Punkofnice - thank you. This religion is the reason why our family is so dysfunctional... But at least the blinkers have fallen off & I can see it or what it is... It's also comforting to know thatppl on here understand what it's like.... I have so much I wish I cld share on here but I have chosen not to as i am doing the slow fade... I have already lost too much...
Jaidubdub
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Are you a new viewer of this forum?
by punkofnice ini'd be interested to hear from you.. i know at first there is the paranoia that the elders will find you out if you have a user id here.
i only believe this is the case if you leave your pc in plain sight unattended, give out your password, tell someone what you are 'researching'or give your real name and location in a thread or gravatar.. cut to the chase.. what brought you here?.
anyone here because of the new 'generation' 'new light'?.
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Are you a new viewer of this forum?
by punkofnice ini'd be interested to hear from you.. i know at first there is the paranoia that the elders will find you out if you have a user id here.
i only believe this is the case if you leave your pc in plain sight unattended, give out your password, tell someone what you are 'researching'or give your real name and location in a thread or gravatar.. cut to the chase.. what brought you here?.
anyone here because of the new 'generation' 'new light'?.
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Jaidubdub
For me it wasn't so much their teachings as I always found meetings & assemblies boring & my mind always drifted, but enjoyed the social aspect. Back then, if a teaching had changed I wouldn't of really taken much notice cause i never really listened to what they were saying.
Even though I was hardly attending meetings & witnessing had been non existent for a while at the time, it was more the treatment I received frm so called super-spitual dubs (inluding family) that made me think something was very wrong. They ignored my need for help. in fact at that point, it was over 10 years since i recieved a shepparding call. I literally felt like they had tossed me in the gutter. Ironically I came across this site while googling the JW site to download the latest study mag as I was visiting a friends cong. It's only been thru this site that I realised the inconsistencies in WT teachings. Every time I come on here I see another teaching that I was lied to about. It's been very overwhelming knowing, as a 3rd generation born-in, I have been lied to all my life!!
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I just feel alone
by joe134cd ini just feel isolated and tired of the situation i am in.
no witness visits, and this just makes me even more spiritually lethargic..
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Jaidubdub
Dont u hate that most jw friendships are so conditional... Witnesses frm my Congo stopped visiting me a while ago. At one stage when things were really difficult with my circumstances I asked for help... I got nothing... Hang in there...
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What is your experience when you stop turning in time?
by gingerbread infor the past year or so, i've been turning in just one or two hours of service time.
it has been mentioned to me from an elder "friend" that i'm never seen at any meetings for field service.
i get his implication.
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Jaidubdub
No one gave a shit or asked when I stopped turning in time... That was several years ago even though I was still attending meetings regularly at the time...
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can you buy your way out of being disfellowshipped? What do you think it would cost?
by hoser in?
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Jaidubdub
Depends on how corrupt the elders are... I've seen some get away with so much & other get d'fed for practically nothing...
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What was the recent change made regarding baptisms?
by Witness My Fury injust saw a post by splash on the commision transcript thread: (pasted below).
we had a talk at our hall recently, basically saying that there have been lots of letters written to the uk branch, questioning and complaining about a new change introduced for the baptisms at the sad and ca.. the talk did not try to reason, it did not try to explain.. the talk was "do as you are told, don't question what you are told".. we were told to do as the song instructs us "listen, obey and be blessed".. we were told that this change was from jehovah so keep up with his chariot.. i think this talk was given in quite a few locations around the country.. what was that all about please?.
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Jaidubdub
They've been doing that for a while at the DA... I've missed quite a few CA so not sure if its the same as the DA...
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Jaidubdub
Many ethnic congs are closing here too... Young ones have married and moved to English congs, while many young ones leave the truth altogether which leaves very empty meetings with very few old people... Stuck in their old ways...
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if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either
by biometrics infor even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
(2 thess.
how many witlesses actually take this scripture to heart and apply it in their lives.
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Jaidubdub
Way back when I was pioneering, there was a sister who was pioneering while on the dole. She always said she was blessed that Jehovah allowed her to pioneer. Maybe she should've thanked the government and the taxes we paid that allowed her to pioneer...
brinjen, I hope something comes through for you...
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What are your favorite hypocritical sayings of the WT??
by iamwhoiam in"religion is a snare and a racket".
...ironically, today the wt is a bonafied religion..
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Jaidubdub
Disfellowshipping is an act of love from Jehovah...
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Elders raid a SDA church!
by ozziepost inis it true what we're hearing?
it's been reported to us that two elders burst in to a sda church service about a month ago seeking to trap a witness man there.
the man, a witness for 14 years, had become disillusioned with the affairs of the wts in australia after viewing the "sunday" program on channel nine which exposed the cover-up of paedophilia in the witness movement.
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Jaidubdub
I'm sure Today Tonight or A Current Affair would be interested in this story...