PaintedToeNail

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  A Saturday Knock on the Door & the JWN Forum

  by kepler in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is, of course, a recurrent topic that's made possible whenever a kingdom hall decides to march out on your neighborhood and street.. today it happened again in my neighborhood as a drum up for the memorial observance scheduled for monday the 14th of april.. why christ's passion and death should be observed on a monday of holy week i failed to ask this morning.

  perhaps someone else might like to volunteer, but it seemed just another reason to be sceptical about the whole thing, though hardly ranking with changing ancient chronologies to get jerusalem's temple destruction 2520 years before 1914.. anyway two gentlemen in white shirts and ties greeted me politely enough at my door and presented me with a flyer about an event which they described as momentous.

  they asked me if i had ever intended one and i assented.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Nicely done
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  this is how witnessing is being done nowadays

  by losingit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a non jw friend that knows about jws only bc i related toher my experience leaving this abusive cult.

  anyhoo, she went to starbucks yesterday and there was an older man on his laptop.

  she sat next to him while she did work on her tablet.

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  Pity she didn't give him a public dressing down right there and then. Loudly announcing to everyone around her what that creep was doing.
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  newspaper is now naming names in OKLA cover up

  by Jack Miller in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  newspaper now publicly names one of the local elders that covered up child abuse.

  it is same elder that wt glorified before because of his work at nasa.. .

  http://m.mcalesternews.com/mcalester/db_291911/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=3taku8gs.

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  PaintedToeNail

  bttt
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  Does the Bible match the majesty of its claim that it is inspired of God?

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1) suppose you were standing out in the sun and god told you: it is not good for you to stand out in the sun.

  look at these animalsthey are standing under the shade of a tree.

  " then you moved to the shade of the tree god pointed to.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Not surprising that the creation of Eve wasf given a brief mention and menstruation is mentioned in detail. The men weren't allowed to have sex until it ended, so they were fascinated by the subject and ecstatic at the ritual cleansing that would have allowed them to have a little nooky again.
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  Black sheep of the family-my life as an ExJW

  by bsand20 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was a 3rd generation jw, half the congregation i attended was made up of my entire mom's side of the family, 2 of the 3 elders were my grandpa and uncle.

  my first memory of the organization was when they announced my mom's name in the meeting saying she had been reinstated....it was 1988 and i was 6 years old....i didn't understand it then, but when i asked my mom why was she crying and why did they say her name in the meeting, she said "it's because i've been good!".

  so she went back and after a period of time assisting constantly, she was reinstated.

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  bsand 20- I am sorry about your mother now severing ties with you and her grandchildren. She was probably influenced by your elder uncle who tried to get you to 'repent'. He may have told her if she cut off ties with you, you would come back. Blackmail, either way.
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  One of the big reasons I left the JW Cult

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  2. friends

  he would love to see you.

  i would tell them please come out anyway he would just love to see you.

  i saw the lack of love and could not believe it.

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  PaintedToeNail

  So sad. I am sorry you had this experience.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-09-2014 WT Study (KING OF ETERNITY)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w = watchtower.

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

  united nations http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Thank you, good job as usual!
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  Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.

  had to reference 1 cor.

  11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.

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  I always thought this was stupid. One day I can pray for my minor child, the next day he has to pray for me or else I have to wear a towel on my head.
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  Hello

  by GoUnion in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

  this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

  please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Welcome here and to the rest of your life.
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  I'm not trying to brag, but being an EXJW is awesome!!! Status Update-

  by Coffee House Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello jwn!

  i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.

  i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Amazing what you can do once your release the bonds! Congratulation indeed!