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  Whatever phase this is....

  by merfi in

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  ~sigh~ hoping for a little bit of commiseration, or at the very least someone tell me this is normal and this too shall pass?

  i'm in such a weird funk.

  but i'm funky... i guess i *do* somewhat miss a few of the 'friends' at the kh.

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  Hi

  by UNCLEAR in

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  this obviously is my first post, i actually feel like i may be sick but i felt compelled to post.

  only if to just say hello.. my life has been anything but boring, pioneered for years, brought several family members into "the truth", and find myself unable to have studies anylonger because i feel unsure about the stand i have taken all these years.. i was previously married, my husband left the organization for various reason, we divorced and i recently remarried another brother, he is a wonderful man and husband, i care for him deeply we and had been friends for 15 years.

  i also have a son from my first marriage who is 4, he is the love of my life, recently my son had an opertion that could require a blook transfusion and to be honest i could never deny him that.

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  Is the average JW as brain dead as this poor woman?

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i actually stopped replying to certain sections of this website awhile ago now, i felt it was starting to get to me, certain comments that were made were making me think and i actually had to shake my head and snap myself out of it.

  what i did was remove myself from here altogether for a few weeks and i only came back last week to inform everyone of my baptism decision, i have still not even read anything in certain areas of this website, but yes most definitely has sunday's watchtower lesson put all of that into perspective for me.

  we do have to be very careful indeed of what or who we let into our lives, for if we do it can be extremely damaging consequences if we start to believe what we read.

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  Attention! If you still give talks at the KH

  by truth_about_the_truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those you you who still give talks, here's an opportunity for you to promote a viewpoint that the gb does not like.

  this is an article that ray franz wrote back in the 70's that got him into trouble with the gb.

  here, ray presents a very balanced viewpoint regarding the nature of 'sacred service'.

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  OK. So Who Want's To Take Me To THe Memorial?

  by OpenFireGlass in

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  Scriptures/Beliefs That Never Sat Right With You

  by minimus in

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  was there anything that you were taught that made you think twice regarding the watchtower's interpetation??

  the scripture about jesus raising the temple in 3 days sounded like he was going to raise himself back to life.

  i never really understood that scripture.

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  Biting my tongue at last nights bookstudy

  by GBSJG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i went to last nights bookstudy which discusses 6 paragraphs of the daniel book so there was lots of room for comment.

  the study itself already was pretty frustrating it was taken from chapter 17 paragraphs 24-29 and it goes on about how the fds has to be lead by jehovah because of all the prophecies of daniel that fits them (1335 days was this convention to that etc etc).

  but the paragraphs also mention the failed prediction for 1925. here are some interresting quotes from the book: .

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  What Questions Should I Ask?

  by Serene in

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  i am gearing up to have "the big discussion" with my boyfriend about his witness beliefs... and i was wondering what are some good questions to ask him?

  at this point, im not bent on "proving him wrong" as i think that is a bad attitude to take into a discussion of this nature, but i do plan on asking him to make sense of some of the more questionable practices of the jws... (dubs?

  the questions i have so far are .

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  Question on DF'ing

  by littlerockguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if disfellowshipping is a biblical practice, why didn't jesus do it?

  there is no record of him doing it or even mentioning doing anything remotely like that.

  in fact, it would seem to me if that practice was set in stone back then during his time, wouldn't he have taken some similar action against judas?

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