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  Need some good thoughts....

  by diana netherton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's been a tough year for me so far.

  my grammy passed away in june and i haven't grieved her properly.

  it was a jw funeral and that wasn't the platform to do that.

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  Gypsy Sam

  I feel your pain. Getting back to building your own life, when you thought you were building a future with someone can be daunting at first.

  It helped me to throw myself into exercise, long drives with great music, to towns I hadn't yet explored. It took time and some therapy as I left an abusive ex husband but happiness is a choice and grief is a process, as the saying somewhat goes. You deserve to be happy.

  I can only speak from personal experience and that of close, personal friends, but a guy who can carry on a long term affair like that doesn't seem to usually change. They get away with whatever they can as long as they are able and become so skillful at lying along the way, how can we know when they are being genuine?

  Maybe trying different teas would help with the afternoon slump? Writing a letter to him that you DON'T send helped me, too.
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  Gran is dying.

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my dear granny hasn't been feeling well for some time and has had a problem keeping anything down.

  she had lost a lot of weight and gone for many tests.

  those tests came back and on friday we were told she has cancer of the pancreas.

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  Gypsy Sam

  I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with someone close to you in pain. You've had a lot of stress this year. You're making the end as pleasant as possible and that mean a lot to someone.
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  Hear Ye!!!Hear Ye!! WONDERFUL GOOD NEWS!!!!

  by mouthy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my jw daughter called me this afternoon!!!!!

  !i am just over the moon.

  her hubby not a jw has cancer & was operated on today!!!!.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Nice to read, Grace. Very happy for you.
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  From Prison to Prosperity - new JW.org video

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofo9xmhis5c.

  let no one say witnesses don't catch people at their most vulnerable, or use love bombing.. .

  cedars.

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  Gypsy Sam

  This is the kind of story/marketing/promotional piece that makes me second guess myself, which hasn't really happened once I learned TTATT.

  They used a good looking man from a downtrodden existence that now has a better life, trying to treat his wife right And appealing social settings are depicted. (the get together's were a regular part of my life growing up, but I don't see that too much anymore, unless you into fit the "perfect" nuclear family mold)

  The I remind myself that if these two have children, what will they do when a child doesn't feel the way they do about "the truth"? Or, what if one of the people they've so inncoently welcomed into their home turns out to be a pedofile and abuses Their child...or the wife starts to have questions and no longer believes.

  It is easy to Make "the truth" sound appealing to the downtrodden. If only people wouldn't blindly believe and would research a new religion like they would a new car or electronics purchase.
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  Miss my brother, but I just had to send this email to him.

  by HayDay in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks for getting back to me.. i know you may be simply following bible counsel because it answers questions in ways that are emotionally pleasing and require no verification.

  people in the bible days could not comprehend their relationship to the physical world so they invented their own explanations.

  these explanations tended to be simple, and some were harmful, resulting in religious dogma, which now for example serve as the grounds for you ending our relationship?.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Great job! I'm working on an email to my family. Useful points.

  The third paragraph should use accept, not except. ;)
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  WTF... JW Library ranks #4 in the Top (Free) Charts on Apple Store for iPhone/iPad

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  checking out the apple store for any new cool apps, and lo and behold!

  i see that the wts has finally embraced that demonic form of information dispensing.

  and all jah's chil'ren are snapping it up.

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  Gypsy Sam

  The app reviews start on 9/18/13 and I stopped checking after 55 loaded for that day alone. All were stellar reviews.
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  The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.

  the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.

  different teachings on when the end is coming.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Right on. Carpe Diem!
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  When Real Life Becomes Fiction

  by TD in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  this is a spin-off from the argo thread.. who here has read the 'little house' books by laura ingalls wilder?

  were you disappointed when you realized how much could not possibly have happened the way it was told?.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Another bubble burst. I was quite the childhood fan of "Little House on the Prairie" and "Anne of Green Gables".
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  OK - I've had it - My letter to the KH

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the whole time i lived in colorado, i had the dubs come by once and leave a tract.

  but since moving to california, they are at my door so often i asked them to put me on the "do not call" list.

  this did not stop them, in fact i have asked four times, plus once i called the kingdom hall and left a message, they still come, the last time this past saturday.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Great letter! Loved it! Your home sounds delightfully charming.

  My last visit to CA, I decided to check out Beth Sarim as I had just started learning TTATT. It was one more step away once I saw it with my own eyes.

  Carpe Diem!
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  BREAKING NEWS: Watchtower's Charitable Status UNDER THREAT in Britain !

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there is an article today in daily mail one of the largest uk newspapers about the plymouth brethren that should worry every thinking jehovah's witness.. the charities commision in britain is threatening the charitable status of a small offshoot of the aglican church the plymouth brethren .the reason ?

  they don't perform enough charitable work for their local community .

  at a time where the tax avoidance of large businesses such as google ,ebay,amazon and starbucks is under serious question in britain ,the charities commision's investigation into this little church's charitable status comes as no surprise .the 2006 charities act forced charities, often at high cost, to 'demonstrate' value to society .so far being a christian church automatically exempt you off taxes ,this is not the case anymore .

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  Gypsy Sam

  Bttt