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  Discussion with family member who is an Elder in our congregation

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  so about a week ago, i showed my cousin & her husband [an elder in our congregation] the picture on pg 29 of our 4/15/2013 study wt and asked, "if jesus is head of the congregation then where is he?".

  after several minutes of searching, dead silence.. i then asked if they had heard the part on the 2012 summer district conv the part about "our spiritual mother, where the c.o said that "the bible by itself does not shine thru as life-giving truths just by itself.

  " they were shocked and said that i must have misheard it because that would be apostasy.

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  Thank you all, they just make me so darn angry sometimes. My big mouth is what gets me in trouble all the time.
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  Hello. I am new here :)

  by StevenJB in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello all.. my name is dteve and i live in the uk.

  i hope i can make genuine friends here and not pretend friends.....like that among jw's.. i left, went back, and have left again, but this time it is for good.

  so i tried to work things out, but she carried on.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Hi Steve and WELCOME. I do understand how you feel. Our family has been thru hell with elders. I'll let you in a little secret that has helped me these past 6 months. People only have power over you if you ALLOW them to. I also understand about the 'conditional' love in the organization.

  You may have some difficult days ahead, but just remember you do have friends here that have been thru some rough times and understand what you're going thru.

  Feel free to ask any questions and make use of the 'search' button above where you will find just about every subject you can think of.

  Peace be with you in your journey to find the real truth and your future Mrs.
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  Office Depot-CCJW Office Depot Program with Coupon!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ccjw office depot program with coupon.

  (nevada will you check this?

  ).download from send space..you will see a box with a link with an arrow pointing down.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Bet you any money that it is like their rewards card EXCEPT that the rewards points all go to the WTBT$
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  Something interesting after 6.5 hours in the ER

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is just a few things interesting that happened to me yesterday while waiting in the er.. i'm fine other than a minor concussion and being sore from tripping over my cat yesterday and face planting into the corner of the wall.. so anyway i had to wait about 6 hours in the waiting room and while i was there, there were these two hispanic women going around the room asking people if they wanted a "tract" on jesus, they didn't know english all that well and i couldn't really see the cover of the tract or anything, but the one woman who approached me had what looked like a bible.

  of course i couldn't see what bible it was.

  if i wouldn't have been suffering with a concussion and could think better, i would have inquired on if these women were jw's or not.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Poor Sweetie, I'd strangle me a cat!
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  Discussion with family member who is an Elder in our congregation

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so about a week ago, i showed my cousin & her husband [an elder in our congregation] the picture on pg 29 of our 4/15/2013 study wt and asked, "if jesus is head of the congregation then where is he?".

  after several minutes of searching, dead silence.. i then asked if they had heard the part on the 2012 summer district conv the part about "our spiritual mother, where the c.o said that "the bible by itself does not shine thru as life-giving truths just by itself.

  " they were shocked and said that i must have misheard it because that would be apostasy.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Exactly. And I feel bad that I laughed in the guys ear, but I've been hearing this for 49 yrs, it gets a little old after awhile. Kind of like the Boy who cried wolf.
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  Canada : Supreme court : freedom of speech does not allow hate speech

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. social
  2. current

  feb 27, 2013 canada : supreme court : freedom of speech does not allow hate speech.

  http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/anti-gay-flyers-violated-hate-law-supreme-court-rules-1.1173807.

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/02/27/pol-supreme-court-whatcott-free-speech.html.

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  Someone should show them that 'Hate apostates' watchtower article
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  I'm turning myself in. Lurking elders, are you listening?

  by Eve Deceived in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i think it's fitting for my very first post to be a thread on jw.net turning myself in to any lurking elders out there on a witch-hunt to cleanse the congregation so that god's choosen ones can "remain in god's love.

  " so i'm sorry to all you awesome, truthful apostates on this site, but this thread is really intended for any lurking nazis -- i mean, the taliban -- ugh, i mean elders of the world's most "loving" cult religion.. i am an apostate.

  here, i'll save you the trouble:.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome Eve! Nice
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  Office Depot-CCJW Office Depot Program with Coupon!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ccjw office depot program with coupon.

  (nevada will you check this?

  ).download from send space..you will see a box with a link with an arrow pointing down.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Thank you Atlantis, you the man!

  But when I saw the Office depot card for JW's I had to scratch my head and say WTF? Is Office Depot that desperate?
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  The CO asked for money tonight at the meeting.

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was shocked i do not know why as i have read that the co's were doing this but to hear it with my own ears was unbelievable.

  i do not go to the meetings but my husband still does and this week is the co's visit.

  i decided that i would listen in to his talk; i swear i have lost some brain cells by doing it but anywho.. he started out by talking about the old story that has been in the wt many times about a little boy who was seven and raised a chicken and gave the money to the society.

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  Outlaw, you're a riot! If I remember right didn't Russell make the statement that " If there ever came a time when the IBSA didn't have the $$$ to continue then they would just close their doors and know that the Lord's work was finished?" It's big hint, hint guys!
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  The time is near for my families crucification

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good morning jwn-land.. since my parents and my husband and i have learned ttatt we have been keeping quiet, mostly.

  we have held off on revealing our true names, my dad has held off joining jwn and telling his story because we have been waiting for one special event.

  my dad talking to his mother about ttatt.

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  Newly Enlightened

  I don't know. I kept telling him she wasn't going to listen anyway. But for some weird reason he felt obligated to try to reach her with the real truth.

  But as things turned out, he didn't get to talk to her about that anyway, he just got angry when she kept going on about how that ungrateful patient treated her, that he felt like he had to defend our daughter.