anglise
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My first time
by anglise indo you remember your first meeting?.
the first meeting i ever went to was a thursday night and they where going through the school guide book for the instruction talk.. i just couldnt believe that they spent 20 min with question and answers at the end on how to write a letter, but being new i thought that somewhere there must have been something deeper and spiritual and i had missed it.. unfortunately it didnt stop me going back for another 20 years.. do you remember your first time?
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Assemblies...conventions...special days...
by NikL inthere is a phenomenon in dub dom that i have always hated.
the circuit/district convention.. people will spend hard earned money, use up any vacation they may have to travel to a city they don't really have any particular reason to see to sit for entire days and listen to the same b.s.
they could sit and listen to at the meetings in their home kingdom hall.
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Need Some Help!!!
by Moridin ini recently heard that the elders have a book written by the wtbts that is given to a parent who has a spouse who left the org or to grandparents who have children that left the org.
the book is designed to help you turn the children against the unbelievers so that you can get custody of them.
if there is anyone with any info on this please either post here or send me an email.
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Leaving without losing
by somebody ingood afternoon all,.
after reading so many stories about people separating from their husbands/wives once the one of them stops attending meetings, i was wondering how someone could tell their spouse when they first starting learning the truth about the truth.
i know there are couples who got out together on this board.
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DO THE GB HAVE A CONSCIENCE?
by anglise inas you read of all the "flip-flops" and the cover ups and even blatent lies that the gb has published throughout the years doesnt it make you wonder how they can do it.. if they really believe there is an all powerful being whom they represent how can they actively be so misleading and dishonest in full knowledge that he sees and knows what they are doing.. "9 for, as regards jehovah, his eyes are roving about through all the earth to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him.
you have acted foolishly respecting this, for from now on there will exist wars against you.
" 2 chron 16v9.
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The Internet Saves
by anglise inreplying to a thread lower down made me wonder how did those who left the org years ago cope.. today we have access to virtually all the information in the world via the internet, so its not hard to find others who have had the same experiences that you have and to learn from them.. but even just a few years ago this was almost impossible.. when we came into the org in the early 1980's we did reseach as far as we were able but didnt find much in our local library.. so we were caught!!!.
those leaving the org back then must have felt isolated and even more frustrated then we do today.. i can remember being told about protesters outside conventions etc and that you musnt read their placards or take their tracts, but obviously it was the only way they had to try and help those inside the org see the real truth.. surely the thought of such an isolated existence kept many from taking the final steps to freeing themselves.. can any here relate to that.. .
edited by - anglise on 27 february 2001 17:58:22
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What's your ethical guide?
by expatbrit inon what do you base your moral judgements now that you've left the wts?.
as jw's we used to allow the wt to direct us in any ethical question.
they would give us their opinion (claiming it to be bible-based).
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KANSAS OR OZ?
by Frenchy ini mean c'mon people, how long are 'we' going to vent?
i have met people who have been 'out' for well over twenty years, and they still talk about the watchtower as if they never left or as if they left yesterdayrr in a response on the thread: don't you have a single good thing to say?'.
are we perhaps all whistling in the dark?
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GOOD AFTERNOON, JEHOVAH!
by Englishman inisn`t it strange that jw`s have such a problem with ex`s?
try as they might to hang their watchtower labels onto me, i just don`t seem to be the person that they think that i should be!.
i think that i`ve become far more honest than the average jw.
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Question to adult convertees
by expatbrit ini'm going through the forehead smacking phase of wt recovery.. how could i ever have believed this stuff?
(smack!).
and for so long?