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  How many of you were whipped by JW parents, relatives,random cong. members?

  by avishai in

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  2. beliefs

  as you requested, lisa, here is your thread

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  dedalus

  How many of you were whipped by JW parents, relatives,random cong. members?

  My father. Put a hole in the basement wall with my head one Thursday, covered it up with a poster of some kittens in time for the bookstudy that night.

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  Hey, first time posting!!

  by Harry-Crapper in

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  2. friends

  hello everyone, this is my first time posting.

  i'm not a jw but my wife was (is) whatever, and i wanted to get the skinny from you guys.

  we dont really have issues between the two of us but quite honestly i havent seen anything to make me feel like this is really the "truth.

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  dedalus

  Pray a lot, I said that twice because that is the most important.

  Why?

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  Hey, first time posting!!

  by Harry-Crapper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello everyone, this is my first time posting.

  i'm not a jw but my wife was (is) whatever, and i wanted to get the skinny from you guys.

  we dont really have issues between the two of us but quite honestly i havent seen anything to make me feel like this is really the "truth.

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  dedalus

  I guess the biggest issue I have is: why change the Bible?

  The Bible is already a cruel, despotic, inconsistent, irrational book -- Witnesses just augment it with their own cruel, despotic, inconsistent, irrational beliefs.

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  Academic paper exchange.

  by happysunshine in

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  does anyone want to trade term papers?

  i need a japanese culture paper and a prescriptive vs descriptive grammar paper.

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  dedalus

  "paper exchange" means for reference links only. How's the view from that high horse? Fukk you all!

  Not only are you too stupid to find reference links on your own, but you're also too stupid to know how to ask for reference links in a way that others understand. Dedalus
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  Favorite authors?

  by bebu in

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  2. friends

  first, i never was a jw, but since a dear friend of mine is one, i'm here to learn from the human elements in order to give her quiet assistance in leaving someday (soon, i hope).... i love reading.

  my favorite author thru the years has been cs lewis.

  i read narnia in hs, and loved the last book the best (last battle).

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  Ah, his masterpiece (in my mind) was "The Necklace"

  I teach that story. It's ... good. But sometimes it seems too simple, like an exercise in irony, but not much more than that. I dunno. The characters are all types, I guess is my problem. Still, the story works, like a very well built mousetrap, and that's, well, "masterful."

  Oh well. Among my favorite authors:

  • James Joyce
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Henry James
  • Donald Barthelme
  • James M. Cain
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Julian Barnes
  • David Sedaris
  • Italo Calvino
  • Vladimir Nabokov

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  Circuit Assembly this past weekend

  by Jourles in

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  this past weekend we had our circuit assembly.

  you guessed it, same ol' same ol.

  ' on saturday, the overall theme was based on materialism.

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  dedalus

  After reading the brochure and conferring with the Charitable Planning Office, many have been able to assist Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide and, at the same time, maximize the tax benefits of doing so.

  LOL! Is it me, or does this quote sound utterly ridiculous? I realize most of what the Society prints is ridiculous, but still, this one seemed especially worth a chuckle.

  Nothing like storing up "treasures" in heaven and on earth, eh?

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  reponse letter to JW-fleshly-brother about my leaving the WT

  by AhHah in

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  2. friends

  dear (jw-brother), .

  i was pleased and pleasantly surprised to receive your thoughtful letter.

  thank you for your concern and for taking the time to write.

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  dedalus

  Excellent, excellent letter. Will you let the board know what, if anything, happens next?

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  help what bookstudy book are we in?

  by lostandnotfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am new here and i usually dont come to these type of places as they are rampant with apostates.

  i still belive in most of the teachings but its the people in the org.

  that have turned me away.. the reason that i am posting though is this, i have been inactive for a few months now but i have been holding out telling my parents, friends etc.

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  dedalus

  I still belive in most of the teachings but its the people in the org. that have turned me away.

  Has it occured to you that the "teachings" are what's made the people in the organization so awful?

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  More casualties of the August 2002 KM

  by funkyderek in

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  my father has just become a grandfather for the first time and may never get to see his grandson because my brother has cut off all ties with him.. my best friend was offered a free holiday by his parents so he would be away on the day of his sister's wedding.. and what have these people done to deserve such heinous treatment?

  my father was disfellowshipped for adultery over twenty years ago, my best friend for smoking when he was seventeen.. i'm so mad i can't even put it into words properly.

  i want to scream, i want to lash out at the despicable bastards who instigated this policy, and the snivelling cowards who obey it without question.. but what can i do?

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  dedalus

  Would you quibble with me over the term "murderous, scumbag assholes who could not care less about those who's lives they destroy while they try to figure things out and survive even if it means the loss of lives and family relationshipships of those who trust them?"

  LOL! You're right, I won't quibble with you -- one of the reasons I have reservations about the semantics of "cult" is because, regardless of whether the organization is or isn't a cult, it certainly is a group of murderous, scumbag assholes etc. Sometimes I get the impression that people think the organization can only be really bad if it meets the criteria for being a cult ... and my position is that, even if it doesn't meet the criteria, it's still insidious, disgusting, disturbing, and a million other negative adjectives.

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  What is the worst thing about leaving?

  by sleepy in

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  everyone probably has a slightly different experience when leaving the witnesses.the worst aspect about this for me is the realisation that my enteire life has been lived and directed by a false premiss, and the effect past decisions now have on my life.. it can make me feel sick in the stomach on occation.. also the idea that friends and family think i have tuned bad or evil to have left jehovah is qute disturbing at times.

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  For me the worst part was having to explain why I was leaving to people who were close to me, and having my explanation deliberately misconstrued so I could be labelled and dismissed. It always comes down to, "So you hate Jehovah and the ways he wants you to live." (Come to think of it, that's pretty accurate! But of course there was more to it, much more, than just that.)
  

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