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  MY PROJECT IS (FINALLY) FINISHED!

  by Mary in

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  for those of you who are interested, the project i've been working on for the last few months is finally finished.

  i originally did a thread about it back in april: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/156497/1.ashx.

  it seems that alot of us still have family members in the religion and have not infrequent arguments with them about some of the beliefs and practices.

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  amazonian

  I would very much like the information you have gathered. I have many family members still in the "truth". When I try to reach them by reasoning with the Bible, they are already thinking about the scriptures they are told to use during the Theocratic Ministry school meeting. I used to be the same way. I was raised by my mother and grandmother in this religion but was fortunate enough to have a father that does not practice any certain religion. So I had a little bit more freedom than all of the other young people did in our congregation. Later in life, I decided to go back to the Kingdom Hall and I studied for four years with them. Every time I went to be baptized, I became really sick and knew that something was not o.k. So I finally had a confrontation with three elders who could not disfellowship me but had to do something because I was able to see that things were not adding up and I wanted answers. They decided that I should not be able to go into the house to house work due to my having apostate literature in my home. The literature they were referring to was the books about additional books of the Bible that are not included in the Bible cannon. I firmly agreed with them and told them that I could not understand a lot of what they preach. They had talked my 15 year old son into baptism and almost was able to turn him against me. I just kept being patient and finally was able to let him see what was going on. He still has a relationship with God but does not involve himself with the Witnesses. I am so thankful that he is free also. I still have a brother and sisters and a mom that try to talk to me and I want to be able to say the right things at the right time to help them to see that things are not adding up. The real big thing for me was when they had the announcement about changing to the one meeting during the week instead of the two meetings and one on Sunday. The elders had really come down hard on my son about missing meetings for work and wanted him to quit his job at 16 years old. He was missing Tuesday night meeting and they took away his KH privileges (microphones). Now they are taking away that meeting due to high gas prices. What happened to the scripture that they always use in Hebrews about gathering together all the more so as we behold the day drawing near? So my family really had nothing to say other than the faithful and discreet slave knows what they are doing. I want as much ammunition as I can come up with and will never stop until they know the other side. I am so appreciative of your efforts to help everybody by working on this project for six months and then offering everything to everyone free of charge. Please send it all to me. Thanks so much for all of your christian love. [email protected] (Donna)