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  Do not Disassociate, Anull your baptism

  by jwfacts in

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  i am now a jedi, so trust me on this.. .

  why dis-associate, you are just playing by the wts rules?

  how can you dis-associate anyway, you never thought you were baptised as a watchtower society member, you thought your dedication was to god, so why formally disassociate from something you did not formally join?

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  stillAwitness

  By the way jwfacts.. out of all the anti-jw sites out there I use yours the most often. Its on my favorites list. Its clear, simple and easy for an outsider to understand. Good show, my friend
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  Do not Disassociate, Anull your baptism

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am now a jedi, so trust me on this.. .

  why dis-associate, you are just playing by the wts rules?

  how can you dis-associate anyway, you never thought you were baptised as a watchtower society member, you thought your dedication was to god, so why formally disassociate from something you did not formally join?

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  They will not read your letter. They will not discuss it. They will not think about it.

  This is what I have heard to be the case. I remember a talk was once given that instructed the con. to not read letters written by JW's that include any points that refute "bible" teachings and to immedietly discard them. After the first line, sounds to me you'd be screwed. But I would probably try having my baptism annulled if I was angry and fed up enough to the point where I just did not care anymore. I was a minor at that time and all I remember during the review of the questions was to "smile and nod and maybe mom will finally get off my back"
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  Best, worst and weirdest assembly halls...

  by Jamelle in

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  2. friends

  a recent thread about the experience of attending the 1969 convention as a young child really started me thinking.

  i have several fuzzy memories of assemblies i attended as very young child.

  this got me onto the track of the rather odd, uncomfortable or even really cool buildings i have visited over the years as a result of those conventions.. so my questions to everyone are:.

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  stillAwitness

  My favorite assembly hall has to be the newly purchased convention hall in West Palm Beach. Of course when I was attending it was still being renovated and I don't think the WT had purchased the building yet. But its fun to walk the grounds and chat with the brothers who act all goody goody but always slip them your number on the last day. I've always thought it was fun to go out to eat during the noon break and all the witneses slow down traffic when there crossing the streets. But I HATE the woman's bathrooms! The lines are long, they stink so bad and there's never ever any enough toilet paper!
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  Thank you!

  by Hawkeye in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thank you to all who have welcomed me to the forum.

  i can't believe it.

  i never was welcomed like this in the cong.

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  stillAwitness

  Good for you Hawk! By the way..
  

  So far, I haven't heard anything from any witnesses I did send it to. I don't expect that I will either

  Don't mean to burst your bubble but correct me if I'm wrong here but I remember hearing that any D'A letter that includes any ref. to "apostasy" the JW's are instructed to disregard immedietly.
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  Bro. Schroeder dies

  by bythesea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just received this news from a bro who has connections in bethel.... .

  bro albert d schroeder died at 10:30 am new york time today at brooklyn bethel...he was 94 yrs old.. he was born on april 7, 1911 in saginaw, michigan and entered bethel service in 1932. he was appointed a member of the governing body on december 18, 1974. bro schroeder's life story appeared in the march 1, '88 wt pages 10-17: entitled: "my life in jehovah's spirit-directed organization.".

  i don't know if the "today" means it was actually today...as i can't be sure when my friend received this news... but anyway, another of the old guys bites the dust.. .

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  stillAwitness

  Thanks for including that article DogPatch. I will say a prayer to Jesus tonight which sounds so foreign to me but then again can all 6 billion people on the planet be wrong?
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  PAYPAL ACCOUNT SET UP FOR DONATIONS FOR LAWSUIT AGAINST THE WATCHTOWER

  by SHUNNED FATHER in

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  2. friends

  thankyou for wanting to help.

  i believe i have a good chance of winning this lawsuit.

  the watchtower lawyers are defendants and have tried three times to have the lawsuit thrown out and have failed.

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  stillAwitness

  Look I don't have much, I have just enough for books for next semester but I did have a little set aside for going to dinner and whatnot that I want to contribute. This means so much more than any night out. But I've never done pay pal before. Is that a site I have to go to? Why the email address then. Someone explain please.
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  Did You Lead A "Double Life"?

  by minimus in

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  i believe jehovah's witnesses are trained to learn how to live a double life.

  we were trained to use subterfuge with teachers, the law, doctors and the courts.

  we were trained in "theocratic strategy" .

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  stillAwitness

  I led three lives.

  Ha! Good one! I feel the same way. But I'm with collegegirl..I still live that life now and yeah..it helps when ya wanna multi-task It does get hard sometimes. I have been trained to lie so well since I was 14 and sometimes I don't really know who I am anymore.
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  It REALLY does hurt

  by inaneframe in

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  2. friends

  where to begin?

  new here... i was raised jehovah's witness and am still confused by the experience.

  heh, deep down i think i still feel guilty for even coming here.

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  stillAwitness

  There is also really deep seated conditioning to defend the organization and not to do anything that would tarnish it's name. It goes down to a much more subconscious level than one might expect and is extremly hard to root out.

  My thoughts exactly. Its like having a terrible mother but she's still your mother no matter how bad she treated you and you'd be damned to let someone speak bad about you.
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  Hello from LadyLee

  by Scully in

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  i hadn't seen ladylee posting the last few days - it's not like her to leave without letting us know that she's going away, and i was getting worried, so i called her this morning.. she called me back... she's fine, but her computer is not.

  it had a major crash a few days ago, and she's been trying to get it up and running ever since.. let's make sure she knows that she's missed!

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  stillAwitness

  You called her? Heeey! No fair. I don't have anyone off JWD to call
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  Insight Book on CD-ROM under CHRONOLOGY different from print version.

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 453 (vol 1) of the printed books states:

  a babylonian clay tablet is helpful for connecting babylonian chronology with biblical chronology.

  tebet, night of the 14th, two and a half double hours [five hours] at night before morning [in the latter part of the night], the disc of the moon was eclipsed; the whole course visible; over the southern and northern part the eclipse reached.

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  stillAwitness

  Evidently implies "maybe" as opposed to it being a true fact. They use words like that all the time including" possibly, apparently etc