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  Presents at grandmas, why jehovah hates it etc

  by DS211 in

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  well we just got back from grandmas and the girls my wife and i all got presents.

  my daughter was ripping through them like a madgirl and automatically my wife is like "shes being greedy"....i stood and said "no shes excited she never gets wrapped presents".

  she agreed.

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  Lol nice DD...i was actually just thnking the same thing. Why does he have to prove satan wrong? Kill the bloke lol.

  but really where in the Bible does it say good hearted people will be killed because they didnt follow the one true org?
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  Anyone from FL here?

  by DS211 in

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  anyone from jacksonville or sarasota areas?

  im thinking of moving to one of those two and i need help figuring out safe and good neighborhoods/schools for my kids..

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  Anyone from Jacksonville or Sarasota areas? Im thinking of moving to one of those two and i need help figuring out safe and good neighborhoods/schools for my kids.
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  How can i continue my fade vs the rubber band theorem that pulls my wife in

  by DS211 in

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  im at a crossroads my friends.

  im beginning to feel that my oppurtunities to get my wife out are waning.

  weve misssed many meetings she still smokes a cig a day.

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  Yea i forgot another reason why i should take it slow..im renting a house whos owner is a JW...so i am planning on miving away at some point and that may help my wife transition. I have some options.
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  Presents at grandmas, why jehovah hates it etc

  by DS211 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well we just got back from grandmas and the girls my wife and i all got presents.

  my daughter was ripping through them like a madgirl and automatically my wife is like "shes being greedy"....i stood and said "no shes excited she never gets wrapped presents".

  she agreed.

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  You know looking back i remember how i was roped in...i was in school my girlfriend (now wife) and i just had a baby, were studying, and we never really had the chance to do real research. The witness we studied with was gung ho and at first it was convincing. My wife and i were going through a tough time and hard pressr for money and all that. He somehow convinced us to marry at the courthouse, toss out 300 dollars in books and movies and then a year later get baptised. so its true that the emotionally, physically, mentally vulnerable people are perfect picks to reel in.
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  Presents at grandmas, why jehovah hates it etc

  by DS211 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well we just got back from grandmas and the girls my wife and i all got presents.

  my daughter was ripping through them like a madgirl and automatically my wife is like "shes being greedy"....i stood and said "no shes excited she never gets wrapped presents".

  she agreed.

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  Well we just got back from grandmas and the girls my wife and i all got presents. My daughter was ripping through them like a madgirl and automatically my wife is like "shes being greedy"....i stood and said "no shes excited she never gets wrapped presents". She agreed. Anyways while i was there i thought "why in the hell would God hate a holiday that brings families together, promotes generosity, and makes people just feel good. Granted there are some that ruin it with greed and commercialism...but you can say the same tuing about the Bible. Instead i feel that JWs think its wrong only because their parents think its evil and their parents befire...and i realized if you can convince someone that something is wrong, and have them pass it on to their kids and so forth...no wonder JWs think its wrong. I could teach my kids hacki sack or eating healthy is wrong and after a while theyd believe it lol.

  ok rant over.
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  WT March 2014 : "Let your yes be a yes, but your UBM's no is not a no"

  by The Song Remains The Same in

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  wife has gone out to the kh this a.m., so i thought i'd balance the world karma by reading jwn, and then looked on jw.borg to see if the stats are up yet.

  they weren't so i check out the latest study edition as i promised her i would mark one up in all sorts of colours to show the various techniques employed to guide jw's.... anyway, i noticed the contradiction in the two articles; "your speechyes and yet no?

  " and "reaching the heart of unbelieving relatives" where in the first they are saying if you say yes, mean it, or if you say no, mean it.

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  I stayed home with one of my daughters and i watched southampton v tottenham and now we are watching WALLE. Hes a cooler robot than many JWs i know. :-) im still trying to think of how to keep not going lol. I dont really want to go back ever. Buuuuut yea.
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  Did These Things Make You Leave Watchtower?

  by clarity in

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  brilliant letter written to the governing body by our.

  own len miller.. .

  http://users.oeccwildblue.com/millerlr/dearmother.pdf.

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  Questions on Evolution and the Existence of God and...

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  i know this is one huge rant, but i want to put my own questions and doubts in writing.. i am a fading jw who has become agnostic... i still believe in "god" and "jesus," but i simply cannot explain to people why i believe in them.

  i just do.. about the existence of god: it is an infinite regress.

  "all things were created by someone"... well... who created god?

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  Yet another problem for Watch Tower Society apologists

  by Jeffro in

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  amos 1:1 is set during the reigns of both uzziah and jeroboam (ii), "two years before the earthquake".. geologists* have dated this earthquake to around 760bce, with an error margin of plus or minus 25 years.. *steven a. austin, gordon w. franz, and eric g. frost, "amos's earthquake: an extraordinary middle east seismic event of 750 b.c.

  " international geology review 42 (2000) 657-671. y. yadin, hazor, the rediscovery of a great citadel of the bible (new york: random house, 1975).

  i. finkelstein, "hazor and the north in the iron age: a low chronology perspective," bulletin of the american schools of oriental research 314 (1999) 55-70. d. ussishkin, "lachish" in e. stern, ed., the new encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the holy land (new york: simon & schuster, 1993) vol.

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  How can i continue my fade vs the rubber band theorem that pulls my wife in

  by DS211 in

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  im at a crossroads my friends.

  im beginning to feel that my oppurtunities to get my wife out are waning.

  weve misssed many meetings she still smokes a cig a day.

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  Thanks guys! Ill work on those kindle books def.