Topics Started by miseryloveselders

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My first panic attack
by freedomfighter in
1. jw
2. experiences
guess where my first panic attack occurred?

at the kindom hall of course.

i was 14yrs old and thought i was being "possessed by a demon".. panic attacks became more common, and at the age of 18 i was diagnosed with "panic disorder with depression".
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If You Were Ever An Elder...
by Henry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what about the responsibility of being an elder did you dislike the most?

i served from september 2003 - june 2006. there were two things that bugged me the most the first was i got sick of the bickering amongst the body.

we had 7 elders and in nearly every situation, big or small, there was some division that got personal.
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How Being a Witness made you Lose out on Higher Education and Careers
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
hi, folks.

been thinking of this, because of having been raised in the witnesses.

i reflect back on opportunities i would have encountered and seized, had it not been for being controlled by the witness organization being told higher education was not needed.
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Music Fans!! Once again I Ask, What's Your Top 10 Favorite Albums?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
hello gang!

didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?

this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
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Tribute to Kim Clijsters
by Leolaia in
1. social
2. physical
today is kim clijsters' birthday and a month ago she announced her retirement from tennis.

i remember the week she was born very well.

i have watched tennis since the late '70s, and i remember when billie jean king was a star, when jimmy connors was a hot new thing, and when "virginia slims" matches were shown on wtbs.
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Why 6 Billion People Deserve to Die in Armageddon
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jehovah is such a righteous, merciful, loving god -- slow to anger, overflowing with loving kindness and blessing.

yet it somehow bothers many of you that he will shortly execute his judgment on mankind and wipe out 99.9% of the world's population, as if that somehow is supposed to conflict with his loving qualities.

personally, i have no idea why many of you feel this way.
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Major (5 star) barf alert about DC experience
by blindersoff in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
comments from our dear sister in the fort worth, tx area.

her email address is: xxxxxxxxxx [ pm me if you want it]

"i went to the sunday session of the convention this week and it was so .
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1975 - Lest We Forget
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.

do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?

with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?
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Rutherford's Views on Women
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"the women make monkeys or dupes of men.

the men have before effeminate, soft and easily influenced and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home.

for instance, when men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby elevate her to a place above men.
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The story of Samson
by Simon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
just a few things in the account that don't make sense and lead me to believe it's just a made of story (really?

a guy with superhuman power?

who would have thought... ).