PoppyR
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4 into 3
by PoppyR inso in a town close to where i live there was once 1 congregation and over time this enlarged to 4 large congs.
i remember about 23 years ago when the one i was attending split.
over the last 10 years there has been a steady decline, i for one do not believe there is any increase going on in the uk!
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Spinning wheel
by PoppyR inso.. i told my family something at least, ie that i was taking a break, my older brother who is an elder, emailed me and said i was not seeing things clearly because i was not recieving the spirit and in the middle of the organisation.
i understood what he meant, but replied by saying i could flip that around and say finally i was out of the spinning wheel i could see things without the blurs!
i mentioned to my husband about 607, in turn, and i think stupidly he asked an elder and another pioneer brother if they could explain it to him, the elder (who is one i'm very fond of) made such a hash of it and ended up saying it was one of those things we would need to wait until the new system for to ask those that were around!!!
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Assimilation
by PoppyR inwas reading todays day text and it made me snort out loud (not attractive) it's talking about satans world and how we must stay away blah blah blah, but the best line?
"we must stay awake because satans world is ready to assimilate any who become spiritually drowsy".
poppy x
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OOps think i opened the floodgates (and I dont mean heaven)
by PoppyR inso... last night i had the dreaded conversation with my mother.
she phoned and asked if she could 'help' me with the truth.
i just could not pretend any more i was missing meetings cos i was depressed or any other reason, i just told her i was having doubts about the whole thing and did not see the point in leading a double life and 'limping along'.
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The GREAT tribulation
by PoppyR indoes anyone else remember horror stories about the great tribulation and what they would do to the witnesses etc.. i remember this being the big topic of conversation for years, then like lots of jw doctrine, they quietly swept it out of the arena, and now it's never mentioned.
i remember pioneering with a girl who couldn't sleep at night and kept praying she'd be strong enough to endure it!
i actually have a talk on tape from a member of the gb where he spoke about ministers swinging from lamposts.. gruesome or what!!
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lions and lambs, is it just me or is it hard to imagine them being buddies.
by PoppyR inyou know something i could never get my head around.. well another thing!
i have a dog, and yes i know dogs can survive on a vegetarian diet, but the smells are not great .
poppy x
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Can anyone tell me about the UN
by PoppyR ini'm so sorry that i'm sure everytime somone new joins you're going over the same thing again, but all this is very new to me, in fact i've done very little this past week except read articles and cross reference the wt cd rom..lol, everyone thinks i'm getting spiritual again, anyway!
i have read several references to the jws and the un.. can anyone shed some light on the matter, ie point me in the direction of good posts or articles about it, as i'm still unclear what has been going on.
i'm most interested in the facts of the case which is what i think this board is best at!.
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This is not a brighter light it's a lie
by PoppyR inok... i just found this and i know it's been posted before, but i had to comment!!
i have tried to justify some of the changes, but this one can only be a lie.
it's a direct quote apparently from something somebody said.. so he either said 'within fifteen years' or he said 'soon'.. it is not possible it's just become clearer what he said, or they misheard him the first time.
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All the things I disagree with
by PoppyR in.
last night i sat down and wrote a list of all the things i have disagreed with ..sometimes silently sometimes loudly over the years, some of these are.. yoga, mediation, hypnosis (all of which i have done, enjoyed and benefited from and none of which have cleared my mind) oral sex (no comment .
on another note.. got stopped by a mormon in the town today, he asked me if i was religious.. i said "i used to be a jw".. and as i walked away i almost hopped skipped and jumped, first time i've said it out loud, and it felt good.. poppy xx
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What do you call God
by PoppyR inok, very interested to know, for those of you that still have a faith, and it seems many do.
what do you refer to god as?
is jehovah correct, is it not, is it too associated with jws for you to carry on doing that?