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  Setback

  by EdenOne in

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  2. experiences

  i saw this coming since my mother-in-law's funeral .... the congregation's "love-bombing" over my wife had its impact.

  i watched her drawing closer and closer to her friends in the congregation.

  then she decided she would attend the memorial.

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  3rdgen

  Eden, I am so sorry for the anguish you are experiencing. To have your wife out with you only to watch her fall prey to the cult mentality again is heartbreaking.

  You have shown yourself to be a loving supportive husband through your wife's physical and mental illness. She needs to remember that time when she is giving you looks of disgust. Who else would have been there for her like you were?

  I wish I had the answer for you. All I know is that everyone deserves to receive the love they give. Hugs
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  About birthdays....

  by juanvazquez88 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dont know if this question had been answered before, but someone can tell me when the society start to forbid the celebration of birthdays??

  in "proclaimers" quote from jon cameron s "captives of a concept" its says that it began in some point after 1919, year after the inspection of jesus.. im married with a jw, and she dont want to throw a birthday party to ours 2 year s old son, but we can go to birthdays of cousins, etc etc.

  someone with similar experiences??

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  3rdgen

  As I recall they celebrated Birthdays up until the early 1950's.
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  Something a CO once said.

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.

  fever, fracture or funeral.

  everything else is a sorry excuse.

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  3rdgen

  Millie, I just now read your kind words to me. Thank you. I look back on that and realize how inappropriate it was for me to attend that meeting and yet I did. Cult think and grief trump common sense.
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  Why do we get TTATT and others don't?

  by quest81 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have thought about how ttatt came full circle for me.

  how the connecting the dots was simple and just made sense,.

  how silos of information are literally at our fingertips today.. why is it that the ones we love cannot get ttatt?.

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  3rdgen

  Excellent answers. Something else I have noticed is that some don't want to see TTATT because staying in is for them a form of doing penance. Watchtower and most forms of Christianity teach that humans are born "sinful". Add to that the plethora of do's and don'ts in the Bible. Heck, even thinking could be a sin. (coveting neighbors wife etc.)

  Since Jw's are not taught the doctrine of "grace" but instead, "works" there are those who think they must spend their life making up for their sins.

  The question becomes how many meetings and hours of FS does it take to atone for each specific sin? The least they could do is provide a chart or something.
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  Something a CO once said.

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.

  fever, fracture or funeral.

  everything else is a sorry excuse.

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  3rdgen

  Sparrowdown, Yep they are crazy and I was one of them. My son's memorial was Saturday and I went to the JW memorial the NEXT DAY. There are many reasons for this but I guess that's another thread.
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  Something a CO once said.

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.

  fever, fracture or funeral.

  everything else is a sorry excuse.

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  3rdgen

  With the guilt trip of having illness as the main excused absence from the meetings, is it any wonder that JWs have a high percentage of people on antidepressants and hypochondriacs?
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  People's Court - Fiancee has two daughter but not married

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  part of the story on people's court this afternoon is that this women's mother wants her to baptize her two daughters in her monthers religion which is catholic, she offered that the father of both her daughters, aged 3 and 18 months is a jw and they both decided not to have their children baptized.. so, she uses the word fiancee, they have two kids and are not married, is there some new flip flop law about premarital sex now, or this guy put on the repentant act twice and was probably dfd a few times, i'm sure he's not the only one carrying on like that, but i found that part of this women's story interesting.

  also glad it was mentioned on a show that draws a lot of viewers, it will probably raise some questions with nonbelievers who thought the dubs didn't carry on like that..

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  Sir82, you type faster than I do.
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  People's Court - Fiancee has two daughter but not married

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
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  part of the story on people's court this afternoon is that this women's mother wants her to baptize her two daughters in her monthers religion which is catholic, she offered that the father of both her daughters, aged 3 and 18 months is a jw and they both decided not to have their children baptized.. so, she uses the word fiancee, they have two kids and are not married, is there some new flip flop law about premarital sex now, or this guy put on the repentant act twice and was probably dfd a few times, i'm sure he's not the only one carrying on like that, but i found that part of this women's story interesting.

  also glad it was mentioned on a show that draws a lot of viewers, it will probably raise some questions with nonbelievers who thought the dubs didn't carry on like that..

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  3rdgen

  Shirley, Over the years I have known dozens of adults who were raised by a JW parent/parents who never got baptized or never attended once they were on their own. They are not part of any congregation but still identify themselves somewhat as JWs. (Kind of like nonpracticing Catholics)

  Because they don't associate no JC action is taken. Even though they don't practice the religion they still hold at least some of the beliefs so that they would not want to assign another religion to their children especially as infants.
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  Re: Shepherding Textbook in Digital Format

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after years of leaked info, the gb has finally decided to publish their own shepherding textbook in epub format.. dear brothers:.

  we are pleased to inform you that the shepherding textbook is now available in epub,.

  mobi, and pdf format.

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  3rdgen

  I stepped in some poo. Sorry for the stank. I am corrected.
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  Re: Shepherding Textbook in Digital Format

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after years of leaked info, the gb has finally decided to publish their own shepherding textbook in epub format.. dear brothers:.

  we are pleased to inform you that the shepherding textbook is now available in epub,.

  mobi, and pdf format.

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  3rdgen

  "In due course it will be made available in selected sign languages."

  I don't mean to be disrespectful to the deaf community, but really?? Who would appoint someone who can't read to be an elder?