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  Warwick Building Project Fluff Stories

  by bruh2012 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  talking about an article that makes you want to throw-up in your mouth- wt-study jan 15, 2015 the offered themselves willingly.. amazing the psych job of selling your business, moving your entire family, quiting your job to be a "temporary" worker at the new world headquarters!.

  throw your livelyhood away only to get the "feeling" that jehovahs is blessing you!

  i wish there was away to track the psych job during patterson and other major projects of what happened to all the "friends" that sold and got rid of their livelyhood then and where are they now.. did you ever sacrifce it all for a building project only to be left with nothing after your "spiritual high"?.

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  Aunt Fancy

  Really sad to see innocent people get taken and their lives in a shamble.
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  Purging and letting go of the past

  by Skinnedsheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife and i decided that today would be the day that we would let go of the past.

  we collected all of our watchtower published books and brochures and threw them out.

  it was honestly bitter sweet to toss our old pioneer books, marked up insight books, and notes from 25 years of conventions.

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  Aunt Fancy

  Good job! We did that two years ago and kept some of the old ones to sell. I am in the process of cleaning out my meeting clothes, I can't stand the sight of them!
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  This weeks #2 & #3 talk on homosexuality

  by granada35 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.

  since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.

  to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.

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  Aunt Fancy

  Steve2 what a loving mother you had. That is very unusual for her generation plus the fact she was a JW. It is horrible how many are treated.

  My sister is gay and it was hidden from me because of the religion, she figured I would judge her (My family were never JW's). Fifteen years ago she broke up with her girlfriend and she was devastated and I made my other sister tell me what was going on. Come to find out her ex girlfriend was minipulating my sister and telling her she would tell me she was gay and that I would hate her. Instead I wrote her a very loving letter telling her no matter what I still love her and I will never turn my back on her. I was still a JW at the time but I could not treat my sister in any other way but loving.

  Gay people should have the same rights as the rest of us, it is awful that people still bully and attack them.
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  That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  leaving the university with my degree!.

  exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

  i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

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  Aunt Fancy

  Congratulations Billy! I am very happy for your success, I hope you love your new career. Sure do miss your posts.
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  Question for those converted to JW as adults

  by DaleRivers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.

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  in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .

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  Aunt Fancy

  I was divorced with a five year old son living 1600 miles away from my family and friends when I met my husband of 32 years. He was a 3rd and 4th generation JW and was DF at that time. I found out he was a Witness because I had taken a palm reading course and I was going to read his hand and he freaked out on me and then explained why. At the time he was happy with not going to meetings. He would explain the religion whenever I would ask him questions. We laugh about the silliness of it now.

  His mother invited me to two different JW weddings and of course I was loved bombed. I was getting the indrotination from his mom and their friends. I encouraged my husband to go to meetings and I went with him and started to study. There was honestly nothing that appealed to me other than the love I was feeling which only lasted a few years because we all know that will fade. I would never have gotten involved with this religion if I wasn't alone without my family and long time friends. I had a couple of new friends but no one that I was really close to.

  What made it worse for me is I ended up going to work at an architectural firm with the sister who studied with me and it was a great job in so many ways but I had a lot of doubts and I felt trapped into getting baptized. I think if I were the strong person I am today I would not have taken the plunge.

  I had some fun times but overall it was a living hell the 30 years I was part of it. It nearly destroyed my physical and mental health before I woke up. I nearly lost my son and his family because of this stupid cult. My relationship was very strained with my parents and sisters.

  I am very thankful that today I am very close to my family and things have been repaired. They are so happy we are both out. My husband is out with me and we are very happy together and we are enjoying our life to the fullest. That is the best revenge!
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  Who is running North Korea?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  kim jong un has not been seen in public for over a month.

  and that has lead to all sorts of speculation.. has he had a stroke?

  maybe, he is clearly obese.. last time he was seen he was limping.

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  Aunt Fancy

  Smiddy, I have read about 5 books on NK and the man you are talking about has a book out called "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom" by Blaine Harden. It is an excellent book and it will break your heart knowing what he went through along with thousands of other people from there. I hope they will be free very soon because the conditions in NK are terrible.
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  I lost my family today.

  by awakenyr2004 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so far my oldest niece and oldest sister cut me off.

  i'm waiting for the goodbye texts from my other siblings.

  my parents asured me they would never cut me off.

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  Aunt Fancy

  You are very fortunate they are still talking to you because according to "their rules" they are suppose to shun you. It doesn't matter that you left when you were young but the fact that you got baptized and dedicated your life is all they care about. If you want to keep them in your life I would be careful with what you tell them and how you go about telling them the real truth.
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  North Korea In Flux?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://entertainment.ie/life/kim-jong-un-is-apparently-not-in-control-of-north-korea-anymore/298031.htm.

  this follows other odd reports from other sources: that un's sister is in charge, that the capital is locked down and that the number 2 man in north korea is meeting with south korean reunification officials.. .

  can we hope that this affront to human decency is now changing?

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  Aunt Fancy

  Interesting, I hope there will be big changes there because the people of NK live in horrible conditions with very little food and clean water.
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  Video of JW's street witnessing using a tablet ... getting owned by BIble users

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i came across this video ... and watched it ... why?

  i don't know really, but i found it intersting.. especially interesting was how these men used the bible, they knew their message, they used an actual hard copy bible that has obviously been studied, and the older jw man, well, he was using a tablet.

  it seemed cumbersome compared to using the actual bible.

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  Aunt Fancy

  I honestly think the tablets could backfire on them. Many Christians especially the older generations, feel the actual Bible is holy and they would never even write or high lite in them like many JW's do. I really am surprised they have gone to the tablets out in the ministry instead of the actual book.
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  AGM 2014 Songs

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  all thanks must go to my anonymous source.. .

  full set: http://imgur.com/a/bwl52.

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  Aunt Fancy

  Good grief, can they get any worse?