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  Post cataract surgery Great News!

  by Lady Lee in

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  my vision before the surgery was 20/60 in the eye that has had the surgery.

  i saw my eye dr today and it has moved up to 20/30.

  this is way beyond what i expected.

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  whathappened

  Wonderful, Lady Lee. Best of luck with the next surgery.
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  An offer from the Governing Body

  by irondork in

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  the governing body took us along to an unusually high mountain, and showed us all the friends and family members that had been ripped away and they said to us.... .

  all these people we will give back to you if you fall down and do an act of worship to us.

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  whathappened

  Wow, that was spot on!
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  Taking Elders Out of their Comfort Zone; The Little Room

  by TMS in

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  in the mid-90's my wife faced a bogus charge of gossiping.

  the charge was based on a fleshly sister of a jw easedropping on a conversation.

  we fought the charge with the elders unable to produce any credible report of the actual conversation.

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  whathappened

  About 15 years ago, I signed up to auxiliary pioneered and was rejected because I had just gotten an unscriptural divorce from a brother who waa fishing buddies with many of the elders. My husband was violent toward me and I had to get a restraining order.

  At the exact same time, another sister had divorced her husband because he liked to have intercourse with her during her period. Her application was accepted and she was allowed to auxiary pioneer that month. Jehovah's direction? Holy spirit in action?
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-17-2013 WT Study (DRAWING CLOSE)

  by blondie in

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  view of money and pride?.

  jehovah?.

  comments.

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  whathappened

  Thanks again, dear Blondie. I always read your Watchtower lesson so I can tell me still in daughter that I keep up with the latest and this makes it easy and enjoyable. Still the same old hash however they have been dishing out for years. This article could easily have run ten years ago, if not for the reference to the "tablet."
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  Just realized I hadn't posted my story here yet

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  i've been so busy on other subjects and other people's interesting stories that i had not noticed that i had not posted my story on this forum yet.

  kind of boring.

  the usual.

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  whathappened

  Thanks for

  Posting a little bit about yourself. We love having you and your daughter here.
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  My first post...Facebook discussion

  by mzmmom in

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  i have been visiting this site for almost a year, and i have found it very useful.

  there was a post on a facebook group last night about jw visits and to be nice when they call at your door.

  so, after about 100 posts, i posted a link to this website.

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  whathappened

  Welcome to the forum.
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  Are we all bitter?

  by LouBelle in

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  i posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.

  i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.

  (he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.

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  whathappened

  I spent the first 56 plus years of my life in a cult, yes, I am very bitter.
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  Are the Witnesses Really Losing Their Young People?

  by What Now? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that article about jehovah's witnesses having the lowest retention rate for born ins keeps popping up every now again ... i'm just curious if any of you have noticed that this is actually the case.

  in the congregation that i grew up in, i'm going to say that 95% of the young people in their teens to mid twenties are either regular pioneering, regular auxiliary pioneering, serving in foreign language congregations or where the need is greater.

  both of my younger sisters are regular pioneers - and the young people in their hall even organize 8 pm to midnight service on friday nights of their own accord.

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  whathappened

  This group of young zealous people meeting on Friday nights...it is mostly for social reasons. Also, this is an easy out for Saturday morning field service, so they don't get stuck working with the older publishers who are no fun and allows them to sleep in. I predict this won't last long. They will get into trouble and this arrangement will get busted up.
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  Do you blame Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Jesus, etc. for the corruption of the borg?

  by Fading Begins in

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  do you hold god accountable for the corruption of the borg?

  i've noticed there seems to be a bitterness, by some, that includes "god" in the equation, when discussing the borg and their policies, the governing body, elders actions, etc.

  do the borg's transgressions originate with god, or does he feel the same disgust as we do?

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  whathappened

  Of course not. The Watchtower Society is totally man made and man directed.
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  Scary moment: Watchtower Study conductor got mad about answer

  by Gorbatchov in

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  today we had a bla bla bla watchtower article: warnings for technology, money and pride.

  a repreat of a repreat of a repreat.. but now it comes:.

  one of the last summary questions one of the local simple brothers gave the answer that we have to take care for technology.

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  whathappened

  This is a good thing because maybe honest hearted humble ones were stumbled by this elder and will fall out.