What ever happened to making "the truth your own?" Oh yeah, I guess that means accepting every utterance of the FDS as our own thoughts. In other words, DON'T THINK FOR YOURSELF! Imagine trying to leave if you believe that you can't and shouldn't have a mind of your own.
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No More Harboring Private Ideas!
by RationalWitness injust finished reading the august 1, 2001 watchtower.
the second study article is entitled how to make your advancement manifest.
well, after quoting ephesians 4:11-14, heres what paragraphs 8 and 9 advise:first, since oneness is to be observed, a mature christian must be in unity and full harmony with fellow believers as far as faith and knowledge are concerned.
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Field Service is Officially Over Forever!
by professor ini hereby urge every single one of jehovah's witnesses nationwide to stop going out in field service!
according to the january 1, 1989 watchtower, our obligation to field service officially ended last year!:.
the apostle paul was spearheading the christian missionary activity.
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professor
Apparently the Holy Spirit is dormant only when the Governing Body is vacationing in the Bahamas.
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CyberSex
by DreamMaster incybersex: real or fantasy!.
i would like to tell you good people a story and when i'm finished i would appreciate your honest opinion as i know you wouldn't give me anything less.
my wife and i have been fighting about a situation which recently arose in our home.
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It doesn't really matter if it is "real" or not. Men are more stimulated visually and you look at nude women to get off.
What matters is how each of you feel about it. If you each are doing something that hurts the other, or that makes the other feel violated, then you need to talk honestly about it and resolve the problem together. Perhaps you can live with your wife's online fantasizing the same as she accepts your actions.
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Field Service is Officially Over Forever!
by professor ini hereby urge every single one of jehovah's witnesses nationwide to stop going out in field service!
according to the january 1, 1989 watchtower, our obligation to field service officially ended last year!:.
the apostle paul was spearheading the christian missionary activity.
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professor
So did I, but I was still baptized under false pretenses.
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convention flooded out, haha
by vsecret939 intoday, here in houston, the district convention was closed due in thanks to tropical storm allison.
talk about an act of god.
haha.
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professor
That's funny as hell! Where else but here can you read a post entitled "convention flooded out, haha!"
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Not sure I can handle the anger anymore
by professor ini am over 30 and have been out of the "organization" for almost 14 years now.
my father is an elder who's main concern is kissing up to the c.o.
so he can move up the ranks and be important.
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Thanks for the comments everyone. To find peace it may be necessary to let go and mourn the loss of my parents now, even though they are not dead.
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Not sure I can handle the anger anymore
by professor ini am over 30 and have been out of the "organization" for almost 14 years now.
my father is an elder who's main concern is kissing up to the c.o.
so he can move up the ranks and be important.
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I am over 30 and have been out of the "organization" for almost 14 years now. My father is an elder who's main concern is kissing up to the C.O. so he can move up the ranks and be important. My mother seems to hate her life as a JW now but knows nothing else. She still spouts all of the same JW rhetoric on cue. Both of my parents are exemplary JW's and go that extra mile in shunning my sister and I to the extreme (we are both XJW). They say they "miss" us, but if they suffer at all it is "for righteuousness sake". Apparently they have been promised some great prizes at the end of the show for disregarding our existence.
As I have matured with age, I have become more able to understand and express my feelings about what has happened to my family. Of course Mom and Dad won't hear any of it. Saying anything that disfavors the "organization" or the "Society" makes them push me away even further, as they shudder to think for a moment that their long lost son may be listenting to "apostates", or worse, may even be one. When I was young they taught me that being an apostate is the one sin the you can never be forgiven for and that it's okay to hate such people.
To know that my parents almost literally hate me because of religion angers me to the point that I now want to scream and break things. I guess I feel it has been such a long time and I should be over it by now. But instead my anger boils hotter and hotter. I feel I need to let go of the idea of ever having my parents back. But at the same time, I know that is exactly what the WTS wants and expects me to do. Damn if they aren't still controlling me through my parents some 14 years later!
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Incorrect to use the term "Jehovah's Witne...
by TR ini'm sure this has been brought up before, but it gives me the willies(brrrrrr!
) to say the...jw words.
since i don't believe they are god's witnesses, then i can't say the words.
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Why not just call it "The Truth"!
(snicker snicker)
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Adam to be Resurrected - Yes?
by Focus inwill adam be resurrected?.
focus.
(anti-flipfloppery class)
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If Adam gets resurrected I say we all jump his ass and beat the snot out of him.
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I got my nerve up, gonna try this again!
by LostMyReligion ini first posted to this board as "truman" about 2 months ago.
it was a time of deep depression, confusion, fear, and paranoia for me, as i had just 3 weeks before discovered that everything i had believed for 27 years was only a pipe dream.. everyone was very welcoming, but after only a few posts, i got so afraid i had to stop.
i was fearful of revealing too much, being somehow discovered, and of the possibility of saying the wrong thing, incurring the ire of my betters here.
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You are doing what you must to keep the family together. I admire that. Your family should always come first. It sucks that most JW's don't believe in that idea.