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  Here i am....

  by makersmark in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  here i am - born in truth, hard-core spiritual everything all my life, early reg.pioneer, ms, elder, assembly parts, tour at bethel, etc, married now...... i'm trying to examine jw teachings a little closer...... i've spent the last two weeks reading many many posts, info , references on where ex-jw's are coming from.

  i'm kind of concerned about a few things lately..... honestly - some points make sense to me - some don't - here are my general thoughts:.

  -wt getting un membership for access to library - doesnt bother me - some passports and other governement documents have similar forms and requirements..... -blood issue - some counterpoints to the jw 'rules' makes sense (original intent of scripture is unbled animals, white blood cells similar in mothers milk) etc -however a lot of 'apostate' reasonings and proof are inaccurate.

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  Demonstrations From the Platform

  by DarioKehl in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  good evening, all.... still relatively new here so if i'm posting about a topic that's already been run into the ground, i apologize.

  but i just wanted to acknowledge the typical "demo" we all see at meetings, assemblies and conventions.

  even back when i was a good-goody teen dub, my brother, friends and i would jokingly refer to demos as "5-minute illustrations on how to say 'no.'".

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  Wow, This is Getting Tougher!

  by Franklin Massey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm having a really hard time giving my meeting parts.

  i had a service meeting part this week and i could hardly get through it.

  i am no longer convinced of some of the things jws teach and so i try to either eliminate those things from my parts, or reword them so that i'm not speaking about that which i do not personally believe.

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  Another" Windowless Kingdom Hall" thread..

  by Snoozy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i have talked to a few people and no one knows of any kingdom halls that have no or little windows.

  does anyone here have an address or picture of one they have seen?.

  i tried doing a search but it looks like the only one commenting on them are ex jw's... any info anyone?.

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  Are you suspicious of LURKERS?

  by VampireDCLXV in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we all know they're here but we don't really know who they are.. they are people who sign up here and then never comment (or rarely ever do).. doesn't that make any of you regulars here at the very least a tiny bit suspicious?.

  why would a person sign up to a forum like this and then never say a damn thing?

  it seems to me that there is a primary reason why some folks sign up and then never comment on anything: to spy.

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  Staying "Loyal" and King David/Saul Question...

  by Confucious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok.... had a good discussion with a jdub friend.

  good friend.. and i gave the argument, "hey.., loyalty to god trumps loyalty to organization.".

  basically, that when your concious disagrees with "god's organization" that you should stand up and say something.. then he gave me a good point about king david and how saul was the organization at the time but since it was god's appointed one - that david didn't work to "overthrow" saul.. thoughts?.

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  Hidden remnants of a life past....

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we sat rummaging through old files, clearing the clutter and removing dated receipts, canceled checks, and old employment information, i found them.

  in a file, hidden somewhere between the mortgage papers and credit card statements, was a file marked 'theocratic info' or something to that effect.. my wife handed the file to me and asked what i wanted to do with this?

  i shuffled through forty or fifty sheets of neatly typed notes, manuscripts, and printed forms.

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  Is "The Truth" Killing You, Lurkers?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as an elder of many years, i was continually struck with the abundance of chronically ill witnesses whose disease appeared to be related to their own stress at trying to meet the endless demands of the "truth".

  i am not a medical professional but i don't need to be a doctor to know that the depression and virtual self loathing ('i'm not good enough, i must do more, i'm a bad parent....") sets a stage for ill health.. and now science backs up that conclusion:.

  http://www.amazon.com/when-body-says-understanding-stress-disease/dp/0471219827.

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  They can't understand how I can be so inactive and yet such a good guy.

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been faded, inactive, for 6 years or more and the witnesses i know are astounded that i'm not in trouble.

  they don't say it but its on their minds.

  i do the things thier "brothers and sisters" don't do towards them.

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  Bethel Rules

  by brotherdan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this was brought up just in passing on another thread.

  but i wanted to see if there are any bethelites or ex bethelites that remember some of the crazy rules we had to follow when we were there..

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