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Posts by Emery
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73Congregation had to relocate Memorial...thanks to me
by Shepherd Book inso, the two local congregations were planning to hold their memorial together at 7:30 at the local community center, but they had to make a last-minute change to their own hall, and i'm pretty sure it was because of me.. let me explain.... at work on monday afternoon, a co-worker returned from her lunchbreak and showed me the memorial invitation that was waiitng in her door when she went home for lunch.
i noticed the sticker on the back indicated the memorial was being held, not at the local hall, but at the community center.
from a past (non-jw) event i attended there, i knew they didn't allow alcohol (unless you pay for security guards), so i wrote to the center's coordinator:.
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in limbo.
by Captain Blithering inyo homies.. .
ltr ftp (long time, first time etc.).
i don't really know where to start, but i guess you've all been here before so you'll know where i'm coming from.
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Emery
Welcome, I really enjoy reading your posts. I agree 100% with you, all friendships are conditional. Though, the conditions or criteria for friendship should never be reduced to skin color, race, sex, or beliefs. They should be based on the love and character of a person.
Captain, I went through the very same thing. I left my JW beliefs kicking and screaming. Finding every possible excuse to explain away all the irrefutible evidence against the organization. I would tell myself that we are the only ones on earth with the purest and cleanest form of worship to Jehovah. I looked to our rejection of holidays, our non-involvement in wars, bible translation (face palm), preaching work, world-wide brotherhood, and clean association.
However, each one of my arguments never dealt with the most important issue -- the amount of control they had over our lives. The control was all based on their claims to Christ-like authority, to dictate what we can and can't do. It was something I never really thought about. The Slave declared itself divinely appointed, a channel between God and man. This presumptuous claim allows them to disfellowship friends, reject blood transfusions, poisen our view toward non-believers, interpret the bible, control our schedule and demand obsolute loyalty through guilt. Once I fully understood this control I read and peered into 1919 with a fine-toothed comb. When I finished, I was totally embarassed and humiliated after realizing how naive I was. I had told men (elders) private matters and personal issues that they never had the privilege to know! My whole life I was so transparent for the organization, confessing all my wrongs, yet they did not provide the same to me with their white washed history. I forsook so many opportunities because I was convinced Jehovah was really behind this organization. There is no possible way Jehovah God through Jesus Christ supported an organization which false prophesied before, during and after 1919. They were not even alert or awake for Christ's presence in 1914 because they already believed he was present in 1874! All lies and bullshit, blasphemous bullshit.
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My story in short
by DeWandelaar ini am visiting this site for quite some time now and now i think it is time to tell something about me and my experience.
without giving away my name (i am in "fade mode"): i am from the small country they call the netherlands, the land of wooden shoes, tulips, cheese and too many inhabitants per square meter.
i am married with children and a second generation jw.
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Emery
welcome!
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Congregation had to relocate Memorial...thanks to me
by Shepherd Book inso, the two local congregations were planning to hold their memorial together at 7:30 at the local community center, but they had to make a last-minute change to their own hall, and i'm pretty sure it was because of me.. let me explain.... at work on monday afternoon, a co-worker returned from her lunchbreak and showed me the memorial invitation that was waiitng in her door when she went home for lunch.
i noticed the sticker on the back indicated the memorial was being held, not at the local hall, but at the community center.
from a past (non-jw) event i attended there, i knew they didn't allow alcohol (unless you pay for security guards), so i wrote to the center's coordinator:.
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Emery
LOL, nice!
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longest married couple in the U.S
by His Excellency injohn and ann betar of connecticut have just been named the longest married couple in the u.s.!
he's 101 and she's 97, and have been married 80years.. .
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Emery
They must certainly be witnesses!
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slavenomore
by Slavenomore inleaving the org was not a doctrinal choice for me as it was for many on this board.
i left mentally because of the boredom and then i physically left by being dfd.
i have been reading here for about a month or so and now i know i made the right decision.
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Emery
Welcome Slavenomore!
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LaidOff Bethelites: Weeping And Gnashing of Teeth
by metatron indon't let any of the watchtower's propaganda deceive you.
i encountered some private conversations among witnesses about the subject and it's ugly.
yes, there is suffering as many of these victims try to live on charity and can't find jobs in the worst economy since the depression.. some of their private observations include shock that you need a college degree for nearly any job and that the watchtower society couldn't have picked a worse time to do this to them .. all the while these complaints are discussed, i try not to show that i am astounded by their bizarre "logic".
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Emery
Billy
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New member says hey
by jay dubless ini have lurked now and then, just decided to join.. my older brother and i were raised by our jw mom, but our dad was a non-practicing catholic.
so we went to the hall, but were considered "weak" witnesses, since our family still celebrated xmas and birthdays, to appease my dad i suppose.
as a kid, i loved these holidays.. anyways, when my brother was 17 (i was 13), he spent a few weeks with our cousins in ky, who are all gung-ho j-dubs, and upon his return, he decided he was going to be more "theocratic".
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Emery
Welcome, and hang in there.
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kingdom hall packed from memorial invitees!!!
by nowwhat? inafter spending a month in cold,rainy, snowy conditions, and using up 100's of gallons of fuel in service.
jehovah certainly blessed our efforts!!.
we must have had zero invitees up from zero the year before!!!
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Emery
The biblically ignorant are in attendence.
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New light Watchtower magazine leaked from organization weeks ahead of general release
by cedars inhttp://jwsurvey.org/governing-body-2/new-light-watchtower-magazine-leaked-from-organization-weeks-ahead-of-general-release.
if doctrinal explanations are missing from the article, it is because they are also missing from the magazine.. i would like to give my thanks again to my source for supplying me with the magazine article weeks ahead of its scheduled release.
it showed remarkable courage, because risks were taken.
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Emery
The Watchtower still doesn't address the big question. What kind of inspection did Jesus make during 1914-1919?? What was his choosing based on? The critieria or details for being chosen are not given in Malachi 3:1-4. Neither is there any element of Jesus communicating doctrines or wishes via an earthly channel in the parable of Matthew 24:45-47.