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  My son was murdered today

  by truman in

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  i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.

  i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.

  maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.

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  "Kindom Simplification" conventions, re: 1991

  by truman in

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  Who will struggle in 2011? The Uneducated (and those with Awake! degrees)

  by truman in

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  despite the watchtower's drumbeat of anti-higher education rhetoric, they are tragically misguiding their followers about the relationship between a college education and job prospects.

  i ran across this tidbit in my internet travels:.

  who will struggle in 2011http://finance.yahoo.com/news/who-will-struggle-in-usnews-1712944905.html?x=0.

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  JWs and the Arts: The Muse Executed at Armageddon?

  by truman in

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  the recent thread about some jw's reaction to the movie avatar made me flash back to some of my own misgivings when i was a jw about the wts's relationship to the arts.. .

  jws are always ready to denounce any work of the human imagination that hints at ideas outside their narrow dogma.

  movies whose titles have hindu etymology and which feature alien blue pagans are only the most recent.

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  Do JWs really want Armageddon?

  by truman in

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  recently several threads have been under discussion concerning the possible change in the understanding of the jw this generation that will not pass away teaching.

  since the change in the early 1990s that sought to disconnect the doctrine from its previous anchor date of 1914 and another change in 2007 to free it from 1935, it seems now that more alteration is in the works.

  in the scotsmans thread, he says that as these new light understandings come out of the wts, most r & f jws will embrace this with both hands.

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  JWs preaching at college

  by truman in

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  today, while i was making my way across my college campus between classes, i encountered a surprising sight.

  there in the quad was a table with literature spread out on it, and two jws sitting beside a sign proclaiming "free bible course".

  how interesting, in light of all the recent denouncing of higher education, that they should be right there in the middle of academia.

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  they can't get it all done anymore

  by truman in

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  i had a door-to-door visit from two jws yesterday morning.

  the first in a long time (with the exception of the obligatory memorial invite).

  i live in a fairly small town, but these two, i did not recognize.

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  Observations at a District Convention

  by truman in

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  i finally got my piece to post about three entries down.

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  Have you repented?...I have!

  by truman in

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  in one of metatron's insightful posts, a phrase jumped out at me.

  he described a jw as having joined the religion in an act of repentance from a life of experiment in:.

  sex, drugs, spiritism, and alcohol.. i guess i am feeling really rebellious tonight, because the thought came to me that i too have experienced a transformation, a conversion, and have truly repented.

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  repost: PO &CO visit me....new light!!??

  by truman in

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  i already tried to post this, but i can't find it on the board, and don't know what went wrong, so i am trying again.

  if this becomes a duplicate, please excuse my ineptitude.

  i am just going to have to start keeping my front door closed.