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District Assembly 2008 Info
by Mystery in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
can anyone point me to the thread(s) that have information on the july 4th weekend district assembly?

i did a search but didn't come up with info or topics of the assembly.. i haven't been on here in a while.

nor have i read the watchtower and awakes my mom still sends.
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So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..
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A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle - has anyone read it?
by Scully in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm considering reading this book and was wondering whether anyone from jwd has already read it and would like to share their thoughts on it.

being ever-the-skeptic, i'm intrigued by a philosophy that appears to embrace reality and the here-and-now, but i'm wary of the new-age-y-sounding-ness of it as well.

what do "believers" think of the book?
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anyone here know about bi-polar?
by orbison11 in
1. jw
2. friends
greetings all.

i just learned that one of my children has bi-polar illness,,,i am so disheartened for him,,,,do any here know about this.

wendy.
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My mother's husband passed away this morning
by Guest with Questions in
1. jw
2. experiences
just a quick note.

please keep us in your prayers and/or thoughts.. i worry that the blood issue will be brought up.

the doctor's did give him hemoglobin but i guess his blood count was too low.
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There is so much pain...
by justhuman in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i don't know why things in life happened...i don't know why i was born in the most destructive cults ever existed.

my childhood was so miserable...is not nice to see the other kids at your age celebrating xmas and birthdays and other holidays.

my whole world was somewhere between kindom hall and field service with my pioneers parents.. i hardly finished high school because i was supposed to live in the generation that by no means will pass way.
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Hello! Time to introduce myself.....
by Gringa in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been reading the forum the past couple of days, actually i am finding it hard to pull myself away.

i stumbled upon it by accident - searching some thing lead to another and another and here i am.. 3rd generation ex-jw here.

got out fairly young.
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Black Friday and JW's
by kwr in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is a jw allowed to shop on black friday as long as it isn't a christmas gift?
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Why do we have to talk about what happened to us?
by wanderlustguy in
1. jw
2. friends
i just watched reign over me.

adam sandler has come a long way as an actor, and i thought he did very well portraying the feelings someone has who keeps the pain of emotional tragedy inside.

i'll never feel ok about all the damage caused by me when i was at my worst.. the movie also made me think about me and my relationships and us as a group of people affected by something so tragic in some cases.
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I got that dreaded call....
by loosie in
1. jw
2. experiences
my ex sister in law called me this morning to tell me that bother had shot himself.. he was raised a witness but stopped going at 18. he was my favorite brother always level headed and smart.. except lately.

apparently he has been robbing banks in ca this summer.

he led the police on a freeway chase and decided to shot himself instead of go to jail.. now i am wondering how well i know anyone at all anymore.. .