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  Thanks for the welcome

  by BonaFide in

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  thanks so much everyone for being so supportive.. i am having an increasingly difficult time giving my parts on the meetings, going in service, and shepherding.

  the wt study is so.....controlling?

  that i have a hard time studying that too.

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  Emma

  they are very judgmental as well. The absolutely unfathomable thing is...they don't realize it. They talk about how much love there is in the organization and happiness, then they ignore all the depression going on. The same with judging others

  I went through this thought process, too. I remember listening to my mother and sisters dis one person after the next and realized all the judging and depression the borg was steeped in. this was one of my "awakenings" or ah -ha moment. It can be difficult and scary, but once you know the truth, it's hard to go back. There is life, real satisfying life, on the outside. You'll be OK but it may be a bumpy ride!

  Welcome to the board!
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  Leaving France this Saturday...off to Accra, Ghana in West Africa

  by Utopian Reformist in

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  dear family!.

  hope all of you are well and doing great.

  it's so relieving and comforting to see the names of my friends still posting here!

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  Emma

  bttt
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  Leaving France this Saturday...off to Accra, Ghana in West Africa

  by Utopian Reformist in

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  dear family!.

  hope all of you are well and doing great.

  it's so relieving and comforting to see the names of my friends still posting here!

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  Emma

  It's wonderful to hear from you! I don't post much, but check in and read. Safe traveling.
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  My first post

  by BonaFide in

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  i prayed before i came on here.

  i know that it weird.

  i have been reading here for a long time.

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  Emma

  You will find friends

  This is so true, though I believed that I would never have true friends if I "left." That's what you're made to believe. My new-found friends were the sisters (and a couple of bro's) that supported me through some difficult times. I was not df'd or da'd but my birth, spiritual sisters offered nothing.
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  WERE THERE ANY THIEFS IN YOUR CONGREGATIONS?

  by badboy in

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  any takers?

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  Emma

  A couple of brothers helped us move once. Two of my grandmothers rings were stolen from my jewelry box; irreplaceable. I watched their wives and daughters for any sign but never saw anything.
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  WT undergoing "Invisible Growth"

  by Gerard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i heard that the latest watchtower mag made reference to the borganization undergoing "invisible growth".

  anybody can fill me in with the details and context?

  thanks..

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  Emma

  I'm with Caedes.

  I've always said it doesn't matter what they change, what the color of the fog is or what flavor kool-aid. There is a core of believers who have bought the "we're the faithful slave speaking for the great jehovah" who will always, always believe everything that's printed in the wt, rumored, mentioned at the assembly or by the co, po, whatever. It would be nice if the borg dwindled to that small core.
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  Anyone heard from Dansk?

  by ozziepost in

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  i've not been so regularly here lately because of my own health issues but i don't recall seeing our dear friend ian (dansk) lately.

  his last post was on march 26 when he wrote:.

  i was in hospital for a week, thursday-thursday, so i got home in time for easter.

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  Emma

  bttt
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  Went to The Assembly... Finally Dealt with Family...

  by cognac in

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  good lord... anyways, i took your advice and played it cool.

  my brother told me my parents feel really bad about hurting me.

  my mother made me lunch.

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  Emma

  And my other sister (the one who was a complete jerk to me) sat there with a dirty look the whole time. She would not say ONE WORD to me. Just sat there as I was talking with the whole family with a dirty, mad look.

  Is her name Lorraine? Oh, wait, that's my sister.

  I'm glad things went better than expected.
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  Mom says "The end is sooooooooooooooo close now"

  by dazednotconfused in

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  i have been faded for a long time now and of course my immediate family are in "intervention mode".

  the latest c.o.

  visit in my moms cong stressed the fact that "the end is sooooooooooooooooo close now" - we must do everything for jehovah and his organization before its too late.

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  Emma

  Imagine looking back at a lifetime wasted working for a printing company that demanded overtime, interfered with your family life, and didn't pay you a dime.

  They desperately want/need justification for their efforts.

  That's why they have to keep believing its just around the corner. They've invested their entire life and being. They can't have wasted their entire life so it has to be close. I can imagine how desperate they would be if they let themselves think they might have been wrong. I think thats when you'd see individuals mixing up their own Kool-ade.
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  Big News or rumor!

  by Burger Time in

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  2. friends

  a friend just informed me that the c/o in his hall will be instructing the elders that anyone with a child in college will be stripped of privileges in the hall.

  i am not sure if this is true this is just what i was told.

  it could be that it is only a campaign directed at him as he has some ties to ex-jw's and some how got found out.

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  Emma

  I was in a small congregation in PA in a university town in the '70's; an elder sent his son to college and the boe removed him. He was sort of a vip, had been at bethel, friend of knorr but these small town, uneducated elders still removed him. I'd moved away and don't know if he appealed or how it turned out.

  What I can't see is how they'd make exceptions. If they do that, why bother as a jw can find a justification for anything.