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  ex-mormon stories - very similar to JW

  by dozy in

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  when i was leaving the jws , i often used to read "testimonies" from ex-mormons & was often struck by how similar they were to my experience.

  there are a few accounts given here by ex-mormons - a bit hapazard but interesting.. http://www.salamandersociety.com/exmormon/.

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  scotinsw

  I had a colleague who had been brought up a Morm but had never been baptised or become a fully fledged member. I always remember her telling me that her sister had and had then got pregnant and was a single mother and how the Mormons had all ignored her and wouldn't have anything to do with her. I told her that I thought that was bad as this was a really tough thing for her.

  Little did I realise that it was very similar to the shunnign that goes on with JWs. I suppose that was one of my first thoughts that shunning DF'd people was wrong.
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  First "Apostate" Thing I've Done

  by scotinsw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just been on facebook and saw a friend of a "friend" had a truth box which is anonymous.

  i sent a little message to them!.

  probably will get ignored and they will think that the evil apostates are out to get them but still, it made me feel like i'm getting over the whole witless thing.. so.....what was the first "apostate" thing you ever did?.

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  Just been on Facebook and saw a friend of a "friend" had a truth box which is anonymous. I sent a little message to them!

  Probably will get ignored and they will think that the evil apostates are out to get them but still, it made me feel like I'm getting over the whole witless thing.

  So.....what was the first "apostate" thing you ever did?
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  PROUD KIDS' TRIBUTE TO DAD JACKO at Kingdom Hall???

  by Gayle in

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  each of the king of pops kids will speak in turn at a jehovahs witness meeting hall where jackos mum katherine, father joe and other relatives have worshipped for more than two decades.. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/140593/proud-kids-tribute-to-dad-jacko/.

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  The original story was in the Daily Star. I would give no credibility to this newspaper at all! It is a trashy paper through and through! Funny that its not been reported anywhere else......
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  So is this a new way they are trying to place literature ??

  by troubled mind in

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  i was at the 'dollar general' store this morning and in their magazine /book rack was a brand new "greatest man" book ?

  i picked it up and looked it over and sure enough published by wtbts .....no price tag affixed so i assume a witness put it in there as a placement .... i took it to the check out clerk ,and told her "this is not a sale item , jehovah's witnesses publish this book and leave it with people free of charge " she just shrugged her shoulders and put it to the side ......

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  Gary - well done to your daughter!
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  And you wonder why Americans don't like Soccer...

  by zeroday* in

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  ok so i thought i would give it a chance and watch some of the world cup...i got thru about 5 minutes when i had to turn it off...i mean really what's with the constant horn blowing....

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  Love football but you can't beat a game of rugby!
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  The Generation Watchtower (TOMORROW!) and The Cough of Incredulity

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  the watchtower will be studied tomorrow that contains the new overlapping generations teaching.

  paragraph 10 reads:.

  "he evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.".

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  That sister just confused matters even more! How is her son not part of the TV generation?????? Do you not have tvs there anymore?
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  sneaky photo used in the new york magazine story

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. bible

  anybody else notice this?.

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  Then we had a talk about how it's bad to have the Reasoning book bound with the Bible because people might think we added to the Bible. Oh the irony!

  The Reasoning Book came out in 1985 (I think) so its full of old light maybe thats the reason behind the above! Does the RS still get used at all because of that?
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  how do they write new articles/talk outlines?

  by poor places in

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  it really makes you wonder.

  i mean, they're all pretty interchangeable, aren't they?

  nobody would've guessed that today's special talk was new; it could've been replaced by about fifty other talks without anyone catching on.

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  It's sad because there are some very talented speakers in my hall. Imagine if they could speak as they want to speak!

  You used to get a bit more of it when talks were 45 minut but when they reduced the time to 30 minutes using the same outlines it made it a bit more difficult for the speaker to talk freely and bring in other information.

  Of course, if people were able to speak as they wanted to who knows what they would come out with. Heaven forbit! they might show some independent thinking!
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  Watchtower Study 18 April 2010

  by St George of England in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is this article really a bible study or just a 'sales pitch' to train jw's to be more effective in getting new members?.

  george.

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  scotinsw

  I don't know what the article is but you would think it would be a fairly generic article as its the "special talk" where they encourage interested ones to attend.
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  If You Weren't In Rapt Attention What Did You Think About During The Meetings?

  by minimus in

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  i used to think of leaving early.

  at the end i started making excuses to leave (supposedly work related) so that i could just get out of there.

  i wanted a drink!.

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  scotinsw

  I used to write down things I needed to do at work the following day. Looked like I was taking notes!