I previous poster did bring up an interesting aspect of this situation. Your parents are going to still donate to the Watchtower Society, spend their recourses on gasoline, service and meeting clothes, lunches for CO's, DO's, Pioneer meetings, etc. If you help them out you are seeing to it that more money flows to the evil cult...just a thought you may want to consider.
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Another story... possibly final story
by confusedandalone inthis is the exchange of text messages i had with my super spiritual brother.
it is sad... it is pathetic... it has helped me realize that i have no connection to these people anymore.
i feel free today.
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Need Help - Looks like some one in my family got to know that we are fading...
by MissConfused inletter from a close family member... need help responding.... what a powerful illustration of the affect that our choice of friends can have on us, especially if we leave jehovah after being 'raised' by him from infancy!.
pack of wolvesthere was a farmer who raised sheep and had trouble with wolves stealing his sheep.
he loved his sheep and didn't want to lose even one of them.
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whathappened
Good one, Winston and Pistoff.
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Need Help - Looks like some one in my family got to know that we are fading...
by MissConfused inletter from a close family member... need help responding.... what a powerful illustration of the affect that our choice of friends can have on us, especially if we leave jehovah after being 'raised' by him from infancy!.
pack of wolvesthere was a farmer who raised sheep and had trouble with wolves stealing his sheep.
he loved his sheep and didn't want to lose even one of them.
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whathappened
I heard versions of this same story back in the late 1950's and 60's.
It worked then and still does.
Bottom line: God is not going to destroy you because you do not belong to a religion that teaches falsehoods and practices cult like behavior.
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This is the link that got me 'Unfriended' on Facebook...
by Newly Enlightened inyep.
jw's don't like to hear anything negative about the organization and this got me unfriended from a few of my jw friends.
this was the start of our enlightenment:.
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whathappened
Hmmm...don't have time to watch the video now but will come back later and have a look.
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Introduction to "Chip and Dale"
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whathappened
Welcome to our two new friends, Chip & his wife, Dale.
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Another story... possibly final story
by confusedandalone inthis is the exchange of text messages i had with my super spiritual brother.
it is sad... it is pathetic... it has helped me realize that i have no connection to these people anymore.
i feel free today.
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whathappened
You know the more I think about this the more upset I get.
Your mom and dad felt it was totally OK to run up the charge card because after all Armageddon was coming before they would ever have to pay it off.
All the charges were to support kingdom interests and Jehovah would approve of this. They are victims like the rest of us but just dont realise it.
It is too late for them, at their age, what can they do, go back to work?
Again, nothing is going to happen to them if they don't pay the bills. There is no debtors prison or anything like that.
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Another story... possibly final story
by confusedandalone inthis is the exchange of text messages i had with my super spiritual brother.
it is sad... it is pathetic... it has helped me realize that i have no connection to these people anymore.
i feel free today.
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whathappened
If you give your father the money you are a much bigger, way more generous person that anyone I know.
Credit card debt is unsecured. There is nothing they can do to your parents but harrass them with telephone calls.
When they pass away, the credit card companies cannot go after you or your sweet, kind, thoughtful brother.
I wouldn't pay it.
Another solution is just to pay the minimun balance until they are gone. That will keep the creditors from hounding them.
They have to learn to do what the Bible says and not borrow money, count the cost, etc., etc.
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Reinstatement Rescinded?!?!?
by DATA-DOG ini heard an announcement some time ago, " [ insert name's ] reinstatement has been rescinded and is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.
" has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
elders, have you ever done this?
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whathappened
Perhaps after prayerful consideration, one member of the judicial committee decided that the result was wrong and Holy Spirit moved them to rescind the reinstatement...or what the people who wrote just above me said.
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Hi, my name is Brock Talon. Yes, I'm a recovering JW-aholic.
by LivingTheDream inhi, my name is brock talon.
yes, i'm a recovering jw-aholic.. .
my addiction started just around my 6th birthday.
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whathappened
We are all happy to get out of this sick cult. Glad you got out sooner than I did, sorry I didn't get out sooner.
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A sad day for a JW- they lost a study 'cause of me.
by Gojira_101 ina few weeks ago i posted a topic about a deaf woman studying with the jw's.
the deaf preacher from the woman's parents church contacted me to know more about the jw's because the parents were allowing their daughter to study with the jw's because "they are such nice people.
" anyway the deaf preacher contacted me because he knows i just left the jw's last year and he wanted information.. i was more than happy to provide it.
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whathappened
Nice job! You go girl!