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  Changing of the Guard

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  i work at a local community college, and for the past two years i would notice the witnesses had a table in a student area.. usually it would have 2-4 witnesses sitting there talking to each other, or yacking on their cell phones.. but the big attraction was the banner, it was long enough to cover two card tables end to end (12-15 feet).. it said "the watchtower and awake magazines" like that alone is going to attract students.... .

  this afternoon i strolled by and noticed that they have a new banner.. white background with the words :why do we suffer" in bold letters.

  i thought that was pretty strange..

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  sensitivity toward right and wrong

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  this morning i was reading an article in the paper, and a referrence was made toward st. augustine regarding his opinion on humility.. immeadly i felt upset, and after reflecting, i remember when i was a witness the wt.

  made several comments over the years about how this man was a discouragement toward the true early/original jw's centuries ago.. .

  but, growing up as a catholic, my grandparents attended a parish in chicago st. augustine, and throughout my younger years i learned quite a lot about the good that this man did, and the efforts he made to help the early christians.,.

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  JW's just visited us !

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  fyi : my wife and i each sent a da letter to the org, and our hall one an a half years ago.. we were done with this religion completely .

  this morning at 10:45 a jw appeared at our door, we invited him in and he said the org.

  had a "loving arrangment" in which persons who left.

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  PTSD / post tramatic stress disorder

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  there was a post made earlier, that got me thinking about this.. it seemed that when i was a witness if something bad happened to me the usual reply was, 'well you must be serving god right, satan is making.

  life harder for you.

  he is trying to break your integrity.

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  Those Crazy JW "older" men !

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  this morning i took my wife out for breakfast, and we ran into an old jw friend who was an elder for years.. i was slightly taken back when he approached us ( we are both da' ed) and he started talking about the memorial,, not.

  "how are you, or whats new" just ramroded memorial crap, andstarted to tell us the juicy local gossip .

  there was a ultra- straight po from the cary ill. hall who left his wife,,, moved in with another elder and his wife,, became inactive, and ignored everyone who was a jw.. talk about a complete mind shift !.

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  Oh Those terrible horrible, no good, very bad wordly people !!

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  saw this in the chicago tribune today, thought some of you might enjoy it.. put a lot of those jw "worldy people".

  http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/ct-news-hageman-fire-20100327,0,5478590.story.

  chicagotribune.comaurora house fire restores faith in peopleit took a house fire to make reporter william hageman see the good in peopleby william hageman, tribune reporter.

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  New Program ?

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  this afternoon my wife received aphone call from an old elder friend, she was quite surprised.. we da'd ourselves a little over a year ago.. he basically invited us to the memorial on tuesday night, and he went into some story about how many people in the hall.

  are inactive/da'd/ df'd.

  and he launched into some info.

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  Search and destroy mission

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  as some of you know i have been known as lancelink here for some time.

  i basically outgrew my avitar, and felt that i needed to change.. anyway, in sept 08 my mom died, and several months later after seeing firsthand the "love" eminating from this so-called true religion.

  i wrote a da letter and walked away.. my parents who lived across the country were so called "pt witnesses on the verge of fading", and in concern for my dad, i told him over the past year that i no longer went to the hall, and wanted nothing to do with the witnesses anymore.. i also told him why i left, and said that mom would have left herself, if she had seen how our so called " jw friends" acted if i or my dad had died first.. but i did not tell him about the letter, i felt that he was not at that point yet, dealing with his wife's death was a little more difficult than what the jw's told him.

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  Advice on how to proceed ?

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  one of my son's who is 21 recently met a person in one of his classes at the local college who is a pioneer ( parents are forcing him to do it).. this person (lets call him ted) is really fed up with this religion.

  and is seriously considering ways to leave.. his dad is a pioneer/elder, mom is a pioneer also, i don't know if there are any brothers or sisters.. my son wants to proceed carefully, mom and dad don't know who we are, or what our status in the religion is.. they sound like uber-control people, they always check teds cell phone to see who he is talking to (the kid is 18).. he is planning to move out next year, do any of you have any suggestions as to how he could/should proceed ?.

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  shape shifting

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  fyi :.

  i changed my account last week, i was known here as lance link for several years.. as time went on, i began to really notice that this weird looking monkey with a gun was staring back at me everytime.

  i posted something.. some of my posts were pretty heartfelt, and looking at that d*** monkey kinda seemed to simplify and trivialize.

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