greendawn
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Any famous relatives?
by greendawn indo you by any chance have any famous relatives?
i personally don't have any, not living ones anyway.
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The most irritating dub(s) you had to put up with?
by greendawn infor me it was a ministerial servant a real boor who always told me off and humiliated me for all sorts of silly reasons whenever i went to the fs group that he headed.
i soon stopped going there.
he even gave talks that were incredibly boring and brain duling and not surprisingly i recently heard that in his mid fourties he abandoned his aging wife who was of a similar age and run away with a woman in her early twenties that is half his age.
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What do you miss from yesteryear?
by greendawn ini met a childhood friend recently and he told me with nostalgia that he recalled the childhood days as being very pleasant.
i told him they would be since we were living under the protection of our parents who took care of all our needs and we had no worries about anything.
it would be like paradise.
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A warning would be fair
by greendawn ingiven the often devastating consequences of disassociation and disfellowshipping isn't it fair that those studying with the jws should be explicitly warned about these precedures in advance so that they know where they walking into?
so that they would be able to better judge whether they want to become jws and potentially risk losing jw family and friends at some future time?
how many of you would get baptised into the cult if you really knew about the policies of dfing and shunning?
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What is your heritage?
by greendawn inso what is it?
i say mine is english with an admixture of german (before the nazis ever existed, no need to go on about that) northern french and italian from venice.
i look northern european and feel close to that part of the world with family tradition being roman catholic.
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Restaurants and bad experiences
by greendawn inpeople in countries like the usa and britain take for granted eating out as if eating always at home will be a maddening experience, the social dimension with a change of environment is needed.
but there are some bad experiences as this: once in a restaurant i went to pay before eating my pancakes and as my companion also went to the toilet at the same time one of them went and very quickly in seconds took away the pancakes which were totally intact, without me seeing them from the paying point.
very sneaky.
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JWs and the fear of death
by greendawn inthere was a recent thread on whether the wts attracts emotionally disturbed individuals which is unlikely to be the case since so many jws do not fit that description.
later i thought perhaps the wts appeals to people that deep inside have a fear of death which is scientifically called thanatophobia (from the greek word thanatos which means death) an excessive and abnormal fear of death.
what do you think, many jws find it very difficult to come to terms with the inevitability of their (and everyone else's) death and the wts plays with this fear and makes them believe that the end of this world and immortality for the dubs are very near.
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Shunning of ex JW family members imposed or optional?
by greendawn insome supportes of the jws argue that the wts does not impose on its followers to shun and disgrace ex jw family members, it leaves them the option to decide on the issue and some shun and others do not.
is that an honest arguments or is it like the blood issue where the wts supposedly doesn't impose on its members the decision to refuse blood?
for all we know the non shunning of ex jw family members except for absolutely necessary contact could lead a jw to dfing.
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The elders serving whose interests?
by greendawn inthe wts claims that the elders are an arrangement by jehovah to lovingly take care of his flock.
this is a typically misleading statement by the fds using the usual smooth talking and references to a divine connection to deceive the r&f.
neither the elders are jehovah's arrangement nor the jws are jehovah's flock.
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The JW end of times perception
by greendawn inone wonders how the jws arrived at their well known way of looking at the end of times.
biblically it has no support direct or indirect.
biblically what will happen is that those belonging to the church will be raptured that is taken up to heaven and there is no mention anywhere of any faithful remaining behind on the earth.