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  Ya no me importa! I don't care anymore !

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  afterfinding out that my soon to ve ex-husband's jw mom is deathly ill, and that he wont be visiting her ( she lives in anothrr country) after he made plans, i only assumed the jw conscience kicked in.

  he must have been summarily disinvited by his father who initially called to inform him that his mother was crying to see him.

  so here's tge email i wrote to his lazy obese brother: .

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  disfellowshipping and Steve Hassan

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  he writes, "a person who actively participates in his own punishment will come to believe he deserves it.

  my question: if i actively participate in my own disfellowshipping byfollowing along with the practice of shunning (not greeting, not raising hand at meeting to comment, showing up to go out in service, no conversations at all with jws) does that effectively men that i condone and accept the punishment rendered by the elders?

  wht constitutes acceptance of that punishment?

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  My grandmother passed away at 4:55am

  by losingit in

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  imtyping this on my phone, please excuse the misspellings.

  i'm sad.

  she lived a long life, 90 years, and battled alzheimer's for the last 5 years of her life.

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  FB message from a "true" friend

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  i thought i would share this fb message from someone who considers himself to be a "true" friend of mine.

  after learning from my former husband tha i am disfellowshipped, he writes the following: .

  fb true friend: "xxxxx with tears in my eyes i will be deleting you but i want you as my sister again.

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  always apostasy?

  by losingit in

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  so i've been reading many posts and threads of people's experiences leaving the jw fold.

  i get the impression that many here were df'd or da'd due to apostasy.

  is there anyone here that found out ttat after being df'd for a reason other than apostasy?

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  What piece of WT literature is worth holding onto, or have you kept? Why?

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  2. bible

  i have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.

  i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .

  i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.

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  at the DC right now,disgusting talk

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  tortured by this talk where they are attempting to legitimize the division/ separation of family.. "sadly friends some will refuse to have courage in this matter.is it not in our best interests to abide the arrangements of the christian congregation as set by jehovah?

  accept the torture stake involved in confessing union with christ.

  then they cite the example of a brother who is thankful to his wife for persisting in preaching to him.. now they are talking about disfellowshipping, lay serious guilt trip .the brother talking about his baby sister getting disfellowshipped, how his father cried for the first time.

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  Crisis of Conscience and the preaching work with WT literature

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  "it is interesting to contrast the deliberate elimination of prayers andsongs at witness meetings in mexico with the action of the watchtower society in the united states, where they were willing to fightcase after case all the way up to the supreme court of the countryrather than give up certain practices, such as offering literature fromdoor to door without a license and without having to register withthe police, the right to use sound cars, distribute literature on streetcorners, and many other such practices which are covered byconstitutional rights.

  the organization did not want to relinquish anyof these things.

  it fought to hold on to them, even though theseparticular practices are certainly not things that were done by earlychristians in the first century and hence cannot be counted as amongprimary christian practices.".

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  payback? bitterly upset....

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  i don't even know where to start.. more than anything, i'd like to say that i am not a woman of vengeance.

  i am very much a forgiving person.

  if you say "i'm sorry," and you're genuine, i can move on from it quickly and easily.

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  Jotham Article for Children...

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  i am disfellowshipped, separated from my husband, and have been "lurking" for some time.

  only because i was so unbelievably lonely for being disfellowshipped, i was missing my "friends" terribly, did i even bump into this site.

  i googled "lonely and disfellowshipped" and a stream of experiences appeared on the screen.

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