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  No more book study nights !!!!!

  by Iwonder17 in

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  so i went to our "last" book study night last night.

  there were actually people crying during the last prayer !!!!

  omg.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Most of my older ones will be gone in the next 5 years. If I felt or sensed they really wanted me to be straight with them, I would in a heartbeat. However what I am hearing in their voices is panicky desperation. I don't wanna push them over an edge when their chances of surviving and overcoming is so little.

  Agreed, I refrain from giving my Mom the full story for that reason. She finds comfort at her Hall. To quote a JW aphorism: "To where would she go to"?

  Lisavegas-To just reinforce what oompa said, IMO its social. After all the book study material is now going to be considered on the TMS/SM night.

  Isaac
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  Recently Received Wacky JW Spam re: UN Destroying Religion

  by Olin Moyles Ghost in

  1. watchtower
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  i recently received the following email.

  i don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the sender.

  it looks like i'm not the first person on this board to receive this email (see http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/166981/1.ashx).

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  I didn't realize this was around for so long. I'd never heard it. I bet the newbies don't realize that either otherwise 'Whatever your mission is, get it done quickly, for it won't be long now!' would sound real stupid.

  Isaac
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  No more book study nights !!!!!

  by Iwonder17 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i went to our "last" book study night last night.

  there were actually people crying during the last prayer !!!!

  omg.

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  truthsetsonefree

  I know it is very hard for them with all these changes

  Yknot-Amazing. My Mom says the same thing. She asks me why the changes. Needless to say I have some answers she isn't always comnfortable with.

  Isaac
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  No more book study nights !!!!!

  by Iwonder17 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i went to our "last" book study night last night.

  there were actually people crying during the last prayer !!!!

  omg.

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  truthsetsonefree

  My Mom called me to tell me how she wished I was there. How great an experience it was. It was like saying good-bye for the last time to a loved one for her. She said she gave extra comments because she probably won't get to comment much at the large congregation book study and commenting is such a privilege. (Mind you my Mom by HER admission can't understand half of what those books are all about!)

  I guess thinking back to some of the book studies I've had I might have felt the same about no longer having intimate contact with the people. It was for some like having a mini gathering once a week. Now they just have the big boring meetings.

  Isaac
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  Are you still considered an outcast because of your JW past?

  by Quirky1 in

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  even though i no longer proclaim being a jw it seems to have tarnished my relationship with others, including family and even co-workers.

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  i feel as tho i am still treated differently than others..

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  truthsetsonefree

  I open up to my co-workers when they ask about my being a JW. Thus many have helped in my exit. Their support was/is phenomenal. Further I had made such a gradual transition that I had "worldly friends" (including co-workers) while a JW. Leaving just gave us a way to spend more time together. Its to the point now that I rarely even feel like I was a JW. (I stay in touch because of a desire to help others with my experiences, my daughter and family members, and the old friends I hope to see leave one day.) Further I deliberately didn't live in my territory so the community didn't know me as a JW. If anything I was known as the PTA President at my daughter's school. Of course it helps to live in such a crowded place like NYC. Small towns are probably very different. Now that I've moved again due to divorce I am making more new friends who know nothing of my past. My last GF knew. Now any new ones probably won't for a while as I very much want to remain an ex ex-JW. Just some of my experiences which of course do not reflect what others may be going through.

  Isaac Carmignani
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  End of the Year, End of the Board Thread

  by Farkel in

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  what say ye?

  this is, after all, an end of an era of the most important jw discussion board since any boards existed.

  major stuff has been revealed here.

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  This is/was hISTORY IN THE MAKING FOLKS! If you cannot see it, you do not deserve to see it.

  Amen to that!

  Isaac
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  Recently Received Wacky JW Spam re: UN Destroying Religion

  by Olin Moyles Ghost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently received the following email.

  i don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the sender.

  it looks like i'm not the first person on this board to receive this email (see http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/166981/1.ashx).

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  truthsetsonefree

  Talk about a ridiculous story. This guy actually believed that he was being filled in on policy? From whom? The UN is ultimately run by the Security Council's five permanent voting members. He was allegedly talking to some committee that has little to do with the UN's overall mission. And it wouldn't surprise me if that committee member was being VERY tongue-in-cheek when he made the comment. Provided that the tale is even true and not some passed down, changed a hundred times in the telling urban myth. These are the foolish stories that Witnesses rely on to validate their outlandish beliefs. No wonder they are forever getting disappointed.

  Isaac Carmignani
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  RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008

  by faundy in

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  have posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:

  i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.

  he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.

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  truthsetsonefree

  I am truly sorry for your loss. Ian will live on and be missed here.

  Isaac
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  How is Your Life Going ? What do you Hope to Accomplish in 2009 ?

  by flipper in

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  so how are things going for you folks ?

  times are tough economically for sure for lots of people.

  things going well for you otherwise in your life ?

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  truthsetsonefree

  Up to now life is going wonderful. Freedom is more than I could ever have hoped for. For 2009 I will be the best at my job that I can be, continue college, love and educate my daughter, begin a meaningful relationship with a lovely woman, and continue to educate people about the WT.

  Isaac
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  Joel Osteen on Larry KIng

  by Scarred for life in

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  i just saw joel osteen on larry king on cnn.

  i don't know a lot about joel osteen.

  i've never read his books or watched him on tv but i was struck with how positive he is and how upbeat and encouraging his message is.

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  I first saw him when I was traveling in the Mid-West. I was a dub then and I was impressed. He was tracking what I thought was the Bible's message, and particularly Christianity's much closer than WT. Now I haven't heard all his material. And quite frankly I'm through with religion. But watching him did help me when I needed some spiritual uplifting while still a JW. Isaac