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  Which Governing Body Members Do You Believe Read "Crisis Of Conscience"?

  by JimmyPage in

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  my guess would be the ones featured prominently in the book.

  franz speculated on different directions the wt doctrine might eventually take and he was proved right.

  perhaps his ideas were considered by some to be good solutions to the corners they painted themselves into and stolen on that basis.

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  They would have known the content anyway, I think they all probably did out of curiosity, or at least had someone paraphrase it so they would be able to defend their actions
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  Watchout ! U.S Judge orders kid to church !

  by Phizzy in

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  http://news.gather.com/viewarticle.action?articleid=281474981761860 .

  us xjw's will have to behave ourselves, i think the worst punishment they could inflict on me would be to be forced to attend a kingdom hall, i would go to jail instead !.

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  I love the last sentence (no pun intended) in the article: Forcing him to attend a Christian church isn't going to solve anything.
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  Were you afraid of "apostates"?

  by everchangingworld in

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  i remember hearing rumblings of a few that had gone "apostate" and feeling absolute dread of the dark world they had stepped into.

  i would re-double my studying efforts.

  to me, "apostates" had gone over into the "dark side".

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  I used to think they were just fanatical, oh the irony.
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  VOTE TO REVOKE UK CHARITY STATUS OF JW CHARITIES! URGENT!

  by Blablaman in

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  not long left... closes 20/02/2013 @ 08:01am.

  vote now!.

  http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29949 .

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  Signed, eventually after the stupid captcha!
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  Out with a bang or Fade

  by Honeybucket in

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  what did you decide to do?.

  leave with a bang, trying to educate those around you before leaving?

  perhaps writing letters to others forgiving/ asking for forgiveness.. or.

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  I waited for the announcement that I was no longer an elder, and never went back, stopped everything. It was still a fade as i never DA'd myself so the out with a bang doesn't apply. Having said that my wife still gets "we miss him" a lot. If they were pestering me it would be a different matter.
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  Trying to be someone else?

  by Honeybucket in

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  when i was about 14 i started studying with witnesses.

  my aunt conned me into, said we couldnt hang out if i didnt turn into a jehovahs witness.

  i didnt really know anything about myself let alone the witnesses.

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  happy@last

  Try and see it as part of your journey. The lady was helping you, but her cult mindset was there also. You have a husband who cares about you also, judging by the fact he helped with the counselling. I'm presuming he didn't report you to the elders, so there's a chance he could be open minded, even slightly.

  Don't do anything rash though, take small steps, watch what happens after each step and plan the next.
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  Jehovah's Witness father botches kitchen floor circumcision...and goes to jail.

  by Balaamsass in

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  todays google alert, from the toronto sun;.

  man who botched son's home-circumcision guilty of criminal negligence, top court rules 21. by brigitte pellerin,parliamentary bureaufirst posted: friday, november 16, 2012 11:41 am est.

  the supreme court of canada in ottawa on july 21, 2011.

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  Plain weird and stupid, that poor child.
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  Trying to be someone else?

  by Honeybucket in

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  when i was about 14 i started studying with witnesses.

  my aunt conned me into, said we couldnt hang out if i didnt turn into a jehovahs witness.

  i didnt really know anything about myself let alone the witnesses.

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  Everyone has a need to feel they 'belong' or 'fit in' somewhere, just start being true to yourself. Instead of thinking what would 'so and so ' do, ask what you want to do.

  Be true to yourself
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  Venting some rage and pain.

  by jemba in

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  my father the coboe and much loved member of the cult has ignored me and my children 17yrs and 8yrs old for much of my life and all of my kids lives.

  i hate that religion for taking my father away and i hate him for being sucked in and putting all his love, time and kindness into the org and the stupid dubs and leaving himself too tired and uninterested in us.

  my kids dont have grandparents, my mum is ok, she rings me once a month but kinda ignores my kids, just gives em $50 each a yr as a substitute for love and attention.. .

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  How sad Jemba that they are losing out on so much. It reinforces the fact it is a cult, they obviuosly think they are doing the right thing, but clearly are not.
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  talked to wife about new light!

  by unstopableravens in

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  i showed my wife the new light, it did not go over good.

  i started with all the publications and asked her three questions 1 who is the fds 2when did they start 3 when did they get appointed over "all the belongings"?

  using the recent publications she said 1 the fds is 144000 2 they started in the 1st centry 3 they were over all belongings in 1919. then i showed her the annual meeting report on the jw.org and went over each point.

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  happy@last

  she going to look like the victim

  Looks like she is a victim, hints and seed of doubt are better than a ton of bricks.