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  HELP! Good Friend just told she is being disfellowshipped!!

  by jdhf in

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  2. beliefs

  hey... a good friend of mine was visited by 2 elders this evening..and after being treated like something you wouldn't want on your shoe...told her that her parents can no longer have anything to do with her 9 year old boy.

  he is not baptized.. her dad is an elder and mum a long standing publisher...can they really insist that the grandparents ignore the child??

  they babysit for him when she's at work...she would have to leave her job, and she lives in their house too..although they live elsewhere...her dad is researching this as he is obviously curious as to whether this is scriptural.

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  jean-luc picard

  jdhf, you have a PM.
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  HELP! Good Friend just told she is being disfellowshipped!!

  by jdhf in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey... a good friend of mine was visited by 2 elders this evening..and after being treated like something you wouldn't want on your shoe...told her that her parents can no longer have anything to do with her 9 year old boy.

  he is not baptized.. her dad is an elder and mum a long standing publisher...can they really insist that the grandparents ignore the child??

  they babysit for him when she's at work...she would have to leave her job, and she lives in their house too..although they live elsewhere...her dad is researching this as he is obviously curious as to whether this is scriptural.

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  jean-luc picard

  Its pretty plain that its the old blackmail thing.

  If they babysit, then withholding that could make life difficult for your friend.

  However, I imagine that after some time, the grandparents would come round and start being available for their grandchild.

  I sure know that NOBODY would tell me I couldnt see my grandchildren anymore.

  Who knows, it could be the start of the road to freedom for everyone in the family.

  PS: the only problem eventually is that they might well try preaching to their grandson........
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  If you have sex with your spouse after you find out he/she cheated on you, you cannot divorce them.

  by Chemical Emotions in

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  2. beliefs

  in the key to family happiness book, the wbts says that if you have sex with your marriage mate after they cheat on you, and you knew it, you cannot divorce them.. i was disgusted by learning that.

  i only discovered this recently, but i am very angry.

  what if your husand tells you that he'll keep screwing other women if you don't have sex with him?

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  Remember the old days when Oral and Anal sex were not considered sexual relations and not worthy of

  allowing a divorce?

  Ah, those were the days.
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  How Many on JWNet are still JWs?

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been wondering about this for some time.

  if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?

  if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.

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  Its hard now but, it stands to reason that you wont always be a JW.

  I believe that there is a right moment in life, and when that comes you will know how to seize it.

  In the end, one has to be true to himself, not to others. In the mean time, I wish you all good luck,

  and a measure of peace.
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  I'm new here..... Studying with the Witnesses

  by PenelopePaige in

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  hi- i just wanted to say that i have been checking the website out for a few weeks and have read some horror stories and some sad ones.

  but i have been studying with witnessess for about six months and can't help but feel that they're completely sincere and maybe even, the true religion.

  i love the watchtower and awake and to me, none of that seems crazy.

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  jean-luc picard

  Hi Penelope.

  My husband is begging me to stop the bible study

  I think you should listen to him. JWs DO break families. I was in for 30 or more years. I used to say to people that that wasnt true. But I lied. I didnt lie deliberatley, but I lied just the same.

  You say that they seem nice, sincere people. Thats true. But THEYRE WRONG. Sincerity is not enough.

  More than 70000 people are disfellowshipped each year. Believe me, that for most of them, that screws up their life big time.

  If you like studing the bible, there are many oportunities JWs aside. But beware too: there are a lot of dangerous sects. Be careful.

  Peace to you.
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  i need to know if jehovahs witnesses are actually told to ....

  by looloo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  completly ignore disfellowshipped children and never speak at all to them , also what about the children of the disfellowshipped children that are growing up unaware of the "truth " ?

  im thinking of writing to my inlaws who have never bothered with our child for two and a half years to tell them to just walk on by if they see us as it would confuse her if they saw us and acted as though nothing has happened .

  then they will be good jws and obediant to the watchtower and not blame us for not letting them see her which is what they lie and tell people !.

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  i have tried many ways to get them to see the reality of what they are doing but to no avail and now its just too late !

  i dont want thier sicko religion messing up my childs mind ever

  ! like it did mine and my husbands . i now actually want them to ignore us all . and by doing so they will be good jws ! problem solved !

  BRAVO!
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  Was there a clique in your congregation?

  by Chemical Emotions in

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  there is in mine.

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  Yes. One large and influential family.
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  DON'T SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.

  by Hairyhegoat in

  1. jw
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  these comments and the references to the old publications are a true find.

  have a read of this and you will never become one of the jw's!.

  don't associate with outsiders (non-jehovah's witnesses).

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  Just stand over there in the corner, put your hands on your head and DONT TOUCH ANYTHONG (oops sorry, a freudian slip) I meant ANYTHING
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  New arrangement

  by DagothUr in

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  i don't know if anyone has already posted this since i was in corfu island in the last 2 weeks.

  it's from the jwn forum:.

  september 2011 km says, "publishers auxiliary pioneering during march 2012 will have the option of working toward a 30-hour or a 50-hour requirement for the month.

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  jean-luc picard

  So for those dubs excited about the fact that they had not heard of any conventions planned for 2012, and taking that as a sign that the end is verrrrrrrry near, this must be a blow. They have got to wait until at least april now.
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  Is immorality escalating?

  by jworld in

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  2. bible

  i got the convention update from my mom, who attended this past weekend.

  sounds like the society made the claim that immorality is escalating at a faster clip.

  is that true?

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  jean-luc picard

  That depends on ones definition of immorality.

  When you consider Sodom and Gomorrah, ancient Rome, etc, I dont think that humanity is any different today, than ever before.