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  why wedding anniversaries and not birthdays?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  has anyone else ever wondered.

  ta, bliss

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  LongHauler

  Bliss, DO NOT EVER QUESTION WHAT THE FAITHFUL & DISCREET SLAVE CLASS SAYS, AGAIN!!!.......Just,OBEY.

  Someone get the boots and a shovel, it's getting deep in here......
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  How do you glue together a broken home

  by Methof15 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm 17. i was disfellowshipped almost two years ago.

  i am the youngest of four kids and am the only left at home.

  i live with my dad who has sort of faded from the jw scene.

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  LongHauler

  Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

  Really? There were T-shirts? I wish someone had told me.......

  I've noticed that a lot of the GB's cult zombies rarely realize the stupidity of shunning family until it's too late. It's sad really that some of them never realize what they've done until suddenly they are 80 years old and finding out the hard way that thier so-called Jay-Dub buddies aren't going to be there to change thier bed pan for them. Rotting away in a nursing home soaked in a puddle of urine is not how I would want to go out. "For every action thier is an equal and opposite reaction".
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  2 Elders steal 6 million dollars

  by outoftheorg in

  1. social
  2. current

  the missoulia montana paper of 12/30/02 carried the following news report.. two jehovahs witness elders, dale a. erickson and darryl k willis pleaded no contest to charges of fraud, amounting to 6 million dollar theft from an aged lady, una anderson.. it is the biggest single theft case in the history of montana, according to the prosecutors.

  this is quite a long interesting news release.. it can be found at "missoulian.com" http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/news01.txt.

  this theft occured over a seven year period.

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  LongHauler

  Well, I would imagine the Watchtower's P.R. machine will be working overtime on this one. Something tells me the old 'Disfellowship and forget' policy won't do them much good here. I always thoughtthat was kind of fascinating. We baptize them from the world and we Disfellowship them back to the world. Its kind of like a religous "Binge and Purge". It would be sad, if it wasn't so pathetic.
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  How do I know the Bible is True?

  by SwedishChef in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do i know the bible is true?

  by thomas schaff.

  external evidence.

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  LongHauler

  Correction PD: The Witnesses will help you develop faith in the WatchTower, and when applicable, the Bible.
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  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

  by Mackin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, it's 20 min's past midnight here and i've just arrived home from watching the fireworks off the top of the skytower....so..... .

  happy new year to you all.. .

  mackin.

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  LongHauler

  Good things are bound to happen when you get a combination of children, fireworks, drunken adults, and lots of firearms being shot into the air.

  Doug Fry of the 'Drunk as Cooter Brown and Rowdy as Hell Class'
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  Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Joe

  by Mum in

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  this morning the mailman brought me a package containing my aunt lizzie's dishes.

  aunt lizzie was actually my grandfather's aunt.

  i was lucky to have a multi-generational family for most of my life.

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  LongHauler

  Seems to me a lot of JW's, active or otherwise, wind up regreting the effect of the WT dogma on thier non-witness relatives. My father is a good example. At 61 years of age with a broken marriage and a strained at best relationship with his kids, he is facing a very uncertain future. When the WT banned somking, My grandfather who had been smoking for years, refused to quit. After his disfellowshipping everything continued as it had been for years, no shunning or breaking of family ties. After all, my grandfather had never tried that on my dad's sister. She had left the cult in her late late teens, having gotten married. In the summer of 1987 that years district assembly had featured a talk about how witnesses were supposed to handle disassociated and disfellowshipped persons, even family. The crux of the speach was that if you continue to associate with them you could be dissfellowshipped as well. So in front of his wife and two children, one of them only eight years old( me), He told his father that he could no longer have any association with his family, unless he quit smoking and asked to be re-instated. It was a blow that was felt by everyone, and really was the point at which my dad became isolated. He, my mother, and my grandparents were the only witnesses in the family. He continued this pattern of shunning, even after his sister was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away December 24, 1994. You could see in his eyes the realization that he had thrown away what time he had with her. Even though the witness in him will deny it, saying that it only means that he will have to wait for the new system to see her again. My grandfather has passed on now, after a lengthy bout with heart disease. My grandmothers health is slowly fading as well. The experience of growing up in the cult, and the fear, isolation, and the pain of trying to deprogram yourself has left my sister and I very close. We also are able to have a good relationship with our mother. But as for my dad, trying to repair all the bridges he burnt will be next to impossible.
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  So, where DID the 1914 timeline go awry?

  by Xander in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  okay, i know that historical evidence is that jerusalem fell in 586/7 instead of 607 - as the wtbts would have.

  however, that is not compelling enough to show a hypothetical jw.

  they (generally) must not only be show that the opposition is correct, but that the wtbts is wrong.

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  In "Crises of Concious" Ray Franz wrote about it. But from what I remember, No one at Brooklyn had ever questioned the authenticity of 607 B.C. until Aid to Bible Understanding was being reasearched. Its been a while since I read Ray's book but I think you'll find a pretty good explination of the whole 1914 prophecy in it.
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  Got a call from an elder this weekend

  by Texas Apostate in

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  2. friends

  hi to everyone on the board.

  it has been quite sometime since my last post.

  well... let me get on with this incident.

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  LongHauler

  My God, A fellow Houstonian. Thought I was alone here.
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  Yahoo! Collapse - ADDICTIVE!

  by DanTheMan in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/cl.html

  this is a great game!

  lots of tetris-style puzzle games have come and gone, but this one's a winner!.

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  LongHauler

  I have one word for you. Slingo. I've seen that game put strain on a marriage before. But I guess thats AOL for ya.
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  The Fight For God

  by expatbrit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the following is quite an interesting article on the state of christianity in the u.s. the jw's are not mentioned, which is interesting in itself, since the article focusses quite heavily on churches that aggressively seek to convert others.

  maybe the jw's are losing their market niche?.

  expatbrit.

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  LongHauler

  Good article. The headine about enslaving Canadians was a letter written to Dr. Laura by someone not altogether satisfied by her attempt to explain why Homosexuality is an abomination. The whole letter is on http://watchtower.observer.org. Funny as hell.