Topics Started by mama
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Has Anyone Ever Been "Shafted" By The Organization??
by minimus insince i've been re-reading crisis of conscience, i've come to appreciate that many good people have been "shafted" by those in the "truth".
franz and company got the boot.
my mom got removed as a regular pioneer.
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So I saw an old JW friend last night at ........the bar???
by Dustin inso i got home from a long day of work yesterday, and decided i was gonna go to the bar and chill out for a little while.
so i'm sitting around talking to some other people i knew, when all of a sudden i see an ex-jw friend walk in.
now he was never great association, but my parents just told me how he was doing so well spiritually in our monthly "why don't you come back to the hall" conversation.
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Was that really necessary?
by The JellyBaby ini was just relating an experience to my kids about times i felt embarrassed as a youngster.. i gave them a story about the time i was going to the meetings.
we had a congregational outing to a zoo.
a time for team building and all that!!
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Attention Canucks!
by funkyderek into any canadians on the board, especially quebecois.
my girlfriend and i going to quebec in either february or march.
we plan to visit montreal and/or quebec city as well as doing some skiing (most likely on mont tremblant).
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Did YOU Ever Experience A "Spiritual Paradise"????
by minimus inthe watchtower society regularly talks about how jehovah's witnesses are unique.
so unique----they alone enjoy a "spiritual paradise".
while you were a witness, were you ever in "spiritual paradise"??
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When did the Watchtower first allow appeals against disfellowshipping?
by steve2 inmany thanks for the people who answered my first question about whether appeals against disfellowshipping have ever been successful.
given that the appeal process may on rare occasions work in the individual's favour, does any one know
1) when the watchtower first introduced the right of appeal and
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the creation book
by mama inwhen the tsuami, not sure if i spelled that correctly, hit and information poured in my husband made a comment i had never even thought of, the news report that he was watching had scientists on explaining how the t had actually nocked the earth off its orbital course, to which he says, " i guess they will have to throw out the creation book now", of course meaning the references in the book about how life could not exist under any circumstances other than the current orbit,etc.
well, now that the earth is rotating on a different orbit, life still exists.
p.s., i am not a scientist in any way and if i have explained this incorrectly, feel free to enlighten me.
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Why I am leaving JWD
by logansrun ini'm leaving this forum...at least temporarily.
as i mentioned in conversation over dinner at the chicago apostafest, my upcoming school schedule (which begins next week) combined with my workload will make it very difficult to be an active member on this forum.
perhaps i'll check in occassionaly when life is a little slower but for now i'd better distance myself from the on-line scene or else the other elements in my life will suffer.
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Lost, Confused, and Hurting .....
by Daizzy inhi everyone, i don't mean to burden anyone with my problems, but hope that i can get some feedback.
in sept. i met a guy whom i assumed was happily married.
we worked together for 4 weeks at the first job and became pretty close friends.by then i already knew how much i was liking him.
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I need help...really really bad...
by crazzae`face ini'm almost to the point of an emotional breakdown.
i go out with this guy he's 20, a jw and i'm a 16yr.
he basically breaks all the rules in the book; adultry, sex;oral, drugs, drinking, partying, he's even growing a little chin,bottom and top lip hair.