Topics Started by Frazzled UBM

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Mom says "You will die at Armageddon" - good replies?
by serendipity in
1. jw
2. friends
my mother retired from her full-time job recently and has started attending meetings again.

she also has plenty of time to think about her wayward children, including me.

one night, we were talking and she asked me, again, why i wasn't going to meetings.
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FW: WHAT A SISITER SACRIFICED TO SERVE JEHOVAH
by moomanchu in
1. jw
2. experiences
witnoid e-mails goin around.. all i can say is wtf.. japan assembly experience.

date: tue, 22 jan 2008 15:58:51 -0500. .

convention experience from japan!
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The Tower ate many Baby Boomers
by Alex Delta in
1. jw
2. friends
i do some thinking every once and a great while and had a little brain storm which to most of you is just a cloudy sky.

looking back into history i put one and two together and see that the baby boomers came to be after the 4 first false prophecies of the tower which were in 1914, 1915, 1925 and 1945. after all this jazz happens they have a huge fall out and change and twist their doctrine to set up their next sales pitch, and wouldn't you know it, who's there for the towers perfect meal, baby boomers, the tower chew's away and gets pretty full for they're plenty of them, those ingredient were perfect.

these people grew up with wars, tons of protest's, scandals you name it there was plenty of things happening to them, add a little this and a dash of that and that's what the tower loves to feed on the feared.
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What movie or TV show would U recommend 2 break thru cognitive dissonance?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. entertainment
talk about "food at the proper time"!!

i was just perusing this forum and stumbled across a post by abandoned called "the joy of sect".

it's a simpson's episode where homer joins a cult.
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Told wife that I don't like going to the meeting
by XBEHERE in
1. jw
2. friends
finally said it out loud even though my actions have been showing it for quite some time.

a fight ensued and now she isn't talking to me.

the wierd thing is when i just didnt go she didn't say much (she hasn't been for over 2 mos for a medical reason) but god forbid i should actually vocalize that i don't want to go... i didn't want to give her any fuel to call me an apostate so i just blamed discouragement and my dislike of the elders which she already knows.
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How to (or not) handle the occasional JW who wanders in here
by Check_Your_Premises in
1. jw
2. friends
i originally thought of posting this thread last week when a thread was started last week: .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104099/1.ashx .

this girl didn't seem to realize the extent of the "apostasy" on this thread.
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Japan Lost 500 Congregations!!!!
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
do the math:.

1998 - 3,802 congregations (1999 yrbook figure) .

(drum roll, please).
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Dub Glossary
by Farkel in
1. jw
2. friends
many of you have already seen this, but there are also many new ones posting and lurking.

this is a little handy reference to help you understand dub-speak.

i've updated it an added a number of new terms and expressions.. ----------------------.
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Mental Health Issues in JW Women
by Seven in
1. watchtower
2. medical
here's a click to the cultic studies journalissue concerning jw women.

[url] http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csj_vol14_no1_97/abs_wifely.htm#top[/url]
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Qualified to be elders?
by Andyman in
1. jw
2. friends
this is an issue that really bothers me.

the elders are supposed to be looking after the well being of the congregation.

they are supposed to be helping those in need.