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Having No Life....
by Justice-One ini really feel sorry for my wife sometimes.
her parents are "true believers" and she really wants to please them, and of course live forever with them in paradise.
but sometimes i think the combination of having a job, and going to the meetings and out in service is killing her.
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HELP!! ADVICE....Saying NO to pioneering
by Kristofer ini have a female friend who i've been discussing the religion with.
she definitely has doubts about the org but isn't sure on leaving just yet as she has still got about 6 months to go being a minor dependent on the parents.
lately, she's been getting heavy pressure to start pioneering.
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What do the JW's need most desperately right NOW !!!
by JH in.
what do you think would encourage the jw's enormously right now?.
another war, a pandemic, a meteor striking the earth, bird flu in the us?
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Do you sense change within the Watchtower?
by truthseeker ini have had the feeling this year that change is underway in brooklyn, but not change that would benefit the membership or lighten their load.. this is change in response to a) economics and b) readily available information on the internet.
there was a recent post about a speaker at the dc in norway who said that as soon as some bad press about jw's goes online, it flashes up on apostate screens all around the world.. consider the cano incident and then lisa's interview with jr brown.
how many people have since listened to that information?.
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I Asked My Wife A Question Yesterday
by enlightenedcynic inover the last two weeks since i posted about my wife taking me to the elders, i have been working very hard to save my marriage.
i have made arrangements for babysitting so that we can go out at least once or twice a week.
we have taken in a movie, gone for a walk, gone to the beach, gone to the museum, gone to a jazz concert and just yesterday we went to a coffee house and talked over a nice cup of joe.
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Roof collapse on eve of JW convention
by candidlynuts inroof collapses at foster city hotel by liz harrelson palo alto daily news
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a slow-moving avalanche of rotten wood and drywall brought down a portion of the crowne plaza hotel's roof in foster city on thursday, prompting a partial evacuation and the shuttering of at least 60 hotel rooms on the eve of a massive jehovah's witness convention.. no one was injured.. ``thank god no one was under that, that no one was hurt,'' said foster city mayor linda koelling as she viewed the damage.. at least 100 people and possibly as many as 120 were evacuated from the hotel after a manager standing in the entrance and beneath the unstable roof heard creaking and witnessed the roof fall about two feet, said san mateo fire department battalion chief mike borean.. ``apparently water had been collecting in there for quite some time and rotted out the structural beams,'' said borean.. around 5:45 p.m. the beams fell another 12 feet, though by that time the entire northern side of the 350-room hotel had been evacuated and the immediate area cordoned-off, said borean.. ``it's kind of scary, kind of crazy,'' said kelly branson, a resident of plymouth, calif., who is staying at the hotel and attending a three-day jehovah's witness convention at the cow palace, in brisbane, which draws an estimated 10,000 worshippers.. foster city fire department battalion chief stan maupin said wood weakened by dry rot caused the roof to fall.. ``in general dry rot is caused by moisture getting into the wood and over a long period of time degrading the wood to a point where it will no longer hold it's own weight,'' said maupin.. about 60 rooms were shut down thursday night and will be inspected by a building official today before they are reopened, said maupin.
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Legal question
by In Between inmy x wants my 9 year old daughter to get baptized.
my x claims that my little girl bugs her all the time to get baptized.
i told my x no, she's too young.
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Do you know of any "apostate" ex-jws that became "BAC's" that quit bac's?
by booker-t ini remember when i left jw's and started going to born-again christians(bac's) churches my "atheist" father laughed at me and told me that i would eventually leave bac's because like j.f.
rutherford said "religion is a snare and racket".
he said bac's and jws are just on an endless treadmill motivated by "fear" and not love for god into going to church/kh.
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I cannot beleive i am an " apostate"
by sspo inmy hell is just beginning, 26 years of marriage, almost divorced last year until we finally decided to get back and give it another try this year.
now i'll have to meet with the elders and tell them about my spirituality and doubts about the wts, 1914, 1995 generation change,malawy/mexico,and on and on and my wife will be there.
i do feel sorry for my wife because she has already lost 13 members of her family, "apostasy" and some just left the truth and even though some are not disfellowshipped she won't talk to them, now her husband, is going thru the same thing, she cannot accept it because out of 31 y. in the truth i was an elder and how could that happen.
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Update:I'm back with my wife
by IronClaw inthese past few months have really been a roller coaster ride to say the least.
i know i haven't been posting much for the past few months, as i was really in a deep depression.
at the end of last month i moved back in with my wife and children.