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  New job blues

  by Jayk in

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  finally just got a really good job, i'm learning a trade and i love it.. its been a long time coming without any help from my family.

  i'm in my late 20s finally about to be able to provide for myself.

  it feels great but i still feel in missing something.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  At least one of your hobbies can be taken outside where you could meet people. Exercise - you could join a gym or a basketball team or soccer team or something like that.

  In our area even your other two hobbies can be taken out to meet similar interested ones. They have drawing "lessons" and the local comic book stores have video game buses outside where you can go and play along side others.

  As for authority - if you are a law abiding citizen then you obviously have no problem with authority. Not allowing people to tell you how to think and what to do without any good reason is not a problem with authority. It is self respect.
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  Chapter 46 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 46. lenny and the band.

  lenny hasn’t done shit for your organization.

  “i just want to be in the band with lenny and the rest of the witnesses!”.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  So true about worldly ones being treated like human beings but if you decide you don't believe the GB anymore, you are dead in their eyes and treated as such. Do they honestly think that Jesus would treat people like that?
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  Bringing reproach on Jehovah's name.

  by ScottyRex in

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  i have thought long and hard about this, you know in those midnight hours.. you will probably string me alive in what i say, but here you go-.

  i feel that the jw's do have the truth.

  i do agree with the doctrines and biblical exgenesis they propound.i do feel that they have the 'truth' i do understand they are imperfect, and i think they have had to 'refine' their teachings as time has gone on-and change accordingly- i see nothing wrong with this.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  You may well have thought long about it but what research have done?

  One of the reasons I no longer believe them is the fact that they say they are the faithful and discreet slave and were chosen in 1919. How?

  Now read what the chosen ones put out as truth back then in the finished mystery book and compare it to what they say is truth now.

  God detests lies. Why would he approve a group who do not have any information right? If God inspired or directed them surely he could have given them the correct information from the beginning.

  There are so many more indicators of them not having the truth and their handling of the child abuse cases cannot be defended.
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  Happy Thanksgiving 2017

  by EverApostate in

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  once upon a time, as a jw, i was afraid to buy turkey during thanksgiving time.

  while attending the thursday night ministry school meeting (on thanksgiving day), i was cautious not to mention the word thanksgiving, for fear of bringing reproach to bigj.. now, free at last, my happy thanksgiving wishes to everyone who celebrate this holiday..

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  moreconfusedthanever

  We had an elder give a talk one time and he actually said "if you eat turkey ay Christmas time ho do you think you are kidding?"

  I used to get nervous buying it too but if you like it, Christmas is the only time you can get it.

  Same thing with Easter eggs and hot cross buns. So silly to get so anxious about food.
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  Why isn't Lazarus my next-door neighbor?

  by return of parakeet in

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  after looking through doug mason's "ransom" thread, i noticed a little discrepancy between dub doctrine and the bible; i.e.

  lazarus.. if the wages of sin is death, lazarus paid the wages in full by dying, and when resurrected by jesus, he should then have been a "perfect" man.

  after all, he paid his wages for his imperfection -- he died.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  They was mentioned on a previous post. Jesus had not paid the ransom yet so everlasting life was not yet available or something like that?
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  Chapter 45 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 45 do you want to shake hands at least?.

  on the weekend of july 28th and 29th of 2001, we decided to have a “big chill” party at our house.

  witness friends came from all over the country.

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  Oh my goodness that is so sad.
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  "not doing well spiritually"

  by Introvert 2 in

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  working late tonight i just thought this up : whenever we used to hear someone say " so and so is not doing well spiritually™ " or "not doing well in the truth™ " what it really means is they aren't doing well climbing the wtbts's corporate ladder or doing their beck and call following the herd cult thingy.

  been brought up before but had to share..feel free to add..

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  moreconfusedthanever

  I mentioned to a sister that a mutual friend of ours is very busy. Her response was "busy in the truth?". Only that would be acceptable. Mustn't be busy doing anything else.
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  Work Christmas functions: Being a Bible Student (unbaptized)

  by rulehayl in

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  hi all,i have been studying with the witnesses for more than 6 months and regularly attend both midweek & weekend meetings, and i am nearly at the end of the "bible teach" book.

  my boss is adamant i attend team christmas functions.

  she knows about my studying and potential baptism next year, and has suggested that i attend and just not participate in activities like kris kringle.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  1 John 5:3 says God's commandments are not burdensome.

  Matthew 11:30 says the yoke is kindly and the load is light.

  If you are finding it overwhelming and difficult while you are still in the love bombing study stage alarm bells should be ringing.
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  Where to go for the 'Deep Things'?

  by cobweb in

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  2. bible

  as someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.

  are there any meaty jw publications left?

  i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  It's all just fluff and nonsense. The teenagers getting baptised because they have to would have no clue what their religious beliefs are and certainly could not explain it. They know Armageddon is coming and you can't celebrate Xmas and birthdays etc.

  Everyone is happy that they do not need to research anymore and happy they can just click and read what the GB has prepared for them never asking if it is actually true.
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  Convention “Highlights” - bwhahaha!

  by Muddy Waters in

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  taking a walk down memory lane at those looooonnnnngg, tedious conventions... .

  (boy, they weren’t kidding when they spoke about being long-suffering and having endurance!).

  but what were some of your convention highlights, or lowlights, from back in the day?.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  I remember a convention in the 80s where I spent the entire 4 days asleep in the first aid department. I had surgery few days before and my mother would never consider missing the convention to take care of me at home.

  Other than that our family were always in food service which meant that as a teenager I was never able to make new friends because I was always working. We always had to be there super early and got stuck cleaning up after too.