Madame Quixote

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  Fade Unsuccessful

  by FadingELD in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am new to this site but have been lurking for a while now.

  i have not told my story yet because i am in the middle of a situation i had hoped to avoid.

  my wife is still a jw in good standing, my two sons were dfd a year ago.

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  Reading a Novel. An act of empathy.

  by Open mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've always felt just a teeny-tiny twinge of guilty pleasure whenever i plunge into a work of fiction.

  especially if it's a huge novel.

  i'm sure this is some combination of puritan work ethic and residual "time of the end" jwism.

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  The Average JW WILL NOT Leave!!!!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you could have stupid new light every week published and the vast majority aren't going anywhere.

  you could see proof of contradiction after contradiction right in front of your nose, if you're a witness.

  and you still won't budge.. the reason: mental and spiritual laziness.

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  exiting the watchtower

  by jacethespace in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  hi im new to this forum and am currently trying to exite the watchtower.for the past 12 months or more i have stopped going on the ministry.in august last year i stopped going to the meetings but depression kicked in and other symptoms and i returned to the meetings in april.i stopped going to the meetings again in july and did more research to see if this is a cult.but im having all sorts of symptoms.confusion of whats right and wrong, panic attacks when i go out, one minute i hate the watchtower the next i wonder whether this is the truth and wonder if ive been mislead by satan.i dont know who to trust and where to go from here.and none of my family was ever in the watchtower so i think they know somethings going on but they can,t understand what im going through.ive been in the watchtower since 1999 off and on, i finally got baptized in 2005 after what i thought was carefull examination of the truth.and whats worse is the elder i studied with when i came into the " truth" lives right next door to me with his wife, which plays all sorts of guilt trips on me and paranoia.

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  Is America unofficially a theocracy?

  by Madame Quixote in

  1. social
  2. current

  rational thinkers want candidates and the powers that be to address this question publically via the youtube question & answer thingy.

  you can go there and vote for "answer" at:.

  http://www.communitycounts.us/debates/?q=repubdebate&ans=all&menu=&search=is+america+unofficially+a+theocracy%3f&all=1.

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  Does it matter whether you bought into it?

  by tall penguin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my time on the boards and my personal experience, it seems to me that those who really bought into what the org taught, in other words, tried to be a "good little jw", have a harder time when they discover it's all crap as compared to those who perhaps were "fringe" jw's or those who were living a "double life" or had doubts for a while.

  he had been having doubts for a while and had been perusing jwd four years before he left.

  he also had a more "normal" time as a teenager as he lived a "double life".

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  What am I doing wrong?

  by tsunami_rid3r in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't make enough money to pay my bills, and i attend school full-time 17 hours and work part-time at jamba juice 15 hours per week.

  this is only giving me $375.

  thats just enough to cover rent.

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  So who moved Ockham's Razor? interesting take on 9/11 conspiracy theories

  by coffee_black in

  1. social
  2. current

  i read this in the providence journal today... found it really interesting.. .

  so who moved ockhams razor?.

  01:00 am edt on sunday, october 7, 2007. .

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  Come on people! Can we inundate this paper with protests?

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mean, there is so much bullshit talk on this site, and every time there comes up an opportunity to take some action, you all just wus out.

  what will it take for you all to get a spine and do something?

  write a letter or email to this paper and let them know how you feel about their article.

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  The Other Side of the Wall

  by changeling in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the other side of the wall.

  i recently learned that the meaning of the word "paradise" comes from the persian language and means: walled garden.

  funny thing is, ive been taught from infancy that the word simply meant "garden", which sounds lovely and desirable.

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