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  Hello - My story

  by Sparlock in

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  i have been lurking on site for some days and thought i would share my story.. i am a warrior wizard, who has had dealings with a jehovah's witness family.

  reading through the posts here i realise that these people shun those those who have left the organisation, that is very sad.

  i was never even given the chance to become a member.

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  Welcome to this forum.
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  New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"

  by treadnh2o in

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  2. bible

  hey peeps,.

  it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.

  they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.

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  Sounds like a series to be posted on their web site. That is scary.
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  My GE Water Kettle just died after few years. RIP

  by Iamallcool in

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  my ge water kettle just died after few years.

  rip.

  they do not sell ge water kettle anymore.

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  I also have a water kettle that heats up on the stove. Works great.
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  Active Bethelites, former Bethelites, is it true that brothers are not allowed to have their head fully shaved?

  by La Falta Habitacion Por Sr Hor-Hey!! in

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  i just heard this directly from a circuit heavyweight i had the displeasure of conversing with recently.

  he and i got into a little bit of a heated conversation about following the direction of the slave as related to education, and he used the example of bethelites being prohibited from having fully shaved heads.

  he was taken aback when i expressed how utterly ridiculous such a policy was/is.

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  Bulletin Board is now Information Board. Definite double standards, congregations have elders who have their heads shaved, yet not Bethelites. I remember a CO who told an elder to cut his mustache. The elder told him a definite "NO!". He stayed an elder.
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  Did You Feel Like A Pest When You Went House To House?

  by minimus in

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  i hated going from door to door.

  it was really bad when the neighbors would call each other and say that we had arrived.. what pests we were!.

  now, i don't bother anyone if i can help it!

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  I felt like a pest especially doing telephone witnessing. I placed my name in the no-call registry, so why should I bother someone else with an unwanted call.
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  Take a moment this Memorial Day weekend...

  by Mr. Falcon in

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  2. friends

  "remember all the movies, terry, we'd go see .

  trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be .

  and after all this time to find we're just like all the rest .

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  Mr Falcon, thanks for sharing such a touching experience. Glad you were able to connect to your long lost friend. I have lost my fleshly brothers, cousins, and dad because of this org practicies. I wish the GB one day would come to realize the hurt they have caused. I am so glad for this forum to get feelings off of my chest.
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  I'm curious...........how many of you are going out in Field Service tomorrow? I'm serious.

  by La Falta Habitacion Por Sr Hor-Hey!! in

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  2. friends

  just wondering.

  i'm going out in the morning, but i'm wondering who else here in undercover apostate land will be meeting up with their own respective groups for theocratic activity tomorrow.

  for those of you going, will you be preparing your presentations tonight?.

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  I will be out in the field tomorrow with my family doing some river rafting.
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  Have you ever been falsely accused or blamed?

  by Fernando in

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  read this on the internet today:.

  "within jungian psychology there is a concept known as the shadow.

  most of us encounter our own shadows in the form of projection.

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  I was falsely accused of slandering an elder. I never said anything bad about the elder, but two elders accused me of saying bad things about another elder. Of course the two elders were puppets of the so-called slandered elder. Because I did not apologize for something I never did, a judicial committee was formed and railroaded me.
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  Fistfights for seats at DC?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

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  straightshooter

  I remember standing in line early in the morning and rushing to get a good seat. I was never fast enough to get a prime seat and also I was always scared of being trampled on.

  I just love the remark of the study saying, “You JW’s will die for each other in a concentration camp but you will kill each other over a lousy seat?”.

  How true that is.
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  Thanks and farewell...

  by Alfred in

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  2. friends

  hello all..... a few months ago my wife expressed serious concerns about the time i had spent over the past couple of years reading old watchtower literature (printed circa 1880 through the late 30s) and the time spent on this site and several others.

  she is very grateful that i was very persistent in trying to convince her that this is just a mind-control cult run by clueless men who simply make things up as they go along.

  it wasnt easy, but im thankful that i was able to wake her up thanks to many of you.

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