I don't really blame the GB for shunning.I was a born in and even as a child i found it difficult to understand how men could tell me not to speak to my family members.So every chance i got i spoke to them,even though my parents would blow there tops.A lot of people in the org look at following the rules that the Gb hand down about shunning as a badge of honor, all they have to do is use a little compassion and free will.Surely if i hade this as a mere child grown adults should have it too.
20yearfader
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Yet another "Shunning is good for you, honest!" quote in the June 15th 2013 Watchtower
by cedars inhi folks.
that's right, the new june 15th 2013 study edition is out now on this link.... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.
the following quote caught my eye, from the final study article on page 28.... .
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just heard that it is possible to make a gun using a 3d printer is this star trek or what?
by 20yearfader inon the radio today i heard that it is possible to make toys and guns using a 3d printer.is everything in star trek becoming reality?give some examples of things that we use today that were thought up on the star trek series..
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20yearfader
On the radio today i heard that it is possible to make toys and guns using a 3d printer.Is everything in star trek becoming reality?Give some examples of things that we use today that were thought up on the star trek series.
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Who plays video games?!!
by DATA-DOG inany gamers out there?
i love a good game.
to me a great game is like a great book!
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20yearfader
just getting off of my world of warcraft addiction i just brought aliens vs marines and dead space 3 for the ps3 also i play madden at least the last 17 years or more, we use to have tournaments at work this was back in the day when the bills were good...
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20yearfader
nope haven't been in over 20 some odd years,but i like how family members that dont keep in contact can find your number for a night an invite you....looking forward to shareing with them a peace of my mind.
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I Got disfellowshiped..wana die!
by Chichi89 ini jus got dissfellowshiped at th last week..i feel like dying..i attended th meetings yesterday and ita ws jus horrible..came back home in tears....... people i used to cal my friends nw cant look me in the eye..so heartbroken confused and giving up on life !.
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20yearfader
chi chi first of all don't blame yourself these people that are our relatives are sick there the ones with the problems.I mean really how can you shun someone you love?My cousin commited suicide a few months ago and since he had left the wt years ago my uncle and aunt had his body cremated,and disposed of without telling anyone,even a family pet that dies gets some sort of service,and if we were to use there crazy logic that the wt puts out once a man dies his sins are paid he's square with the house, but in the crazy world of the jws they still have to kick someone when there downor dead.This cult is unfeeling and devoid of any common sense,to tell family members to shun there own to me is overstepping there bounds.I was never dfed but i was reproved for dating a worldly girl when i was 17.My father an elder turned me in to the boe and the co.Even at that age seeing these elders falling over there selfs to get me to a jc was sickening.Think about it like this even if you get reinstated they will still talk behind your back about what you got dfed for...there's no winning with these people if that guy you are dating is a good man then marry him and start a family with him.Don't introduce him into this cult just to appease the very people that kick you to the curb when you need them the most.I don't pray anymore but i'm hoping you realize that this pain will pass in time.
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We are in for a blizzard!
by coffee_black inthe winter storm watch has just been upgraded to a blizzard watch.
from where i sit, just outside of boston, it looks like up to 2 feet of snow from friday to saturday with high winds that will make travel very difficult if not impossible.. .
coffee .
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20yearfader
as long as that crap stays up there in boston leave maryland out of it
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What is your religious belief now?
by jwfacts ini have a new poll at jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/ as i am very interested to see what people have moved on to believe.
as this is considered sensitive by some, you can answer anonymously at the jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/, or answer on this thread.
this is what i have created in the list, but feel free to add comments, corrections, or options i have missed.. .
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20yearfader
i would say i'm now deist
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Super Bowl Predictions ?
by Pterist inif it has not already been asked any predictions for the game tomorrow?.
ravens 28 .
49ers 27. .
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20yearfader
unstopableravens i do believe we have a victory parade to attend san fran eat your heart out...GO RAVENS!!!!!
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My Jw mother hates me and always has
by 20yearfader ini just need to vent,you see i was a born in.it's taken me 20 years after fading from the org to finally get my mind free from the wt dogma.i was on the phone with my aunt today and the subject of my mother her older sister came up.now mind you i haven't spoken to my mother in a month or so after my daughter stayed the weekend at her house and she was being tag teamed about the hall and how i took a vow to jehovah and i'm a failure and i'll be destroyed at armagedon.this exchange upset my daughter so much that she was near the point of tears when she returned home and she hasnt spoken to my mother or father since.anyway back to the conversation with my aunt,she let it slip that my mother told her that she wished she had let the seamen that fertilized the egg that produced me had slid down her legnno bear in mind i can remember as a child running into her room playing and she would say to me as a 7 year old child "i wished i had left you in oblivion"this is one of many such saying my mother had for me......i wasn't a bad child i just wasn't allowed to do anything such as going outside going over a friends house....etc,i have struggled for years as to why this woman hates me so.i got baptized at 15 really as a way of pleasing them what the hell does a child know at 15??
?granted it took me some time to get myself together and put those hurtful comments in the past,but today when my aunt let it slip about what my mother has said about me it was like pulling a scap off of a wound.my wife always complains about how im emotionless and distance,this was done by me as a way of protecting myself.so i've decided and i hate to say this that my christian god fearing parents...are dead to me there is no way i can have a relationship with people that are so wicked and since she never wanted me anyway....it works out for the best thx i just needed to vent i felt like i was going to pop..
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I just need to vent,you see i was a born in.It's taken me 20 years after fading from the org to finally get my mind free from the wt dogma.I was on the phone with my aunt today and the subject of my mother her older sister came up.Now mind you i haven't spoken to my mother in a month or so after my daughter stayed the weekend at her house and she was being tag teamed about the hall and how i took a vow to jehovah and i'm a failure and i'll be destroyed at armagedon.This exchange upset my daughter so much that she was near the point of tears when she returned home and she hasnt spoken to my mother or father since.Anyway back to the conversation with my aunt,she let it slip that my mother told her that she wished she had let the seamen that fertilized the egg that produced me had slid down her legnno bear in mind i can remember as a child running into her room playing and she would say to me as a 7 year old child "I wished i had left you in oblivion"This is one of many such saying my mother had for me......I wasn't a bad child i just wasn't allowed to do anything such as going outside going over a friends house....etc,I have struggled for years as to why this woman hates me so.I got baptized at 15 really as a way of pleasing them what the hell does a child know at 15???Granted it took me some time to get myself together and put those hurtful comments in the past,but today when my aunt let it slip about what my mother has said about me it was like pulling a scap off of a wound.My wife always complains about how im emotionless and distance,this was done by me as a way of protecting myself.So i've decided and i hate to say this that my christian god fearing parents...are dead to me there is no way i can have a relationship with people that are so wicked and since she never wanted me anyway....it works out for the best thx i just needed to vent i felt like i was going to pop.
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As a JW, how did you feel about shunning?
by jwfacts ini am interested in the answers for a new poll.
also, feel free to suggest other options, wording etc.agreed in full with the watchtower guidelinesagreed with shunning in general, but not for familywas stumbled by this practice but shunned as instructeddid not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people .
for me personally, i did not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people, even whilst at bethel.
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I never practiced it, to me the dumbest thing to do to someone that you claim to love is to ignore them.We would go to the dc and i had 2 aunts that were dced.l always made an effort to go and sit with them,which would drive my mother and father bananas.It's funny even as a child i had more sense then most jws,every person i talked to that was dfed was bitter and angry,how is this christian?Most jws use it as a status thing,my mother regular tells me that she's been in the org for 50 years and never been in trouble or dfed,she really looks down on people that have been dfed i think she gets off on it she gets such a certain joy when someone is read off.All my life this wicked cold hearted women has been this way i think the ultimate pleasure for her is to see me destryed at armagedon.If people like her are to be the ones that populate paradise if there is such a thing i'll pass.