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  Celebrations?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  does anyone celebrate valentines day since leaving the borg?

  and which other celebrations if any do you now take part in?.

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  I celebrate anything I want. Birthdays being the biggest.
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  What is attractive?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  2. relationships

  has anyone found that since leaving the borg that their tastes have changed in what they find attractive in the opposite sex?

  beards, long hair, tattoo's, etc).

  i don't now if it's just my taste changing as i get older or if it's coz beards were frowned upon by the society that i find them attractive now and didn't when i was younger 😊.

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  It appears to be one of the stages you go through when you first wake up. I wrote a post about this six months ago in that I find so-called worldly girls very attractive. Take a quick read here: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5719203363422208/pale-emperor-seems-have-developed-fetish
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  JW.facts graffitied on a wall?

  by Miss Worldly in

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  2. friends

  did anyone see the trevor macdonald programme in the u.k. last night?

  the one about james bulgers killers?

  close to the end mr macdonald was walking through an underpass, at the exit, graffitied on the wall in massive black letters was ‘jwfacts.com’ it was plain to see........

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  Close to the end Mr MacDonald was walking through an underpass, at the exit, graffitied on the wall in massive black letters was ‘JWfacts.com’ it was plain to see.......

  Yes it's JWFacts. It's in Walton, i spotted it when i rode my bike under there last year. Took a pic of it and posted it on an ex-JW forum.
  
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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  Similar situation happened to us in Liverpool, UK.

  Our KH had a lot of old biddies that donated like £50 a month for years. Our KH was a shack. We had the funds to build a KH 2 times over but just couldn't find the land to build it on. We were one of the KH's that didn't have a loan with Bethel.

  Then came the announcement that they're going to merge our KH with TWO others. So no need for a new KH. Bethel had asked for the money in our account and so a vote went out asking if we all agree to send Bethel £38,931 in 2013 and £41,132 in 2014. (£80,063 in total). Of course we all "agreed" but many wernt happy. Particularly the older ones.
  

  One day they handed out little forms to each of us during the meeting wanting us to write how much we could donate on a monthly basis.

  Turns out, Bethel had "lovingly" cancelled all loan agreements with the KHs. How nice of them right? Not so. It turns out that despite the loan being cancelled they still wanted the congregations to send the same amount of money each month as a donation.... forever.

  Bethel had already pulled off one cash and grab scam. Now it was time for another one. Because we didn't have a loan in place with them they expected us to come up with a number in which to make regular donations to them forever. I think the standard amount people were writing down was £20. (£20 x 70 members = £1,400 per month TAX FREE). I gotta hand it to the Bethel accounts dept. That's a pretty good scam "loving arrangement" you thought up there.

  Imagine the shame you'd feel if you put £0.00 because you're poor (like i was at the time). I was already spending £80 a month just commuting to the meetings. So i never contributed. This was the first time i remember the org blatantly asking for money. Something i smugly used to tell people that they never do.
  
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  The book burning has started

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  don't know if this is a global thing but i've just been told by a pimo member of my old congregation that a min servant has been given the task of destroying all old books/literature in the kh library prior to 1992.. could be the elders (or even one of them) on a mission to stamp out dissent as my ex-wife used the same reasoning to her elder dad that i used in my jc: rutherfords books containing failed predictions.. anyone else heared anything?.

  the ms who's been given the task is a company man.

  no hope of him keeping them or selling them on ebay.. they have some russell books in that library too.

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  Checkmate

  When an honest man is proven wrong. He either stops being wrong, or he stops being honest.

  - Anonymous
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  Medical Explination Found For "Demonic Posession"

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  in 2007, doctors discovered an illness that is suspected of being an underlying cause of the historical accounts of demonic possession: anti-nmda receptor encephalitis.. it's caused by an attack on the immune system.

  symptoms include:.

  agitation, paranoia, psychosis, and violent behaviors, seizures and bizarre movements, mostly of the lips and mouth, but also including pedaling motions with the legs or hand movements resembling playing a piano.

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  In 2007, doctors discovered an illness that is suspected of being an underlying cause of the historical accounts of demonic possession: Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
  

  It's caused by an attack on the immune system. Symptoms include:

  Agitation, paranoia, psychosis, and violent behaviors, seizures and bizarre movements, mostly of the lips and mouth, but also including pedaling motions with the legs or hand movements resembling playing a piano. Some other symptoms typical during the disease onset include impaired cognition, memory deficits, and speech problems including aphasia, perseveration or mutism.

  Sound familiar?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephalitis
  
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  Is it ethical to have children?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this was a news article recently in an australian newspaper that caught my eye.. the premise was that to have a child is to inflict an extra human being onto the world and also, to inflict the world (with all its problems) onto the child.. there is a lot to say about this but from jw point of view, i have always believed it to be incredibly hypocritical that jw's have children in 'this system'.

  all my life at the meeting i heard how little time we have left, how sick the world is, how i was probably going to be persecuted and end up in a jail cell for being a jw.

  why would anyone want to become parents in this situation, particularly if they are confident there is only 'a short time left'?.

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  I wish they would stop having kids. That way the JWs would die out within 100 years.
  
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  When did JWs begin.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  " the contestant was useless as he said the 1700s.

  the correct answer the quiz master gave was the 20th century.

  and then he added, "they only began in the 1930s believe it or not.

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  But it got me to thinking that this is probably why the GB can now distance themselves from the looney ideas of Russell and even early Rutherford, by saying "it was not our religion then" even though it was really. Jesus's return in 1874/5. Not a Jehovah's Witness belief, we only came about in the 1930s....

  I used to say this all the time whenever "apostates" claimed Russell would be DF'd for his beliefs if he were around today.

  But you'll notice they'll still claim that they've be "dispensing spiritual truth" since the 1870s. Whenever things get hot they just say "ah, but they wern't Jehovah's Witnesses, they were Bible Students".
  
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  Pillowgate - John Cedars

  by CitizenofEarth in

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  is this true?

  is this really true?!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.

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  Fear of Dying

  by SplaneThisToMe in

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  2. beliefs

  did anyone else develop a weird fear of dying and death after leaving jw?

  i recently left and have realized for the first time in my life that i’m not going to live forever.

  anyone else have these same feelings toward discovering your own mortality?

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  pale.emperor

  I dont fear death. When i was a JW i actually did want to die because i was so burned out.

  I think as life leaves ones body it's an experience you'll have that you will never be able to tell anyone how it feels. So it's an experience i want to have one day.

  Death is simply not existing, i've not existed before so i've nothing to fear there. If medical science could make me live to 200 years old i wouldn't want it. The thought of the people i love dying all around me, and my seeing my daughter die before me would be the greatest sorrow of all.

  Im a huge fan of philosopher Alan Watts. Here's what he had to say on the subject: