing he asked me was which team do i play for.i was too embarrased to tell the truth and i just gave the impression that i only wanted to play for fun and not join any team.oh,how badly i wanted to!.

  somehow i managed to silence all those doubts and got babtised as a young man.very soon after the babtism i knew that it didn't have the hoped for effect of making me more spiritual and meetings and field service still felt an absolute bore.now began the long years of just "going through the motions".all my family (parents,many brothers and sisters,uncles and aunts,nieces and nephews) and most of my friends were in.i never reached out and attended only one or two meetings a week and penned my hours.i kind of liked my congregation (also,the seats at our kh were really comfy,so i often slept through the meetings) and made some very good friends.friends that - as you all can guess- didn't turn out to be so good in the end,but with whom i nonetheless had some good times and felt a strong connection to.. for a long time nothing happened that would've disrupted my rather non-eventfull life as a lacklustre jdub with at least another foot in the "world".i'd done many things that would've gotten me d'fed,but i never had any intentions of going to the elders about it and i had no pangs of conscience about it either.it was just a matter of convenience..i liked my witness friends,wanted to hold on to them and not to lose my family.. however..there was this girl... a (worldly,of course) girl that i had absolutely fell for and had a brief romance with many years ago.now she was back in my life.i must omit the proceeding turns of events for the sake of anonymity,but the end result is that i'm a proud father of a lovely baby girl.well,not so much baby anymore as she starts school soon.i love her so much and it gives me great satisfaction that she is growing free from any influence of vicious cults or of any gods for that matter.we live now in different countries but i see her often and there's always skype.. her birth also acted as a catalyst for the change in relationship between me and the society.i decided that i wanted to share the joy of her birth and existence with my family,eventhough i also knew that that would mean i'd have to go the elders too.if i didn't,they would,and that would result in automatic disfellowshippping.. a jc was duly formed and i had decided that i'm not going to go there and tell them that i regret her,as having her is the best thing that's ever happeded to me.

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  Welcome! I'm a 75 baby too always got a kick out of it cuz people would be so shocked at how old I was getting.... when they found out I was born in 75

  congrats on your girl
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  gets stranger with time

  by d in

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  i am noticing that as time goes times on, the jw's become more stranger.

  they seem a whole more distant at least to me.they also more depressed at least the older ones i see.. what do you think..

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  Found Sheep

  I'm not around them now but when i was in most were depressed, or some type of mental illness.