Know what's funny though? The current witnesses will say that these are the words of the people who have left, don't like the witnesses becase they know someone who's been shunned or that we have never been in it to know the truth and they will tell folks to go figure it out for themselves. This was the comment I've heard a million times and what was said to me when I said they were a cult.
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there was a coming out on another site and i wondered if i was just one of a few who thought it was... people who don tthink it is have tried to make me feel like im paranoid about it. i knew it wasn't out of my mind.
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Why does God need to be worshiped?
by Scully injust curious about this question today and wondered if anyone else has pondered this.. is worship meant to be a reverent show of appreciation for life that god imparts to individuals?
if that's the case, and someone - by the mere accident of their birth - has a truly crappy life, why should these people worship god or show him "appreciation" for their unfortunate circumstances?
why should anyone who endures hardships worship god, particularly if they have been worshiping god and then all of a sudden a heap of trouble just plops into their lives, unannounced and unwelcome??.
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I have thought about this 1000 times and I don't think he does cause he knows what you are thinking. Not all people express love with outward action, why would a realaitonship with God be any differnt, he knows if you praise him, saying it is not even like really thinking and beleive it, a mouth can say anything, talk is cheap, get it?
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My new issue.....
by Joysome inas i've said before i'm very lost and torn and confused.
part of me still believes in the things that i was taught as a jw.
1. armageddon.
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I felt the same way once upon a time. I used to lay awake thinking...."what if Jehovah is pissed at me? What if Jehovah knows I'm doubting him right now as I think? OMG....NOW JEHOVAH REALLY HAS TO BE PISSED BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT I BEEN THINKING ABOUT DOUBTING HIM AND I SHOULD KNOW BETTER!" Then I would have to laugh it off and remind myself why I didn't get baptized in the first place. -
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Spokane Area ???
by jazbug inis there anyone in the spokane vicinity who would like to attend an ex-jw or 'fade-aways' who would like to meet with an informal support group/social gathering.
we meet on the second sat.
of each month.
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I used to be friends with a girl who lived in spokane. she was korean and white. She had an older brother. Donna was her name. maybe you remrmber her? this was back in like 92.
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My Ghost Experience This Morning
by rem ini had a terrifying experience this morning and i'm writing about it as a lesson on how we perceive things.
this type of thing has happened to me several times in my life, but since it just happened again this morning, and ghosts seem to be a topic of interest on this board, i thought i'd share it.. i was staying at a friend's house while she was away.
this place is an old apartment complex built in the 1920's in san francisco.
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This happened to a girl that was in the hall. Her parents ripped her room up. They thought she had been involved with some "worldly" activities and had to have invited the demons in the house. They forced her to start reading the lit more. I felt sorry for her because they would never "exorcize" it they were scared to death about it happening again and they took it out on her
Edited by - therealtruthsayer on 1 February 2003 18:22:44
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Deceit of an ELDER and his SON
by Pking innew story.
me and my 3 bros. on holiday with friend his sis and her friend which they secretly brought with.
non jw.
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Sister so drunk she kisses a coloured witness
So the fact that he's colored matters??
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What don't you miss about meetings?
by kwijibo in.
i don't miss being spoken to like i was someones best friend when i know they wouldn't pee on me if i was on fire.. i don't miss always standing on my own and having no one come and talk to me.. i don't miss having people talk around me about the great time they had at the latest sport/barbecue/dinner get-together which i wasn't invited to because i'm not spiritual enough.. i don't miss not having friends in the truth or out of the truth because i shouldn't mix with wordly people.. i don't miss being so bored for all those hours a week.. i don't miss all the false smiles people give me when i look at them at the hall and the way they look away when i walk past them at the shopping center.. .................. anyone got anymore?
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EVER BEEN USED AS A SCAPEGOAT
by nightwarrior inthe presiding overseer approached me one day with another brother ,his son in law.with a sarcastic smile on his face .
informing them that a man was seen exposing himself in an area where children and familys frequent,i replied dont be silly that is a seriouse matter,looking to him and his son in law,well someone gave the registration number of one of his vehicles in to the police,and therfore he was visited by the police hence all his family got to find out, .
at this moment in time myself and family were traveling around in our motorhome miles away from the area he was supposed to have been in ,but he still needed someone to blame within the congregation,therfore his whole family sat down and ,decided that i was the one to have reported him annonmously ,on reflection another brother visited us and stayed on holiday over the weekend due to his son being with us,therfore i wouldnot put it past him ,i should have done it myself, .
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I constantly had other families claiming that I was the bad association because there was no father in the home. I influenced no one and it was always me who was blamed for everything.
I also was the bad example for clothing as well. The lady who studied with me came over to my house one day when my sister and I were playing with make-up in the house. When I came to the door with a full face of make up. She said I looked like a whore and said she was telling my mother what a whore I was. I was about 11.