Posts by cultBgone

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New to The Jehovahs Witness Faith and need some help

by jnjburkett in

jw
friends

hello there i am new to the faith and have been studying for about a month.

i am very excited and hungry for the truth and have not missed a meeting or study since the memorial.

we do about 2 bible studies a week.

cultBgone

I apologize for my post and pledge to continue working on my knee-jerk judgmentalism. Sorry, sometimes the jw-crap-thought sneaks up on me.

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reading the vigil thread for our friends made me think of this.....juicers are a good way to get antioxidents(cancer fighters) into your body..i own a breville 2speed,850w 13,000rpm motor..this sucker could juice chalk..lol!

!..anyone else here own a juicer,and have you noticed the health benifits from it?...outlaw

cultBgone

FlowerFreaks, I really like my JLL juicer too. Does a great job but I need to start composting all the pulp!

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I'm going back.

by dazed but not confused in

jw
friends

to hawaii!!

what were you thinking?.

ive been to the big island twice when i was a 11 and 13. my sister lived there and flew me out.

cultBgone

Gorgeous family and scenery, thanks for the photos!

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"Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom! Regional Convention 2014 - releases and info

by OwnAccord in

info from someone at the regional convention:.

(sorry about the format).

matthew 6:33 keep on seeking first the kingdom.

cultBgone

Great info, thanks!

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3rd letter from Branch to Elders on Donations BOE dated May 12th 2014 PDF

by Watchtower-Free in

http://www.mediafire.com/view/i6wdgd97za4cgm4/may-12_2014_branch_letter_to_elders_donations.pdf.

cultBgone

Filing for reference

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Grieving in JW Land

by cultBgone in

while experiencing a seemingly annual time of grief over the deaths of my sister and mom, a few other posters mentioned they experienced similar episodes linked to family deaths.

i've known some in my jw family who have this shared experience as well.. i know that grief as an emotion must be dealt with, that is, allowed to happen and be experienced, or we end up stuffing the emotions inside ourselves.

and any emotions we've stuffed and hidden will always try to get out in the body's normal course of healing itself.

cultBgone

While experiencing a seemingly annual time of grief over the deaths of my sister and mom, a few other posters mentioned they experienced similar episodes linked to family deaths. I've known some in my jw family who have this shared experience as well.

I know that grief as an emotion must be dealt with, that is, allowed to happen and be experienced, or we end up stuffing the emotions inside ourselves. And any emotions we've stuffed and hidden will always try to get out in the body's normal course of healing itself. That may sound odd but I'm thinking of our emotions as a type of energy and so they require a release of some sort.

And it seems that anniversaries of deaths tend to trigger the release of those emotions.

I began wondering why such intense feelings would still be released even decades after a death event, and then I realized that jws are never truly allowed to grieve openly for the death of a loved one. If you show extreme sadness, it belies your faith in paradise, etc etc. In the borg we were actually taught to stuff our feelings and pretend they don't exist.

The same would hold for deliberate shunning of children and family members. There is no way maternal or paternal emotions can not be in conflict internally when shunning is enforced.

Might this be a contributing factor to the large number of depressed ones?

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"But the Basics haven't changed"

by Phizzy in

a couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".

overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.

the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.

cultBgone

Phizzy, nice thread. Everyone's comments are spot on, thanks for the info...saving this.

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Question about the anointed selection process

by FL_Panthers in

there was a sister in my hall who consumed the emblems during our last memorial.

thing is, she is 27. the elders didn't stop her and no one was like wtf.

can someone be anointed at age 27?.

cultBgone

The gb had to change the long-standing policy of Only 144,000 Anointed ones because the number of partakers kept increasing. Memory may not be serving me correctly, but it seems when I first studied I was told that the big A would commence immediately after the 144000th anointed one died/ascended to the heavens to join christ and his brothers. The teaching was later amended to be that "it could be" that some of the anointed would remain on earth to direct the org. Then the numbers began increasing 10-15 years ago and that really messed things up, so guess what? Now the anointed are not really all that important and we'll just stop focusing on them. Do they still announce the number of partakers?

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Things to understand about talking to a Jehovah's Witness...

by drew sagan in

please note that everything i write here is within the context of discussions between two witnesses.

conversations between a jw and non jw are different in a number of ways and so i will not be discussing them here.

the 'running ahead' fallacy.

cultBgone

Great thread, saving to read again.

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MOM'S RESPONSE TO UN INFO

by Ranchette in

finally, after almost a month, i get a response from my mother about the un.

for those who didnt see her original letter and my response, just click on the sheet of paper icon in my profile and you can catch up on this.. i will place my comments in italics and names will be replaced in parentheses.. .

dear ranchette,.

cultBgone

So sad. I am so happy that I got out in time to show my children unconditional Love. I wish that for Ranchette and all others as well! (((((all)))))