Topics Started by alias
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My decision about "family shunning"
by Gojira_101 insince i've been off work this week because of spring break, i've really been missing my grandma.
when i have left wt (i'm fading and april will be 6 months) and i told her about january, she has been shunning me.
i told myself "i will respect her wishes/decision..etc" this morning i woke up and said "to hell with shunning!
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Yet another "Shunning is good for you, honest!" quote in the June 15th 2013 Watchtower
by cedars inhi folks.
that's right, the new june 15th 2013 study edition is out now on this link.... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.
the following quote caught my eye, from the final study article on page 28.... .
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A keyboard confessional...
by nibbled inyou guys don't know me, i'm new here.
i'm typing on an iphone (pardon any random weird iphone auto-spell corrections) and could walk home to get to my laptop but i might lose the courage to post what comes to my heart to share right now.
worse and more likely, i'll simply not be able to express what i felt right now... if i wait until i have a proper keyboard.
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Not Sure What I Believe In Anymore
by nuthouse escapee ininside my head is a tangled ball of wool when it comes to what i believe.
i have days where i believe in a creator and other days when i don't.
then there are times when i refer to this as believing in 'something' but what exactly this something is, i have no idea.
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Do you come here seeking?
by alias ini'm just curious at how many others might spend time on this website hoping to make sense of it all, despite being brought up or converted to jw after leaving.
i can't seem to fill the hole of my existential crisis after fading out.
the spectrum of atheism to beliving still doesn't fill the gap.
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Opening the bible at random - once spoken of approvingly, now superstitious!
by cedars inthe latest december 15th study edition of the watchtower opens with an intriguing article entitled "beware of superstitious use of the bible".. as an example of what constitutes "superstitious use" of the bible, it has this to say.... .
"perhaps a more common misuse of the bible is the practice of bibliomancy.
it refers to opening at random a book, often the bible, and reading the text that first meets the eye in the belief that those words will provide needed guidance.
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Have you ever wondered why as Jehovah's Witnesses you ignored the inconsistencies, lies and hypocricies of the Watchtower's Governing Body for so long?
by matt2414 inhere are a few examples of what i overlooked for so long:.
1. the watchtower often praised rutherford's 1918 talk "millions now living will never die.
" however, everyone who had ever heard that talk was dead.. 2. the governing body urges the placement of the watchtower's "bible" literature with strangers.
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EX JW's Retro
by Victor_E inthis is a test to see how retro you are.. do you remember?.
doc bob.
watchtower observer.
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Yin & Yang
by N.drew inthere is a whole lot of nasty stuff on forum*.. me too, i am guilty.. so then, maybe balance is a good thing and more balance is something to seek.. is it so hard to be nice once in a while?.
when someone is nice, some posters cry groupy.
(is that a word?).
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Well, 2011 is gone and...
by WTWizard inremember obves, with all his complicated formulas forecasting that the end was coming in 2011?
virtually everything was about 2011, and there were formulas that "proved(??
)" that the god-inspired end was coming in 2011 for sure.