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  Anyone else having a bad week? Thought I was going to die!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  so, this week has been hell!!!

  it's been bad enough that all of our jw friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on facebook and sending nasty emails to gojira...

  so i have a dog, zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans.

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  what a good dog Zoey is! I'm glad your house didn't blow up!
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  Crazy public talk last Sunday: The Origin of Humans - Does It Matter What You Believe?

  by 88JM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the congregation that brought you these watchtower comments, i thought you would enjoy some selected quotes from the public talk we had last sunday from the crazy talk outline: "the origin of humansdoes it matter what you believe?".

  it's amazing this talk outline is still allowed - some of the material is hilarious, and the arguments are so wild and misrepresented.

  i still have the audio file if you can bear to listen to it, i could pm you a link.

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  so the barbarism and torture commited by the Assyrians against the people they conquered isn't as bad as the violence and bloodshed we see today? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather live here in the USA today than in medieval Spain (anyone remember the Inquisition?). I think the case could be made that in large parts of the world today, there is substantially less violence than there was pre-1850.
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  New Girl

  by Gypsy Sam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone is having a lovely day.

  i ended up here after spending the past few months researching jw, without the blinders on.

  i was a born-in, baptized as a teen, pioneered out of high school for a couple years (turning down a 4 year scholarship).

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  Welcome! Once you know the truth about the "truth" there's no going back
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  Memorial invitation

  by John Locke in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  got this email from an elder.

  makes me f*ckin sick..... .

  hi jl,.

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  I bet we don't even get an invitation this year. I think the local elders have written us off as mentally diseased apostates. I'm just very grateful to be free!
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  Marry in the Lord

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  they do not do a good job of exploring why different people stop going to the meetings and make any improvements.. this is a quote from another topic.

  it reminds me of the may 15 2012 study article about marry only in the lord, p 4 para7.

  they are not trying to improve their product (the people).

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  My aunt worked for a Pepsi bottling company. They would get mad if employees bought Coke products for home use. God forbid anyone bring a Coke product to the office - they'd probably have fired the employee. Visitors to the office were required to throw away any non-Pepsi products they brought with them. I know that sounds crazy, but it happened to me when I went there.
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  "Pray Anytime" - The Watchtower has a hit!

  by donuthole in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was browsing youtube and it was interesting to see lots of jw covering the new caleb/sophia song "pray anytime".

  they need to add this to the songbook.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnine6nwgsk.

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  LOL SD-7, can you post a video of yourself singing that version? Or you know, just email me a sound clip so I can make it my ringtone? I think it would go perfectly with Cedar's Sparlock song, which Just Ron uses as my special ringtone.
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  Is a slow fade being selfish when you have kids?

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i got some great advice to take things very slowly with the husband and kids in order to be able to fade and still maintain contact with my parents and siblings.

  but today i got a call from my son's teacher that he was having a meltdown because he was worried about all his friends and teachers being destroyed at armageddon.... first i felt like such a schmuck for ever having allowed that thought to enter my son's head, then i thought, is it psychological torture for me not to immediately correct the situation?

  i had a long talk with him about how god is perfectly just and full of love and he didn't have to worry about that at all, but it still seemed lukewarm.

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  Lost Generation mentioned talking to your kids about the future in terms of career plans and life choices. That is something we always did with our kids, maybe that made a difference in how easily they adapted after we left the borg. It has to be a good thing if a kid is thinking about college and a career rather than armageddon and field service all the time.
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  Is a slow fade being selfish when you have kids?

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i got some great advice to take things very slowly with the husband and kids in order to be able to fade and still maintain contact with my parents and siblings.

  but today i got a call from my son's teacher that he was having a meltdown because he was worried about all his friends and teachers being destroyed at armageddon.... first i felt like such a schmuck for ever having allowed that thought to enter my son's head, then i thought, is it psychological torture for me not to immediately correct the situation?

  i had a long talk with him about how god is perfectly just and full of love and he didn't have to worry about that at all, but it still seemed lukewarm.

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  Your kids need to be deprogrammed sooner rather than later. Many people are estranged from relatives for all sorts of reasons, a good therapist can help the child deal with that if it happens. Preserving your marriage and your family relationships has to take a back seat to making sure your kids grow up mentally healthy.

  FWIW, we quit attending meetings very abruptly and our older boys adjusted pretty quickly. They started public school for the first time (we homeschooled before), we started celebrating every holiday and birthday, they joined the scouts, and they've made new friends. We've discussed the various things that they learned at the hall and explained how the scriptures were misapplied or twisted, and we've explained some of the actual history of the WTBTS and the crazy ideas that Russell and Rutherford preached. I'm pretty much an atheist at this point, and we've talked about that.

  I realize that I don't have the same experience with family members who are still active, since we only have one aunt & uncle who are dubs and they live 600 miles from us, but I still feel it's important to let your kids know exactly what you believe and why, and then act in harmony with your beliefs.
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  Joke!

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. social
  2. humour

  before the meeting at the kh, little billy runs up to his grandma and says, "grandma, grandma!

  make a sound like a frog!".

  grandma gives him a hug and asks, "what are you talking about?".

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  LOL all those jokes are funny!
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  JC was formed, without even letting me know!?

  by magotan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  no one will take my intent to da or df seriously.

  they called me again (three brothers this time) and asked me to meet with them.

  i had no intention of doing so....simply told them there was nothing to talk about.. .

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  You behaved in a rational , mature manner. They really can't stand that. Good for you!