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Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(
by reniaa ini've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!
i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.
they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".
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Thank you Ray
by seek2find inlet's all thank ray franz and his associates for making the 2 books available in pdf download version.
thanks ray!
sorry if this has already been discussed, i might have missed it.
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Preface to meeting comments, what were your LEAST faves?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ini used to think "just spit it out already!!!
" those pre-comment comments like.
.. "well, brother.
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New study shows JWs have the lowest retention rate of US religions
by M.J. inthe pew forum has put out a report called the "us religious landscape survey.
", as reported in the boston globe: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/more_americans_2.html .
of note is this quote from the actual report summary: .
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"secondary worship", obeisance, Jesus
by NanaR infriends:.
i have a question for the researchers here.
i tried to do a search, but the word "worship" brings up way too many posts to filter through.. i remember as a young jw being told that jws render "secondary worship" to jesus christ.
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TOP THIS for a speeding ticket...
by zeroday intwo california highway patrol officers were conducting speeding enforcement on i-15 north of the marines air station miramar.
one of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching near the crest of a hill.. the officers were suddenly suprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour.
the officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and turned off.. just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked onto a usmc f/a-18 hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.. back at the chp headquarters the patrol captain fired off a complaint to the usmc base commander.. back came a reply in true usmc style: thank you for the message, which allows us to complete the file on this incident.
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Yet another crazy Scientology Video
by mavie inhttp://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=hfu7sr50n7u.
the emphasis is on selling books, sound familiar?.
notice the use of a hand grenade to 'bust' psychiatry.. worldwide protest against scientology feb 10th.
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Wife filling out her "No Blood" card wants my thoughts TODAY.
by OnTheWayOut inwhile i am going to do my research (again), i would love to hear your thoughts-.
especially those of you who have said something to a loved one about the .
card, whether it was a good or bad thing to say.. my wife will fill out her "no blood" card today and take it to the meeting for the .
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Col 2:16-19 in CO's talk
by lookingnow25 init's time for my once every 3 years visit.
started out lookingnow22, then lookingnow25, now it could be lookingnow28.
still struggling in the org.
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Well I wish I was in the land of cotton....66 degrees F today
by dawg income on southerners, sing with me now.... and for all you yankees, and cannooks/snowbirds.... sunny and 66 degrees f today.... visibility of 10 miles.... .
we have just enought winter here in athens, georgia, home of those beloved university of georgia bulldawgs, for me to want it to go away, and usually when i'm getting sick of it, here comes the sun..... how's it where you all are?.