Topics Started by stuckinlimbo

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'Giving Attention to the Needs of the Circuit.' Sooo uplifting...
by whereami in
1. jw
2. friends
these people just love instiling guilt on these poor souls.. .

at a recent circuit assembly a circuit overseer gave an awesome talk during the portion, 'giving attention to the needs of the circuit.

and with such a high pricetag, please don't let it be empty.
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Facebook site
by lancelink in
1. jw
2. friends
this afternoon i was wasting time just looking at different sites on facebook.. i ran across this ,,,,, jw friends.. .

on the comment section for 12/24 this comment was made:.

nice book to offer on december 25 would be the greatest man book.. lets all get out in service on that day, make jehovahs heart rejoice.
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New light: Generation
by 5thGeneration in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
got some info from the annual meeting.. unofficially, the 'generation' is now categorized as 2 groups.

the first is 'the 1914 group' and the second is the younger anointed 'contemporaries' who 'actually work for a period of time with those anointed ones'.. the 'generation' is now 'the lifespan of those who actually saw the beginning of the sign and then the lifespan of those who worked with those who saw the beginning of the sign'.. here we go again....
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Just watched 'knocking' Doco on JW on SBS TV. an irony
by Aussie Oz in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just watched this documentary on our local tv.

among all the issues touched on, one really stood out to me.. the elderly jw man, who survived the concentration camps as a jew, who became a jw after observing them in the camp was reuniting his two sides of family.

the jw and his jewish daughters family.
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Did anyone get this emailed to them?
by stuckinlimbo in
1. jw
2. friends
this was emailed to me a couple of years ago so i realise i am posting this rather late but thought it interesting all the same.

it shows how the witnesses can use something to prove their cause, blind to the fact it is actually against them!

the email was a copy of a ny times advert for an organisation against religion being involved in secular society, however, witnesses somehow fail to remember that they are an organised religion and a very controlling one at that.
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I'm back
by stuckinlimbo in
1. jw
2. friends
i was breakingfree, but have forgotten my password and no longer have access to the email address that was attached to that account, which i haven't used for over a year (i have just been reading as a guest and not posting).

my new name is probably more appropriate, i don't see myself being able to break completely free for some time.

me and my hubby are out (inactive, successfully faded) but rest of the family in and very devout.
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For just $50 to $80 a month over the next five years...
by JimmyPage in
1. jw
2. friends
... you too can attend an international district convention!

start saving now and maybe you can hold up a sign saying, "don't give up!

we're so close.
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My JW wife misses meeting, insists I watch rated R movie
by JimmyPage in
1. jw
2. friends
missing the meeting was my fault, mostly.

i took her out to her favorite restaurant (a good strategy on meeting night for those with jw mates).

oh my, look at the time!
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The ONE 'sin' I NEVER heard of in all my time as a JW . . . . .
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i never heard of any sister having an abortion - doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that i never heard of one.. i've personally known child abusers, closet gays, drunks and thieves all within my time at just 2 congregations.

i know one brother who hid the fact he had blood transfusions at a critical time.

now i'm certainly not lumping in an abortion with acts of abuse or dishonesty, and for the record i don't consider it a 'sin' (whatever that is).
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April study wt - unbelievable mind control!!
by breakingfree in
1. watchtower
2. bible
has anyone else had a browse of the new study watchtower for april?

what then are valueless things?

thus their words were "a valueless thing.