Posts by outofthelionsden

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Hi, I can't find the 4 Scriptures a JWN Friend Posted about "examining the scriptures" and JWs Don't Need To Study Scholarly Works because the GB does that for you.

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

hi, i caught the scripture in acts 17:10-12 on the jews who checked the holy scriptures to make sure paul and silas were not lying.

my new medication is making my head a bit fuzzy and i can't find the link you provided.

sleep alludes me often at night so i am taking ambien and valium to sleep or get to be before 2:30 am before i wake up back at 5am for work.. .

outofthelionsden

not sure if this is what you are looking for....hope it helps

How will we put these four things into effect? First, study: We may think of study as hard work, as involving heavy research. But in Jehovah's organization it is not necessary to spend a lot of time and energy in research, for there are brothers in the organization who are assigned to do that very thing, to help you who do not have so much time for this, these preparing the good material in The Watchtower and other publications of the Society. But you do not study enough? Take this suggestion: Often the very best and most beneficial studying you do is that done when you read a new Watchtower or Awake! or a new book with the joy of getting the new truths and a fresh view." 1967, 1 june, p 338

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The "lost" disciples...?

by EdenOne in

question:.

1 corinthians 15:4-6 "[jesus] was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to cephas, and then to the twelve.after that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time".. .

acts 1:15 - "in those days peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)" .... acts 2:1 - "when the day of pentecost came, they were all together in one place...".

outofthelionsden

this one's easy ...the 380 were of the other sheep!!!! ya they were not worthy of getting holy spirit

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Hi skeeter1! I know what you mean the year before we stopped going i remember telling my husband crying that i didn't feel i was part of the witness world or the world, i felt like a stranger to everything. i grew up with them telling me not to have any contact with a worly person unless your preaching to them so its been interesting trying to connect with people. but our worldy friends have been supportive of our new life

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Mr.Flipper you've got pmail

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Hi innerpeace we are not Df'd but in the jdubs minds some one Inactive = not interested = self disassociation and there are many articles that say that someone who disassociates is to be treated as a Df'd person

lv pp. 207-209
How to Treat a Disfellowshipped Person
principles on this subject apply equally to those who disassociate themselves from the congregation.

very sad but true

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

ruderedhead- no my aunts and uncles never become jws as the matter of fact they havent spoken to each other for over 40 years. i was able to find a few cousins on facebook and weve been able to chat and re-connect but now we all live in different states.

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

thank you all so much, I feel so special today with such a warm welcoming from everyone!! As many of you said I am so lucky to have my husband with me, I grew up with no extended family no uncles , aunts cousins nothing due to my parents becoming jw's. Since there family did convert then they had to stop all association with them, So I grew up with a family of pioneers, elders and circuit overseers( they are all hard core jw's)

but sincerely its been about 2-3 years that we felt strange, I personally felt like something was wrong but obviously I just thought it was me not being spiritual enough, many in my family thought i didn't love jehovah and the organization as I should..nothing was ever good enough.( i was always the black sheep , the one who would think out of the box)

we felt so tiered and emotionally drained for so long, but ever since we found TTATT its as if our blindness was taken away and we can see for the first time! its a great feeling to just be u and make your own choices in life. Im trying to take my time at first i felt frustrated wanting to know everything and reading like crazy but know im taking it day by day , it took me more than 30 years to get this way so I think I have time to figure life out.

some of you asked how my family got my info and I believe that they just went on websites like spokeo.com all they need is your name and pay the fee of like$3 and they can see all online networks that you have an account with or pictures that you have posted online, it pretty scary that anyone can do that. if not then they used a family member that knows how to get on anyone's computer , they see nothing wrong with it since it was done out of love. ill soon let you all know how i learned TTATT and how I shared it with my husband..

peace & love to all

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Thanks Theredeemer, as you say we have been concentrating on us and our kids making sure we give them the best childhood of fun and love.

i was not allowed to go to college (since i was going to go to the world if i did) so because of it we have struggled to keep afloat. but not anymore I signed up a few months ago for online college!! but we have definitely gone through all the emotions, at time you almost feel your going crazy lol

but everyday is a new beginning and its about time to enjoy life!!!!

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Thank you mr. Flipper for your kind welcome! as you say shunning is inhumane, I cant ever imagine doing that to my children

thanks for the PM I just sent you one as well...

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HI! im new here...

by outofthelionsden in

i have been reading post on this forum for many months and i wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading.

my husband and i where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from cognitive dissonance without knowing it.

we feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting.

outofthelionsden

Hi everyone!

I have been reading post on this forum for many months and I wanted to thank you all for all the great posts and comments that have really helped me get through this hard year of fading. My husband and I where born in jdubs and almost 1 year ago we started to fade , now that we think about it has been a few years that we were suffering from Cognitive Dissonance without knowing it. We feel that finally we have our life back , a life that is just starting. We have not been DF or DA but both sides of our family have shunned us , it has been many months that they stopped talking to us and they even went to the extent to change there phone number so that I cannot contact them and this is from family that I talkted with daily. So as you can imagine this has been very heart breaking for me. but as my husband says we have to continue with life , we were so limited to the world that everything is new to us lol . Ill be posting our story soon. I wanted to entroduce myself a long time ago but I was scared do to family investigating me and paying online to find all websites I was viewing and signed up to, that's how they found out I was becoming an ex-witness