Thirdson
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How Many Here Changed Their Personality After Leaving The Witnesses?
by minimus inare you still the same basic person that you were when you were a witness.
if you were idealstic, then, are you still now?
if you were a pessimist, are you an optimist, now?
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Do You Remember the Day of Your Baptism?
by minimus inyour baptism date is supposed to be the most important time of your life.
i was 9 years old when i took the plunge.
i remember my baptism, mostly because, i was baptized twice.
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Was There Ever A Circuit Overseer That You Couldn't Stand?
by minimus ini know this has been discussed before but i think a fresh thread on this will be enjoyable.
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Where do the Gov Body get buried?
by Prisca injust curious here.... where do the governing body and other senior bethelite members in brooklyn get buried when they die?
is there a central cemetery where they all get buried/cremated?
who pays for the funeral expenses?.
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What is your favorite Broadway show?
by LyinEyes ini have never seen a broadway show in person, but i have it on my to do list before i die..... of course there are some local shows that are being done that i want to take my children to see.
i think it will be alot of fun, especially for my daughter who adores the musical,,,,,,,cats.........we rented the video of the musical cats,and i have watched most of it.
as a jw i never pursued my interest in the arts, and i let that part of me die.
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Difference of age
by JH inso many times in the jw, i saw couples getting married.
but what struck me so often was the difference in age between the man and wife.
often the man was 15-25 years older than the woman.
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Generation of 1914 BEGONE!
by UnDisfellowshipped inanother false prophecy by the watchtower society:.
awake!, november 8th 1986 issue, page 8:.
awake!, november 8th 1994 issue, page 10:.
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20/20 SHOW LAST NIGHT
by Mary indid anyone watch 20/20 last night?
here's what one of the stories was about;.
quite a few women who had planned on dedicating their lives to their country, have come forth to tell the horrors they've encountered while at training at the air force base (in colorado i think).. many women have been raped repeatedly by "superior officers".
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What Would Jesus Do? or rather has not DONE
by Thirdson ini know i am mainly preaching to the choir with this, but there are plenty of lurkers.
i used to lurk on the old h2o when i first began having doubts and i bet there are a lot more jws today who still want to believe they are part of god's org but see the many human failings of the so-called "visible organization.".
one of, if not the only, unique teachings of jehovah's witnesses is that jesus came back (has returned, is present) and in 1919 chose the watchtower society's board of directors as his representative governing body (except they didn't know they were a governing body nor did they know they were chosen since at the time they thought jesus had been back earlier and chosen them when russell was in charge).. so let's assume that jesus did come back in 1914, what has he done?
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Kingdom Hall Alarm codes.
by JEMIMAH injust back from renovating my holiday home in the south west of france.
beats yorkshire anyday.... anyway thought i would share this little account with you.. as most are of you are aware, the alarm code for about 90% of kingdom halls is 1914 (nineteen fourteen).. i t seems though that for the last 8 or 9 quick builds or refurbs in the uk, the brother who installed the numbers into the alarm control panel used the numbers 1975 and explained the number as one nine seven five not the the easier version (ninteen seventy five).. trivial joke or honest mistake, either way this poor brother has been rumbled and has to to meet with 2 elders investigating on behalf of a body of elders to see whether an apostasy charge will be brought.. he is supposed to be meeting with them over the next few days.. .
a very sad jem, who is sick of the whole elder abuse game.