I have so much nostalgia for this era......
if I could go back to this time I would! I am
with you littlerockguy!
Thanks Designs so much for putting all this music up.
clarity
gerry goffin's name may not jump out of your memory box but he sure wrote some of the most remembered songs on the past 60 years.. married to another great song writer,carol king, he leaves a treasure of great memories.. will you still love me tomorrow.
tonight i celebrate my love.
savin' all my love for you.
I have so much nostalgia for this era......
if I could go back to this time I would! I am
with you littlerockguy!
Thanks Designs so much for putting all this music up.
clarity
being my 1st post i figured i should relate a personal experience.
a few months ago i decided to stop reporting time.
i'm mentally out of this cult now but still trapped because of family.
Welcome SG ....good to have you here.
Thanks for your recording....what an inept society!
Really it is just a business....
Watchtower Printing & Real Estate Investment Co.
clarity
hay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).
so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.
my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).
Hi Phats ...welcome to the board!
Sounds like things are coming around
your way, congrats on your escape!
Great to have you here!
clarity
so the watchtower says they don't teach children to shun their df'd parents if they are not living in the home per their custody packet.. so what happens once they turn 18 and are no longer legally bound to court orders for visitation?.
does anyone have any experience with this.
did your child begin shunning you once they turned 18. curious how to disucss this topic with your kid before it gets to that point..
Ignat......... just beautiful.
clarity
the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.
books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.
many of the doctrines created by this.
Evidently .....ummm I mean ....OMG no no & no!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEPWmk9mLO0&list=PL1xsR2_zngAOB7aF-uzgWP6Hr93a5rtZc
clarity
do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .
in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.
das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .
Omg .... silly idiots! Wonder how many were
electrocuted trying these out!!!!
Aawww ..... jesus liked this stuff so much
he made these guys "the only true religion"!!!
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Glad you put this on here....thanks!
clarity
i totally discovered ttat in 2004.. at first, i told my jw relatives each & every thing i found out.
they didn't appreaciate it.. then, i read coc and realized that that was the wrong approach.
so, from about 2007-2013, i rarely said anything to them abou the jws.. well, i just don't care any more to pussy foot around them, making nice, and smiling.
I am there!
i just compared the latest data provided by the german wt and data i found searching for the same page in archive.org.
congregations 2011: 2232. congregations 2014: 2210. kh 2011: 1075. kh 2014: 1034. source: http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/statistik.18.0.html - this is a oficial site for germany.
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it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.
i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.
i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!
When I realized it was a cult!
I realized that everything was controlled,
wt gave us all the answers .. but they also
gave us all the questions!!!!!!!!! ding ding ding!
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Just want to say it is great to see so many newbies
on here again ............huge welcome to you!
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sporece
mephis
gembean
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clarity
does anyone know if any of the current governing body members became a jw as an adult, or were all of them raised and bred a jw from childhood?.
i have a theory that the jws that are "born in" and stay in tend to be more extreme and less reasonable because that is all they have ever known, especially if they are sheltered and groomed to be a good little jw.. and i was just looking at what i could find about the newest and youngest member, mark sanderson.
he was born on february 4, 1965, and he was baptized on february 9, 1975 ... a few days shy of turning 10 years old!
Interesting question! I'd like to know that too,
as well as each member's education level!