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  email fwd from my mom: utter BS..bet the sheeple eat this crap up and MY REACTION

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  i received this crap from my jw mom today.

  i hope it doesn't "encourage" you to go back .

  you see, when i left, i immediately felt the relief of not being burned all the time by all of the gossip that occurs within the congregations, circuits, etc.

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  Emma

  I wonder if this started our as an illustration, as in getting a "G" for illustrations in the ministry school. Ich - I really don't like remembering all that!
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  NEW GENERATION DEFINED -- April 15, 2010 Watchtower

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from jw.org, here is the new definition of the generation from the april 15, 2010 watchtower.. .

  article: holy spirits role in the outworking of jehovahs purpose.

  13 third, holy spirit is at work in bringing bible.

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  Emma

  I would like to have been a fly on the wall when the GB took the vote on this one!
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  NEW GENERATION DEFINED -- April 15, 2010 Watchtower

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from jw.org, here is the new definition of the generation from the april 15, 2010 watchtower.. .

  article: holy spirits role in the outworking of jehovahs purpose.

  13 third, holy spirit is at work in bringing bible.

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  Emma

  I think my mom would have had trouble with this. I know there was a faint desperation in her as she got old. She and my grandmother came into the "truth" in the early 1950s because my uncle and grandfather had died and they wanted to see them again in "paradise" and also had great fear of death for themselves. There have got to be people who are in who are desperately trying to hold on.
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  NEW GENERATION DEFINED -- April 15, 2010 Watchtower

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from jw.org, here is the new definition of the generation from the april 15, 2010 watchtower.. .

  article: holy spirits role in the outworking of jehovahs purpose.

  13 third, holy spirit is at work in bringing bible.

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  Emma

  "I love the line He evidently meant?!? Why are you putting words and exagerated convoluted meaning into what Jesus said? "

  Amen. This is lukewarm swill; when will the members get sick of swallowing?
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  If the Watchtower truly collapsed, how would you deal with your JW relatives?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. friends

  imagine the best case scenario.

  the watchtower society implodes from within even making final printed admissions that it is voluntarily dismantling it's mission and legally dissolving the corporations.

  oh happy day!

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  Emma

  What Zoiks and Carpediem said.
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  Directory

  by Outaservice in

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  having been out of the organization for 20 years now and having visited/attended a few churches since then, i've noticed that most have a church directory listing the regular attenders, members or not.. this is handy in trying to learn about various ones in the church, and in the event you want to send them a card, invite them over for a meal, and or a host of other reasons.. i always wondered why directories never existed for various jw congregations?

  are they afraid of mass mailings of jw's that leave?

  cannot the 'truth' stand up concerning everything they teach?

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  Emma

  Why are they so paranoid?

  Because if the end comes you don't want the list falling into the wrong hands!

  And, you might also want to use it for something social; that's not allowed.
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  Changing WT wording

  by KingAgag in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the recent thread about 'millions now living may/will never die', purplesofa said that the wts changed wording on watchtowers between magazine and bound volume.

  i'd be interested to see some examples please!

  this could be very useful to help someone i know see they are fallible.

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  Emma

  Thanks Blondie. If we could only find a way to get our "still in" families to read this. When I stopped attending meetings, my sister's greatest fear was that I'd read "apostate" literature. For her that was worse than adultery or anything else. She would be the one with her hands over her ears so as not to hear what might be the truth.

  What are they so afraid of? Why do they think they'll be so easily misled?
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  Cookies

  by beksbks in

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  who will be making cookies, and what sort have you planned?.

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  Emma

  Me. Sugar cookies, oatmeal-cherry-walnut, chocolate chip, already made; tonight, molasses. My daughter will visit and make another four or five varieties that she gives as gifts.

  What about you?
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  Share Your Favorite Aphorisms

  by Farkel in

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  i'm a great fan of aphorisms.

  zen has some of the classic ones.

  the moral consequences of doing whatever you do is that you will be the sort of person who did that.. "it's best to ride the horse in the direction it's going.".

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  Emma

  Live and learn; die and forget it all.
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  Does anyone find it too painful to read the WTS publications?

  by dissed in

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  2. friends

  been out 13 years and even for research purposes, i find it way too painful to read this wt stuff.. and why?.

  all the painful memories it brings back.

  don't misread me, it has nothing to do with a guilty conscience.. it has to do with the real pain, the anger of being ripped off and lied too by the wts, the anger of seing how they have protected child molesters, sacrificed its followers by refusing blood transfusions, the treacherous way we and others were treated by the 'unloving brothers'.

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  Emma

  Not painful but nauseating. Literally.