I'm glad you got through it and didn't have too difficult a time. Of course there is some good stuff talked about or many of us wouldn't have stayed as long as we did but overall, well, as you say, obeying the big stick to pioneer ruined my health.
Xanthippe
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the circuit assembly
by thedog1 ini am off to the circuit assembly tomorrow.
not really looking forward to it as it is the first one i will go to after finding out many things on this forum.
since the last assembly i have read coc, in search of christian freedom, and some of the gentile times reconsidered.
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Anyone every been cut out of family pictures?
by love2Bworldly ini've been thinking about something lately that bothers me.
i mean it happened years ago, but it just seems really sick.
when i was disfellowshipped, my sister took all of her pictures that had me in it, cut me out and saved the rest of the pictures.
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My mother took down all the photos with me in, including my wedding photo and a baby picture of me with my sisters. Only the fact that I used to visit my father, who was never a JW, when my baby was born that I found out.
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Selective memories and disfellowshipping
by Really?! ini've been out around 20 years (da'd), but recently i've really started to struggle with certain aspects of relating to family members who are still in, as well as my own thoughts and feelings about my upbringing and my personal views about god/life the universe.
i have an older sibling and my mum who are still in.
we are a small family and my dear grandmother, who was not in, passed away around a year ago.
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Xanthippe
Hi Really?! and welcome. Yes it is so frustrating when everything is blamed on the person who left. They made their decision, JWs will say. They just can't see that they have made a decision to shun their own flesh and blood, they could decide not to shun and face the consequenses, but life is full of consequenses. Personally I feel the world is full of problems, we can give to charity, we can help our neighbours, but the very least we can do is look after our own family, surely? Glad to have you with us.
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle pretty much explains it all.
lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?
maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .
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IVF. Surrogacy. Sperm donation. Third party reproduction.
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle pretty much explains it all.
lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?
maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .
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Xanthippe
Bigmac, words have power, they describe real things. Marriage is an ancient concept from a time when unions were all about property and women being used in negotiations for wealth and power. Now marriage is a word denoting two people loving each other and wanting to tell the world about it. Times change and the meanings of words change don't they?
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Describe What a Jehovah's Witness Elder Is Like
by minimus ini know what they are supposed to be like.
but at this point in time, do you think the elders look joyful?
are they serious bible students?
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Xanthippe
My JW elder husband was lovely, he really tried to help the brothers and sisters. We visited the sick and depressed - there were a hell of a lot of those. But he was only an elder for four years before we left. He found out what really went on in the body of elders when he started attending their meetings, then it was only a matter of time.
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Does anyone remember the excuse they used in 1979-1980
by Crazyguy inback in 79-80 they came out with another wt stating quite clearly that jesus was not the mediator for most jw's and of course this upset quite a few and some asked "if jesus is not my mediator then how does god hear my prayers?
' does anyone remember what they said to answer this question?.
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Xanthippe
I don't remember that are you sure it was then? I remember thinking Jesus was my mediator when I prayed and I left in '89. There was something in the Watchtower about asking to feel Jesus' presence in your prayers, a bit weird.
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What did you do for St. Patrick's Day?
by Jeannette indid you have some green beer?
maybe some scotch whiskey?
i also baked a chocolate cake and chocolate icing, and put little green spice mints on top.
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Xanthippe
What's that beer they make in Cork city that's like Guinness but much better, very creamy. Would like to go to Ireland and try that again
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan intitle pretty much explains it all.
lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?
maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .
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Xanthippe
can we expect laws to now be passed allowing humans to marry their beloved pets ? bigmac
You deny you're in any way homophobic? Dream on.
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Xanthippe
Er, where are you?