Topics Started by SnailsPace2

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How to get through an Assembly?
by kaxozula in
1. jw
2. friends
me just learning the truth about the truth has just made it hard to even get through a two hour meeting at the the kingdom hall.

i get so sleepy during them and i almost cannot contain it!

the last time i went to a convention, i was still an avid believer but as you can see, that has changed.
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DEC 2013 WT Article - Slave for Jehovah - warning: ranting ahead
by ohnightdivine in
1. jw
2. friends
this morning's wt study almost made me vomit, stand up, pick up my bag and rush to the door.. of course it never happened.

instead, i was able to make some nice drawings on my tablet and notepad.. if you replace the name jehovah with watchtower, or the governing 8 men, it would really make sense.. what's up with all that nonstop guilt-mongering about education and having a decent job?!.

most people look down on the uneducated, and i remember, when i didn't have a job, nobody cared!.
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Interesting view on JW's by UN legal
by snare&racket in
1. jw
2. friends
a recently deceased human right worker howard clark who worked for watchtower co rights, remembered..... "i knew howard basically on the c.o.

issues which had become an agenda item at the u.n. commission on human rights, which met in geneva.

however, as countries dropped conscription in favor of a professional military or developed alternatives to military service, the only c.o.s left were members of the watchtower society (jehovahs witnesses), whose theology seemed strange to howard, all the more so that in some watchtower publications, the returning jesus seems less nonviolent than the first time around!
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My little guy asked me why I don't go to the meetings
by SnailsPace2 in
1. social
2. family
i just wanted to share a cute story about my 6 year old.

he has been asking me why i haven't been going to the meetings recently.

i couldn't avoid it any longer so i sat down with him and told him that mommy has learned some things from the bible that is different from what the meetings teach.
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Quite an interesting first meeting with my Therapist.
by truthseekeriam in
1. jw
2. friends
the moment i mentioned jehovah's witnesses he headed over to his file cabinet and handed me this print out.. .

dear beloved one, .

i see your loneliness and fears.
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VERY CONFIDENTIAL LETTER - Child abuse 10/01/2012
by WatchTower87 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
confidential letter child abuse http://adf.ly/auxbu.

to all bodies of elders.

the congregation secretary should arrange for this letter to be retained in the congregation permanent file of policy letters.
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Christmas - love it or leave it?
by Xanthippe in
1. jw
2. friends
i am just watching my neighbours across the road putting up christmas lights while their children run around bursting with excitement.

i am feeling all christmassy now.

can't wait for my daughter to come home from uni next weekend so we can go and buy a tree from the garden centre.
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post meeting dirty moods.
by zeb in
1. social
2. relationships
so you are 'out' and the other in 'in'.

do they come home with the grumps after every meeting?.
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Hello everyone! I could use some advice
by SnailsPace2 in
1. social
2. family
most of the time i just lurk .

lots of times throughout the day.

however, something has come up that i would like some advice on, especially from members who were exiting the jw religion with young children.. .
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Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?
by Nathan Natas in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

how "real" do they seem?

is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?