----our CO a few years ago stated that it seemed that the ageing GB's life span somehow was artificially prolonged by the Creator, as most of them were then in their 80s and 90s, but still very vigorous----
You are kidding right? He didn't really say that?
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25 years of anointed remnant
by MacHislopp injust as a bit of personal reasoning.
from the wtbs inc. official figures and statistics,
25 years later, for the year 2002, the total is 8,760 members.-
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Hi guys! Nice to meet you all!
by born againer inwow, this is the best message board ever!
i really admire all you guys for realising the real truth about jehovah's witnesses.
i have never been a witness, but i had a serious relationship with one that ended in heart break.
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Welcome.
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Bought 'True Believer" and 'Illusions'
by Satanus ini bought 'the true believer' by eric hoffer, and 'illusions' by richard bach (started reading it).
among other things i did, i also bought a pound of starbucks coffee, and watched the sunset.
not a bad day.
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DanThe Man - your mom bought you Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Yes re-read it (it is one of my all time favorites). Was your mom a JW? If so I cant see her giving you a book about free will.
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When you don't want to be a hunter-and you don't want to be a lion
by nilfun inpoor, poor lafcadio-what do you do when you don't want to be.
"look," he said, "i don't want to shoot any lions, and i .
certainly don't want to eat up any of you hunters.
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Memorial - Question of the Year
by Mystery inno one has come to my door yet.
i know that someone in my family called a couple of years ago and gave them my address.
they have dropped by a couple of times.
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No one has come to my door yet. I know that someone in my family called a couple of years ago and gave them my address. They have dropped by a couple of times.
If they make a last ditch effort and head out my way what is 1 Question I could ask to make them actually think? Especially if there is a teenager with them? A question with the most impact?
Not what about the UN? Or the Blood issue? Those 2 arguments would fall on deaf ears, with the JW's my family.
Just a simple question that would nag at one that had a small, teeny tiny doubt about the troof.
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Hi, I'm new. I would like to get to know you.
by Bugs Bunny ini'm from the states.
i studied with witnesses a long time and have some dear friends who are witnesses.
i have some friends who are xjw also.
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Hi Bugs, I am a newbie to. I am sure both of us will learn alot here.
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Possible JC for Pleasuredome
by Pleasuredome ingood grief, i can't even have a cigarette in peace!
i travel five miles to a pub for a drink with a mate, and an elder turns up.
i'm sitting down just blowing the last bit of smoke out of my sinfull lungs and stubbing my cig out, and i look over to the bar and there's an elder from my old cong, looking in my direction with a look of disdain on his face.
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Can they df me for my suitcase smelling like cig. smoke when i go visit 600+ miles away?
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My x is supose to pay $250 a month for 2 kids. I was STUPID when I divorced him because I felt guilty for leavings my sons father becasue of them. I agreed to the settlement to the horror of my own lawyer.
He is still yet to pay, even that amount. He tells my sons that he doesn't know why I don't give the money to them. He DOESN'T send it. He tells them that I am the one that took them away from him - but he doesn't understand why I don't give them what is theirs ($$). He DOESN"T send it! He tells them it was "all my fault" but he still supports them financially. HE DOESN'T! Instead of getting into a she says, he says, I have basically dropped any effort to collect. I know that my sons will realize eventually that he has lied to them all this time.
My oldest is realizing it now without me having to say anything. It took 13 years of not rebutting/yelling my ex's accusations. But my reward has been that THEY HAVE DECIDED to stay with me. They want to stay with me. My home is their home, not his. He has show his colors to them, with his 2 story log house, his boats and jet ski's and travel home, his rental properties, vehicles - they went to live with him last year. The agreement was to stay for minimum of 1 school year. That they could not come back to me until the school year ended. My oldest was back in 6 weeks and youngest in 8 weeks. After my oldest decideds something - come hell or high water he gets his way (with everyone but me) - he decided his "fathers" house was not the promises and the dreams his "father" had promised him. His lies and deceit and manipulating became very apparent.
They have made their decision about their father without my input.
Just make sure your concern is with your child. Money is secondary regardless of your situation. (I was in college with a 1 & 2 year old. No family support and no child support. Money isn't everything.)
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Last Night's Nightmare
by Robdar ini woke up with my heart racing this morning.
i had an awful dream that i had gone home to visit my parents and that everybody in my former cong came bye to say hi.
in my dream, all the men had on suits and all the women had on floral dresses.
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--- In my dream, all the men had on suits and all the women had on floral dresses. Red, blue, pink, green, aqua, all these different floral designs and matching shoes too. I was handed a bookbag, some magazines and a dress to put on.--- Is your (ex)husband a JW? Look at everything we were taught as women. By divorcing you are a failure. Submission. Obedience. Follower, not a leader. Not having support. Submission (handed a book bag)- follower (women had on floral dresses... matching shoes). No support (Not blowing Veni’s cover). (get a kitty treat) you gave us a kitty treat today. Letting us put our 2cents in. Deciding to divorce my ex (and he wasn’t even a JW) was one of the hardest things I ever did. Not because I didn’t want to leave, but because of how “wrong” it was to divorce. He had not cheated on me – JW reasoning again – therefore I could not divorce him. It was difficult. My parents were against me. Him telling my parents if I would just come back he would study to become a JW. With a 1 & 2 yr. old, no family support, no “friend” (they were all JW’s and I had been fading for quite a while), with absolutely nothing to gain except my own personal “freedom” why in the world would I be so selfish for myself to defy all of them? With the stress of your divorce a lot of things will probably surface. Old beliefs. Old memories. Guilt. Doubts. I found it good to keep a journal. Why & why nots? And on the really bad day of “why am I doing this” read the days of “this is the best thing that I could ever do”. I think your dream is a combination of old and new beliefs. I am not a dream reader. But it sounds sorta like the feelings I had 12 years ago. Still very vivid. Deborah
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By the way, it was my birthday yesterday.... April 8th, 1969
by anti-absolutist init's weird that, 11 years after getting df'd,and 8 years after vowing to never go back, i still kind of felt guilty toasting my birthday with my friends.
i am a hell of a lot closer, though, to feeling no shame at all, and a lot of you are to be credited with my freedom......... .
brad
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I had a glass of wine last night - toast to your B-day. I knew there was some reason I had it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Its hard to believe birthdays are wrong when your 2 teenage sons come and jump on your bed, especially on a Sat. morning!! (March 29th) and yell Happy Birthday MOM at the top of their lungs. They didn't have to add the "man you are old!)