CruithneLaLuna
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Calling all - PLEASE!!! Big Step For Me.
by Doubtfully Yours innow, please remember, jw my entire life.
therefore, many prejudiced and warped ideas.. the deal is that a very nice co-worker invited me to a 'christmas play' at her baptist church and i accepted.
the play is tonight, and i have all these messed-up ideas that perhaps it's wrong to step foot into another church; or that perhaps since i've been taught all my life that demons reside in the false religion churches that i'll be bothered by these demons if i attend this event tonight.. please, help me win over these live-long thoughts.
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Dallas Aposto-Pix
by Country Girl infirst, let me say thanks to all our wonderful hosts/hostesses in dallas for arranging this great weekend.
everyone had such a good time, and there are so many funny things that happened!
special thanks to jesika and her boyfriend for letting me stay at their house, and providing all the beer for me and jesika's wild friday night.
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I just realized something...
by LuckyNun inif i'd just pretended to have an anxiety disorder and had a few panic attacks while out in service, i could have been spared the horrors of theocratic ministry school and going out in service.
i would've missed out on a lot of field-service trips to edward's apple orchard, but i could have stayed at home and put off getting baptized until i had enough money saved from my paper routes to make a proper break for it!
why didn't i think of this ten years ago?
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On to the next stage of being shunned
by CruithneLaLuna inif anyone can be said to have "asked for it" by their behavior, i suppose it would be me.
not only did i turn my back on the organization and walk away, but i got involved with "false religion," and wrose yet with neo-paganism and the occult.
(oooh, creepy!
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Esoteric Wisdom,Does it Exist?
by Blueblades inthe dictionary states:esoteric,intended for or understood by only a chosen few,as an inner group of disciples or initiates( said of ideas,literature,etc.
)beyond the understanding or knowledge of most people;abstruse,hard to understand.. a large percentage of the jehovah's witnesses believe that a certain,"aura of esoteric wisdom"is existent during the governing body sessions.they believe that an unusually high level,manifesting more than ordinary scriptual knowledge and spiritual wisdom give its pronouncements an importance above and beyond that of normally accorded words of imperfect men.. the fact that the average witness has only a misty idea of the way that the leadership arrives at its conclusions adds to the "aura of esoteric wisdom".. for those of us who have come to realize that esoteric wisdom does not exist with the governing body of the witnesses,my question to you is,does it exist at all,if so,who has it?.
blueblades,and the search continues.
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Hello again
by CruithneLaLuna ini've been "away" for two or three weeks.
life has been busy and interesting.
i realized that i hadn't posted here in a while, so "i'm back," responding to a couple of people's topics.
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new to the forum
by kgrrl inhello...just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.
my name is kelli.
i was raised as a jehovah witness by my mother.
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My brother died last night
by doodle-v inmy brother turned 21 on september 24th, a month later the doctor told him that his leukimia had returned and he had a 10% chance of surviving.
ten days before he died he spent four days at my house.
he had already made up his mind that he wasnt going to take blood.
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Should I have said something?
by Beans ingrowing up i was discriminated for being german and italian not only that my ears grew before i did and was also called dumbo.
so combine that with square head, nazi and wop and being made fun of for being a jw getting in fights as a kid was very frequent.. so now you can pretty much call me anything you want and i really just don't care, got used to it and it just rolls off me.
so last week i am at a small birthday party and this guy was making some coments about germans and calling his boss "a crusty old kraut" among other things.
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Infidelity amongst JWs
by YellowLab indoes there seem to be a higher incidence of infidelity amongst the jws?.
my brother, who is an active jw and ministerial servant, has an elder friend who was recently disfellowshipped for having an affair with another sister in the hall.
it turns out this sister was divorced a few years earlier from a "worldly" man who had an affair on her.