Topics Started by lisaBObeesa

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Life without Religion
by edwkey in
1. jw
2. friends
like many of you i dedicated many years of my life searching for the "true" faith or religion.. after researching and considering religion i came to the conclusion that there is not such.

i decided to worship god in my own temple.

i hope you find yours.. the force be with you all !!!
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"you can live forever" as an educatio...
by lisaBObeesa in
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2. friends
hello fellow ex-es,.

i took a class in cultural anthropology that touched on the subjects of language and doublespeak, loaded language, jargon etc.

i set to reading the "live forever" book looking for these things.
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What Caused Your First Doubt ?
by Big Jim in
1. jw
2. friends
for me it was when i was about twelve years old and my best friends dad was disfellowshipped from the congregation.. i could not understand how a god of love would treat someone so coldly.. i used to think what if that was the way my parents would treat me if i had done something wrong, that would be so hard and cruel.. as i got older another thing that bothered me was the beard issue.

it may sound pretty trivial however the society has always refused to make a good arguement as to why they would give you the old cold shoulder if you were to grow one.. two more items; first i could not understand why all the congregations and all the assemblys would give income reports.

and the society never did.
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for those who "grew up in the borg"
by zev in
1. jw
2. friends
at this late, middle stage of my life, i've started wondering, now that i know what i know, about the things in my life that i "lived" with.

having been raised all my life in the "borg" i have known nothing else.

when questions began forming years ago, it started me thinking.
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Disfellowshipping Doesn't Sever Family Ties?
by tergiversator in
1. jw
2. friends
"disfellowshipping does not sever family ties.".

or so claims the watchtower's official faq.

so, i would like to take an informal poll: how has being disfellowshippid/ disassociated/ inactive/ just having doubts affected relations with your family?
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are you sitting down?........PRINCE is a JW!!!!!
by lisaBObeesa in
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2. friends
hello all, registered just to post this and see what you all had to say about this.

i, for one, am in shock.

it was anounced today on "extra" and they said we would soon see a change in his music because he was "marrying his music to his religion.
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JWs vs. Baha'i
by LDH in
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2. friends
founded in the mid-nineteenth century, the bahai faith has spread to some 232 nations and territories and is now accepted by more than five million people.. the word bahai means follower of bahaullah.

his name in arabic means the glory of god.

his followers believe that bahaullah's writings are an expression of the holy spirit and are the word of god.
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Says he spent weekend, but didn't have sex
by rollercoaster in
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2. relationships
o.k., this is a long story.

i was married to a jw, (i am a jw) he left me, and i begged him not to go, he went to where his x-wife lives for work, he says he spent the weekends at her place, but didn't sleep with her.

3 months later, he came back, and i let him stay, then he left me again.
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I'm a Neutral Jehovah's Witness
by Martini in
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2. friends
dear brothers and sisters,.

i martini, will confide in you that i have become a neutral jehovah's witness.

i wonder if i'm not coining a new phrase here!.
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"Hey there all you lurkey ones..."
by Simon in
1. jw
2. friends
hmmn, doesn't quite work does it?

ok...we'll stick with 'thirsty' then .

why not register and make a post or two...ask a question...make a statement...whatever !.