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  All those who have recently joined us.........

  by jemba in

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  my favourite post on jwn is the new posts.

  so i'd like to start a 'welcome' list of all the new people who have joined in the last 6 months, i cant remember all of them so can you add anyone you know of?

  welcome to....... roostermcdooster.

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  Hello, I Am New Here

  by arrakis1 in

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  was a jw for 40 years.

  stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.

  awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.

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  Did you feel guilty for not pioneering?

  by brokethechain in

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  2. beliefs

  i started pioneering the month i finished high school, and never stopped until i awakened, 17 years later.

  it seems like the entire time, there was so much emphasis on pioneering.

  every field service meeting seemed to have a part that communicated the message that jehovah would zap us at the big a. or people would die because of us if we didn't have extenuating circumstances (i always translated as bad health or kids, but even then, there were always "examples" of the mom with 5 kids that was pioneering).

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  Turnips and the Watchtower

  by RoosterMcDooster in

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  2. experiences

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  i know an elder that sprinkles this one into a lot of his talks and comments:.

  ifn the society tells us to plant turnips upside down then we should.

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  Hello from Rooster McDooster

  by RoosterMcDooster in

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  i've been lurking around here for a while, so i feel like i know most of you already.

  its been a rough 20 years getting here, but now here i am.

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  REALITY may not be what you think

  by Terry in

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  a counterfeit $100 bill looks virtually the same as a genuine bill.

  ask yourself what actual difference exists between them?.

  a really good elvis impersonator may look and sound pretty darned close to the real elvis--but, is "close" the same as genuine?.

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  Theocratic War - Jehovah's Witnesses and Lies

  by Christ Alone in

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  2. beliefs

  here is a speech given by fred franz in 1955 where he encourages those listeners that it is ok to lie to protect the organization.

  it is left open ended so that anything that could be preceived as a threat towards the beliefs and concepts of the organization can be lied about.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyybo1kayo&feature=related.

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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  What does your user name mean????

  by karter in

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  anything ???.

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  karter ...i race go-karts.

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  Do you miss "dressing up" for the meetings?

  by dozy in

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  2. beliefs

  i was thinking about this the other day when doing a bit of tidying up of my wardrobe.

  all the kh suits are now pushed to the back of the wardrobe and i am seriously thinking about a visit to the charity shop to get rid of most of them.. for me one of the (few) enjoyable aspects of being a jw was getting dressed up.

  my secular work very rarely involves putting on a dress suit & tie so i miss getting dressed up - smart suit , tie , shiny shoes , slapping on the aftershave.

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