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  Shout Out to Smithy

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. friends

  i see you are back commenting smithy.

  just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires.

  i know that the news has quietened down but i suspect we have not heard the end of it.

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  HappyGal

  Glad you are okay smiddy3!!!!
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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  HappyGal

  Wishing SMIDDY3 and all on the forum a HAPPY 2020!
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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  HappyGal

  "Old" keeps moving up. Now it's the 80's and beyond.

  But if a person has their health and their mind, 80's is just a number.
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  Do You Think “Higher Education “Is All That??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as jehovah’s witnesses, we were regularly told how awful a college education is.

  i’m no longer associated with the religion but i am not so pro university.

  it’s not because i think you are better off without a degree.

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  HappyGal

  A college degree can help to open some doors. That being said, much of what I learned to get my bachelor's degree was not helpful in the real world. Education needs to be streamlined. Why should doctors need to learn about literature or history? Same for accountants or other career fields. Lots of wasted time. We could have more doctors (that are desperately needed) if they only were required to learn the things in their field.
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  How Much of the WT Teaching Did You Believe?

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".

  i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.

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  HappyGal

  It was all I knew for the first part of my life. I was an impressionable kid. I believed it. Yet some stuff rubbed me the wrong way. Like saying my Dad would die at Armaggedon because he wasn't a JW. He is such a great and humble man. It didn't make sense to me that God would kill him off like that.
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  Netflix “Explained: Cults”

  by Butterfly607 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  has anyone else seen the netflix documentary “explained: cults”?

  i thought it was well done.

  i feel like a jw might watch it and feel uncomfortable as the show goes through the definition of cults and then the step by step indoctrination process.

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  HappyGal

  I just watched it yesterday. Yes it was well done.
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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  HappyGal

  I left thinking the truth was no fun. Just meetings study and service. I didn't want that life anymore. That was the 80s and information was not available as it is today. It took years to realize it wasn't the truth. Had google and YouTube been around then it would have been quick.
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  New Boy The Book is Free For The Next 30 Days

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you that have not got my book new boy yet, it will be free for down load on amazon books.

  you can down load it on your kindle for the next 30 days at no cost.

  enjoy keith.

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  HappyGal

  Just finished reading the book. I got it for free on Amazon unlimited but later decided to buy the kindle version for 99 cents to have a permanent copy. It is jaw-dropping and eye opening. Thanks to the author for sharing his story.
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  CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/dpq7j8lkc98.

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  HappyGal

  Thank you Deborah Dykstra for all your hard work in getting this book published. You persisted through the difficulties and the criticisms. Many will now benefit from your efforts.

  My deepest sympathies on the loss of your dear husband.

  Thanks also to Mike & Kim for getting the word out that this book is available.
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  How many years did you waste away in the Org?

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in my case; 27 years.

  7 of which were as a ministerial serpent ... sorry, i mean 'servant' ;).

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  HappyGal

  From age 5 to 27. Not to mention all the years spent undoing the damage.