RagingBull
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Your Disfellowshipping Experience
by 1975 inwhat was your emotional reaction when you were x-communicated?
where you devastaed?
where you joyful?
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I'm a JW...HERE ME WHINE!!!
by scooterspank ini don't even know where to start.
every jw i still have contact with is poor, their health is bad, they're stressed out, they're unhappy people.
they put on a good front but you can see the strained smiles, those distant looks into nowhere (or where their life could have gone).
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Before you can be Baptized, you must first....
by RagingBull inat this week's bookstudy/school/service meeting, there is plenty of emphasis on "baptism"...and considering the book of acts, one must wonder about the eunuch and cornelius.. ethiopian eunuch - a minister of finance (political figure = treasurer)...didn't really understand what he was reading (not in the "accurate knowledge" way at least)...yet by phillip he was baptized soon after they met.
it was his faith in jesus that played the part.
cornelius - was in the roman army (military)...was a very giving man, kind, strong faith in jesus and believed in him...he and his family were baptized.
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How are elders really selected?
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when i was growing up i was told that the "holy spirit" assisted in the selection of elders.
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Lack of true friends as a Witness
by stuckinamovement init was kind of a sad realization i had the other day that as a witness you are conditioned to not have friends.
i realize that most of this fact is related to my own stupidity and arrogance.
when i was in my teenage years i had a great group of friends that i ran around with.
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Squeezed Cities Ask Nonprofits for More Money--will they ask WTS?
by blondie inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/us/12nonprofits.html.
may 11, 2011squeezed cities ask nonprofits for more money .
by michael cooper .
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Facebook May Defeat Disfellowshipping
by metatron ini noticed an ex-witness sister on facebook - smiling, looking happy, expressing nice thoughts for any to read -and she is disfellowshipped!.
in her extended family, more and more kids and grandkids are leaving the "truth" - and "friending" her!
it might even be that she now is part of the majority of the extended family.
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JWs at my Door
by laverite indoorbell rang.
saw through the peephole that it was jws.
opened the door and said "hi" in a friendly manner.
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Perhaps some helpful advice. My rant on the JW mindset.
by garyneal inpride and prejudice abound in the watchtower religion.. i go to the assemblies and it becomes very clear that the speakers are so proud of the fact that their religion is the one true religion and that they are so much better than the other churches out there.
the amount of pride i heard coming from the platform is astounding.
astounding still is the fact that they cannot see it themselves and at one point in time, i could not see it either.
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crisis of conscience
by inbetween inwhen i was fully in, i never even heard of ray franz or his books.. after learning the truth about the truth, what woke me up, was in the first place the inconsistency of doctrine, the missing logic and the bending of the scripture to fit their theology.. personal experiences i took with a grain of salt.
therefore, even though i learned about "crisis of conscience" i did not bother reading it.
personally i did not doubt, that what he wrote would be true, but i thought, it would not help somebody to get out, because, its his personal experience, which proves nothing in the end.
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