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  Recently Disfellowshipped

  by PersonOfGlitter in

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  hi i’m getting disfellowshipped on thursday and was wondering what advice those that have left have for me.

  i’m not sure if i still believe or not.

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  road to nowhere

  You will meet people you know at the store. Some will avert their gaze, some will change course, and some ( like me) will still acknowledge you. Family goes the full spectrum from outright treating you as dead, lessening contact, and maintaining contact in private. If in the same household you may be excluded from prayers before meals, discussions, and maybe nagged at to " come back"

  You can leave for good, do what is needed to get back in then fade, or go back. No one can tell you what to do, but some will try. We dont know the details, some DFs are for reasons even the world can understand ( adultery), others are just kangaroo court reasons and there are shades in all them. Do not forget to keep living your own life
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  Kick The Bucket JW Style!

  by Atlantis in

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  kick the bucket jw style!.

  https://jehovahswitnessfunerals.co.uk .

  atlantis!

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  road to nowhere

  RWith online books the book cover business has gone bust

  As for traditional Victorian funerals, I like them. Do all the pomp and stuff, cry a lot, get over it. Dont try to avoid the subject

  Best funeral I went to was catholic, whole deal, rosary, mass, burial. Bagpipes too. Runners up were another catholic, Presbyterian, and Methodist. Worst were jw, not rehearsed well, dry, and preachy. I think people go for the food at the re reception and connecting with seldom seen friends,

  I catch hell for going, but it is supposed to be for the family. I have even sung amazing grace because it is a pretty song
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  They still borrow ideas. Anything g they come up with you can find in some other' sects beliefs
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  retrospect on yesterday's wt "study" 29. 

  by waton in

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  go- teach.

  par.1 : marching orders given to 500 attendees, none of them anointed, but 11 partakers, jesus taught and served people with an "earthly hope" and the commission to go was not as wt now claims a mandate to the gb members; the os only being supposed supporters.

  4) new disciple stops drinking.

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  Good old davier shaved--- the true mark of a christian

  The talk we had mentioned what jehovah and the governing body give us. No mention of ( unemployed) jesus. I always want to make a snide remark like: the speaker failed to mention jesus; or I would really like to comment on the shaving as a sign of progress but never have
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  District convention to be held in assembly hall instead of stadium

  by NikL in

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  last night they announced that this summers district convention will be held at an assembly hall.. this is the first time i've seen this happen.

  there are a couple of congregations in the same hall here and they aren't going to the same ones.

  they are having multiple dates.. the hall they are going to use can only hold 1500 people max.. just wondering if maybe they just couldnt get anything bigger this year or if the falling numbers are playing a part in this decision.

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  The split up of congregations in the same hall is so there are motel rooms available and used

  Ours has been at an assembly hall ever since it was built. I will give them credit for good seats, no sports arena stuff the lunch facilities lack, and there is no place for kids to be kids at lunch; but caleb and Sophia dont play catch, hopscotch, leapfrog anyway

  It does make it harder to connect with old acquaintances and really cuts into any chance for young ones to meet a marriage mate; they keep up the rules and we will be inbred
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  Does Today’s Comedy Offend You?

  by minimus in

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  there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.

  someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.

  we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.

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  Brown face with a Sikh turban. Cant even get his ethnic groups right. Csnt wait for Halloween. sure to offend " real" witches, cowboys, or spacemen

  Now trump maybe said something to someone. Keep tuned
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  Thoughts on Sundays wt about persecution

  by nowwhat? in

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  so let me get this straight.

  even though law enforcement has their hands full with illegal drugs and guns on the street, child traffickers, dangerous gangs and such.

  they are going to now pool all their resources to confiscate bibles and religious literature?!

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  That Gilead or whatever they call the school video from this weeks meeting mentioned airline turbulence. Their point being to expect it. The point I think they missed was it means nothing at all
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  Sophia & Caleb video game in Spain's Bethel

  by The Fall Guy in

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  starts at 2 minute mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dcdz1nd4m8.

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  Any copyright infringement there?
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  Does Today’s Comedy Offend You?

  by minimus in

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  there was a time we could laugh about mindless silly things.

  someone using an ethnic accent, making fun of their own race, making fun of someone’s intelligent, etc.

  we could laugh without feeling constantly offended , upset or disturbed.

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  road to nowhere

  Yes. Little is funny, most if is mean spirited. Examples: Carlin, I didnt like his vulgar speech, but could appreciate the dirty word routine, the god and money remarks

  Red Skelton: super patriot, failed to recognize that at even good government can err

  Colbert: went so left he is not worth watching, no w of the laughing at ourselves anymore
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  Anyone have someone move in and take over the congergation?

  by rickroll in

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  i have been in two congregations where someone moved in from the big city and took over with the attitude of the northerners when they go south, i come from where they do it right.

  like bulls in china shops they remove people and do the house cleaning like the political org cult it is.

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  road to nowhere

  Here the only time new elders came in they were assigned, and they were decent men. Unfortunately they died young.

  I knew 2 city slickers who moved south and took over, from what I know of them they were not bullies though.

  There was an assembly experience where a family moved from California to small town Nebraska; they were not lonesome as they brought friends in too, so it became little kalifornia.

  That latter experience is not limited to congregations. People flee Calif ( or wherever) bring inflated house money ey which runs local costs up, and then try to impose their attitude ( usually the reasons they left) on the whole community