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  How many ways....

  by Lady Lee in

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  ... can you name that the wts hurts people?.

  two big ones for me:.

  it pushes people to the edge and when they commit suicide they say: "well he wasn't really a jw anyways soit has nothing to do with us".. it pushes people so much to do more and more and more that they get depressed, and physically sick.

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  happy@last

  It protects the pedophile and not the victim.
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  been a while, it has

  by chickpea in

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  soooo i fired up the interwebs to come looking for the date of the memorial, as a dear friend who stood by me through those crazy and sadly wasted years in dub-dumb mentioned she had seen a still faithful member at the library... she said he invited her to "the world wide memorial" .... and i was pretty sure that there had been a full moon yada yada and the memorial had come and gone.... .

  i ended up coming back here to verify and realized she must have been asked to that lame ass event where "the same talk is given from every platform" and ooooh how fired up can you be about virtually nothing?

  anyway, nice to see the place is still rockin' and that there is a continuity of personnel (that means old timers!

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  happy@last

  Thanks for dropping by, it sounds an exciting time in your life, and it is just that, your life.
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  I'm new here

  by WrongweektostopsniffingGlue in

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  2. friends

  i haven't got much of a story.

  i'm in my late teens, grew up in it, and got out of the society's regime by the skin of my teeth.

  nearly go baptized because i firmly did believe it was the "truth" but because of a gut feeling that held me back, that i almost ignored, i didn't sign my blood to big brother.

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  happy@last

  Welcome, glad you went with your instinct, I wish I had gone with mine in my teens
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  Our family wishes to extend our sympathies to Gregg [Greybeard from JWStruggle]...

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  gregg, we are deeply sorry for your loss.

  you will be with us in our thoughts & prayers.

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  happy@last

  So sorry to hear of your and your children's loss. You've had a pretty rough time, hang in there.
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  Did you work hard to get privileges within the Jehovah's Witnesses Organization...? Did you ever wanted to be a CO, DO or marry a CO or DO?

  by suavojr in

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  happy@last

  I never worked hard for privileges, I just worked hard because that's the type of person I am, and I was given them as a consequence, each time I was surprised.
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  Must Read, Sticky Topics

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
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  having just found this gem with leolaia's superb post with 18 reasons the flood of noah's day is a myth..... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/222593/1/did-the-global-flood-of-the-bible-really-happen-please-give-evidence.

  ... i wondered what topics going back through the archives should be must reads for anyone coming to jwn?

  what topics/posts should be made sticky (if that ever where to be a possibility)?.

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  happy@last

  Marking for later
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  Hello

  by apocryphal in

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  happy@last

  Welcome here, I agree it is a great place. I hope you find peace in your situation, many find the mental turmoil too much to keep going. It's great you have interests and a life away from the 'religion'.
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  Phone all f**** up!

  by JWOP in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i let my adult son borrow my cell phone.

  when i get it back, i find that he had reset the texting so that every time i put in a letter i have to arrow over to hit the selection ffrom a bunch of choices at the bottom!

  bad enough i don't have a qwerty text keyboard....now it takes ten minutes just to write one stupid sentence.. and..... although he is the one who reset it, he does not know how to undo it!.

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  happy@last

  He's switched on predictive texting, I think motorola call it T5 or maybe that was Sony?

  Google your model and predictive text, you should find the answer.
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  WAC is Back! Checking in to see old friends on my birthday =)

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  miss you all!

  thank you for your encouragement/advice.

  love to all!.

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  happy@last

  Well what a coincidence, today is my birthday too! I'm 41

  Happy birthday to you too
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  Appealing a disfellowshipping - any experience

  by dozy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone had any experience of a successful appeal against a disfellowship?

  a friend of mine feels he has been dfd unjustifiably & is considering an appeal.

  he probably has something of a case - the jc was a total shambles - but i'm very dubious that he has any likelihood of success.. my only experience of a successful appeal is when elders in a neighbouring congregation were appointed by the co & overturned a df in our congregation a few years ago.

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  happy@last

  The appeal is there to see if the original decision was correct, the only way it can be appealed successfully is if some evidence or a slant on the original story makes a difference.