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  Lovefest

  by perfect1 in

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  i love you all right now.

  you have collectively grown on me.. .

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  Post a picture of you hero(es)

  by perfect1 in

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  ai weiwei.

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  Disfellowshipping/dissassociating vs. fading?

  by lostinthought in

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  ok, advise needed my friends!

  the idea of fading sounds really nice to me and i would love to do it, but i'm just a big "chicken" and can't bring myself to stop all the jw nonsense.

  i continue going to meetings and service out of some sort of fear, i know if i start missing too many people will be bothering me with phone calls and visits and such and they will sucker me into toing back.

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  Writing that DA letter (mine was 2 sentences) is satisfying. Of course, it cost me my family too; however, I left on principle, so DA was my choice.
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  When Was This Term Coined,"Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah's Witnesses'?

  by Scott77 in

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  when was this term coined,'worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovah's witnesses'?

  is the watchtower trying to copy churches of christendom?

  what does the bible says about that?

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  It was before '95. I know that simply because of where I was living when I staged that little greeting for my brother. We moved out of there in '93. Maybe I was aware of it earlier because of my brother. He'd send us notes from Gilead graduations, the Bethel breakfast table, 'n' stuff.

  It absolutely cracked me up that he had to take a "vow of poverty" and become part of a "special order." I actually got him to crack a smile with my little greeting.
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  The Sweet Taste of FREEDOM!!!

  by Unbrainwashed publisher1 in

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  everyday is an adventure the only thing that stays the same is that each day i make my own decisions.

  i take pleasure in getting to know new people.

  with no agenda of trying to get them to convert to the org.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Just the waking up on Saturday morning and knowing I didn't have to go out in field service was pretty heady.

  More and more stuff dawned on me gradually. Some JW thought block would pop into my head and I'd realize I don't have to do that anymore. I can THINK FOR MYSELF!!!

  If I want to go to the movies I don't have to check the rating!

  I can vote!

  I can volunteer and donate to charities!

  I can have self-esteem instead of feeling like a sinful bag of schnitt all the time.

  If I get sick or injured I can accept a blood transfusion.

  There's nobody looking over my shoulder all the time and judging me.

  Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
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  Are They Cynically Shutting Down The Organization?

  by metatron in

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  i've raised this idea before but recent events seem to support it.

  changes in the watchtower may be guided by more than a need for cash flow: they may simply be liquidating/shutting it down as discreetly as possible.. of course, this doesn't mean they stop working on their upstate ny country club - but it could mean that the throrough going exposure and disproof of their beliefs on the internet, when it emerged, took many of them by surprize, as it did many of us!

  after awhile, they generally gave up trying to make any sense of their doctrines - and coupled with cash flow issues - moved towards a quiet retreat.. take a look at a few things:.

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  With this new declaration that the GB = FDS it seems to me that they are consolidating power. With family still on the inside my biggest fear is some sort of eventual Jim Jones lunacy and actual Kool Aid.
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  Were you afraid of "apostates"?

  by everchangingworld in

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  i remember hearing rumblings of a few that had gone "apostate" and feeling absolute dread of the dark world they had stepped into.

  i would re-double my studying efforts.

  to me, "apostates" had gone over into the "dark side".

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  There was a house in our rural territory where we knew apostates lived, and whenever we were out in that territory someone would point and say, "That's the apostates' house" in much the same way you'd say, "That house is haunted."

  Eight years into my journey to the dark side I'm surprised at how light and airy it is out here!
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  Share your photo, only if you don't have any problem with it.

  by wolfman85 in

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  i like to share my picture with you and that you share yours with me.

  but only if that does not represent any problem to you.

  here is mine.

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  Cast your eyes to the left.
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  When Was This Term Coined,"Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah's Witnesses'?

  by Scott77 in

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  when was this term coined,'worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovah's witnesses'?

  is the watchtower trying to copy churches of christendom?

  what does the bible says about that?

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  Back in the early 90s. I remember shortly thereafter when my brother, a Bethelite, came to visit and I greeted him at the door with the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the monks are marching and chanting.

  
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  Out with a bang or Fade

  by Honeybucket in

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  what did you decide to do?.

  leave with a bang, trying to educate those around you before leaving?

  perhaps writing letters to others forgiving/ asking for forgiveness.. or.

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  I didn't want my name connected with that pedophile-hiding cesspool, no matter what it cost me. I DA'd with a two sentence letter.