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Another pure language post

by Dawn in

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if you go to purelanguage.net you can read the forums - you just can't post - here's a lovely new topic posted in the study hall............... "today while reading an article i just had to stop to thank jehovah for all of the spiritual food he provides....and thank him so very much for the slave class that loves us, works so diligently to fulfill their assignment given to them by our lord and feeds us sooooo can't find the word............".

let me finish......and feeds us.....................crap

Dawn

If you go to purelanguage.net you can read the forums - you just can't post - here's a lovely new topic posted in the Study Hall..............

" Today while reading an article I just had to stop to thank Jehovah for all of the spiritual food he provides....and thank him so very much for the slave class that loves us, works so diligently to fulfill their assignment given to them by our lord and feeds us sooooo can't find the word............"

Let me finish......and feeds us.....................CRAP

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Do You Still Feel Obliged To Answer To The Elders?

by minimus in

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for some, there is real fear that they must speak to the elders if they decide to stop by your house .some don't know what they will do if the elders begin questioning them.

what will you do if they want to talk to you?

Dawn

"What will you do if they want to talk to you?"

I feel no obligation whatsoever - no more than I feel obligated to answer questions from my grocer's bag boy.

However - I would LOVE to have them come by for a "shepherding" call - you know, the ones they're supposed to make. I have lots of fun questions that I could ask and maybe plant some seeds.

I see them now as lost sheep and if I could help steer them in the right direction that would be great. But they have no authority over me.

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Article in the Awake about us "Apostate Fighters"

by LuckyLucy in

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today i was at work and a jw slipped a watchtower and awake in the mail slot.in the awake there is an article titled "is there an unforgivable sin?

" here is a paragraph that caught my eye.. some people who were once faithful christians have purposely drawn away from god,perhaps because of bitterness,pride, or greed, and are now "apostate fighters" against god's spirit.they willfully oppose what the spirit is clearly accomplishing.

have these induividuals committed the unforgiveable sin?

Dawn

"have purposely drawn away from God"

........um.......well.........since I now study my bible MORE and pray MORE and actually witness about Jesus MORE..........I guess that doesn't really apply does it?

I am vocal about an ORGANIZATION that draws people away from GOD. Guess that makes me a "FREEDOM FIGHTER" YEEHAA!!

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Blessings or our Imagination

by JH in

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as a jw, we were always told that god was blessing us, because we were doing his will.

jw's saw god's hand everywhere in our lives.

if we had good news, a good job, good health, it was because god was blessing us.

Dawn

"we are buying a house together as well as the trimmings, (mmm a swimming pool for next summer)"

pool???? pool??? did I hear POOL??????????????

And we're invited when?

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Looking Forward To Ur Free Life Or Stil Reflecting And Living A Bitter Past

by m0nk3y in

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having grown up in the jw teaching till the age of 21 and having an alcoholic/abusive father not to mention other f*%$ed up past elements of my life .. i have to say i am overall looking forward to my future as i'm now free of jw oppression.

but what i have notice a great deal in this forum is there alot of x-jws that are very bitter about their past lives and seem completely focused on how f*%$ed up their lives have been.

they don't seem to have an ounce of positveness to their attitude and this concerns me.

Dawn

Hey Monkey:

How goes it?!

I guess I'm a little of both. I am really excited and happy about the life I have now, and I look forward to the future. But I still get sad and angry at times about the JW past - probably the biggest reason is that I still have to deal with the shunning crap from time to time and JW stuff from my mom & siblings. Not to mention the lost time..........

But all in all - I don't think I'm any more messed up than the average person (ha ha) - almost everyone has some experiences from their past that affect who they are today. I'm just one of the average - some good things in the past, some bad things in the past. It's just that the bad things (some JW) can be shared and be a help to others that are going through it right now - probably why many of us are so vocal about it.

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Disfellowshipped

by Descender in

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just wondering, how many of you were a glutton for punishment and kept on going back and getting re-instated after succesive disfellowshippings?

i was disfellwshipped twice, the first time i was re-instated six months after and then six months later i was df'd again, then i came back in 4 years later and then a year later i faded away.

that's where i stand at the moment.

Dawn

I was DF'd the first time in '86 - I thought I had no choice but to go back so was reinstated 6 months later. 4 years later I was DF'd again - only that time I WANTED OUT. I never went back.

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GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN

by Undecided in

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elizabeth smart found alive!

this made my day.. ken p.

Dawn

ME TO!!!!!

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Joe Dirt.......a moral story

by Dawn in

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has any of you seen the movie joe dirt?

hubby wanted to rent it last weekend so we watched it.

ok - very dumb movie - but there was an underlying moral to the story that just jumped out at me.

Dawn

Has any of you seen the movie Joe Dirt? Hubby wanted to rent it last weekend so we watched it. Ok - very dumb movie - but there was an underlying moral to the story that just jumped out at me.

Joe Dirt is deserted by his mom & dad at the Grand Cayon when he's a kid (being DF'd)

From that day forward he spends all his effort/energy/money on trying to find out what happened to his parents. He's convinced something bad happened and they will be reunited again (trying to reconcile being shunned by family - hoping the situation can be resolved, they will want to visit our children, they will see the truth someday......)

He eventually finds out that his parents did in fact dump him at the Grand Canyon - it was no accident (the devastation when one realizes our family DOES love the organization more than us and that will never change)

In the end, he realizes that the girl he had been friends with throught the movie had always loved him. As Joe Dirt says "I had a family all along, I just didn't realize it until this moment" (realizing that FAMILY can be whomever and whatever you make it)

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Do You Think Your Faith Was Real?

by sandy in

i was baptized at 13 and i never felt a close personal relationship with god.

my prayers were without emotion.

i nver felt close to god.

Dawn

Hi Sandy:

I was also baptised at 13. I really did believe it was the "truth" - but then again, I had been raised as a JW and my parents never presented any other option.

I'm 37 now and have become a born again Christian. I believe that many JW's have good hearts and really do love God (like people in many different religions) - but they don't really know him - they only know the JW version of him.

For years I thought I had a bad heart because I didn't want to go to meetings, didn't like service, didn't like studying the WT - and I wanted my "wordly" friends.

Now - after shedding the JW version of God and finding out the real truth from the Bible I find that I enjoy studying the bible because I can study what applies to me - and I can ask whatever questions I want. It was never the bible that bored me - it was the reguritated bland "food" the "society" was feeding me. And as for service........well no wonder I didn't want to go - I couldn't stand the stuff myself yet alone "feed" it to some poor free person on the street?! Now that I know the real truth about God I LOVE to share my faith with others - I probably get more hours in now "informal witnessing" about Jesus than I ever did as a JW.

As for the "wordly" friends - they are the ones who stuck by me and are my friends to this day. So according to Jesus' parable of the good samaritan - they were true Neighbors and not the dubs.

Sandy - I think what you lacked was a love for the JW Organization.......which they equate to God himself. Now that you are free from that Org - do some research, not only on the history of the JW's but also some basic research on the doctrines and beliefs of Christianity - and get a different version of the Bible and read it. You might be suprised by what you find.

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JW Urban Legends

by Azalo in

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did any of you hear any of the urban legends that jw's used to scare people into being deathly afraid of demons?

for example i remeber hearing that a child brough a smurf doll to a meeting and upon hearing the name jehovah uttered it got up and walked out.

got any j-dub urban legends?

Dawn

"because a sister got a handbag once which told her not to go out in service every time she opened it."

Sometimes I think out loud too

"He said a brother had purchased a demonic neck tie, that later tried to strangle him."

Did he check where his wife's hands were? (perhaps........around the neck tie???)

This thread is so funny!! I read it now and laugh because they all sound like little kid ghost stories - and to think I once fell for this kind of crap.