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  Beards

  by ThomasK9 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been involved with the witnessess since 1976. my ex-wife was a baptised sister who fell in with the wrong crowd and left the fruth when she should have been disfellowshipped.

  thats another story.

  after returning home in 1980 from working in the u.s. navy, i contacked her parents and in 1982 started studying for ernest.

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  GeneM

  Any religion you can't leave is a cult. Any religion that removes your individuality is a cult. If you feel the need to be a part of a cult, join the Mormons, at least they are a bit more mainstream and I bet you can keep the facial hair.
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  Are there strategies for attending a DC while DF?

  by GeneM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my 19 yr/old little brother who just got df'd a couple weeks ago is being forced to attend the dc by my family he still lives with.

  anyone have experience with this that might have creative advise?

  he is very social and this is going to break his heart.

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  GeneM

  My 19 yr/old little brother who just got DF'd a couple weeks ago is being forced to attend the DC by my family he still lives with. Anyone have experience with this that might have creative advise? He is very social and this is going to break his heart.

  BTW I am telling him to get me a copy of the Sparlock video... :)
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  marriage without affection/sex/touching

  by zeb in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  yes thats my situation.

  some where along the path of life the wt guilt trip was dumped on our marriage and we havent had sex for years.. anyone else?

  the hearts and flowers and gifts and doing the cleaning, the house work and paying the daily accounts never being drunk on drugs playing the horses or screwing others yep its all there but nothing coming back due to the wt guilt trip.. they made so much of 'oral sex' and 'pornea' incorrectly quoted at that and ventured thereby into areas they were patently very ill equipped to comment on.

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  GeneM

  Have an affair. Get someone you trust keep her mouth zipped and her pants unzipped and go to town. Got to get it from somewhere, you only live once.
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  Comedian and atheist Bill Maher on the shortcomings of big-pharma

  by Fernando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhxxtcc-ivg.

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  GeneM

  He buys into a lot of the typical anti-big-pharm stuff. While I dont watch his show often, I don't think he ever says anything really positive about the industry which overall improves health outcomes by making good products. luckily he doesn't cast himself as a full on anti-pharm nutter. I think he might be anti vaccine too.
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  Missing family dearly

  by Freeof1914 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  hey people it's been a tough couple of weeks for me, my wife and i have seperated i expected this, but it has been much more difficult than expected.

  my family has gotten a million times more distant because of my inactive status and questioning ofthe org.

  i do have wordy friends but still feel pretty bad being alone i have even contemplated returning to meetings for the sole purpose of not losing y family and life, but i cannot fathom the thought of bowing down to their rules and sacrificing my own integrity.

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  GeneM

  I wrote my letter checking out and kept my integrity. I lost everything. The first few months I wanted to die. Now my life has never ever ever been better. Hang in there, hold your head high.
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  How can the anthony morris the turd

  by therevealer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being a vietnam vet work out.

  born in 1950 means he would have been right in the middle years of the conflict..

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  GeneM

  This is the story we would have heard at Ponderosa for years if anyone in our congregation saw that talk.

  "So I was listening to a talk by Br. Morris (he's in the governing body by the way) and he was telling of his time as a doctor in the Vietnam war. He was fearless even then. When all the new solders would be cowering in bunkers, he would be asleep even as bombs were falling! One night he felt like rearranging his tent and switched the bed and his lockers position, and that same night a bomb destroyed his locker but he was completely unharmed, of course there's no arguing, THAT was Jehovah's work there. Even before he was a witness Jehovah was protecting him!"
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  Greetings from Candace Conti

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  candace asked me to tell you thank you for all your kind expressions of support.

  this really means a lot to her.

  she wants you to know that she is coping well with all the stress and excitement, even though she's had years of anger and frustration because of being abused for so long, first by the molester, and then by the wt.

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  GeneM

  For the thousands abused and pressured into silence by the society, yours is the only victory they will get. Well done.
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  It took me a long time to write this...i'm staying.

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it took me a long time to write this....i'm being brutally honest...i am still a reg pioneer...three sundays ago,i was praying and asking god for a sign or something because i was so confused...i told him exactly what i needed to see for me to believe.i was feeling terrible--crying and feeling sick because i was so confused.ten minutes after, i walked into the kingdom hall and to my surprise--my prayer was answered!

  i soooo wasn't expecting it, even though i prayed.

  so this is where almighty god wants me to be,ii've reasoned.

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  GeneM

  Growinggirl, just do yourself a favor and start a 401k account, because you're going to grow old and die in this world. Don't hold your breath on that whole new system thing.
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  The "30 Other Lands" revealed - in a YouTube video!!

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just uploaded the following 12-minute video presentation to youtube:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamnz4nxspa.

  the video is based on the following article on my blog at jwsurvey.org.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/under-the-microscope-the-watch-tower-societys-claims-to-divine-direction-part-3.

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  GeneM

  Loved the vid. Took the survey. If you want an unaltered voice for your vids, I done a little informal voice work before. Course its not english, which always gives it a little something.
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  Watch Tower Pennsylvania Corporation Balance Sheet

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watch tower pennsylvania corporation balance sheet .

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing a dated and signed statement by the watch tower corporation of its financial worth.

  this information is provided for benefit of a jury that has already found in favor of a single plaintiff to the tune of 7-million us dollars and will today be asked to consider whether punitive damages should be added to its finding for the plaintiff.

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  GeneM

  And that was in 1998. It's easily 3-4 billion now if I had to guess.