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JGNat's Comments on Obedience Study Nov 17
by jgnat in
1. watchtower
2. bible
jehovah blesses and protects those who are obedient

i dont know how blondie is going to react to this weeks study, but i was really frustrated, like i was being dragged in a direction i do not want to go.

in desperation i began resorting to ridicule instead of reasoned argument.
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WHY I HAVE A DOG
by target in
1. jw
2. friends
dogs don't turn into teenagers.

they don't care about clothing styles.

they don't get depressed about friends.
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No longer filling my spiritual needs...
by eisenstein in
1. jw
2. experiences
i feel very sad today.

i see my old jw friends almost every day on my way to the subway, they are street witnessing.

i've talked to a couple of them about my doubts, etc.
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IF Brooklyn Bethel Was destroyed....
by TR in
1. jw
2. friends
....would they have the resources to rebuild?

are the buildings insured, or is the wts self-insured?.

tr
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Do You Think The Society Will Ever Go Broke?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
if the local congregations have no money to pay their own bills and the numbers of witnesses continue to drop off, how will the society last?

we've heard about down sizing and layoffs.

we've seen congregations merge because the bills aren't getting paid.
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Letter to the GB
by Undecided in
1. jw
2. friends
governing body .

watchtower bible & tract society .

dear who ever you are, .
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How Did You Handle Spiritual Snobs?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife was speaking negatively about a sister, an elder's wife, because since i resigned as an elder, she does not give her the time of day.

she said to me that sister-------- is a "spiritual snob.

" i never heard this expression before.
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my story
by nelly1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
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well i tried to do this yest and i lost all of it, :( lot of typing lost, but oh well, i would welcome feedback from anyone who has been through similar things to me, i got the truth 13 yrs ago, and i never felt like i was wanted not really, i was with a man and had 3 kids with him when i came into contact with the witnesses, but he was a pedophile so i found out and had been doing things to our kids since they were born, i ditched him, he walked from 2 high court trials, and no one in my cong cared abt me, they didnt want to know.

said it was in my head, anyway, i struggled for years i hated going to conventions and being ignored by my own cong, it was just me and my daughter on our own all the time trying to serve jehovah, i didnt feel happy but i just wanted to please my god and i just tried my best, i always felt left out and i was never asked to do demos at the hall, its like they were just putting up with me, i was always pulled in for stupid things like the messages i put on my answerphone cuz some stupid stuck up old sister didnt like it.
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FOR LURKING JW ELDERS- REVISED LIST
by jst2laws in
1. jw
2. friends
sorry to have to repost this but i screwed up the original thread so bad i can't even get in to 'edit'.

here is the current list of former (some present) elders.

for over a year i lurked as an elder on h2o and this board.
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Why dont JW's have a youth group?
by In_between_days in
1. social
2. family
something that has been alarming to my jw family is the amount of teens ("young ones") that have bailed out of the organisation, never to return.. they use the excuse, as would most jw's that "satan is getting them - he knows young ones are vulnerable.".

if you want my opinion, young people are getting far more educated - they are becoming far more broad minded than they were say 10 or 20 years ago.

because of the slow yet sturdy slackening of the "no college" rule, many more young jw's are attending university or college than ever before, and with further education comes more knowledge, more interaction with reasonable and intelligent conversations with educated people and most importantly -use of the internet ("satans latest tool, as put by a jw i talked to recently).