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  The scientific method; published, peer reviewed, and repeatable

  by jgnat in

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  that's my definition of reliable, and i am sticking to it, lol.. back in january, scientists started making secret confessions on twitter using the hashtag #overlyhonestmethods.

  and now some kind soul (who probably should have been doing their research instead of playing around on the internet) combined a few of these tweets with lab photos for the rest of us to enjoy.... http://twentytwowords.com/2013/06/27/scientists-explain-their-processes-with-a-little-too-much-honesty-17-pictures/.

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  Those are hilarious!
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  Hello and my exit story from WTS

  by free2Bme13 in

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  i thought it was fitting for me to share my freedom from the witnesses story on independence day weekend.. i dont have any secret info, just experiences that happened to me and started to open my eyes.. i was a third generation, raised in the truth kid who was never supposed to be born, and then never supposed to graduate high school.

  ive now been out of high school longer than i was in school.. the beginning of the end started a little less than a decade ago.

  i was late 20s at the time.

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  Welcome!
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  My Grandma passed away

  by Kool Jo in

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  good 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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  I'm so sorry, KJ, Grandmothers are a wonderful resource and comfort. I'm sure she's happier now.
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  Was I too harsh?

  by chrisuk in

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  hello, 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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  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 in

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  i 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 in

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  was 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 in

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  hey 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 in

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  i 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 in

  1. jw
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  last 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 in

  1. jw
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  the 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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  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.