Attempting suicide? So they see separating a person from their family and "friends" is so much more helpful? I was lucky that my bible teacher, instead of judging, supported me and was there for me instead. He suggested that I go to the elder and he was pretty much an asshole about it. He just said to "stop looking back" and that it was as if I lost $5 in the past but now that I have gained so much more, it was like I was still complaining about the $5 that doesn't matter. That was my last chance to see if the organization had any chance of keeping me. I had my answer and after that meeting with that elder, I never looked back.
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The official list of things for which you may be disfellowshipped
by slimboyfat infrom the secret elders' book which states that the list "of course" is "not comprehensive".
nevertheless here are the acts that they deem worthy of specifying as being possible grounds for chucking people out:.
murdermanslaughter such as killing someone while breaking traffic lawsattempting suicidesexual intercourse with someone other than your spouseanal sex with someone other than your spouseoral sex with someone other than your spousesexual stimulation of the genitals of someone other than your spousedelay in reporting a rape?
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Shocking Email from a Dear Friend who is No Longer a JW
by rubadubdub ini received this email tonight from a dear, dear friend who i believed had died.
she was in very bad shape when i last spoke with her over a year ago.. "i'll make this short in case it is not functioning.
besides i'm not sure whether it is alright for you to read it or not.
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It seems like she already started waking up to what the organization is in the way she viewed the elders: " Not one of the elders had ever been in a position to have to make that blood choice, yet they were all so positive they would choose to die. I wonder if it came to that moment if they all would, they were not very spiritually strong about other things!!!"
Maybe you can help her see more of what the Watchtower is.
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Shocking Email from a Dear Friend who is No Longer a JW
by rubadubdub ini received this email tonight from a dear, dear friend who i believed had died.
she was in very bad shape when i last spoke with her over a year ago.. "i'll make this short in case it is not functioning.
besides i'm not sure whether it is alright for you to read it or not.
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It seems like she already started waking up to what the organization is in the way she viewed the elders: " Not one of the elders had ever been in a position to have to make that blood choice, yet they were all so positive they would choose to die. I wonder if it came to that moment if they all would, they were not very spiritually strong about other things!!!"
Maybe you can help her see more of what the Watchtower is.
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Mentally Diseased
by Mum inapparently (i'm taking others' word for it) the watchtower publications are asserting that "apostates," i.e., those who have chosen to no longer be jehovah's witnesses, are "mentally diseased.
" there are some important issues with this assertion.. first, they are not mental health professionals and in no position to diagnose mental illness.
do they believe we all have the same "mental disease," or are there different diagnoses for different people who come to their senses?.
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Blinders, I'm hearing more of "Our way of thinking is not God's way of thinking."
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Memorial Time March 26 After Sundown Same Date As Deadline For Appeal Child Molestation Case Agianst Watchtower Corporation (Synchonicity)
by frankiespeakin inwell we can only speculate but i see something auspicious, and synchronistic about the whole thing.. http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/scheduledactions.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.
future scheduled actions.
jane doe v. the watchtower bible and tract society of new york inc. et al.. division 3case number a136641.
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I wondered if any Jdubs have ever been asked how they know that the memorial will land on the dates they do? It's not like they check their sources.
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First [brief] conversation w/elder for years
by AK - Jeff inin my area, i am labeled an 'active apostate', among other things i am sure.
i live in a very small town, and bump into elders who hate me beyond words.
if they could, i am sure they would gladly stone me before the entire villiage while chanting 'apostate, apostate.'.
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I was always mad when the witnesses would ask me those questions. I hate when I get a text and they just ask questions like "How's the family? Hows everything going for you?" and then they ask what my beliefs are. I just told them that if all they want to know if I'm coming back, I'll just answer but don't hide behind a fascade and pretend to care when you don't.
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Confrontation of the city bus with witness
by perfect1 ini want to share with you an experience i had last night.
i was on my way to a vday date, hopped on the bus to get me there, and in front of me is a man folding tracts.
they say something about an end to suffering with a delusional paradise illustration.. so, he hands one to the woman in the row next to him, and tries to hand one back to me.
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I wish I had your courage.
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Whacky comments! What the craziest comment you've ever heard?
by toweragent inlast week a sister in my new hall made the following comment,.
"a brother once told me that it is better to be wrong with the organization, than to be right and be on your own without the organization.".
wow.
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This wasn't at a meeting but a little while ago, I was texting a sister I went to high school and got into the borg. (She was born in but never took to it). While on the topic on depression, she said "Do you take medication? If so, what better medication is there than the spiritual food provided by Jehovah?" I was completely stunned. I responded "Break a leg and see if going to a meeting helps".
In my congregation we had this sister who lived in a nursing home and was exactly all there. She said about Soloman: "Soloman had 900 wives and the bible never said he divorced them. That's polygamy and thats illegal!!" This sister was known to make these wacky comments and I think most of us knew she was only called on to make us laugh. -
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Martial Arts?
by Godsendconspirator ini have always had a love for martial arts (didn't know how to fight, just admire what the human body can do), but since jdub-land banned it, i just kinda forgot about it.
i admire nate quarry (an 'apostate' mma fighter) and i have been boxing for a year now.
i decided to switch over to muay thai.
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I have always had a love for martial arts (didn't know how to fight, just admire what the human body can do), but since Jdub-land banned it, I just kinda forgot about it. I admire Nate Quarry (an 'apostate' MMA fighter) and I have been boxing for a year now. I decided to switch over to Muay Thai. I took one class and I freaking love it!
Anybody else here so some form of martial arts?
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WatchTower 1/2013 Not THE END again?!
by BlindersOff1 inanother interesting video by "the snarky apologist" on youtube.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3aqh5xnzxa&feature=em-uploademail.
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Even as a Jdub, I was always a little disturbed how every picture dipicted people having almost souless (for lack of a better word) faces.