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  back for more

  by backformore in

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  2. friends

  as the name says, i'm back for more.

  i used to be fairly active on here but have been away for years and am back for more.. first, a bit about me.

  i'm a 36 year old man.

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  cultBgone

  As Searcher said:

  Don't try and turn loved one's heads with a baseball bat - use a feather duster.

  I was in a state of shock when I discovered for MYSELF the lies about Memorial partakers. If someone else had HIT me with that info, I would have closed my mind and ears immediately!

  There's another recent post (which I would search for now but need to leave for work, sorry) in which the poster explains how he shared with a dear friend that he LOVES the jws, yet he has real trouble with the doctrines about blood (wt changed stance after many died), the un thing (big lie), etc etc.

  The dear friend was able to take it all in because it was Non-emotional.

  In that sense, and knowing that we all share your feelings about lives wasted...my advice is to "script" an approach that refrains from bashing yet reveals ttatt gently. Use the Feather Duster...more flies with Honey and all that.

  Best wishes and welcome back!
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  A thought about the convention: Anticipate Future Blessings...

  by wisdomfrombelow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the parts had a skit with 3 or 4 young brothers playing a game of "what i will look forward to in the new system".

  one wanted a house by the beach.

  one wanted a house in the forest.

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  cultBgone

  My favorite scenario...

  Let's say the wife of 40 years dies of cancer. She pio'd and was loved my many. Hubby an elder who bent the rules for his own benefit but seen as Good Ol Boy nice guy. Hubby remarries within a few short months.

  "Armageddon"...resurrections...dead wife now back. How is she gonna deal with living forever watching her hubby with another woman?

  Sure sounds like paradise...or...maybe not.
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  Surreal experience last night.

  by objectivetruth in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".

  her response went something like this, " we are all out!

  everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..

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  cultBgone

  How very cool! Enjoy it for all the rest of us too!!!
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  An Unexpected 2 Hour Anti-Leads to an Unexpected Return Visit

  by truth_b_known in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just spent 30 minutes writing this story and lost it all before i hit submit.

  i'll try to be brief.. last night a former co-worker of my wife's called saying he was on his way to the house to drop off a job he would like her to do.

  we haven't seen him in over 8 years.

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  cultBgone

  It's so sad, I think many jws would run from the org if they actually knew the truth about the truth, because most jws are really decent, good-hearted people. Really like how you handled your conversation, let's all hope that he allows his heart and mind to be opened to the deception and the real truth.
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  $30 million for a Shang Dynasty bronze casting

  by fulltimestudent in

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  2. current

  in 1922 some farmers in taoyuan county, hunan province, china, dug up a beautiful cast bronze vessel with a lid.

  the farmer's son took the lid to school to ask his teacher what it was.

  the teacher saw that it was something wonderful and raked up 800 silver dollars to buy it.

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  cultBgone

  i obviously need to find some decent Chinese artifacts at a garage sale...
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  A thought about the convention: Anticipate Future Blessings...

  by wisdomfrombelow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the parts had a skit with 3 or 4 young brothers playing a game of "what i will look forward to in the new system".

  one wanted a house by the beach.

  one wanted a house in the forest.

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  cultBgone

  Wisdom, you are so correct. It IS weird that the gb/wts teaches people to WAIT on materialism and WAIT on normal sexual relations...and then say it's okay later, but only when we tell you it's okay.

  Cheezuswhiz. They are some kind of crazy.
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  NLP, Subliminal Messages and the WT Writing Department

  by 00DAD in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a few years ago i became interested in the subject of neuro-linguistic programming (nlp).

  while the core concepts of nlp have been largely discredited as new-age pseudo-science, there is no doubt that there is at least some validity to the idea.

  words and images remain the key way we communicate.

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  cultBgone

  I agree, HeyThere, and thanks to B'sass for boosting the post.
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  JW.Organs

  by bigmac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just a thought--with the new packaging--will the bruvvers soon be known as jw.organs ?.

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  cultBgone

  They will be JW.ORG-ans and if they are baaaaad, they will be TRANSPLANTED to THE-REAL-WORLD.ORG!
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  Would You Care If You Were Disfellowshipped?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious.

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  cultBgone

  I don't think it would make much difference as I don't socialize with any jdubs anyway. I used to be "scared" of it but the more I've come to realize that it's NOT REAL IN JW LAND, the less I care.

  My important family that is still in will continue to associate with me. My family that is out will most likely remain out, and continue to associate with me. My other jw "family" that I never see anyway will probably shun me, but then....I won't notice.

  So, in summation...nope. It's no more important than losing a game of Twister, and I think Twister might hurt more.
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  Interesting experience at work re: convention invite

  by sd-7 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, a guy i know and would sometimes chat with briefly at work came to me recently.

  he said he'd been invited by his neighbor to attend the upcoming jw convention.

  apparently, he had heard that i used to be a jw and wanted to get my thoughts about whether he should go.

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  cultBgone

  Good news indeed! Hopefully your inquisitive co-worker will share the info with others and explain to them how the jws are in a cult run by the gb.

  Limiting their growth has tons of potential, for sure.

  Happy day!