Thanks OTWO. Cantleave- hope you're right, but theres always some old die hard that will whip out a 20yr or so old magazine or have some old recording from an assembly to put fear in the kids heads. Too bad, I thought they were cute, but I was like 12 at the time.
littlebird
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Oh No! The smurfs are coming!
by littlebird ini wonder how many new stories of smurf's running in the kingdom hall will be stirred up.
maybe an actual smurf possession, lol!.
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=486273>1=28101.
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Oh No! The smurfs are coming!
by littlebird ini wonder how many new stories of smurf's running in the kingdom hall will be stirred up.
maybe an actual smurf possession, lol!.
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=486273>1=28101.
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littlebird
I wonder how many new stories of smurf's running in the kingdom hall will be stirred up. Maybe an actual smurf possession, lol!
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=486273>1=28101
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How Did YOU Finally Leave The Organization?
by minimus inwas it a long process?.
is it still ongoing?.
did you have a long range plan?.
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littlebird
I told my husband the night I saw the settlements announced on NBC, that I wasnt going to another meeting. I no longer trusted them. He "called the elders on me" and their excuses for the wt. just made me angrier. I got tired of sisters calling me and the elders, so I da'd so they would have to leave me alone.
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The moment I knew it was crap....
by Brocephus inalready had doubts from the time i got pubes... but i was about 15 and we were studying the revelation "book" for the upteenth time.
i realized for every actual bible verse they qouted there was 2-3 paragraphs of conjecture, assumption, faulty logic and just plain stupidity.
that's when i began to plan my escape.
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littlebird
The book says that the locusts are the JWs. This brings up an interesting problem: This means that the king of JWs is Abaddon, also known as Satan.
Wow! Good catch, Elsewhere.
It was finding out about the child abuse settlements on Nbc that did it for me, I never went to a meeting again.
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Was Jehovah God Ever Real To You?
by minimus inwe were supposed to "love" jehovah god.
we were taught how wonderful a god he is and how fortunate we were to be his people.
of course, you can't see jehovah god.
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littlebird
oops, meant to say "as the wt"
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Was Jehovah God Ever Real To You?
by minimus inwe were supposed to "love" jehovah god.
we were taught how wonderful a god he is and how fortunate we were to be his people.
of course, you can't see jehovah god.
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littlebird
hi min, sorry for the delay, I'm at work. I agree with sylvia that Jehovah=Jesus & vice versa. I don't believe that God is nearly as mean and the wt would have us believe, or rather, force us to believe.
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Was Jehovah God Ever Real To You?
by minimus inwe were supposed to "love" jehovah god.
we were taught how wonderful a god he is and how fortunate we were to be his people.
of course, you can't see jehovah god.
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littlebird
Yes, he was real to me, he is still real to me, but not the wt version.
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Did You "Linger" On As Witness Hoping That All The Pieces Would Fit?
by minimus inblueblades/mall cop said in a post that he was "lingering" on as a jw for decades hoping to understand things about the "truth" that were still unexplainable.
(my words, paraphrasing).. i did the same thing for probably a decade, either hoping things in the organization might change or i might finally "get it", regarding some teaching or viewpoint that just seemed to make no sense.. did you hang on to the "truth" much longer than you should have?.
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littlebird
Yes, Min, I lingered "waiting on Jehovah" . Truth is, he was giving me the answers all along, I was just too blind to see.
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How the WTS hides its cash.....you may find this interesting
by God_Delusion inlet me explain a little about what i do each day...... i work for a company that arranges trusts in the cook islands, turks & caicos, panama, etc.
i know that blondie is against what i am about to say, but i do not just believe that the wts have a variety of trusts in various jurisdictions around the world......i am absolutely positive they do.. .
i personally look after 14 trusts.
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littlebird
Sd-7, I always wondered why they stress, two words Watch Tower. I never thought it should be a big deal, the bank figures it out if someone spells my name wrong, so the words are together, hmmmmmmm.
GD, it would interesting if there was a way to find out if this were true.
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The Prosperity Gospel---Your Opinion?
by minimus inbenny hinn is one of those preachers that tell you if you give $$$ to their ministry, you will get 10 fold!.
i never understood why people do give $$$ and these preachers live the high life and encourage their listeners to do the same.
the watchower's kingdumb halls can't even pay their electric bills and you see these other "ministries"making hand over fist.
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littlebird
I don't accept the "prosperity gospel" If it were true, these preachers could keep writing their own checks & get 10 fold back without ever asking anyone else for their money.
The Kingdom halls are full of low people who have to resort to whatever jobs they can get that don't intervere with meetings, field service, assemblies & conventions. They can't get a college degree, they can't work overtime, they can't do anything holiday related, they can't carry a weapon. This kind of narrows the job pool, so I would say that is why they struggle with finances, while some other groups seem to prosper.