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  If You Leave The Organization Where Else Must You Go?

  by minimus in

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  it seems the watchtower leaders believe that if you were to think about leaving the organization (and listen to "apostates") that you must have a place to go in return.

  they feel you must have something, if you were to not accept the organization.

  you need hope and belief in something.

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  Forum is GREAT, but...are there any ex JW chatrooms if we need a steady dialog?

  by 20+wastedYRS in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am happy to have found this forum and will be reading and posting frequently.

  but... i have wished at times that i could have a good steady dialog on certain, more puzzleing issues and a chatroom would be perfect for those instances.. anyone know of one?.

  also, one other quick question... while very active in "truth", i researched the whole beard issue and came up totally empty on my search.. btw: i have a beard now!!!

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  HELP! Sinning Elders can stay as elders if they have blessing! when did this happened?

  by cyberjesus in

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  ok i have heard that at the beginning of the 80's the instruction said that the elders could remain as elders even if they had sinned 3 years before as long as their lives looked like they had jehovahs blessing.

  i heard this instuction was givien in elders meeting.. does any one has more information?

  i needed asap.

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  My first "real" Thanksgiving...

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  do you remember as a jw those pseudo-thanksgiving dinners we used to have?

  you know the ones, where we ate turkey, dressing, and all the rest....but we did it on friday so we woudn't be celebrating thanksgiving like the "world"?

  the excuse was that everyone in the family was off, the turkey was on sale, blah blah... well this year will be my first real thanksgiving dinner.

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  To you what was the Watchtower Socity's biggest lie ?

  by The Almighty Homer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yes, what was the biggest lie that you can think of, that persuaded you to realize that they were not who they said they were ?.

  for myself it would have to be the year they picked as the destruction of ancient jerusalem 607 bc.. i have an assumption this was done purposely to coincide correctly with making 1914 an a important pivotal date.

  in human history, which by all factual evidence it was not.. unassuming and deceiving manipulation for self marketing purposes.

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  New "apostate" here! Recent WT study- 'We may ask you to do something that may not understand' (basically- DO IT)

  by 20+wastedYRS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i will get to the big shocker that i read within the last year or two in a wt study article, so please bear with me... i am new to this forum and have been reading postings for several days now, and can relate totally to many of the issues that many ex-jw have.

  i was raised "around" the truth and although my parents were never "dipped", they wouldn't allow us to celebrate holidays or stand for natl anthem (not that i care now).

  so i basically had many of the pressures and stress that witness kids had growing up, but with no spiritual support, as we attended only a handful of meetings while my parents studied when i was 5or6.

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