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  Why does Jehovah want to kill Daddy?

  by BackRoomBilly in

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  hello to my fellow refugees,.

  my name is ryan and im 38 years old.

  i was raised in the darkness (wts) and have never-ever-ever taken a single sip of their cool-aid.

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  Hi and welcome. Don’t be scared to ask for help when you need it. We are all at different stages of leaving the Org and I’m sure you will be helped greatly here.
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  Hello..this is my story..

  by Lozhasleft in

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  i'm pleased to have found this site...i've browsed a little ...read quite a lot and gasped at some stories, giggled at the one liners and nodded in recognition of others' strong opinions and can relate to a great deal.. i'll try and keep my intro as brief as possible for anyone kind enough to listen.. i got involved with the witnesses in the late 70's in the uk.

  i was in my early 20s and had had a love and fascination for the bible since my difficult childhood.

  i soon brought my life into 'line' although it took a long time for me to pack up the smoking which didnt go down well in those days when 6 months of study should have been enough and if you hadnt cracked it then it was suggested that you were some kind of loser.... i reared my 4 children in the 'truth' as well as i could but i cant claim that we were a 'strong' family in their terms...just muddled along really..my husband at the time was a very difficult and abusive man and home life wasnt easy for any of us with his anger, jealousy and violence.

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  Hi and welcome. For all you have been through, it’s good to see that you are finally having a decent life with a loving man.

  You are a very strong woman and I wish you well on your spiritual journey.
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  Informal poll...Which Meeting was the most boring for you? Which one did you stop attending first?

  by mindmelda in

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  for me, it was always the theocratic ministry school/field service meeting.. strangely, i never minded giving talks, because i always wanted to perform and have virtually no stage fright.

  but, listening to some of the deadly dull talks used to make me look at the clock a lot.

  i always felt sorry for some poor slob who had to give his first bible reading on something like job's daughters raping him after getting him drunk.. i swear i think our school overseer did it on purpose because he was a mean sob.. and, i hated field slavery as my parents became witnesses when i was about 12, never did get a good attitude about it.

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  The book study was the first. All that rushing home from work, having a bite to eat then a quick shower and get dressed for a one hour meeting? Then our TMS/Ministry meeting was on the next night and it was exhausting!!!!

  So I started to alternate between the book study and TMS meetings until I started to avoid both of them, and only attended the Sunday meetings when I felt like it.
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  Convention Memories...

  by darkl1ght3r in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  brothers and sisters.

  please take your seats.

  the 2010 district convention of jehovahs witnesses is about to begin.

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  Broken Promises

  Hahaha…. We had very similar parents, although we were allowed to watch tv at the motel room.

  Remember witnessing during the convention? The Friday afternoon would be set aside for witnessing in the host city’s territory.

  Thanks for the memories (at least we can laugh about it now).
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  i just have a question...

  by peaches in

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  do active jehovahs witnesses have a forum like we do here?????

  thanks.....

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  Broken Promises

  Originally this site started off as a site for active JWs…..
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  New System Property Rights and Animals

  by cameo-d in

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  a jw told me that in the new system when all the "good people" who have ever lived return to live on the earth again, that there will be enough land on the earth that everyone will get about 1 acre to live on.

  is this a wt teaching?.

  in the system we have now, the number of animals you are allowed to have depends (in some places) on the amount of acreage you have.

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  Broken Promises

  The 1 acre idea comes from a secular quote back from the 80s or 90s, if I remember correctly, which once stated that all that is needed for each individual to adequately survive is approx 1 acre per person. This is for growing crops, vegetables, housing etc.

  It’s not a teaching per se, just an idea from that quote.
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  Justmom and families memorial experience tonight

  by justmom in

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  so......... it started in 1998 when we were disfellowshipped (my husband and i) for the big a word.

  apostacy!

  going against our baptismal question agreement.. my husband already partook inside.

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  Why did you go?
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  so why dont they cut to the chase at the door???

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as in..."hi, my name is soa fraid and i hope you will accept my offer for a free home bible study.

  the reason you should accept this free offer is that our leaders, the men who have compiled the material for this study receive direct communication from god, and he speaks to no other religion on earth.

  they then write down what god has told them to, and publish it in a zillion languages so that we can teach people what god really meant in his new world translation of the holy scriptures...you may refer to it as the bible.

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  Broken Promises

  dpg,

  Ok, I didn’t realise you had replied earlier. Those automatic avatars are annoying because after a while they all look alike, rather than having distinctive or personal avatars.

  Anyway, as far as “rejection” goes, you knew not to take it personally, and as the others have said, finding an interested person was worse because that meant you had to use your brain!! Not to mention it interrupted the conversation you may have been having with your witnessing partner!

  And of course we see why the householders said no to us. They all have their reasons, no matter how perfect our spiel may have been.
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  Worthy to Drink of the Blood

  by cameo-d in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who is worthy to drink the blood?.

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  for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.. (rev.

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  That’s quite a sexy corset she has on, I wonder where the Bethel artist got the inspiration for it from?

  And where can I buy one like that?
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  Turning in time?

  by crazy2try in

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  2. friends

  i have a problem.

  my hubby and i are tying to fade out completely, but we ran into a snag.

  my in-laws showed up with a stack of time slips and said that they will turn them in for us if we fill them out.

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  Broken Promises

  Jordon,

  You need to remember than many many people have been hurt by the Watchtower Society’s teachings, if not by individuals (particularly elders), and they have a great deal of anger and disappointment towards the JWs.

  People have been hurt by the lies the WTS has told, the pedophile abuse scandals, the unloving ways JWs have acted, family shunning and many many other reasons.

  Thus, they will speak out against the WTS in negative tones.

  Sorry if you don’t like it, but maybe you have to walk in our shoes before you will ever understand.