Topic by s0rt3d

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were you a smiling JW?

by highdose in

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just recently in the past 3 years that i've been out i've noticed i'm now getting laughter and smile lines.

nothing aging but i've realised i spent the rest of my life priviously not smiling at all.

people used to say to me " smile highdose!

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Did you ever know of a elder wanting montary comp for doing a sheparding visit?

by highdose in

i knew an elder who would help and support those in the cong, but in return he expected some kind of compensation such as: goods brought for him or his family, services given for free etc.. this elder had a working class job but lived a very middle class life style because of this unspoken arrangement.

great holidays, new cars and his wife was very much the queen bee of the cong.

hardly wore the same thing twice and delighted in patronising the other sisters who she considered beaneath her.

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Roaring lion seeking to devour 5 year old

by not bitter in

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one memory that sticks in my brain was when i was around 5 or 6 years old and our meetins were held in a local school gym.

the loos were at the end of a corridor.

you had to pass the cloakroom before reaching the ladies.

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What 'hooked' you... and what made you leave?

by s0rt3d in

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i wasn't born in.

i got hooked in as a teenager.

was going through a tough time, wondered why we exist, why god wasn't doing anything to solve man's problems, if there was a true religion and, hey-presto, a jw classmate showed up with book that not only asked the questions i was asking but answered them too!.

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What would Jesus do? What would the Pharisees do? What would the HLC do?

by undercover in

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mark 3:1-6. once again he (jesus) entered into a synagogue, and a man was there with a dried-up hand.so they (the pharisees) were watching him closely to see whether he would cure the man on the sabbath, in order that they might accuse him.and he said to the man with the withered hand: get up [and come] to the center.next he said to them: is it lawful on the sabbath to do a good deed or to do a bad deed, to save or to kill a soul?

but they kept silent.and after looking around upon them with indignation, being thoroughly grieved at the insensibility of their hearts, he said to the man: stretch out your hand.

and he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.at that the pharisees went out and immediately began holding council with the party followers of herod against him, in order to destroy him.. .