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  Are we all still FAMILY? Yes or No?

  by Greybeard in

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  here is why, even though i no longer agree with most of what the gb/wt/jw's teach, i still feel especially close to all of us who were apart of this group.

  born in or converted.

  we all have had the same life experience of being raised in a over bearing mind controlling cult.

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  Well, no meatloaf for Anneb tonight. The rest of you kids gather round for dinner.
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  What Was The BEST Thing About Being A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  this thread could be a saver!.

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  Polyester Suits.
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  All of you should start a splinter JW group..

  by fortbethel in

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  forgive me if this comes off as harsh,.

  i've read & read many posts here mostly very negative.

  alot of you have family that have shunned & continue to shun.

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  Thinking about reforming the WTS reminds me of a t-shirt I saw....

  

  They both fall under the category of....things that don't matter.
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  Is God just a wreckless gambler as JW's teach?

  by Lied2NoMore in

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  ok, this hit me today...jw's teach its all about god's sovereignty and vindication of his name, satan challenged his sovereignty in garden of eden, also with job, he made the challenge job only served god because of everything god did good for him.

  and to make our choice clear, he asks mankind to ...be wise my son and make my heart rejoice so that i may make a reply to him that is taunting me.... then, the next question is...didn't god basically take a bet????

  wagered with mankinds lives??

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  I have called it a bet to my friends when explaining it. I also consider it a bet he has lost. 7 milllion witnesses following god v 7 billion humans following Satan. Satan has 1000 times more followers. Even if say all christians Satan is beating out god 6 to 1.
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  i gave a "good witness " yesterday !

  by looloo in

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  a workmate was telling me she had a friend who became a jw years ago and one day the jws hubby was doing some work at my workmates house when jws started preaching she thought it funny that despite being a jw himself he was actually hiding from the jws !

  i told her that an awfull lot of jws are a little embaressed about their beliefs and dont even enjoy actually knocking on doors and you will find they usually walk very slow and i explained the reasons for this (handing in a slip of paper recording the amount of hours ) and then i went on to explain about shunning , the crap child protection policies , victims of domestic violence told to pray to be a better wife etc.., satan and demons on the internet telling lies !

  she told me that because her jw mate is so down to earth and gets drunk etc she had thought being a jw must be ok really !

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  Well done.
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  Just why would god create dinos??

  by highdose in

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  2. beliefs

  the jw answer to this is that there must have been some purpose for them that we don't yet understand.. but dinos were pretty violent, basic animals who killed without mercy.

  i know not all of them but alot of them did.

  the ones that were vegetarian ate huge masses of vegatation, how is that productive to the earth?.

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  God put the fossils here on thie Earth to test you all. Guess what, YOU ALL FAILED!! Such an obvious test from J HO and none of you saw it coming. The earth is obviously 6k years old and dinos never live God just put the fossils there. Can't believe you failed the test.
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  Totally Cool: The Falkirk Wheel

  by metatron in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61kugdwz2a.

  almost gives you a reason to visit scotland (other than it's cuisine, which sounds like a dare).

  metatron.

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  Metatron and Mummatron are locked in a room.....Who comes out alive?
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  My first English Essay for college, I wrote about my experience as a JW.

  by JonathanH in

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  so i am in my first semester of college, and i'm really enjoying it.

  i am already tired since i work full time in addition to going to school full time, but i will get over that hump eventually.

  anyway in my english 101 class our first essay due was to be a personal narrative, 4 pages(ish), in mla format using microsoft word.

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  Well done. That was wonderfully written. Hopefully you have inoculated your class from the WTS virus.
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  A Beautiful Essay

  by Magwitch in

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  i was going to post this yesterday and then hesitated.

  i read johnathan's essay (so lovely) and thought this one would very much be enjoyed also.

  my daughter, alexa, 20 years old (3rd year at cu) is getting ready to circle the world in a semester at sea.

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  Very nice. It is good that she had a loving mother to protect her from the cult.
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  You can be fined for holding Bible studies in your home in California

  by Terry in

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  faith california city fines couple for holding bible study in their homeposted on september 19, 2011 at 1:36am by madeleine morgensternphoto via flickr user erwin vogelaar.

  a southern california couple has been fined $300 dollars for holding christian bible study sessions in their home, and could face another $500 for each additional gathering.. city officials in san juan capistrano, calif. say chuck and stephanie fromm are in violation of municipal code 9-3.301, which prohibits religious, fraternal or non-profit organizations in residential neighborhoods without a permit.

  stephanie hosts a wednesday bible study that draws about 20 attendees, and chuck holds a sunday service that gets about 50.. the fromms appealed their citations but were denied and warned future sessions would carry heftier penalties.

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  I dont disagree Tal. Id like to take away tax exempt from any goup that is not truely helping people....ie food, or shelter. It would really make the money we spend on tax expemt worth it. In order to do that we would have to ammend our constitution.