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  My family has known I'm an apostate

  by cognac in

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  i found out that my husband has not only gone to the elders, but has been going to members of my family about me over a period of a few years.

  this piece of news is just so depressing.

  i've been wondering how my family knew i didn't go and thats why so many of them have becoming more and more distant.

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  maninthemiddle

  My dad did the same to my wife and I. He may be a jerk, but it is what they are taught to do.

  Certianly not everyone is this way. I don't believe my in-laws told anyone what they knew.
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  Marriage is done

  by cognac in

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  its been done for a long time.

  relieved with the idea of finally being free without the fight.

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  I'm glad you find happiness where you are now. I feel we all need to get over that proveribal "hump" where we make real friends and start a new life. It releases the hold that DF/DA can hold over us.
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  I'm done hiding who I am with my family

  by cognac in

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  i'm pissed that i got scared the other day and didn't just tell my mom i was celebrating halloween.

  i was caught off-guard when she asked what i was doing and felt that fear they instill in you.

  hate that i still feel that way when i shouldn't.

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  maninthemiddle

  My wife found freedom in telling her parents about halloween and trick/treating with my son, yes it complicates an already difficult sitution, but in the end being honest is freeing.

  We were DF'd because of the halloween decorations after fading for 4 years. I will echo the sentiment that you can be DF'd for anything two elders agree on.
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  OMG! Just watched a pile of LDS TV - JW.tv is like it. and

  by hamsterbait in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the mormons have the "quorum of the twelve apostles" leading them.

  they sit at the front of the temple and are looked up to.

  is this where all the emphasis on the gb is going?.

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  maninthemiddle

  hampster, you should find the Mormon vidoe of the Prodigal Son. It is very entertaining to compare to the JW one.

  But yes, they are just copying them, LDS has been using videos for years, they even broadcast the general conference on the website.
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  JW broadcasting now at tv.jw.org

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the jw broadcasting is now at the subdomain tv.jw.org.

  goes live today.. g.. .

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  maninthemiddle

  Music video!!!
  I have seen this video with a comentary track already. they sure are not in a hurry to produce new content.
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  JW broadcasting now at tv.jw.org

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the jw broadcasting is now at the subdomain tv.jw.org.

  goes live today.. g.. .

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  maninthemiddle

  I'm suprised how many flub-ups they are not editing out.
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  The More I Think, The More I Lose Faith In BIBLE!!

  by NoMoreHustle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sitting through this weeks wt study.

  paragraph came up about how "a fire came out from jah & consumed (korah and) the 250 men offering the incense".

  i said to myself this supposedly happened couple of thousand years ago.

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  Since Yahweh was a volcano, it's no doubt that someone who got to close was killed by fire.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtI-lSvS028
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  jw logo vs people who wear a cross. IDOL WORSHIP IS STILL IDOL WORSHIP

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week out in service i saw an elder wearing a jw.org pin.

  and thought.....hmmm isn't this idol worship?

  what a double standard.....it's ok to promote the borg with a pin...but not ok to promote jesus by wearing a. cross?.

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  maninthemiddle

  I remember the days that having a poster of a band or famous person was called idolatry.
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  Can JW's get themselves sterilized?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can you be sexually sterilised?no, it is absolutely wrong - w59 7/1 p. 416 questions from readers.

  however, it is absolutely wrong for a person to think that in order to stay free for the kingdom service and avoid family responsibilities in the way of children he is justified in getting himself sexually sterilized.. .

  no, it is harmful - w61 12/1 p. 735 questions from readers.

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  maninthemiddle

  I've seen a much more recent article that siad a big fat no.
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  Bethel experiences sound like a prison sentence.Why even go?

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i read about bethel experiences my mind go to the show locked up raw!.

  why would someone subject themselves to this without commeting a crime.. the wife and i went to see bethel in broklyn a few years ago and it was unlike anything i expected.

  very cold.. went the bosert hotel and was talking to a brother there and asked how long he had been there, he said 25 years...i asked how old he was.

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  maninthemiddle

  I never concidered going, but it only took one tour for me to tell it wasn't right.