GARYBUSS, thank you for your response, but can you please answer my original question. Did you ever practise shunning as a witness? If the answer is in your Okie stories, I won't be able to review them until later.
BillyBob
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TIME TO IMPLEMENT THE GARYBUSS PHILOSOPHY!
by Dansk inin view of what has recently happened to rozalyn (rebel) i believe anyone who is considering attending a judicial committee should take note:.
i have always tried to love others from my own childhood upbringing.
i have been treated like a traitor.
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TIME TO IMPLEMENT THE GARYBUSS PHILOSOPHY!
by Dansk inin view of what has recently happened to rozalyn (rebel) i believe anyone who is considering attending a judicial committee should take note:.
i have always tried to love others from my own childhood upbringing.
i have been treated like a traitor.
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I have a question for GARYBUSS. In all your years of faithful service to the organization, did you ever practise shunning? I can't imagine that any of us that used to be JW's could say we are not guilty of this abusive practise. When I read your posts I can see the pain that the publishing corp has done to you as well as others on this board, but to write that anyone that shuns you is basically dead to you FOREVER, I just can't come to grips with that philosophy. It's like you have taken one of the most vile teachings of the Watchtower and embraced it as the one teaching that you still believe in, only you reverse the practise. I am shunned by old friends and would in all likelihood take them back into my life if they made the effort. Maybe I don't get it because I'm not being shunned by family, but I'll tell you, if my children shunned me I know in the core of my being that I would welcome them back into my life without ANY hesitation at ANY time and without conditions. I hope you don't take offense to this post, I'm just trying to better understand your postion.
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UN against the U.S. and Great Britian
by BillyBob ini'm new to the forum but have lurked for over four years!
in fact i've never even posted on an internet board before,.
so please go easy on me.
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BillyBob
Dansk,
I was an army brat, so you name it I've at least been close to it. Did'nt join the JW's until after I started dating a "bad" JW girl, who eventually became my wife. We both left at the same time and now live in the beautiful desert of Arizona.
BillyBob
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UN against the U.S. and Great Britian
by BillyBob ini'm new to the forum but have lurked for over four years!
in fact i've never even posted on an internet board before,.
so please go easy on me.
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Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum but have lurked for over four years! In fact I've never even posted on an internet board before,
so please go easy on me. I'm not sure if this has been discussed already but I've been thinking alot about this situation lately.
From what I remember of Watchtower thinking, the "Anglo-American" world rulers are the ones that manipulate and give power
to the 8th world ruler i.e. the U.N. Today it was announced that France, Germany, and Russia will almost definitely oppose U.N.
support for a war in Iraq. This seems to me to go against everything I was taught on the subject. From what I remember (been out
about 4 years), the U.N. is set up to do the bidding of the last world power. I just wonder if some JW's are scratching their heads and
saying, " hey this isn't supposted to be happening". I know I would. And I know a few of my old freinds are probably doing the same thing.
What if the Anglo-American power dismisses the U.N. and calls the body irrelevant and attacks unilaterally? Do you think that might give
some within the organisation pause?
BillyBob
I hate to admit it but I really do miss YOU KNOW