Posts by LostInTranslation

i need to ask a serious bible based question regarding the bread and the wine that jesus passed around on the night of the passover.. i understand perfectly what these mean, and i understand their relevance, however im struggling to understand, after 15 years of indoctrination, if i am deserving to partake of them.

today at the baptist church, we were all offered the bread and the wine.

i wanted to partake but i still feel that i do not have the right to, as i am not of the chosen nation.

LostInTranslation

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Dear Spirituk and the likeminded (read if you have time),

by okage in

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so i started going to church with her, and bible studies at her home.

in hindsight.... i found out that she made these moves a few days later when i showed up to her family's house for the study.

i stopped going to our church.

LostInTranslation

Poignant. Soul bearing and beautifully written.

Perfect Okage.

And even if Spirtuk can't see the value in your words, let me be the first to thank you for the reminder

that we all have a story of a broken heart, but that time mends all.

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Thinking of having revenge on the jw girl

by spirituk in

hello again, following my story with this girl , and after she blocked me on fb and not answering my phone calls since december , i am now thinking of taking revenge.my feelings of pain are starting to become hate ,and pain always is accompanied by the feeling of revenge to satisfy this bad feeling.i just cant simply forget what shes done to me.

the reasons of my revenge :.

1.she played with my feelings when she knew from the start that she would leave me one day.

LostInTranslation

Ah Spirituk,

We've spoken on this before, I'm sorry to see you're still in such distress over this girl.

Honestly, let her go. For so many reasons.. exacting revenge will change NOTHING about your situation with her. It won't bring her back, it won't change her mind or association with her congregation.

And least of all, It will NOT make YOU feel better.

In the end, if you are cruel or vengeful toward her, you will just feel a sense of shame and guilt of your own for having stooped as low as she has in leading you on. You already feel torn up over this girl, Don't allow those feelings to encourage you to act in an irrational way.

Let it go, Take stock of your wounds, Feel sad and let down..take time to heal, it's all ok. (been there, done that!!) But just move on and find the RIGHT girl who is free to love you and be in love with you, without having to answer to a life sucking cult.

Good Luck

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Memorial Invites from Door to Door?

by NeonMadman in

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is this the first year that the jws have been out aggressively handing out memorial invitations from door to door?

i've been out for about 12 years now, but as i recall, congregations used to receive a relatively limited number of memorial invitations, and they were pretty much reserved for bible studies, good rvs, inactive persons, and others who had some sort of connection to the organization.

they were not just randomly handed out from house to house - that was what the "special talk" invitations were for.. it occurs to me that this might be an attempt by the wts to pump up the memorial attendance so as to maintain the illusion of continued growth.

LostInTranslation

<--- This worldly person has had the JW's come to her door twice in the last 4 days pushing their memorial fliers..

Good times!!

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Yet another "Shunning is good for you, honest!" quote in the June 15th 2013 Watchtower

by cedars in

hi folks.

that's right, the new june 15th 2013 study edition is out now on this link.... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.

the following quote caught my eye, from the final study article on page 28.... .

LostInTranslation

So much blatant dysfunction and outright emotional blackmail being committed.

So many people living with this tumultous internal torture... all in the name of such a "Loving Organisation" Makes me want to spit nails.

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Canada Yearbook Stats [1973-2012]

by Richard_I in

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after seeing the uk yearbook stats thread i decided to compile canada's yearbook stats.

i was able to get the stats from 1973 to 2012. so here they are in a table below along with some colourful graphs.

note that the avg.

LostInTranslation

I NEED to move west... clearly