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NEW BLOOD CARD DIRECTIVE...
by SkyGreen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the husband just gave me the new march km (im using it folded up as a coaster at the moment) and a new "blood card" to complete, along with a copy of a set of instructions for how to fill it out and a letter from wts to every baptised publisher.

i said to him "i wont be needing that" and gave it back to him, and he just said, well just throw it out then - no overreaction yay :o) without telling him, about a month ago, (i tore up my existing no blood directive.

our kids have never carried around "identity cards" we were never that diligent about it).
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Is a slow fade being selfish when you have kids?
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i got some great advice to take things very slowly with the husband and kids in order to be able to fade and still maintain contact with my parents and siblings.

but today i got a call from my son's teacher that he was having a meltdown because he was worried about all his friends and teachers being destroyed at armageddon.... first i felt like such a schmuck for ever having allowed that thought to enter my son's head, then i thought, is it psychological torture for me not to immediately correct the situation?

i had a long talk with him about how god is perfectly just and full of love and he didn't have to worry about that at all, but it still seemed lukewarm.
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Just wondering what is the JWs stance on the existance of dinosaurs ???
by AMO in
1. jw
2. friends
was pondering today on the jws stance on the existance of the dinosaurs.

would be interested to know any belieavers stance on this eg.

your own belief and that of the wts current understanding.. insidentally i tried to search this on jw.org and no search bar, or at least i didn't find one ????.
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For those still "in"... is it just me?
by leaving_quietly in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm still "in" and i've noticed an odd trend recently.

conversations with jws seem to be more jw-ish than ever!

in normal conversation, i'll hear: "these watchtowers are just wonderful!
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How to choose your religion
by Skbj in
1. jw
2. friends
it's old so you probably have seen it but i was doing some cleaning up of my inbox and found this that my husband sent me a while back and still made me chuckle.

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Deluded Cult Speak By Jehovah's Witnesses
by BlindersOff1 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
please give any examples you've heard of jws verbalizing cognitive dissonance , delusional reasoning .

in other words crazy jw logic .like.

one jw mother recently told her son " even if you did have proof it wasn't the truth, i wouldn't want to read it".
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Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not?
by Open mind in
1. jw
2. friends
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Fading with children in tow
by brainmelt in
1. jw
2. experiences
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Anxiety Attacks At Meetings
by EmptyInside in
1. jw
2. friends
i believe i posted on this before.

but,i was recently thinking back when i was still regularly going to meetings.

and how sometimes,just the thought of having to start to get ready to go,sent me in a panic.
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Seven Thousand Year Creative Day still being taught (as of 2005)
by VM44 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
here is a photo of a gilead instructor (br.

liverance) teaching a class on chronology.. the photo appears in a blog entry dated 5-21-2005.. note the "6,000" and "1,000" periods in the timeline drawn on the whiteboard.. i thought the 7,000 year creative day was no longer taught, but apparently it still is at gilead, at least in the year 2005.. (picture cannot be embedded here for some reason, so here is the link to it).

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ydnht0xya-4/sbukuolyzei/aaaaaaaaacs/t-rgxaammbg/s1600-h/chronology+%28br.+liverance%29.jpg.