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Shephering Visit - Update
by stevieb1 inyou may have read my thread from last week entitled "my personal turmoil" in which i discussed my congregation elders wanting to meet with me to "encourage" me to believe that jehovah is using the watchtower society as his organization.
i said in that thread that i had told them to leave me alone, well anyway on tuesday night the same elder phoned me to accept a "shephering visit" and again i refused.
not taking no for an answer he approached me again in the kingdom hall on thursday and told me that i must accept a shepherding visit out of necessity because i was in spiritual danger and the elders wanted to "help".
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"Not Watchtower, not witness"
by ashitaka inthat's what an elder told a friend i know when they confronted him about his beliefs-"if you don't believe everything that the watchtower prints, then you're not a servant of god.".
just another instance of the elevation of an earthly magazine about the word of god.
ever heard of the bible?
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Battered Women 8/8/01
by silentlambs ini am stunned.. with all the effort to try and make the issue of abuse known through silentlambs.
the hundreds of accounts given by victims explaining the foundation of why watchtower policy hurts children.
the lawsuits now being enacted to make watchtower compensate those injured by their policy.
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satan has mislead you
by Kent infrom: "steve salmio" < [email protected]>.
to: [email protected].
bcc: .
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Anyone ever wanna do this during a meeting?
by Stiffy injust jump up on stage, rip off your suit to reveal a punk rocker out fit.
pull out yer guitar... and play stairway to heaven?
durring the middle of an assembly, jump out of your seat, fly around the auditorium screaming , "satan is my king!
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My JW Mothers' Words Of "Love"
by Ranchette inwell, i just received a letter from my mom and i dont know how to describe my feelings at this time.
i thought id share parts of it with you and see what yall think.
i will delete names and add my own words in parenthesis to describe whom shes talking about.. after a few lines of small talk she says this..........i do want to tell you, since (you and your husband) have rejected the truth, i am so glad (your son) is not old enough to join or be drafted into the military.
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Elder burn-out
by roybatty inwhile responding to another post, i started to wonder how many other current or former elders out there have also seen the high turnover rate among elders.
before i left the jws a couple of years ago, i was an elder for about 4 years and within that time i saw the local elder body drop from eight to four people.
even before that it seemed that the elder body had a revolving door on it.
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Post WTBTS Life
by Angst ini have been inactive for about three and a half years now and just recently after making some big changes in my life have i made a commitment not to return to the "organization".
for quite awhile now i've just felt like i was apathetic towards religion.
now i'm disgusted by religion, religious dogma, and fanaticism.. one thing that i've noticed in those i deal with that are ex-witnesses is that many tend to swing the exact opposite direction once they leave.
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Questions for our brand 'Newbies'
by LDH incould you please tell us all how long you lurked before you decided to join us?.
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and if i missed anyone, i'm sorry.
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The Hypocrisy of the Governing Body
by radar inif the rank and file members of jehovahs witnesses reject the watchtower's thinking on bible doctrine in some way, they are considered apostate.. yet the governing body of j.ws, themselves have rejected teachings of previous governing body members who have long since died and have proceeded to change interpreatation on things many times over,from russell to fred franz.
guess what they call it..........apostasy?.
no, this is called new light.. .