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  "No Apologies is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses"

  by No Apologies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sometimes i just don't know when to keep my big mouth shut.

  today i think finally said enough to get da'd.. for those of you just tuning in, a recap: about 2-3 years i came to realize everything i had been taught as a jw was a load of steaming turds.

  since then i have managed to fade away more or less, without incident.

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  dedpoet

  NA, so sorry that you had to go through that, it just illustrates what a "loving" organisation most of us on here have left.
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  Loving my new job so far!!!!

  by Es in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey all .

  well im on my lunch break thought id quickly say hi and that so far job is going great.its funny leaving the office\bosses home and simply walking downstairs into my unit for lunch .

  i have already stuffed something up tho so waiting eagerly for him to come back from meetings to fix it for me.. but so far all is great and we are pretty comfy round each other which is nice.. .

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  dedpoet

  Glad you are enjoying it Es, hope it goes well for you
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  The RatMan cometh!!! LMAO, You have got to see this!!!

  by Elsewhere in

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  ratman!!

  !

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  dedpoet

  Thanks Else, that was so funny, I have to pass that one on to my friends
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  Who Was The Number One Musical Group or Singer Of All Time?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some say it's the beatles.

  they certainly did leave their mark on the world.

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  dedpoet

  I have always been a Led Zeppelin fan myself, I saw them live several times, and never saw anyone bettet
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  Bible Quiz....lets see what you remember

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  take the test .

  lower than 5 good answers, you'll get a bible study .

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  dedpoet

  I got 2/10, probably the 2 most of us got
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  CHEATING ON FIELD SERVICE

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  towards the end of my time as a jw, i must confess to cheating whilst out on field service.. 1. i would turn up at the field service arrangement with my wife, and we would say that we were working together that day to do return visits.

  as everyone went out, we would simply get into our car and drive home.

  (hypocritical i know).

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  dedpoet

  I didn't cheat until I became a regular pioneer, then the other pioneers in the cong taught me how to be "creative" with my service report, like offerring a passer by a tract as soon as I left my house on the way to the field service meeting meant I could count all the time from then on. I soon got the hang of it
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  Greetings

  by Severus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a brief introduction to get me started.

  i am still one of jehovah's witnesses although delicately extricating myself from this complicated situation.

  i have family to be concerned about, and this still binds me to the religion like a fragile cobweb.. i wonder that the jw paranoia of harry potter was what initially piqued my interest?

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  dedpoet

  Hi Severus

  Welcome to the board
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  ****FlyingHighNow** **Birthday** **Celebration*******

  by horrible life in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  happy birthday flyinghighnow !!!!!!!!

  i hope you have a wonderful day.

  keep flying!!

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  dedpoet

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY FHN

  HAVE A GREAT DAY
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  Very few know even the basic doctrines of the Witnesses

  by joelbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  after 131 years of preaching around the world.

  its a losing battle.

  there are fewer people today in the us that know witness doctrine or what witnesses would call "the good news of the kingdom".

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  dedpoet

  defd says "we have a website".

  I wonder how many hits it gets from interested people?

  Many of my friends are online, and none of them have ever visited it. Most of them have never been visited by jws either, and this in a relatively small city (population about 300,000), with 9 congs in it. The ones that have had a visit tell me that the jws just wanted to hand the mags over without any real explanation as to what they were about. The ones that accepted literature were never visited again, even though the dubs said they would be back. One girl even agreed to a return visit the following week, at the same time. She was at home, but the dubs never showed up. Not that she was interested anyway, but if she had been it wouldn't have mattered as they didn't keep the appointment.
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  If you want to help with hurricane relief, just put it in the regular box

  by atypical in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  was anyone else there to hear the letter about this?

  a few weeks ago, right after the new orleans disaster, a letter from the society was read which said that if we wanted to contribute to the relief effort, we should put the money in the regular wordwide work box.

  it said that the society would apportion the appropriate amount for relief.. the letter then went on to relate how a bunch of families were saved because they were out of town at assembly, and how the brothers were going through the superdome with a watchtower in their pocket to pick out witnesses and take them somewhere better.. that letter blew me away and left me shaking my head.

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  ....I don't understand why more witnesses aren't raising hell about this....

  I understand why. Most of them have totally lost the power of independent thinking.