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  OOps think i opened the floodgates (and I dont mean heaven)

  by PoppyR in

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  2. friends

  so... last night i had the dreaded conversation with my mother.

  she phoned and asked if she could 'help' me with the truth.

  i just could not pretend any more i was missing meetings cos i was depressed or any other reason, i just told her i was having doubts about the whole thing and did not see the point in leading a double life and 'limping along'.

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  The GREAT tribulation

  by PoppyR in

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  2. beliefs

  does anyone else remember horror stories about the great tribulation and what they would do to the witnesses etc.. i remember this being the big topic of conversation for years, then like lots of jw doctrine, they quietly swept it out of the arena, and now it's never mentioned.

  i remember pioneering with a girl who couldn't sleep at night and kept praying she'd be strong enough to endure it!

  i actually have a talk on tape from a member of the gb where he spoke about ministers swinging from lamposts.. gruesome or what!!

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  lions and lambs, is it just me or is it hard to imagine them being buddies.

  by PoppyR in

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  you know something i could never get my head around.. well another thing!

  i have a dog, and yes i know dogs can survive on a vegetarian diet, but the smells are not great .

  poppy x

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  Can anyone tell me about the UN

  by PoppyR in

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  2. scandals

  i'm so sorry that i'm sure everytime somone new joins you're going over the same thing again, but all this is very new to me, in fact i've done very little this past week except read articles and cross reference the wt cd rom..lol, everyone thinks i'm getting spiritual again, anyway!

  i have read several references to the jws and the un.. can anyone shed some light on the matter, ie point me in the direction of good posts or articles about it, as i'm still unclear what has been going on.

  i'm most interested in the facts of the case which is what i think this board is best at!.

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  This is not a brighter light it's a lie

  by PoppyR in

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  2. scandals

  ok... i just found this and i know it's been posted before, but i had to comment!!

  i have tried to justify some of the changes, but this one can only be a lie.

  it's a direct quote apparently from something somebody said.. so he either said 'within fifteen years' or he said 'soon'.. it is not possible it's just become clearer what he said, or they misheard him the first time.

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  Rollercoaster Ride

  by PoppyR in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey everyone.

  just want to say after finding this site and others just a few days ago i feel like my world is upside down.

  i just dont know what to believe.

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  All the things I disagree with

  by PoppyR in

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  last night i sat down and wrote a list of all the things i have disagreed with ..sometimes silently sometimes loudly over the years, some of these are.. yoga, mediation, hypnosis (all of which i have done, enjoyed and benefited from and none of which have cleared my mind) oral sex (no comment .

  on another note.. got stopped by a mormon in the town today, he asked me if i was religious.. i said "i used to be a jw".. and as i walked away i almost hopped skipped and jumped, first time i've said it out loud, and it felt good.. poppy xx

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  What do you call God

  by PoppyR in

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  2. bible

  ok, very interested to know, for those of you that still have a faith, and it seems many do.

  what do you refer to god as?

  is jehovah correct, is it not, is it too associated with jws for you to carry on doing that?

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  586 607 Jerusalem destroyed.

  by PoppyR in

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  2. bible

  hi guys, new!

  and i'm sure this has been covered, but i find the site has no search for me to look, so sorry if you've discussed it to death.

  for the first time last night i came across information about 586 being the actual year jerusalem was destroyed.

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  Scales falling from my eyes. (very long!)

  by PoppyR in

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  2. experiences

  hi everyone, totally new here.

  and still associating with jws... have been baptised 23 years, that was at the tender age of 13 when i had absolutely no idea what i was doing.

  i have always been considered a rebel...brought up in a family by a single parent, my two brothers are both elders, the younger being a regular pioneer, my sister a regular pioneer and serving in a foreign language congregation.

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