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  New here

  by His Excellency in

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  for the record, i am not a native english speaker, infact i recently just started studying english about 18months ago.

  so apologies for any error you may encounter in the process of making sense of my logic.. i am from a small village in a destitute and war ravaged african country, 80 percent of people in my town live on less than 50cent in a day and myself included, no roads, no hospital, no public institution, no social welfare support, no national security institutiion, nothing, just tribal factions exchanging agricultural produce and i have always wondered why jehovah would have to put the preaching work ahead of a poverty eradication program at this desperate time of our existence.. .

  it was an emotional adventure on finding answers to that question that led me here.

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  New Beginnings

  by LouBelle in

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  this week monday i started my new job.

  initially i didn't have much to do and was left alone in an office for 3 days.

  i felt very isolated and uncomfortable.

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  All the Single Ladies put your hands up!

  by mojonogo in

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  hi, i read a lot on here, and i am still active, i get about 3 hrs a month in service so not really that active.

  i know there are ones on here shaking their heads at me, i do believe the basic teachings, what brought me to post a thread was a thread that hit home, the topic of dating in the oganization, it brought up a lot of hurt feelings for me.

  see, i used to pioneer and i basically burned out, i was working mon wed friday sat and sun 2nd shift so i could go to the meetings on tue and thurs.

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  Just wondering about the slangs used to describe disfellowshiping

  by 20yearfader in

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  Things which have no meaning have meaning

  by Terry in

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  this sentence is invisible but has meaning when it is not invisible.

  in the above box we have a sentence that contains "meaning".

  but, it only has meaning because you are curious enough to find it.. without curiousity and a drive to discover we can't even see the things which have no meaning that have meaning.. .

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  Question for lurkers...

  by Smily kelly in

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  there is a saying that goes .no man can for any considerable time wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which one is the true one...so do you find this to be true, when you have to wear a different face when you are among jws ..do you get tired of it all?.

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  Why was satan roaming to & from the heavens for so long before Jehovah kicked him out?what's your take on this?

  by Smily kelly in

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  My experience......from East Africa

  by Smily kelly in

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  its a long read.sorry.

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  My introduction/experience

  by happy@last in

  1. jw
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  i have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.

  before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.

  the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.

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  New from eastern Africa

  by Smily kelly in

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