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  Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  by nicolaou in

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  i've highlighted section 12 - i think it has implications for any jw's who wish to leave the society on a matter of conscience or principle.. what do the rest of you think?.

  nic'.

  universal declaration of human rights.

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  A funny thing happened at the book store

  by OrangeBlossom in

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  i recently ordered another copy of "in search of christian freedom" as i got rid of my first one (long story) and since it had been a couple of years since i read it, i decided to get another one.. since i live in a fairly small town, i decided to give a fake name, in case someone worked at the book store that might be a jw.

  it was saturday morning (a time when all good little jw's should be in field service) so i felt it safe to go pick up my book.

  i walk into the store and headed for the counter but was stopped in my tracks by an elder and his family.

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  Escaped with my life!

  by truman in

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  i wanted to give an update to all those who kindly offered suggestions on how to deal with my jw son's ultimatum' "go tell the elders, or i will".. these last few days have been an intense crash course in life for me.

  having experienced my firstborn son, whom i gave birth to, wiped his behind, dried his tears, and helped to grow to adulthood with loving support, threaten to turn me over to the "authorities" (elders) for wrong thinking and wrong speech, has been a deeply disturbing experience.

  learning the truth about the "truth" was shocking, but this is just a crying tragedy.. after he found a short email from a board friend, which inadvertantly got into our regular email box instead of my private one, i was given a week to go to the elders.

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  Necessary change; my distressing situation

  by LostMyReligion in

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  i just need to let everyone know that i need to change my screen name.

  if you read my topic on "help!

  my son wants to tell elders about me", then you know that i had an email from a board friend inadvertantly get into my family mail box, and was discovered by my jw son while visiting.

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  a part of ourselves we neglected

  by rodnico in

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  my mother is coming to visit me next week.

  i haven't seen her for over 4 years.

  she thinks that somehow i am a completely different person since leaving the organization.

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  Poor JW children again (touching a sore tooth)

  by Mommie Dark in

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  i've been reading the thread about children and brooding over the whole issue of kids-n-cults for a couple of days now.

  yesterday i had to outwait a group of immovable amish youth blocking the doorway out of the local grocery store(to many local amish, 'english' are generally invisible unless they want to sell us something.

  ), and they got mixed into the brain stew with the jw kids and the recent moral self-righteousness of certain jw posters here.

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  child exploitation?

  by truman in

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  first, thanks all who welcomed me to this board.

  i appreciate your kindness.

  i am kind of shy, and fearful, but my keyboard makes me powerful!

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  after so long....

  by 30years in

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  this is my first post in any network such as this.

  i have been "lurking" around the "apostate" sites for the last year or so.

  i am glad i have!

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  I hope this is a friendly place

  by truman in

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  i hope this is a friendly place, because i could sure use some friends.

  this is my first try at posting on a discussion board, though i have been lurking here and at a few others on the same subject for a few weeks now.

  about 4 weeks ago i took the plunge and decided to see just what all the mystery and danger of reading "apostate" material was all about.

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  Elders' Gems of Wisdom

  by stephenw20 in

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  my dad asked the co about this one.

  mat 27:52-53. and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, .

  and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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