What a beautiful experience; thanks so much for sharing. Emma
Posts by Emma
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7fantastic day!!
by chicken little inwe all stood under an old walnut tree, gathered around a homemade alter with a basin and jug set upon it.. a female ordained priest led the ancient ceremony of christening the child into the christian faith.
the sun broke out as we sang a hymn.
of praise.
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Protesting and Demonstrating at District Convention
by jabberwock inhas anyone who has attended a district convention this year seen any protestors or demonstrators?.
have you ever protested or demonstrated or maybe even handed out literature at a convention or assembly?
what happened?
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Hello everyone
by Wordlygirl ini have been lurking on here for some time and i finally decided to join the fray.
i am 25 years old and was raised in the society.
fortunately when i was 8, my father left the organization and this allowed me to see the wrold from both angles, the jw (mom) and not (dad).. at first, i was strongly on the side of the witnesses and i even allowed myself to be convinced that getting baptised at 11 was a good idea.
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whats the best memorial you DID NOT attend?
by darth frosty inevery body has a thread about r u attending the memorial or whats gon happen who's gon partake...what i want to know whats the best memorial that you missed or skipped?.
for me it was the first memorial i missed.
i stopped going to the hal in 04 but, got conned into going to the memorial in 05. in 06 i wasn't having any of it.
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My first one. We'd gone to Cancun. i remember looking up at the huge moon hovering over the ocean and how remarkably peaceful it felt. It wasn't ujntil we got home and found a memorial invite that I realized what night it was that I was admiring the moon. Haven't been since and that must have been fifteen years ago - how time flies.
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Read
by mother-ice inmark 12:30. and you must love jehovah your god with your whole heart.
and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with.
your whole strength.. .
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Question Box in new May KM...more spin of things to come
by TooBad TooSad ini have a scan of the question box but i can't figure out how to upload it so i. will just type it out.
i can guarantee you that only we who post on this web.
by jehovah's witnesses have different logos.. congregations or individuals should not use logos or names of the organization's legal.
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Choosing Death (for born ins)
by brinjen init's a powerful weapon isn't it?
death.
it was used on all of us at one stage when we were inside of that cult.
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Emma
I thought I was choosing death; what bothered me was that I was likely choosing death for my kids, too, and yet even that could not get me back to a k.h. I knew I'd never go back; that was freeing for me, and that last bit of thinking that "they" may just be right still wasn't strong enough to make me do it. There was almost something physical making me know I'd left for good. How evil they are, manipulating people into the inaction of leaving by death threats!
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Dumest thing you did !!
by cluless ini thought i would enjoy a few hours cathing up on events on the board.. i purchased a kebab pizza and opend a cold beer.
unfortunately i put my cigarette butt out in the newly opend beer can-.
okay by my standards thats not dumb...but has anyone done a dumer thing whilst on this board?.
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i am 20 minutes away from a sheparding call........
by oompa infirst one in at least 5 years.......wife does not want to sit in and i just told her if she does not, then i am not either.....this loss of faith thingy has really been rough on our marriage.......i have decided to not bring up a single issue i have........i will relate to them my illustration of the taxi driver who keeps giving out bad directions i posted yesterday.......i think what will surprise them maybe is that my loss of faith goes way beyond wt.......i have lost virtually faith in the bible and god......one has already told the "first place to start is to get going to the meetings again!"....lmao!!!.........
i hope their programed brains can grasp that maybe you need faith in a god first.....then find out what method (or book) he is using to educate us if he wants to....and then if you feel the need....look around to find out if there is a group of folks who all have similar beliefs.........this should be interesting...........oompa.
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We Don't Want to Know Why You're Leaving
by passwordprotected inour exit from the watch tower society was fairly speedy.
within about 3 months, we'd ceased attending meetings and lost all of our friends (apart from hobo ken and his wife).. what was shocking - and only confirmed that we were right to leave - was how our decision was met by our so-called friends.. we were leaving behind people whom we'd enjoyed friendship for over 20 years.
we were leaving behind friends who were closer to us than our own families were.
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Emma
What a great analogy! My family "wanted to know" why but what the were looking for was a confession that I'd committed a terrible sin that I couldn't face up to. Nothing was further from the truth
"My wife and jumped off the bridge 8 years ago, we landed O.K., the water was deep and we had a soft landing.
The water was running fast, so we soon lost sight of the bridge and its onlookers.
KT"
Me, too!