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  How do I recover my password?

  by Lobsto2 in

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  2. tech-support

  hello, i posted on here a few months back originally as lobsto.

  how can i recover my password if i forgot it?.

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  bsmart

  No help as such. I do recommend using Lastpass or other password saver. I used to use a small address book to save my passwords, and if you do remember to update it as you change it. If you are in a position where you cant have a notebook, try putting them in a document on your computer that can be protected or put it in a file with a deceptive name. I once used a file named Roster quilters 2016. Others will have better ideas

  I thought of the name witness protection; that made me laugh. But that is way too obvious.
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  Finding a faith that is stronger than death — or my family’s rejection

  by Tahoe in

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  2. friends

  my mother would be surprised that i did not die alone.. and that, in the end, about 25 people had volunteered to take care of me when i couldn’t do that for myself anymore.. it’s one thing, after you find out you’re going to die from metastatic colorectal cancer, to ask people to bring your favorite kind of gatorade.

  it’s quite another to ask them to stand in the place of dna-sharing family and walk through hospice with you, but that’s what i had to do.. at the age of 23, i turned away from the family of jehovah’s witnesses who raised me.they had wanted me to be an uber-witness.

  so my family forbade me to go to college and instead raised me to be a full-time, door-to-door minister who converted people to their way of thinking — i actually succeeded with one in about 15 years of trying — and to pay my bills by working menial jobs.. every meaningful connection in my life was through a local congregation of witnesses, known as the kingdom hall.

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  Thank you for sharing this lovely lady's journey. Her family is missing out on a remarkable gift.
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  Involved(ish) with a JW Man.

  by BNG-713 in

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  2. relationships

  i know there are several posts about witnesses and non-witnesses in regards to relationships.

  i couldn’t find anything specifically that spoke to me, so i would love some third-party advice and thoughts.. i have never been someone to pursue a stranger from the internet.

  earlier this year, i became friends with someone on a video game.

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  I have a friend who's brother never was baptized and lived his life pretty much "worldly" till his 70's and a random Dub witnessed to him, Much of that family were still pretty hardcore. His folks were gone and he was divorced. Well he is back waiting, for the paradise earth and his mom and dad to meet him there.

  Make sure that your internet friend knows the truth about the truth before you make any permanent decisions. Best of luck to you.
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  When should you Disassociate yourself?

  by happytobefree in

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  2. friends

  i have been having discussion with my sister (relative), who is an active witness, about writing a letter of disassociation.

  the reason being is that i have not attended the meetings in over a year and it's been 4 years since i have went out in the jw ministry.. i going to try to sum this topic up.

  my sister think that i should not da myself because i have not done any immoral act in her thinking.

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  Time for another bump to the top.
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  Can someone help me with a question?

  by Angelgirlnr1 in

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  2. scandals

  i am not a jehovahs witness, but i have family members who are.

  and one of them is my cousin.

  we talk now and again, and i love him very much, both him and his wife, and also my aunt and uncle, his parents.

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  They did not say it precisely in their literature but encouraged it in talking about devoted people who had done so and praised them. At the conventions it was encouraged and there were examples given of someone who decided to pioneer or be missionaries and to go where the need was "great".
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  MORALITY: what is it really?

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  what is morality?

  how is it different from ethics?

  do we just make it all up to suit our fancy?

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  So Terry, its been 15 years since this conversation.

  Is your reality still based on this way of thinking? Pragmatism and selfishness is something I fight in some ways and your viewpoint makes me think perhaps it is part of morality and I need to reconsider what my thoughts are really telling me.

  Makes me remember the book study and the Daniel book. It never made sense to me and is part of why I never stuck around when I grew up. Nowadays making sense of things is still important.
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  Beth Sarim Revisited 4 Newbies

  by Farkel in

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  2. friends

  at 4440 braeburn road, san diego, ca., in the rich and prestigious neighborhood of the kensington heights neighborhood sits one of the biggest embarrassments in the long and continuing list of embarrassments the watchtower society has created for itself.. most dubs know nothing about it, and if it wasnt for a few brief comments about it in the proclaimers book in 1993, even fewer dubs would know anything at all about it.. it is the home once known as beth-sarim (pronounced beth-sareeeem), the house of the princes.. it is a house with a history the society has shown by its historical lack of candor, hopes everyone would forget.

  in fact, the society has done just about everything it could do to ensure that its history will be forgotten.

  in the first book devoted to discussing the history of jehovahs witnesses, this house and its history is not even mentioned.

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  I miss Farkel, its time for another bump.
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  The Attorney General Says “Spying “ Went On Against Trump

  by minimus in

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  the outrage that he would even suggest such a thing!!!.

  it will be interesting to see if someone other than trump will be investigated.😏.

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  Sorry Min, but doesn't this belong in politics and current affairs?
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  Have You Been Invited To This Year’s Memorial ?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  last year was the first time i didn’t get an invitation  to the lord’s evening meal.

  i think they finally gave up on me..

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  Got mine yesterday.
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  letter to the Society re: blood

  by star69 in

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  2. medical

  the following letter which was sent to the canadian branch is posted in the interest of creating awareness of basic issues that all thinking witnesses should be concerned about.

  the research found at [url] http://www.jwbloodreview.org[/url] appears to be very sound and provides strong scriptural and logical argumentation that policies of jehovah's witnesses regarding blood transfusions are in "possibly" error.. it is reasonable and entirely proper for any who are presently concerned jehovah's witnesses to submit and request the society's perspective on this treatise found at [url] http://www.jwbloodreview.org[/url].. as yet i have not recieved a response from the society, but perhaps more persons writing in regarding this matter will at least continue to encourage the society to review what is an inconsistent, confusing and dangerous policy.. .

  sunday, may 7, 2000. .

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  bsmart

  Bringing this to the top so others can read this fine essay.