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  Are You Interested In Religion Of Any Sort At This Point In Your Life?

  by minimus in

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  personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.

  i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.

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  NOPE!

  However I do see myself visiting a church someday because I have always had a penchant for rousing gospel music. That’s something I want to experience.
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  I have found a girlfriend, but there is something I've been hiding from her

  by ronweasley in

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  all is well and good in my life right now :) with one small catch... i have a secret that i have hidden from my girlfriend.. for the first time since coming out of the borg, i have found romance.

  i was lucky to meet a girl called romilda (name has been changed), and we get on like a house in fire.

  we have been in a relationship for a few days now, but some of my friends have pointed out that i should be honest with her and be straight about my sexuallity.

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  Telling her the truth now also shows that you care enough for her not to blindside her if she becomes attached to you later.
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  Hypothetical question about level/depth of talks at DC this year?

  by FadeToBlack in

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  for those of you who had to go this year and have been in for a while, how do you think someone from the 40's or even the 70's would react if they had to sit thru the 2013 dc?

  for me, it was like 'land of the stupid'.

  everything seemed to be presented at about a 4th grade level (my apologies in advance to 4th graders who are more advanced than adult jw's).

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  Perhaps it just seemed worse to me because the Polish brothers and sisters were applauding wildly for everything, even a 20 second demo. To make matters worse, they just all seemed so earnest. I felt like we were in parallel universes.

  *ok...you just gave me a flashback to the 2006 INTL DC! I've never experienced anything like that in my life till I went there. Just as disturbing as the hysterical crying of the Polish JWs when the delegates were leaving the Sunday! Very surreal.*
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  Introducing Myself

  by DilloTrace in

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  i'm new to this forum and wanted to give everyone a shout out.

  i've been a silent observer of this forum for a long time, but now i feel it's time for me to break the silence and get involved.

  i've been inactive since november of last year.

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  Welcome....DT. That rat race will drives you nuts!
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  What piece of WT literature is worth holding onto, or have you kept? Why?

  by losingit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.

  i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .

  i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.

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  I have a mini NWT. I also still have that blinking blood card! Why I don't know!
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  Friend gets "scriptural divorce" over wifes transgressions before they got married...

  by sosoconfused in

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  so i have a friend in a congregation in new jersey who recently called me to tell me that he got a divorce.

  nothing surprising there at first but it is the fact of when it happened.

  his wife began pioneering april 1, and after about three weeks she came to him and told him that about 4 years she had engaged in loose conduct (fondling the penis and the guy kissing her breasts) during a time that she was inactive.

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  That is twisted...

  Now I have to wonder if the guy committed loose conduct before they were married and she found out would they allow her the same scriptural divorce! I doubt it! They'd talk her into forgiving him.
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  Tech 49: My Tripping Point, Part 2

  by Tech49 in

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  after reading some of your other posts and experiences, especially regarding the elder's school, i am reminded of part 2 of my experience down the rabbit hole.. the last elder's school i attended was in 2011. i remember vividly the 3 day event.

  i remember vividly being bored out of my mind!.

  as has been stated by others, the hours of monotone counsel and examples and experiences were continually beating on your brain with the usual stuff:.

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  Tech49 thank you for sharing...

  "I go to bed thinking about it, I wake up thinking about it. Its almost as if new thought processes are forming.."

  ...and what Jgnat said really resonates with me! I know what that feels like. It's "sweetly" overwhelming at times
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  Too sick or injured but still made it to the meeting!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  i once attended a two day special assembly with my gums bleeding after having 4 widom teeth pulled the day before.

  i managed the two days by rinsing out my mouth all day long and placing cotton in my mouth.. one brother had back surgery the week before but attended a two day assembly by laying on a matress in the back of the assembly hall.

  why he needed to be there i'll never understand!.

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  MrFreeze: A CO once said the only reasons not to be at a meeting is the three F's: Fever, fracture, funeral.

  *edit* Yep....That's what I remembered....the 3 F's

  My elderly mom goes to meetings when her BP is too high...she should be laying down...it's almost as if they don't feel like God will understand that they don't feel well...
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  Human Apostates and the Power of the Internet

  by SeventhSojourn in

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  Brains and Beauty! Great Job!
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  When You Were A Witness Did You Tattle? Snoop?

  by OneStepOut93 in

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  were you one of the witnesses that tattled and tried to find people doing "wrong"?.

  or did you ever tattle on someone and regretted it later?

  would you take it back?.

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  See…it‘s the double standard that Julia mentions that chaps my hide. Those offended are supposed to come to you first, instead of gossiping and then telling the elder. The offender being “afraid” of you is a cop out, and what the elder should have done was REDIRECT the offender to you, to personally address the issue.

  As for telling on myself..pfft… If I chose to do something it was directly between me and Jehovah and never once did it occur to me to run to the brothers. I never committed a grave sin, but I always felt what I decided to do was between me and Jah. Guess I missed the memo that the elders/GB were my middleman confessors.