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  Changes in the last 7-ish years?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  what has changed in the last 7 years?

  just curious .... 1) do they still shun?

  what's the policy on da's, df's and a?.

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  FinchAndWeston

  thanks guys!
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  Changes in the last 7-ish years?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what has changed in the last 7 years?

  just curious .... 1) do they still shun?

  what's the policy on da's, df's and a?.

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  What has changed in the last 7 years? Just curious ...

  1) Do they still shun? What's the policy on DA's, DF's and A?

  2) Do they still preach? Note: I haven't seen anyone "out in service" in a long time

  3) I noticed brother/sisters standing beside a stand with magazines ... does everyone get one? Is this new?

  4) I noticed a new bible: it's grey colored and has JW literature appended to the front and back cover ... neat!

  5) .... anything else?
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  Are DF, DA and apostates still shunned? Are each treated differently? I heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...
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  Facing mortality after leaving the witnesses

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tell me i'm not overly thinking this.. i'm 39 years old...still youngish...but i worry about getting old.

  i look in the mirror and it depresses me.

  i suppose i still cling to watchtower utopia when no one would age over 25.. i used to look forward to paradise earth because it meant all the evil in the world, nuclear warfare, terrorist attacks and sickos would be no more, but we are deep in the 21st century with no end in sight.. appreciate your comments.

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  First, there is no rush. Take your time. You are not on a timeline crunch so take some time to pause. Seriously. Go for walks. Read. Spend time with family. A lot of the decisions will come naturally and give yourself time to process the existential crisis.
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  Is it true: the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false?

  just curious.

  it's secondhand.

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  FinchAndWeston

  The Lord’s Evening Meal will be observed as long as Christians with the heavenly hope are on earth [Read 1 Corinthians 11:26]

  Once the Lord “arrives,” he will take the last of the 144,000 home to be with him in heaven (Joh 14:1-3)

  Those with the earthly hope will no longer observe the Memorial

  Will not partake of the emblems then, so do not partake now.

  ... this is exactly what was repeated to me ... fascinating! I guess they mean "when the end comes" ... wait, is that when the lord arrives ... didn't he come invisibly in 1914? I'm confused ....

  Thanks ttdtt
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  Is it true: the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false?

  just curious.

  it's secondhand.

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  interesting comments....
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  Facing mortality after leaving the witnesses

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tell me i'm not overly thinking this.. i'm 39 years old...still youngish...but i worry about getting old.

  i look in the mirror and it depresses me.

  i suppose i still cling to watchtower utopia when no one would age over 25.. i used to look forward to paradise earth because it meant all the evil in the world, nuclear warfare, terrorist attacks and sickos would be no more, but we are deep in the 21st century with no end in sight.. appreciate your comments.

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  FinchAndWeston

  "Occasionally I find myself wanting the comfort of a hope I know to be false." - Religion is a lot like alcohol - it's doesn't solve any of your problems but you do feel good for a while!

  But seriously, all I can tell you is, don't replace one comfort for another.

  That feeling you have: it's call fear. And you need to feel it, accept it and embrace it.

  Otherwise it will paralyze you ... so confront it, then you can look your fears in the eye and say "you're not in control anymore".

  Go back and reread some of the JW material and see how it played on your fears....
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  Facing mortality after leaving the witnesses

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tell me i'm not overly thinking this.. i'm 39 years old...still youngish...but i worry about getting old.

  i look in the mirror and it depresses me.

  i suppose i still cling to watchtower utopia when no one would age over 25.. i used to look forward to paradise earth because it meant all the evil in the world, nuclear warfare, terrorist attacks and sickos would be no more, but we are deep in the 21st century with no end in sight.. appreciate your comments.

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  FinchAndWeston

  Bro, hang in there. Your hurting because you have never been allowed to hurt or worry before.

  This journey away from the JWs is not an easy one, and it will be rough. But, we here have been down the same road and I think if you read some experiences of those who left here on this forum, you might find solace.

  You are not alone and you are not the only one feeling this way.
  
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  Is it true: the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false?

  just curious.

  it's secondhand.

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  FinchAndWeston

  I heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false? Just curious. It's secondhand.
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  Bullet list of major (recent) changes

  by RN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is with great interest that i recently read ceders article on the decline of the wts.

  his article along with many of the comments really drives home just how many major changes there have been in a fairly short peroid of time.. somewhere in the recent past i could swear that someone had posted a bullet list of major changes with the corresponding year.

  when i saw this (or something like it) my first thought was that this simple list made it all the more shocking; and since i have searched and cannot find anything like it.. so i dug around and started one of my own, please feel free to add/corrects events.

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  FinchAndWeston

  Awesome list. I faded in 2006 ... I missed so much new light ...