Toronto_Guy
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hello all - new here
by GoingGoingGone inhello everyone, this is my first post.... i'm in the process of fading after being a jw my entire life (almost).
i don't go to meetings anymore..... hubby's an elder, and boy, is he mad.
he still makes the kids go with him to meetings, service, etc... they hate it and i feel sorry for them, but there's not much i can do about it.. i've been feeling lonely today, i do miss my friends sometimes, and i have really good friends, but since i don't go to meetings i never see them much anymore.
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"National Companies", a MLM scam?
by Fatfreek ini attended, with my wife, a meeting last night.
the mlm company is called "national companies", and sells two packages, each a two year agreement.
i can't find any internet dialog, pro or con, about this company which is supposed to have started up mid 90's.
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Jehovah's Witnesses as "a people......"
by ScoobySnax inwho out of all you nasty old apostates (tm) will agree with me, that if you take the gb that you dislike so much, and the watchtower that you hate out of the picture, will agree with me that at the end of the day, and on the whole, jw's really are a good bunch of people.
i did my same old rekky last sunday at the gillingham convention, and will have a good look around next sunday at twickenham convention.
i've been in lots of crowds, at stadiums and arenas, but an assembly is something else, it is somehow unique, its somehow different from any other crowds, there is a deep sense of "togetherness" i've not see any where else.
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Feeling really sad and worried
by Sad emo ini feel really sad and worried today.
yesterday, the police announced that those evil people things who carried out the london bombings came from my own county of west yorkshire.
on my way to work today, i walked through the market hall where there are both muslim and non-muslim stall holders.
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Bethany Hughes case - www.cp24.com
by Toronto_Guy inhttp://www.pulse24.com/news/top_story/20050624-021/page.asp
bethany hughes had a choice to make and it cost her her life.
the 17-year-old alberta resident was a devout jehovahs witness who was diagnosed with leukemia.
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Do you hate the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by logansrun in.
a simple question: do you hate the religion of jehovah's witnesses?
feel free to elaborate on your answer.. b.
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JW's and Material Love
by JH in1 john 2:15
15 do not be loving either the world or the things in the world.
if anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him; 16 because everything in the world?the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one?s means of life?does not originate with the father, but originates with the world.
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Martial Law: Rise of the Police State: free download
by Ianone in1. http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/alex_jones_-_martial_law_911__1_of_3_.wmv .
people being arrested for taking pictures and cameras smashed, the fuji police blimp, interviews with good and bad cops, michael moore exposed as the fake liberal corporate neo-con pawn that he is and how he did'nt even really get into 911" so why did he call his phony right left distraction ferinheit 911?
protesters being arrested,police crack down,the dumb communist and there disinfo,911 facts, the camps set up in ny, the secret police around the country.
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is America No. 1?
by Pleasuredome inthis is an interesting article i found.
i guess if you were to ask anyone on a street anywhere in the world what they think is the leading developed country in the world, they'd probably say the us.
so with that in mind, here's some interesting statistics.... .
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Whatever happened to the pioneer-assist program?
by Goldminer in.
i remember about 5 or 6 years ago,they introduced the pioneer-assist program at one of the service meetings.the purpose of of this program was for the spiritually-strong pioneers to go out in service with an r&f member on a weekly basis for about 6 months to help build up others in the congregation.part of this was because in the mid to late 90's a large number of people had become jw's and they wanted to make good publishers with them.. anyways,my wife was quickly signed up as was another young sister down the road.my wife was excited about it and was really hoping to benefit spiritually.within a few weeks though,her pioneer partner started making up excuses why she couldn't go out with my wife until eventually their arrangement just petered out.the young sister down the road was also quickly ditched;the pioneer saying she had to care for her elderly mother(she didn't stop pioneering though).before long the pioneer clique was back to normal and the spiritually-strong pioneers were again going out in service with other spiritually-strong pioneers.i don't recall any updates or the program itself ever mentioned again at the kingdom hall,like it was just a bad experiment or a major burden on the pioneers.. does anyone have any experiences with the pioneer-assist program?