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  Forum maintenance

  by Simon in

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  i 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 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about 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 in

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  this 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 in

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  that 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i 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 in

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  ok, 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 in

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  2. bible

  well 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 .

  net:.

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  Emma

  Both are disgusting. WTS is ruling it's followers with fear and coercion.
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  New here, well, sort of...

  by L3G in

  1. jw
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  been lurking here for years but finally decided to come out, at least partially.

  of all things, the post of 'bats in the belfry' re: the supposed break up of gb member geoffrey jackson and his cute (ex-?

  ) fiancee a few days ago spurred me to do so.

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  Emma

  It doesn't seem like the break up is the point to our new member, but the fact that the org has admitted to having various degrees of "badness."

  Emma
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  No more big District Conventions?

  by serenitynow! in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i went to the hall today for a funeral and took a look at the bulletin board.

  i was surprised to see a letter stating the dc for michigan would be held at the local assembly hall instead of the big convention center in ohio where it had been held the past few years.

  have you all heard about this?.

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  Emma

  "Bulletin" is worse than you think, lol. I was told it was because it came from the catholic church, the Pope posting the papal bulls - thus bulletin. Wouldn't want to be contaminated with anything pagan, don't ya know.
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  Just found out Emma & Crmsicl went to same HS

  by crmsicl in

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  i noticed that emma on jwn was from michigan.

  i am from mi now living in wa.

  so, a long shot, i know it's a big state but something about her made me think we were from the same area.

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  Emma

  Thanks to crmscl for putting this together. What a small world! We're making connections, they go back a bit. Of course she's MUCH younger than me.. I've reconnected with three people from my past from this forum, so happy about this latest one.

  Emma