20yearfader

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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

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  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  i would say the conventions at the capitol center in landover,md in the early 80s were fun seeing all your family and friends getting those food tickets to buy cheese danishes mmmmm the good ole days
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  Congregation rebels!

  by A.proclaimer in

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  my congregation got a reminder today to start donating money.

  elder said that after the letter on the new donation arrangement was read, the contributions for that fund went from the average (i believe it was $500 or so) to $0.

  after that reminder, cash was put into those boxes.

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  lol adcms im dying here......why does god need money indeed
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  Get well Grace (Mouthy)

  by label licker in

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  a loud get well grace from all of us to you.

  everyone, grace has been in and out of the hospital and i'm sure she would love to read your get wells.

  we miss you grace:) wish i could post pictures.

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  get well grace soon
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  inactive for 23 years after i was reproved i was done.
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  What is your favorite gospel music?

  by Zoos in

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  my taste in music is pretty eclectic.

  i was listening to some andrea bocelli this afternoon and found this on youtube.. .

  oh my god!!!.

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  anything by mary mary
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  Jesus is not going to come for a second time, admits Catholic Church

  by exWTslave in

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  here is a startling admission from vatican!!!.

  http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/04/25/jesus-not-coming-back-by-the-looks-of-it-admits-vatican-cardinal/.

  http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/04/18/jesus-not-coming-back-by-the-looks-of-it-admits-vatican/.

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  the clevelands browns have a better chance of winning a superbowl then christ has on coming back
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  Frozen and Sparlock the warrior wizard

  by NewYork44M in

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  given that magic is from satan, this is what we learned from the horrible story about the little boy and sparlock the warrior wizard.

  i am curious to know if witness kids are allowed to see the movie frozen.

  i am not a big disney fan, but this movie was wonderful.

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  i have an aunt that is in her 50s that can only watch rated g movies how sad is that.i hope this leads to a new policy that witnesses can't watch any type of movie that involves magic,sfi-fi,only any thing that isnt a documentry maybe by tightening the controls further on the rank and file this will cause others to wake up

  By the way my elder father always owned and watched rated r movies but they draw the line at harry potter lol
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  Why do I bother to wake up in the morning?

  by punkofnice in

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  i'm not suicidal just fed up.. i did think of suicide (briefly), but as there is no painless way and it's not something i would willingly do just in case things would have been better the day after.

  i do have a slight grain of hope.. money problems.....problems at home (that's another matter with a son up court for something he is adamant he didn't do.

  first offence but the pigs police and the cps have got charges made.

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  hey punk i feel like this a lot of days indeed i didnt go to work yesterday or today because i felt this way.Birthdays will have this effect on me and you too i think,because we are reminded of the crap that we brought into in the org about never getting old and dying in this system of things.

  I recommend getting a hobby to take your mind off the stresses of daily life.I play an online game world of warcraft for the past 8 years...it helps also i have taken up archery which i always wanted to do and at the age of 40...sigh i found i enjoy it.I enjoy your comments and advice also which has help me move to the view that im a deist/atheist depending on how i feel in the morning.The thing is you are not alone many here feel the way that you do i hope this feeling passes soon.
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  Avoid Going back to the JW's - Educate Yourself about Mind Control

  by flipper in

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  i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .

  i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.

  so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !

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  welcome back flipper and i agree with your advice yesterday a relative of mine called me and went on with the look at the news look at what russia is doing the king of the north,it's time for you to get your life together and for 1 brief second even with all i have found out this year i was almost longing for the company of my family members that go to the hall.

  now if i a person that was a born in that hasn't been to a meeting in over 20 years could get momentarly weak what about the ones that recently left,that are missing their conditional friends.I swear with the born in we must have some type of trigger word or words that they implanted doing all those meetings doing the week,maybe i could get some of the old songs from the kingdom hall and play them backwards lol
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  International Conventions for 2014 - Landover, MD - What is an International Convention?

  by insearchoftruth in

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  have been out of touch for a while, i see that there is an 'international' convention this year in landover, md (fed ex field) and there are no english conventions in either richmond or hampton, va. what is an 'international convention', is it merely a consolidation of all the other conventions meant to whip up some fervor amongst the masses?.

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  ah dc's at the capitol center back in the day vanilla pudding shasta sodas and hoagies highlite of my summer as a kid..that is sad lol left before we had to go to the vet.