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  We don't want to divorce, but we do. What other options exist?

  by BrianGreen in

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  ive been reading this forum for a long time, but this new situation has come up and now it looks like i need your help.

  i thought i dodged a bullet.

  my wife and i were both jws, and we both left it together.

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  yesidid

  
  My parents marriage was not a happy one. They fought constantly and it was hard to to be with them when they were fighting.

  What was much worse though was the three years when my mother left my father.

  My father was not a loving man, either to our mother or us kids. He had a temper but I would not call him abusive. However he

  had a lot of good qualities and I missed him when we were away. It was an absolutely dreadful time.

  When they got back together it was not perfect, they still argued. However it was not the hell of separation.

  I am soooooooooooooo grateful they did not divorce. I am in my sixties, but, till my dying day I will be grateful they put our

  happiness ahead of theirs. After all we did not ask to be brought into the world.

  yesidid
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  Birthdays banned in 1951?

  by M.J. in

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  just want to share what i've uncovered on this and verify my conclusion!.

  it was my impression that birthdays were banned shortly after christmas was in 1926. the proclaimers book is very vague about this, implying that the ban shortly followed the christmas ban.

  i searched the 1940s watchtower magazines and uncovered this blurb in the jan 1, 1940 watchtower, p. 16, under "field experiences": cleveland, ohio: "pardon me for intruding on your precious time, but i just cant help letting you know how much i appreciate the phonograph which came to me on the morning after the 8th, which was my 80th birthday.

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  Yes the change definately came in '51. Saying otherwise is another example of their rewriting history.

  I was there and felt the pain. It is one of the clearest memories of my childhood/youth.

  Questions from readers is a time honored way for the WBTS to change or modify doctrines.

  Even the blood doctrine has been changed through the back door of QFR.

  yesidid
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  Birthdays banned in 1951?

  by M.J. in

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  just want to share what i've uncovered on this and verify my conclusion!.

  it was my impression that birthdays were banned shortly after christmas was in 1926. the proclaimers book is very vague about this, implying that the ban shortly followed the christmas ban.

  i searched the 1940s watchtower magazines and uncovered this blurb in the jan 1, 1940 watchtower, p. 16, under "field experiences": cleveland, ohio: "pardon me for intruding on your precious time, but i just cant help letting you know how much i appreciate the phonograph which came to me on the morning after the 8th, which was my 80th birthday.

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  MJ You are absolutely correct about the 1951 date.

  I remember it clearly.

  My father was baptized in 1914 and. Our household went very much by the Watchtower book. Birthdays were celebrated in our home till that year. I remember I was going through a personal trauma (I know what year that was),and the Watchtower came out just before my birthday. Whem my mother told me we would not be celebrating my birthday I was heartbroken.

  Anyway she relented to the extent of getting me some clothing which I needed anyway.

  But no party. It is still a very clear memory.

  Birthdays were celebrated before 1951. It was the Watchtower you quoted that made them a sin.

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  Can you celebrate your 100th birthday when you are a JW?

  by blondie in

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  as a devout jehovah's witness, mrs. merle is prohibited from celebrating her birthday.

  but a week from tomorrow, relatives and friends will flock to the camoset village country living mobile home park in johnstown to attend a super bowl party that just happens to feature ice cream and cake.. "that's why we're calling it a super bowl party," explained her son bob merle, 73, who lives just five trailers down the road.

  "we don't celebrate birthdays, but we have to celebrate 100 years," said mrs. mechem, 78.

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  I know a brother who was d/fd for celebrating a birthday. What I don't know was whether it was his, his wife's or one of his children.

  He has since been reinstated.
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  Question for JWs still on the "inside":

  by Hellrider in

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  just a question: if you are still jws (for any reason, many just can`t leave because their entire families are wrapped around it, etc), but don`t believe in it, and lead a "double life", how do you cope with going door to door?

  i just can`t imagine how it must feel like to go out there and try to tell people at the doors or in the streets things you know are just bs!

  how do you deal with that?

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  there are anti-jws that are just as hardlined, stiffnecked, and doctrinal as the most rabid bethelite lifer. if we can't listen to each other, we can't learn from each other.

  I absolutely agree. There are people on this board in all stages of removing themselves from the WT.

  It's hard enough for them without other self righteous know alls telling them what they should or should not be doing.

  If someone says something negative about the homosexual lifestyle they are told to live and let live.

  Can that not apply to those who are caught in a situation, not of their own making, or liking. Please be more understanding. Some are more judgemental than Ted Jaracz and the Judge put together.

  End of rant.
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  My husband had a heart attack

  by MsMcDucket in

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  hello all, the last 24+ hours, i've been at the hospital.

  i took my husband in because he was having chest pains.

  come to find out his cardiac enzymes were elevated and his ekg was abnormal.

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  So sorry you have had this shock. Looks like they got it in time. What a blessing.

  I'm so pleased the twins can give you a break. Maybe this will help your relationship with them.

  Hugs

  yesidid
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  My Dad died this evening

  by Mulan in

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  i thought i would let you know that my dad, passed away a little while ago, tonight, january 23. they called me at 6pm to tell me.

  he had been failing rapidly for the past month, and had completely lost his hearing and was totally blind.

  the dementia was extreme too, and he still knew me on thursday, but didn't wake up to know me in the following days.

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  Dear (((((Marilyn))))),

  I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.

  He was obviously a good father, and you have been a caring daughter.

  You can feel content that you have done the best you could to make his life more enjoyable.

  You will never know how many times he said to himself "I'm such a fortunate man having Marilyn for a daughter."

  Although you will be very sad for a long time, eventually memories of your happier times will return and that will be beautiful.

  Love to you and family.

  yesidid
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  Schizm, Scholar and other WT defenders

  by 2112 in

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  schizm, scholar or any other wt defenders, please if you have a topic, like a bible verse, a wt doctrine, a non wt doctrine etc.

  start a thread, we will discuss it with you.

  but keep the discussion on the subject don't attack people just because they don't agree with you.

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  yesidid

  I must agree. There is absolutely no reason to be rude to PMJ. English is not his first language and he is not yet up to speed

  on internet manners. But then who is? After all, who of us, did not at one time support the WBTS just as he is doing now.

  Give him time and empathy. That's not too much to ask.
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  Schizm, Scholar and other WT defenders

  by 2112 in

  1. watchtower
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  schizm, scholar or any other wt defenders, please if you have a topic, like a bible verse, a wt doctrine, a non wt doctrine etc.

  start a thread, we will discuss it with you.

  but keep the discussion on the subject don't attack people just because they don't agree with you.

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  yesidid

  whether there are 18 lines of evidence or seventeen lines of evidence supposedly establishing Neo-Babylonian chronology.

  If it was only one or two it would be one or two more than the WTS can come up with.

  17 or 18 that is really impressive. Go Carl go.
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  607BCE or 587/586BCE explained

  by truth about the last days in

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  hello all to all my brothers of the faith.

  i have some information in relation to the dates 607bce and 587/586bce, with the simple explanation of the 70years exile.

  the wt still sticks with the 607bce due to the fact that the governing bodys explains that the jews returned back at about 537bce, assuming that they were finished with their bondage.

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  Scholars cannot agree about a year for the Fal lof Jerusalem for there are a number of proposed dates such as 589, 588, 587 and 586 BCE.

  Very well put scholar.

  We noticed that of all the dates which are in contention by scholars in that field 607 is not even mentioned.

  Well put.

  I hope though that you didn't count time for that as it certainly does not support your masters who require an accounting for time spent

  supporting their propaganda.