Wasanelder Once

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  What would you like to have known about JWs before deciding whether to get baptised?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you could go back in time and tell yourself one thing about jws would you do it?

  and what would you choose to say to yourself?

  do you think you could have convinced yourself not to get baptised if you chose the right thing to say?

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  Wasanelder Once

  I would have told myself to wait and watch to see if they really the identifying mark of "Love among themselves" that they tout so loudly. I would have explained "love bombing" and encouraged my younger self to see how its working out for newly baptized ones after they were dunked. Most of all I would have encouraged patience to see how it all functions. It would have helped I know it.
  
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  " you will never grow old..."

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
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  " you will never grow old..." a more grievous lie is hard to imagine.

  i heard this one first in 1957. i was 6. my mother had just converted.

  i heard it many times after that.

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  I heard that trope when I was young but it stopped being a common saying in the 90's. People could sense the culling of the herd by death after death of supposed "undying" brothers and sisters. It was something unmentionable by the time the 2000's came about. No one had the guts to even venture it forth. Its good to be 65 considering the alternative. Happy birthday if that is the fact.
  
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  Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

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  How can any terrorist attack be called Nice? I am appalled. Wait, oh never mind.
  
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  The story of a secret Apostate Anointed

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the remarkable sister pettifog.

  this morning i arrived on my bicycle at the local starbucks early, before the intensity of the texas sun boiled to full blaze rendering me a soggy, wrung out mess.. i took up my perch on the outdoor patio in the shade, eager to work on my book of short stories.

  this will be my 3rd book and i’ve been enjoying the process daily.. .

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  It was well written, don't get me wrong. It was just was past my attention span which was that of a gnat yesterday, lol. Keep 'em coming.
  
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  The story of a secret Apostate Anointed

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the remarkable sister pettifog.

  this morning i arrived on my bicycle at the local starbucks early, before the intensity of the texas sun boiled to full blaze rendering me a soggy, wrung out mess.. i took up my perch on the outdoor patio in the shade, eager to work on my book of short stories.

  this will be my 3rd book and i’ve been enjoying the process daily.. .

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  ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ wasn't expecting a tome. Did he die?

  
  
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  "Well now at least they get a ressurection!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yes, that is what a witness said after the police shootings and terrible aftermath of violence occurred this week in the usa..... they said that it now gives them a chance to live forever...as if they would not have had that opportunity if they had not been tragically killed..... of course according to witness teachings, the contradictory thing is that if the big a had come a day before, then those same people would have been killed by jehovah because they were not his worshipers.....

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  There seems to always be a loophole in any hard fast teaching. Of course they won't except the loophole that there is no "True" religion.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses face £1m legal bill after young girl was sexually abused by one of its members

  by Researchedandenlightened in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hopefully more financial trouble for them to come in uk !!.

  jehovah's witnesses face £1m legal bill after young girl was sexually abused by one of its membersread more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jehovah-s-witnesses-face-1m-legal-bill-after-young-girl-was-sexually-abused-by-one-of-its-members/story-29491614-detail/story.html#ixzz4dqkbhccq follow us: @leicester_merc on twitter | leicestermercury on facebookread more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jehovah-s-witnesses-face-1m-legal-bill-after-young-girl-was-sexually-abused-by-one-of-its-members/story-29491614-detail/story.html#hel6rjg74wdprrdh.99.

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  Now you know the REAL reason they are taking the money, and printing, out of the UK and moving it around.
  
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  It won’t be much longer now.

  by Tameria2001 in

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  a couple weeks back my husband got a phone call from his brother, whom he hasn’t spoken to in nearly 17 years.

  well i take that back, he did speak to him at the family reunion, asking him to leave.

  my husband basically told him to f off, he would leave when he’s darn good and ready, but he didn’t use the word darn.

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  An upside down crucifix. That's the ticket.

  "Recently, however, it is common for the upside-down cross to be used as a symbol of atheism, humanism, and the occult. Several black metal bands use an inverted cross to call attention to their supposed devotion to Satan. Upside-down crosses appear in horror movies such as The Omen and The Conjuring as a signal of demonic activity. The symbol crops up in tattoos, on pendants, and as a logo on t-shirts. Sometimes, it is accompanied by statements such as “Believe in Yourself,” “There Is No God,” “Black Mass,” or “Not Transformed.” In these contexts, the obvious intent of the inverted cross is to declare an opposition to Christianity. Turning the cross upside down becomes a means of denying the truth of Christ and mocking His sacrifice.
  
  So, what is the meaning of an upside-down cross? It depends on the context. When the symbol is used in a church setting, it is most likely a reference to Peter and the manner of his death. In other contexts the inverted cross is often an anti-Christian symbol. In our fallen world, holiness is often mocked and what is good and pure is twisted by the “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4). " Google result for upside down crucifix.
  
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  Helped with fathers funeral, helped with arranging care for my mother - then SHUNNED again!!

  by EssexBoy1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well i have not been on this site for ages - so long that i had forgotten my username etc and have had to start again!.

  anyway briefly - bought up in 'the truth', baptised at 18, married at 21, had kids, got divorced, remarried, disfellowshipped 15 years ago.. parents and brother shun me.. early last year father very ill, calls me.

  i arrange to visit him in hospital.

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  Well, they used you for "necessary business", that being; getting your contribution to caring for your mum and input as someone who obviously can work with worldly people to get her situated. Then of course, you're no longer necessary for business. Fools. Good to see you back.
  
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  Disfellowshipping Question

  by Elizabeth Thompson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been a baptized witness for about 30 years.

  from the time i was a kid.

  i've been the only one in my family who is baptized until 15 years later when my mother got baptized.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Run Forest run! Say nothing. Leave it all behind and enjoy your life.