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  Really enjoyed the CONvention....why?

  by punkofnice in

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  i remember when i was a mind cleansed(tm) jw i would listen to the talks when i wasn't napping.. on the long tiring drive home i'd say how i ''enjoyed(tm)'' the sessions and felt ''encouraged(tm)''.. .....and yet i couldn't recall a single ''point(tm)'' made.

  i couldn't remember what it was that actually made me feel good.. on one occasion i asked the family what they found ''encouraging(tm)'' or interesting.. tumble weed.

  no examples.

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  LOL
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  Pre-Paid Legal Services...many JWs market it

  by Rufus T. Firefly in

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  does anyone know of any jws in the us who became involved in marketing pre-paid legal services?

  i believe it is now known as legal shield..

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  In this area, claims that a "prominent elder" had become a millionaire selling it was all that was needed to rope in about a hundred minions. When the JWs get a hold of something like this, it creates a bigger buzz than new light.
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  My grandmother passed away at 4:55am

  by losingit in

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  imtyping this on my phone, please excuse the misspellings.

  i'm sad.

  she lived a long life, 90 years, and battled alzheimer's for the last 5 years of her life.

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  Grandmother's are the Best!!! I still ache for mine.

  So sorry for your loss.
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  Hi everyone !!!

  by Durden in

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  i am durden.. a teenager that is an unbaptized publisher and is trying to leave this damn cult !!!.

  i have been lurking here for some time and i decided to start posting with this intro.. im from europe, both my parents are jw's, my parents are both teachers (math teachers).. my parents are "softcore" jw's, they accept all my questions and try to answer them.. i am trying to "convert" my dad (an elder which might complicate things), me and my dad recently had various discussions about the org ("discussions" on the good sense of the word).. we talked about jehovah in the nt, 1975, 1914, gb in 1st century, the cross, "new lights" ..., you know the usual stuff.. and all is going well i think, i think i can "convert" him until the end of summer.. i mean is a logical man, what can go wrong ?

  man, when i found jwfacts it was like my world had collapsed, all thoses lies .... but its good now to have found the truth.

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  Hi Durden. You're so lucky to learn "the truth" as a teenager.

  You have lots of free years ahead of you.
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  Did you feel pushed into pioneering?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have been replying to letters from a jw friend who suddenly started writing to me after i've been out for nearly 25 years.. i have mentioned things like the poverty that pioneering causes from my own experience, worrying about having enough money to buy food.. i also said that the scrimping would have been worth it if we had been saving to buy a home or go on lovely holidays.. instead we ended up with nothing materially and we were living in a tiny rented flat when we left.. when i think of all the places i wanted to visit with my husband but couldn't because we were pioneering and had no money and now it is too late because my husband has died at the age of 54. we did get to visit some beautiful places but we ran out of time.. what i was trying to say to her was - life's too short.

  stop waiting for the new system, get on with your life.

  stop exhausting yourself in that religion.

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  MrFreeze - I forgot about the pressure to continue to pioneer. Pioneer meetings are designed specifically to keep you on the pioneer roster.

  LisaRose - It is demoralizing, isn't it? And when you're removed from your emotions as any good JW is, you can't recognize that fact.
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  Did you feel pushed into pioneering?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have been replying to letters from a jw friend who suddenly started writing to me after i've been out for nearly 25 years.. i have mentioned things like the poverty that pioneering causes from my own experience, worrying about having enough money to buy food.. i also said that the scrimping would have been worth it if we had been saving to buy a home or go on lovely holidays.. instead we ended up with nothing materially and we were living in a tiny rented flat when we left.. when i think of all the places i wanted to visit with my husband but couldn't because we were pioneering and had no money and now it is too late because my husband has died at the age of 54. we did get to visit some beautiful places but we ran out of time.. what i was trying to say to her was - life's too short.

  stop waiting for the new system, get on with your life.

  stop exhausting yourself in that religion.

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  Xan,

  I thought I was "volunteering" to pioneer. I now realize how afraid I was not to pioneer. Threats of death due to lack of maintaining your spirituality is a strong motivator.

  No one volunteers to be a slave. No matter how much they smile while pleasing the master.

  JWs love laying on the guilt in order to strong arm you into servitude. Then, if and when you snap out of the BS, they'll "remind" you that, "it was your choice all along".

  Didn't know you had options while you were a faithful witness now, did you? It is such a slap in the face.

  - Cult Classic
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  I lost my pet today...

  by tooktheredpill in

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  she was a 12 year old maltese.

  the best pet in the world.

  my wife and i never had kids, so she was our only daughter.

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  Pets are a very special part of life. So sorry about your loss.
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  If you were on the Zimmerman jury, how would you vote? 2nd degree murder, manslaughter or innocent?

  by UnConfused in

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  Questioning Everything

  Not even the slightest effort to tone down the coded language being used. The progressive-minded , as well as those who are educated and experienced in the subject have every justification to feel the sting in these GZ/TM threads.

  Very disappointing, no matter which side of the courtroom you're on.
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  Are You Interested In Religion Of Any Sort At This Point In Your Life?

  by minimus in

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  personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.

  i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.

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  Nope
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  Tech49 on DC: Experiences are not truthful

  by Tech49 in

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  i was sent a link to a homemade video from our summer district convention, not the one i attended, but the next weekend.

  it was a video of a local brother, relating his "experience" of "trusting in jehovah", and how he was blessed.. it was just about 1 short minute long.

  ms harper showed it to me first, she wanted to get my comment on it before she said a word.. background: we both know this brother, he is about our age, so we know the "real" story.. anyways, his story goes like this: this experience goes back about 10 years (jeez, we must be really searching for the experiences now!).

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  LOL Tech49.

  When I was a teenager my uncle related an experience at the circuit assembly. As a result of witnessing to a co-worker, the guy, his wife and kids all had come into the truth. I asked my parents who he was talking about. Turns out he was talking about an inactive brother who'd gotten baptized before he was married with kids. And to boot, he and his wife didn't raise their kids as JWs. They rarely came to meetings and were never baptized.

  He relayed the same experience about 15 years later as if it were even newer than the first time he'd related it...roflmao!