Amelia Ashton

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  New to The Jehovahs Witness Faith and need some help

  by jnjburkett in

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  hello there i am new to the faith and have been studying for about a month.

  i am very excited and hungry for the truth and have not missed a meeting or study since the memorial.

  we do about 2 bible studies a week.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I never knew about the YMCA thing till after I left but then there wasn't one near us for it to be an issue that was ever discussed.

  I was accused of being a troll once because although I was having "doubts" I still believed it all so was still quick to defend the religion apart from the little niggles I had.

  Whether they are a troll or not there are always "lurkers" on this site who are jut reading and whenever I have recommended JWN to newly exiting JWs I always feel the need to warn them that it can sometimes get brutal on here. I wish I didn't have to as it is still the best exjw forum on the net but as a sensitive and woosy southern Brit I feel it can get quite harsh here at times.

  I hope they come back.
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  Whats with TROLLS posting on this forum ,dont they just expose themselves as less than intelligent?

  by smiddy in

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  i mean to say it only takes a couple of posts to identify a troll , what do they hope to acheive ?

  they only convince me, how stupid they are, with not a thinking cell in their brain .. do they think its another avenue to get fs hours in ?

  do they think their going to convince one of us to go back to the kh.?

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  I wonder how many are testing us to see if what they have been told about those who have left is true and to see if we do have coherent and valid reasons for rejecting their doctrines and beliefs.

  To defend a belief to others who do not hold that belief will open up any flaws not previously noticed and could help that person develop critical thinking skills.

  It is hard to believe any true JW would deliberately come here for a fight or try to convert us back. I hope they are doubting but don't know where to go or how to break free so need to either reaffirm their beliefs by trying to convince another person they are right or find out tatt.

  As it is rare to find any-one home on d2d work the only other place to talk "religiion" is sites like this.

  Whatever their reason I hope they find the answers they need.
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  which other JWN members have you met ?

  by bigmac in

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  as the title asks---which members on here have you actualy met ?.

  ive met.

  cantleave and nuggett.

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  I have met all on BigMacs list except Hotspur and plenty more but they don't post here.

  Most are on Facebook so we can chat directly to each other rather than post on topics. There are some from across the pond I would love to meet and a few in Australia and South Africa too. Maybe one day...
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  Frozen and Sparlock the warrior wizard

  by NewYork44M in

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  given that magic is from satan, this is what we learned from the horrible story about the little boy and sparlock the warrior wizard.

  i am curious to know if witness kids are allowed to see the movie frozen.

  i am not a big disney fan, but this movie was wonderful.

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  I was "persuaded" to get rid of Disney's Ariel when I was studying being indoctrinated as it had a demon in it but then years later when Pirates Of The Caribbean came out we all watched it.

  Lord Of The Rings was OK but Harry Potter not.

  It all seems to depend on what the strongest personality in the hall allows but even then some watched "verboten" films in secret.
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  What TV Show(s) Do You Just Love?

  by minimus in

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  i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?

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  Just getting in to Lie To Me about a guy who reads body language Derren Brown style to assess who is lying.
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  Memorial 2014: Wrong date?

  by AnnOMaly in

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  2. bible

  this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

  so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

  sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.

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  Which of the SEVEN stages of post JW behavior are you in right now?

  by Terry in

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  1. they done me wrong.

  2. i'm depressed.

  3. i'm gonna act like an apostate (smoke, drink, drugs, sex, outrageous behavior).

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  No. 7 but skipped No. 3.

  Might try it if the opportunity arises. :)
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  Dressed for Failure--drab colors in dress code

  by WTWizard in

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  i noticed that, especially for men, that they are required to dress in drab colors for boasting sessions and in field circus.

  men are supposed to wear dirty colored suits--dark gray, muddy brown, black, and off-shades of maroon, forest green, and navy/midnight blue seem to be most common.

  they get hounded if they wear something in a "loud" color--meaning anything that is near one of the major points in the rainbow and near saturation (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or violet is most likely to result in a major hounding).

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  Amelia Ashton

  We had an ex elder who wore corduroy trousers and a sports jacket deliberately so he couldn't go on the platform.
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  You know your an ex J-Dub when...

  by Batman89 in

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  finish the sentence.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Pretty much all of the above but the main one for me is being able to live for now and enjoy all the happy moments I get rather than always thinking "things will be better after armageddon" and putting up with whatever is bugging me.

  Plus getting help from "Satan's world" for long term mental health problems and it actually working, not feeling like a freak and being judged and actually loads and loads of stuff.

  You know your an ex J-Dub when you aren't waiting for your imaginary sky daddy to fix it all and then discovering it wasn't really broken in the first place, it just is what it is, life.
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  Have You Been Invited To The Memorial?

  by minimus in

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  one of my best friend's, who is an ex elder had two elders visit him at his home yesterday to invite him to the memorial.

  he was cordial to them because they were'nt over the top.. so far, i have had no invites, thank god..

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  I have't but I wasn't expecting an invite anyway.

  A friend of mine who is disfellowshipped is desperately upset she hasn't been invited. Her next door neighbour, never a jw and never will be has received 2. She is planning on going although she has no desire to be re-instated nor does she believe she has to be to survive armageddon. I wish she would do research but she won't because she is still so trapped mentally by it all :(