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  What scripture bothered your concious?

  by stillhurts in

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  i have been out 3 years.

  i was baptized, never df'd.

  ignored the 2 or 3 phone calls from the elders, and then they left me alone.

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  3rdgen

  Welcome Stillhurts! As you have probably gathered, the are many points of view on this board. Some Believe the Bible is inspired by God. Others think it's lost a lot in translation and wonder why God didn't preserve it better. Still others think it's worthless since they don't believe there is a God anymore.

  Speaking of the 144,000 mentioned in Rev. The more I gave it serious thought, the more I concluded that it could not possibly be a literal number. In the 1st century when thousands converted at a single event, the # was undoubtedly filled THEN. Assuming that after the 3rd century absolutely NO one was approved by God (a ridiculous idea) until Paster Russell shows up, there were more than 144,000 Bible Students/JWs before the majic year of 1935.

  Now there's a governing body who didn't start partaking till there were MILLIONS of living JWs, not to mention those that had already died. Either 144,000 is not and never has been a literal # or the GB is going to have to come up with a secondary class of Anointed with no specific # in order to explain away the growing amount of partakers. Oh, thats right, they don't want to count partakers anymore. No surprise why they don't! Sheeeeesh
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  November literature offer is.........

  by hoser in

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  tracts.

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  3rdgen

  Do you mean the little folded ones? Or the WT size brochures?
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  Meal with my father

  by Gorbatchov in

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  today i had a nice experience: an evening meal with my father, a former elder and secretary.

  he stepped down a few years ago but remained a "stable" congregational member, and performing the ministerial servent job.. tonight the conversation went on the candace conti cage.

  we are north western europeans but he read about it in a newspaper.

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  3rdgen

  Nice story
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  Awkward, but kinda funny encounter with JWs today

  by hemp lover in

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  i live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so i get the double witness whammy of my street being worked by both spanish- and english-speaking congregations.

  jws come to my door about four times a year, but i stopped answering years ago.

  what's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell.

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  3rdgen

  Hemp Lover, I know how it is. I have been running into JWs lately all over the place. I'm finding it impossible to listen to their buzzwords and bs. Later I beat myself up with why didn't I say.....

  You did a good job
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  'Dinah Gets Into Trouble' - Does Story 20 Mean Rape = Fornication?

  by sd-7 in

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  i was listening, albeit unwittingly, to a 'my book of bible stories' tape and this statement caught me by surprise.

  it's found in story 20:.

  "one day when dinah came to visit, shechem took dinah and forced her to lie down with him.

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  3rdgen

  Freegirl2006, OMG Raped again be the WTBT$
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  'Dinah Gets Into Trouble' - Does Story 20 Mean Rape = Fornication?

  by sd-7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was listening, albeit unwittingly, to a 'my book of bible stories' tape and this statement caught me by surprise.

  it's found in story 20:.

  "one day when dinah came to visit, shechem took dinah and forced her to lie down with him.

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  3rdgen

  Oh, I get it now. The moral of the story is : NEVER make friends with girls who wear jewelery.
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  I'm coming out...

  by loosie in

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  of anonymous status.

  my friends are out so i am ready to reveal who i am inacase anyone here knows me, you can pm me.

  my name is luci spencer or you may have known me by luci davenport.

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  3rdgen

  Luci, (love your name btw) Congratulations!!! I wish i could join your coming out party. I'm way up in Nor Cal. I don't know any JWs south of Burbank. Take care.
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  Introducing Mrs Cedars...

  by cedars in

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  i just thought you should know that mrs cedars has finally taken the plunge and joined the forum.

  she was able to log on for the first time yesterday.. though we both "awakened" at different stages, mrs cedars was very supportive and non-judgmental when i first began exploring my beliefs from a critical standpoint.

  she is currently in the process of reading crisis of conscience and aquainting herself with some of the facts of witness history that were hitherto unknown.

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  Thanks, Mrs Cedars, Your pic is darling -something right out of The Great Gatsby.
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  I ran into the C.O.B.E.'s wife....

  by 3rdgen in

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  i was shopping, looking at a handbag, when m****** rushed up to me and gave me a hug.

  startled, i looked up to see a sister who was never friendly when i attended her cong.

  over 13 yrs ago.

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  3rdgen

  Thanks so much for your support!. I wish I had better control of my anger. I handle myself well when i encounter the sweet dubs but when I'm cornered by the SR preachy type I start to get hot under the collar. If they won't let it go I feel myself becomming verbally incontinant.
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  sacramento elder caught!

  by the mole in

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  ***the mole*** a sacramento elder caught.

  he steps down his position this last thursday.

  it has come to our attention of a coverup that the brother in one of our kingdom halls this last week had stepped down for sleeping with another woman.

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