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Making the leap - lurker to member - Hello!
by Hadit in
1. jw
2. friends
ive been lurking here for the past couple of months since i started researching the organization.

i dont have many people to talk to and its been a saving grace to read your posts.. i dont really know where to start so here i go.

its been a long journey getting here and it looks as if i still have a long ways to go to get somewhere healthy, stable and strong.
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I had a nightmarewhat does it mean?
by tjlibre in
1. jw
2. experiences
i had a very vivid dream last night that i would like to share it with you.

i wonder if any of you have had the same type of dream.

i believe that dreams are used by subconscious mind to communicate with the conscious mind, so im sure that this dream has a meaning.
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New here...
by hereiam! in
1. jw
2. friends
sorry if this starts off as a kind of a downer.. i am 29, and my husband and i have stopped going to meetings since last october.

we live in mexico and used to attend the english.

long story short, after realizing how many much we've been lied to we stopped going to our meetings, moved out of the territory, switched to spanish, and after a month of attending just vanished.
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More from the June 15th WT on the Love at the meetings.
by life is to short in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
this wt just keeps getting better and better, ok well the start of it was the worst the generation change but man this whole wt is really ticking me off.

i must just be in some mood right now.

it has taken me the whole week to listen to it.
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Highlights from Circuit (2 days) Assembly Be Afraid Very Afraid!!!
by tjlibre in
1. jw
2. experiences
the content of the program presented at the circuit assembly: safeguard your spirituality served as a re-affirmation that the wt/gb is loosing the grip of rank & file.

they are becoming boulder and boulder in their blatant use of mind control techniques; in my opinion, their mind control techniques used to be more subtle.

but the content of the program in this past assembly clearly reflected that they are acting out of frustration and desperation.
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Stayed up all night, see it is a cult now.
by gutted in
1. jw
2. experiences
i really needed to find a place to write this as i don't believe i can talk with anyone else about my account, perhaps it is similar to a lot of yours.. last night for whatever reason i said i would go online and look up information on jws.

i have been raised as a jw all my life and baptized the last few years.

i looked at www.freeminds.org and www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com and couldn't believe how easily the whole of my lifes teachings were refuted.. i can't stop my brain from running, bs just in regards to theology alone (1914, paradise earth, celebrations etc.
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This is what the SEC is doing
by is there help out there in
1. jw
2. friends
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652/19290002.
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PARADISE EARTH OR HEAVEN? OR BOTH?
by exjw2814 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the jw's teach about the hope we have for living on a paradise earth.

is that what jesus taught when he came to the earth ?

the last time i checked he was referring to heaven, not earth.
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Lets have some fun.
by tjlibre in
1. watchtower
2. bible
lets find and post pictures/cartoons that depicts the wts/gb, their teachings, culture...anything.... .

i got this idea from the last post on the generation change thread.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/187399/1/new-generation-defined-april-15-2010-watchtower.
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If still "in", how do you feel when praying in front of a group despite being in doubt of your beliefs?
by Crisis of Conscience in
1. jw
2. friends
it happened to me this weekend.

i'm curently "active" and had some long time friends from a different congregation over for dinner.. we went through the formality of praying before the meal.

normally or rather lately i've been passing it off to someone else.