I'm so sorry, KJ, Grandmothers are a wonderful resource and comfort. I'm sure she's happier now.
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19My Grandma passed away
by Kool Jo ingood day all:.
while at work a couple days ago, i got a call that my grandma passed away.
she would've been 86 next week, but she still lived her life...so i'm getting emails ect from my home congregation from folks just checking up on me.
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Was I too harsh?
by chrisuk inhello, first let me apologixe for both my spelling and my grammer in advance, both are not my strong points.. i'll keep this short.
since i've been a child my mother has studied on and off with jw's ( i'm now 34) so i've been around it most of my life, i studied on and off myself for around 10 years.
thank's to this site and jwfacts i'll never study or step foot inside a kingdom hall again.
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Mum
Welcome, chris. Your e-mail was very well written as others have stated. There are lots of nice guys in the world. Some are Catholic, Baptist, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, etc. Just because someone is a nice guy, that's no reason to convert to his crazy religion.
Best wishes. Keep coming back.
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What piece of WT literature is worth holding onto, or have you kept? Why?
by losingit ini have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.
i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .
i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.
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Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God because it predicts the end by 1975. There were some Wathtowers and Awakes as well with this "prophecy." I had a copy (don't know if I still have it) of the magazine with "The Generation that Cannot Pass Away" or similar wording.
This is very important for young witnesses who don't believe you when you tell them about 1975. My niece, born in 1975, told me the 1975 thing was made up by individual witnesses. She knows better now and is no longer a dub, I'm happy to report!
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Are Jehovahs Witnesses raised to be Anti-American?
by Joliette inwas thinking about this yesterday on the 4th?
due to the practices, no voting, shunning activities, not getting involved with the community, school, etc, etc.
what do you guys think?
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When I first left the borg, I moved to another state with a cousin and got a job right away. One time at work, for some reason I can't recall, we were discussing religion, and JW's came up. A co-worker said, "That's a religion that's against everything!" That pretty well sums it up.
JW's want to live in a system that is totally opposite of their own. They want to have freedom of thought (in a limited way, of course), freedom of expression, freedom of religion, but their members are not allowed to enjoy any of these freedoms.
What a bunch of loonies!
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New Job
by LouBelle inhey everyone.
so i left the old company behind, the one that wasn't paying me.
they still owe me a little bit of money but have them on record and signed documentation that i'll receive payment by the close of this month.
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Congratulations!
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Hi! I'm new here.
by abbasgreta ini have so enjoyed all your threads and input this last year!
i really feel like i know you all.
very briefly, all four of us left da troof exactly one year ago and dissed ourselves within days.
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So glad to have you aboard! Do you know Simon, the guy who keeps this forum going? I believe he's originally from the Manchester area.
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A Great Party Last Night.
by Thoughtless inlast night i went to a party with a (worldly) gal yesterday, twas great, but i feel like we are losing intimacy.
i haven't told her about my religion because i am afraid she may judge me or something.
i have a very complicated past and such, and the borg complicates it further.
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I'm so glad you had the courage to go to a party and enjoy yourself - and learn something of value!
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During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inthe scoop of humanity at one khall, the anointed ones" were a mixed group.. one bro, h. had been in for eons.
he was df for adultery, back in the day when they would announce your sin openly from the platform to everyone.
he just kept on coming and partaking until he was reinstated.
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Mum
This topic reminds me of something else from my distant past as an East Tennessee hillbilly. In that part of the country, the specialness came from "being called to preach." Men would have an out-of-the-ordinary experience of some kind and interpret that as having been "called."
My dad told us a story of his youth when he and some of his friends knew a neighbor would be visiting the graveyard. The boys took a tree limb and draped a white sheet over it. They hid, and one or two of them manipulated the sheet and made ghostly sounds. The neighbor man got so scared that he ran home and fainted. His wife said, "My Lord, it looks like Ollie's been called to preach!
My grandfather (a very religious man himself when I knew him, but with a sordid past as a moonshiner) was deriding this worldview one time. He lay on the floor, closed his eyes, and said, "I told the congregation I seen [sic] a bull with one horn, and I knowed [sic] I'd been called to preach."
I'll have to share some of my grandmother's stories of funny things people said in church some time.
The people of whom I speak were uneducated and knew almost nothing of the world outside their mountain enclave.
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During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inthe scoop of humanity at one khall, the anointed ones" were a mixed group.. one bro, h. had been in for eons.
he was df for adultery, back in the day when they would announce your sin openly from the platform to everyone.
he just kept on coming and partaking until he was reinstated.
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There was a sweet old brother in the first congregation I attended. I didn't know him well, but he seemed like a kindly soul. After I moved away, one of my (rebellious) JW friends wrote me a letter during the WT study and referred to the anointed gentleman, explaining that he was making his "Cedar Point comment," so the study was just about over. When he died, my mom (not a JW at the time) went to his funeral. She told me that our CO (a very sweet man who died at a young age) began the funeral service by saying, "On [date] a new spirit son was born in heaven, and the attendants at [his nursing home] sand that [his name] had died."
In my next congregation, there was another sweet, elderly anointed brother living in the Veterans' Home. My husband and I always gave him a ride to the meetings. I didn't notice anything strange about him except one time when he told us that the veterans' home was playing kingdom melodies through their Muzak system.
There was another slightly elderly brother who was on a health food kick.
There was one sister from a foreign country who was middle-aged. I didn't know her very well, but she seemed nice and normal. Once my daughter, at about age 5, asked how she was going to get to heaven. I don't remember how we answered that question.
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Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans. Happy Canada Day, neighbors to the north.
Last night I attended a baseball game. The Las Vegas 51's played the Fresno Grizzlies. The 51's won! There was a great fireworks show after the game.
This evening, my granddaughter is having family and friends over for a BBQ.
I love living in the real world and enjoying the freedom so many have sacrificed for.