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  Hello. I am new here :)

  by StevenJB in

  1. jw
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  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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  StevenJB

  Moshe

  i don't really get what you re saying? I have told the elders not to contact me. I do not go to the meetings. My gf and I have spoken about religious belief. At the moment I do not feel the time is right to go into too much detail with her but it has been mentioned (very recently). I have not obtained any love or companionship under false pretences. If I am to be perfectly honest with you, I find that a hurtful statement, makes it sound like I am playing a game with her emotions.

  Also....I think it is important to mention I did not meet her while still going to the meetings. I met her afterwards in a pub in Ascot. She was with some friends, I was with a couple of work mates. She and I started chatting and just clicked.
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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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  StevenJB

  Hello everyone.

  Thank you for the warm welcome. I appreciate it.

  It seems we have all had a negative experience in the so called truth. I only received a text yesterday from a 'brother' that asked if I was going to the assembly and if I needed a lift. To be fair he is the only one that has actually bothered to contact me. But my interest has completely gone.

  For those that asked. My Filipino girlfriend is not a strict Catholic. She very rarely goes to church. She lives (or rather did live) near me, here in the UK.

  Have I mentioned about being a JW? No, I do want to not worry about that and just try to make a fresh start in my life.
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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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  StevenJB

  Not Dteve....Steve D'OH!
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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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  StevenJB

  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. Why? Well 3 years ago I discovered my wife (sorry, now ex-wife) was having an affair. I discovered but was being pressured by the Elders not to divorce her. So I tried to work things out, but she carried on. So I filed for divorce. Thankfully my ex-wife eventually admitted to the affair.

  Anyway, to cut a long story short in the three years since things have been said that have been hurtful. I was accused of apostate thinking because I said that it was possible and I personally felt that the end if the system could be decades away. By all accounts that was against the society. So many turned against me. Those in my own congregation disconnected from me in FaceBook and would not even talk to me. Nevertheless I carried on going to the meetings and on the ministry.

  Then a few months ago (about October 2012) I spoke in confidentiality to an elder just to mention that I am finding it hard being alone and would like to marry again. The answer.....no sister will want to marry me because I am not a Ministeral Servant and because I divorced my wife. I was shocked. Not only was I feeling unwanted with in the congregation but then to be made to feel worthless....that was the final straw. I have not been to a meeting since then, nor contacted any of the witnesses. None of them have contacted me since either. But you know what I do not care. Last month (January 2013) I met a lovely, beautiful girl....she is originally from the Philippines...she accepts me for who I am. She is Catholic....oh dear! Dating a girl from the religion that JW's seem to hate the most. Did that sound cynical? Hehehe!

  Anyway, enough of my whinging and moaning.

  I hope I can get to know a few of you here. At the moment I do not seem to be able to edit my profile.

  Steve :(
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  10 Years Japan losses 5,400 Publishers and 638 Kingdom Halls! Why?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. beliefs

  japan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!

  then something happened.

  publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.

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  StevenJB

  I do know a few foreign language congregations have been shut down.... Thai, Tagalog, English, etc.