They come around my neighborhood every couple of years. Last week two young "sisters" knocked (didn't ring the bell?) and I answered. I just smiled and said "no." They said OK and just turned around to leave, didn't even try to engage me at all. They had what looked like a small, pale-pink brochure. I have no idea what they were pushing. I just don't care to get into any discussion with them.
Posts by Emma
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22Do You Often See JWs Out In The Ministry?
by minimus ini used to always see them preaching.
now, it seems as though they rarely are around.
the only witnesses i see, every once in a while, are the hispanic ones..
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What's the weirdest health advice given by a JW?
by Julia Orwell infrom radio biola to a sister who said you can treat autism and ptsd with scented oils, jws have had some weird some weird ideas about medicine.
what gems have you heard?.
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Emma
Cancer is caused by parasites in your body. Drink a special tea and give yourself enemas and the parasites and cancer would come out. Really! If you looked in the toilet you'd be able to see them. (and this may not even be the wierdest.)
One sister believed that radiation hit your roof, from the sun i guess, and to be healthy you had to climb up on your roof and wipe a plastic bag full of salt across it. That would take care of the radiation once and for all. This particular sister sadly died of untreated breast cancer because she believed she could pull the tumor out with hot, herbal compresses. Left three kids.
There was an "herbalist" in our circuit who could tell what was wrong with you by looking and listening to your symptoms. You could be cured by drinking quarts of nasty tea and giving yourself enemas with the same tea. Our congregation also believed in a grape diet that included, you guessed it, multiple enemas a day!
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JW grandmother in hospital
by Apostating inthis morning i received a text from my dad that my grandmother tripped and fell.
she broke here hip and shoulder.
i just came back from visiting her.
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Emma
How difficult; you are a good person, hope the family sees that on some level. Emma
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Forum maintenance
by Simon ini will be doing some maintenance on the forum today so don't be surprised if some pages take a while to load now and again, you get an error or the site doesn't respond at all.. if this happens, please just wait a minute and retry.. many thanks!.
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Emma
Simon, just want to say I'm so happy you're still running this site!!
Thanks so much; I've come so far!
Emma
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Yesterday I met a poster from JWN
by crmsicl inabout 4 months ago i pm'd poster "emma" because i noticed she was from the same state i grew up in.
i told her about myself and where i grew up, i was not a jw growing up but she was.
as we communicated we eventually realized that we were from the same neck of the woods and then even from the same high school and graduating class.
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Emma
It was great to meet you and your husband, crmsicl. The visit went so quickly. I'm glad you made the effort to contact me! That old vocabulary rolled off our tongues, lol, and it was great to hear your story and your perspective.
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Just around the corner: 2014
by Gorbatchov inthis week i had to apply my daughter for ballet lessons, for the new season.
on the registration document was printed with bold letters.
"season 2013 / 2014".. when my eye caught 2014 i was thinking: what?
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Emma
I don't know. Have they been spouting 1914? They may just want it to fade into the background. I wonder if the newer/younger ones have had that drilled into them.
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Do You Ever Feel Like You're At A Kingdom Hall Sometimes In This Place?
by minimus inthat question is not necessarily a negative one.
there are so many different types of people here and you have your ex elders and former zealots and weaker personalities and everything in between.. sometimes, not all the time, it's hard to see the behavioral difference between a former jw and a current one..
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Emma
Every hall I was in had a smell from those little moth-ball smelling things they put in the toilets to make it smell clean. Yuck. Just made me sick and wonder how dirty the hall really was. And they always smelled slightly moldy, too
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How can a "God, who Cannot Lie" (Titus 1:2) justify DESTRUCTION?
by fedup ini was raised as a jw, most of my family is still in, i regular pioneered for 5 years, elder for even longer.
preached for over 40 years that the 1914 generation will see the end, etc, etc... believed every single word, and preached it with total conviction.. i have not been active for approx 7 years, completely faded now, mainly because i couldn't believe a loving god would destroy me, after coming to terms with and admiting i was preaching a lie.. i'm extremely happy i'm out, although still hitched to it somehow by my past, i guess like many of us on here.. i do have a question for all jws.. how can "god, who cannot lie" a god which is love, justify destroying the world, including all of us that left, and saving only the jws, when for decades one of the main teachings of the jws has proved to be a lie?
a teaching no one wants to discuss anymore, which got covered up by a new light, which most can't even explain.
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Emma
the "god" of the bible doesn't have to justify anything. By example, neither does the wts. Just my thoughts.
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How long has this been going on!?
by Julia Orwell inok, i've suddenly got heaps of time for stuff, i can cuddle with my husband on weekend mornings, and i don't have to spend money on meeting clothes!
i've got all these great clothes i hardly wear!
we can make pancakes on saturday mornings!
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Emma
Thanks for the wonderful reminder. I remember that feeling of freedom, colors were brighter, the sky opened up! Still appreciate the freedom from useless drudgery. I do volunteer, have wonderful friends, sleep in on the weekends if I want!!! In a way I feel sorry for the witnesses whenever I see them trudging door to door.
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Bible Teach Book has been getting a facelift WT Style
by RayPublisher inwell the book they use to conduct bible studies is already showing its age, and just like the changes they made to the live forever book they are doing it to the bible teach book as well.
here is something i found on the kool aid site jw talk .
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Emma
Both are disgusting. WTS is ruling it's followers with fear and coercion.