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  Just wanted to share a music addition

  by sosoconfused in

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  not sure if anyone feels like me but one thing that was always lacking to me in the jw's was that the music did not move me in anyway accept maybe one or two songs.

  however it was funny that solomon danced out of his clothes so he must have been jammin to something on his ipod.

  but the other day i met a guy who is a rastafarian and we were talking about somethings and he told me our discussion reminded him of this song that he loved.

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  The bible is a letter to the 144,000

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  i don't really remember where i heard this... either at a public talk or a district convention or c.o.

  visit or something.. .

  my question is, has anyone else in there time with the org heard that said?

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  I just had a thought that made me feel so much better about this fade...

  by sosoconfused in

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  this is not monumental... i am sure all of you think it all the time.. but as a 3rd gen born-in ex-elder ex-pioneer ex-bethelite i spent so much time in this relion believing that for some reason that god, who loves all humans and created all things only wanted a few people to get knowledge of him - and this small group in america was his choice.. .

  now as i said i am sure 99% of you probably came to that realization before and it is common sense, but the very fact that as a grown man i never really thought about this for more than 15 seconds.

  the whole idea is just ridiculous and freaking stupid.

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  SoCF chapter 17 ...

  by sosoconfused in

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  i think this passage sums things up for me in a way that my own words never could.

  as i started my exodus and began to see how we were all forced to fit into this wierd bubble of conformity - i began to get ill and feel that anything i did or wanted outside of the rank and file view was just evil.... .

  but these words as i read them sum things up in a way i think most people looking at leaving feel:.

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  nightmare about saran wrapped roast beef

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  just had a flashback of my mother forcing me to eat a rotten roast beef sandwich at the district convention.. i remember her telling me jehovah would not provide us with bad food and how ungrateful i was.

  she literally told me if i wasted jehovahs provisions she would "slap my face off"..... for the love of god a roast beef sandwich sitting out in the hot yankee stadium sun all day... i really wonder what could cause someone to be so insane.

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  How to use disfellowshipping as a way to bring them to the light

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  so after i stepped down and began to be the cynical young angry ex-elder in the hall a few brothers decided to have a surprise shepherding call.. they asked me what had me down, i said nothing.

  i am actually very happy right now.

  then one brother says, "i think you are forgetting what makes us so special in the first place... we obey god as ruler... rather then men.

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  Why would anyone ask me to give a substitute talk

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  so last night we had the theocratic school.

  i recently stepped aside from being an elder and i have been mentally gone for awhile now.. no one has talked to me or my wife and kids and i have been very brief with everyone.

  hwever, out of the blue lastnight during the theocratic school the school overseers assistant came to me during the bible reading and asked me if i could give a last minute substitute talk.... .

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  My wife is feeling uncomfortable about the NEW LIGHT

  by sosoconfused in

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  so my wife is aware that i am totally disillusioned and i am having problems with lots of things.

  one day she can see the crap(such as this past watchtower question from readers about ivf... what a pile of insanity.

  if someone carries me and my wifes baby i have committed porneia rofl!!!

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  What happens when a legally married....?

  by sosoconfused in

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  lesbian couple that has a child decides that they want to be one of jehovahs witnesses?

  really think about this for a second.. what will they do then.. option 1: will they tell them that they have to get a divorce and ignore the scriptural counsel of jehovah hating a divorcing?

  will they say that it was never valid anyway in the eyes of jehovah?

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  New Member...

  by sosoconfused in

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  hello everyone, just wanted to say hi and introduce myself.. i am a mid 30's just stepped aside elder, who just couldn't handle it anymore.. i am a 3rd generation born-in and former pioneer and bethelite.

  it has been a log somewhat confusing ride for me, but i am finally settling in to realizing that i need to really look at what me and my family are doing.. .

  its funny though what really got me here... it wasn't the 40 year old men telling me they were looking at boobies on the computer and hoping not to get in trouble, it wasn't the watching young people bail left and right, it wasn't the ever changing new light etc... but a simple thought.. .

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