Posts by panhandlegirl

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A JW book stand just started near my work

by biometrics in

a jw brother has setup a bookstand in a shopping mall area (outdoor) near my work.

i must say he's put some effort into creating the counter, and display stand.

at first i thought it was a coroprate stand selling insurance or something, then i saw "awake".. he had a really comfortable chair, and looked bored watching people walk past.. the local gov allow market stalls there three days per week.

panhandlegirl

I encountered an elderly JW preaching from his car. He was parked close to the entrance of WalMart and called passerbys to his car and gave his semon. I let him talk and then asked him if he knew when the world was going to end. He handed me a small paperback book (Reasoing book?). He told me this book would answer my question. I gave the book back to him. I really wish I had taken it so I could have seen what they said but I didn't. Haven't seen him since.

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So ... what happens when we die?

by sacolton in

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what do you personally believe happens after we die?

i don't believe we really know everything about god or the afterlife.

i do believe that we do transform to something beyond our physical comprehension.

panhandlegirl

As bad as I hate to say this, my gut tells me cofty may be right. I don't want it to be that way. I would like to have an afterlife but am not sure there is one. Therefore, I will live this life to the fullest.

I confess to being confused.

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How ManyYears Did You Waste Being A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

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i was raised as a jw and i haven't been to a meeting in about 8 years..

panhandlegirl

Too many. 39 years! my whole young life!! Also born in

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2011 School for Congregation Elders Hand Book!

by Atlantis in

( credit goes to average joe).

2011 school for congregation elders hand book.click the link in the blue box by the blue arrow.http://www.sendspace.com/file/82jdej.or use this site.1.

click the link and another page will open with the words "download file" in blue color, click on that link.

panhandlegirl

Thanks, Atlantis. Downloaded. Will make for interesting reading. Of course I was never an elder; wrong gender.

I was just reading the last two pages as it was printing. WOW! It's all about the preaching work. I have been out so long that everything about the borg is so strange to me.

Panhandlgirl

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What the hell was I thinking?! Stupid me!!

by freshstart in

so my husband and i have a son who will be 2 years old next month and i really wanted him to be socialized more.

ever since we stopped going to meetings, we have been pretty much shunned even though there has never been an "official" reason for it (df, da..).

i am terribly introverted, so it's difficult for me to get out there and talk to people but our son is a people-person and i wanted him to have more peers to be around.

panhandlegirl

I haven't had little ones in years, but how about a good child care center for just for a few hours or so. I have read it helps children to learn to be social and get along with others. I hate it that your young son was not accepted by the other kids but it was probably a blessing in disgise. The other posters seem to have good suggestions. You are a great mom for trying to do the best for you son.

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MUST READ AlanF's email to Knocking.org

by sf in

this is a must-read that, hopefully, will stay an "active topic" for all seekers and lurkers, by bumping it to the top as often as possible.

alan wrote it in randys {dogpatch} thread regarding knocking.org documentary and in reply to the email mr. engardio sent to barbara anderson.

however, it is so vital a read that it indeed needs its own thread:.

panhandlegirl

BUMP.

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"please sign in" was all mom said to me and my boys at her sisters funeral yesterday at the kindom hall

by oompa in

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my dad never once looked at me...i went even though they did not come to the door when i went to tell her i was sorry about her sister...that i had heard through the grapvine her sister had died...they did not even ccall me...and they did not answer the phone when i left the message asking for the time and place of the funeral unless they did not want us to attend...and they did not call....but we all decided to go anyway and im glad we did....but it was surreal...i will share more later.

and i have a close friend nearby dfd about four years ago whose dad is dying and wont hardly ever talk to her... he does a bit but not her mom....neither does robert7s mom talk at all to him and yes it causes pain...but i think i am finally close to healing that last part of mine......oompa.

funny but just realized that the above two cases both people are recognizd as a son or daughter important enough to shun like me...but we dont get shunned like dfd and apostate sons at the funeral...just another attendee...wow.

panhandlegirl

Sorry oompa. I have experienced the same thing with my sisters and cousins. The way they treat us is so crazy and unlike how Jesus treated people. It does hurt to be mistreated by those you love.

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How many ex-jws poster here now believe in Hellfire, immortality of soul, trinity, etc;

by booker-t in

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i am just curious about this because although i agree with many of the posters here that the wt society is guilty of many horrible deeds, i still believe they are right when it comes to doctrinal things as i mention.

especially hellfire.

i just don't see how anybody that has studied the bible for many years like many of the ex-jws here can make an about face and go back to believing hellfire.

panhandlegirl

I don't believe in hellfire. I just don't think it makes sense. It would take a diabolical GOD or person to punish anyone by burning them forever. I am not sure about the Trinity, I don't think I belive it. I am thinking that I don't believe in the Flood or the creation account because I ask myself, "How would anyone know how it all happend?" I think the writers just guessed that maybe that is what happened. I have also always had problems with Noah living for so long and just having three sons and those sons had no children. It does not ring true to me.

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