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  Info For Newbies and Current Jehovah's Witnesses! Please Read!

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  example: gravity is real.

  because if 607 bce is wrong, then so is 1914 and 1918 and 1919. very simple.

  so if we cannot trust secular research, then we can definitely discard the date of 607 bce.

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  mentallyfree31,

  Thank you so much for posting such a logical argument. I am sorry to say that even though I was a lurker when you originally posted this I did not find it.

  Point #6 about god destroying children who's only crime was not having heard about him was something that had bothered when I began studying with the Witnesses. Then cognitive dissonance became so entrenched that that concern became buried.

  I have sent a copy of your essay to my son who has awakened to the truth about the "Truth" as he lives near JW in laws. My hope though is that he can use these arguments to help his wife and eventually get his family out of the cult.

  This thread deserves to keep getting bumped.

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  Mr. Snowbird and I Are Reconciling

  by snowbird in

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  we've agreed to compromise on our differences and support each other through the years we have left.. i'm seeing a psychiatrist today to deal with my difficulties that stem from a traumatic and tumultuous childhood.. he is willing to yield in his beliefs that a man should control everything and make all the decisions.. being a stubborn jamaican, i realize how hard that is for him.. we're going to renovate the house so that he has his own quarters.. that way, my boisterous g'kids won't work his nerves too badly.. just wanted to put it out there.. syl.

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  Sylvia,

  What TotallyADD said about it taking a lot of hard work for a marriage to last. Sometimes I think it was sheer endurance on our parts that kept us together for the last 37 years. I would often quote Matt 24:13 about enduring to the end to be saved. Well enduring to the end has saved our marriage!! LOL Seriously we have learned to compliment as well as complement each other. Telling each other what we like oils our relationship much more so than harping on what we don't like.

  Taking the cult our of our marriage has allowed each of us to express our true personality.

  May your marriage grow stronger and your love for each other grow deeper.

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  Is this weird? JW FB comments

  by serenitynow! in

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  paradise-related greetings and meetup plans.

  on a couple of jw fb sites, people often say things like "i'll see you in paradise," or "i'm going to travel and meet all of you guys in paradise and hang out with your lions.

  " and on the jw news, library, etc.

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  They are too mind controlled to know they are mind controlled.

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  Poster- Life Is Too Short / Recovering from Hernia Operation- Get Well Soon !

  by flipper in

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  my wife and my close friend life is too short is recovering from a hernia operation performed yesterday.

  she is doing fine, just a bit sore .

  she worked really hard in bethel and had a hernia before from lifting too much in her job back there.

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  LITS,

  Make the road to recovery a short one.

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  Today my husband surprised me...

  by mrsjones5 in

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  yesterday we were getting our van repaired and while that was going on we decided to window shop at a really cool furniture consignment shop.

  i saw a baker's rack that was really nice and that i would love to have.

  hubby looked at it too and thought it was a nice piece but we had to leave the shop to pick our van.

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  You are one lucky gal!

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  New here

  by Druid in

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  hi guys, long time lurker first time poster.

  i will give you a summarized version of my background so as to still stay somewhat anonymous.. .

  i was never baptised, but i grew up having most of my life stolen to the society.

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  Druid,

  Welcome to the board.

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  New Here.

  by BoleynGirl in

  1. jw
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  so i'll start at the beginning.

  then she gave birth to me, and realised that life was a miracle.

  she began searching for god.

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  BoleynGirl,

  Where do intelligent women go when they are fed up with being treated like imbeciles?

  JWN of course. Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to more of your insights.

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  Do you type or do you hunt and peck?

  by JimmyPage in

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  2. friends

  i was just thinking how thankful i am that i took a typing course in school years ago.

  i would think it has to be very difficult posting on a board like this hunting and pecking all the time.

  so how fast can you type?

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  I can type, not near as fast as some of you. But I am very good at spelling and grammar.

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  This past weekend I lost my mom

  by lola28 in

  1. jw
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  the cancer finally got to her and now my sisters and i are left without our mother.

  we take comfort only in knowing that she is no longer in pain.

  how do people move on from such a massive loss?.

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  Lola,

  Sending you my deepest sympathies on the loss of your mother. Take all the time you need to grieve.

  (((((((((HUGS))))))) to you and your sisters.

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  Is there a correlation between personality type and leaving the WT?...

  by Tuesday in

  1. jw
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  on facebook tonight there was a post asking to take a personality test, in posting the personality tests a trend started emerging that certain personality types seem to leave around the same time.. i came out as an intj which is introverted intuitive thinking judging.

  which a good paragraph describing it was:.

  intjs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "does it work?

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  Thanks for posting. I took the test and here are my results:

  I am definitely INTJ

  introverted...............89%

  intuitive....................75%

  thinking....................25%

  judging.....................67%

  Career suggestions for my type are natural science and natural science education. Interesting...before I became a Witness I wanted to be a science teacher. I completed two years of a biology degree before being baptised at age 20. Was active until I began fading at age 54. I read an article by Kerry Louderback-Wood on Witnesses and blood tranfusions in the local paper which led me to www.ajwrb.org, then read evidence that the frequency of earthquakes has remained the same over the centuries and found there is no scientific evidence of a global flood ever having ocurred. I could no longer pretend to believe something that was blatantly false.

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