Topics Started by TG-Jasper

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Are you an "apostate"?
by cedars in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm quite new to this site, and i've noticed that many of you are more than happy to call yourselves "apostates", even though many of you evidently believe in the bible and in jesus as saviour, etc.. i'm aware that the society brands anyone who disagrees with them as being an "apostate", but just because they choose to do this, does this mean we should be comfortable with being so branded?

should we "bend over" and take it?.

here is what the insight book says on apostasy:.
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Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
been thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.

also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.

so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".
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Transexual starts a study...what happens next??
by digderidoo in
1. jw
2. friends
so my mother was telling me that a transexual, don't know if she's pre or post op (nobody does apparently), has started attending meetings and started a bible study.. she answers up in meetings and has been attending a few weeks.

apparently she looks very much like a woman but has a distinctive masculine voice.

i asked my mother what will happen?
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Aussie outback Witnessing experience! Have you done isolated territory!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
driving for miles between houses...sometimes i would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting.

" why bother since my car was as old as i was .....20 years.

people that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us!
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Just out of interest - how many Australians are on this site?
by Son of a preacher man in
1. jw
2. friends
just out of interest id like to know how many aussies are posting?

im on the east coast, been everywhere from desert to coast.
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They are stalking me,,
by gabriella in
1. jw
2. friends
i recently moved back to my home town after being away for several years and doing the "fade".

i have family still in, so people heard that i was back in town.

i got six invitations to the memorial and a couple of phone calls about the special talk.
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New JW Scam?? Here in Australia...
by TheApostleAK in
1. jw
2. friends
it's good to be back on here.... ok, is anyone aware of this particular scam that seems to be big here in adelaide, south australia.

i've heard a couple of times were jw's have befriended old people (particularly one's that live by themselves) and get them to a) join up or b) become good friends with them.

after being friends for a while the jw's 'suggest', 'coax' etc, to the old timer to put them down (the jw's) on their will.
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Mental Health Issues in JW Women
by Seven in
1. watchtower
2. medical
here's a click to the cultic studies journalissue concerning jw women.

[url] http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csj_vol14_no1_97/abs_wifely.htm#top[/url]
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Ho Hum, just another JW sex abuse case
by Dubby in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
judge blasts church over sex offences .

by michele tydd .

a wollongong judge yesterday launched a scathing attack on the jehovah's.
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Drugs....why?
by Tigger in
1. jw
2. friends
im new here, so go easy with me!

just wanted to know if any one has any idea's or personal experience in regard to drug and alcohol abuse in former jw's.

all the one's i know have just lost the plot when it comes drugs and alcohol, especially drug use.