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  Another Suicide

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there wouldn't have been any good way to hear the news i suppose.

  it's just so strange to recall the conversation yesterday.

  my "still in" parents are with me and my inactive sister having a pleasant conversation.

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  Dagney

  At least they've admitted that depressed JWs need professional help. Well, I should qualify that and say that the support is hit-or-miss.

  Years ago we stayed with a Bethel DR in Germany. He said depression was epidemic, and he worked long long hours the days he worked there. He was not raised a JW and was kind and sympathetic to many issues including the depression, which was met with some opposition at the branch, at the time. The friends were lucky to have him...hate to think about what would have happened if they didn't.

  Wonderful Billy your parents have been still loving to you...they have their priorities right.
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  The Mermaid Takes Notes at the DC...in Limerick Form

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those of you who missed the dc, i thought i'd share my notes so you, too, can partake of the spiritual feast.

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  WTS in trouble in Denmark

  by zed is dead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/andre_sprog/english/2013/07/25/132435.htm.

  zed.

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  Dagney

  You know, the WTBS has been saying crap like that since the beginning. However, the world has become more PC, and the WT keeps thinking they are Jesus and can call a group "vipers" and worse. I think JW's have heard it for so long, the words go in one ear and out the other...but the message remains..."shun the enemy."

  Thanks Denmark for taking a stand. I knew I liked you too.
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  Another Suicide

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there wouldn't have been any good way to hear the news i suppose.

  it's just so strange to recall the conversation yesterday.

  my "still in" parents are with me and my inactive sister having a pleasant conversation.

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  Dagney

  Oh no, so sad. So sorry for the loss of your friend.

  It's true people suffer depression in all areas and all faiths. But the WT is programmed to only support the future of the corporation. Their human faithful mean nothing to them...troubled marriages, lost teens, struggling single parents, elderly, depressed...all get the same advice. "It's not our problem it's your problem. And probably a spiritual problem at that. So just do more."

  My heart goes out to the family and friends. RIP.
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  JW couple die 1 day apart after being married for 75 years!

  by ohiocowboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  plus, they were born on the same day in 1918!.

  jw or not, it's nice to read about how much people can love each other for so many years!!!.

  http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_23733256/long-time-long-beach-couple-die-day-apart?source=rss_viewed.

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  Nice interview http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-long-beach-couple-married-75-years-20130729,0,1841734.story
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  World's Apart Movie

  by HowTheBibleWasInvented in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so far as i know i'm the only one on youtube who has this movie in one piece.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmby7xuvya&feature=share&list=plfbxb0kkayct7ovev38fspafjlphbdq0w.

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  i don't know how to embed it sorry.

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  Dagney

  I had a nonJW Swedish friend visiting last weekend. We know each other via JWs he grew up with in Sweden who eventually moved to the US and next door to me. He comes to visit them every few years and also me. I anti witness to him whenever and wherever I can. I asked if he saw Worlds Apart, and he said he had, and that it is well known in Scandinavia.

  Yay!!
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  J J Cale, After Midnight, passes

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  jj cale was one of the best rock song writers in an era that had really great rock n roll song writers- here he is with eric clapton on the classic after midnight!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5tiqv4irjs.

  jj was 74.

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  Nice vids. RIP J J.
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  Danish book now in English: Judgment Day Must Wait: JWs-A Sect Between Idealism and Deceit, Poul Bregninge

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  judgment day must wait: jehovah's witnesses- a sect between idealism and deceit [paperback]poul bregninge (author)publication date: july 16, 2013fear of the apocalypse that never comes!

  it is what holds a jehovah's witness power-bound by the watch tower society in brooklyn.

  armageddon is always just a little way around the corner.. .

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  Thanks for posting this Barbara.
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  JW couple die 1 day apart after being married for 75 years!

  by ohiocowboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  plus, they were born on the same day in 1918!.

  jw or not, it's nice to read about how much people can love each other for so many years!!!.

  http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_23733256/long-time-long-beach-couple-die-day-apart?source=rss_viewed.

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  I knew this couple my whole life and we ended up together in my last congregation, Helen always said she couldn't live without Les. He fell and broke his neck a few years ago and actually recovered. She was a beauty full of quiet grace, and he was the kindest man with a giggle every time he saw you.

  It is as it should be. RIP Les and Helen.
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  Rutherford's Paradise - Film Footage of Beth Sarim

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just added this to my youtube channel, jwstruggle.

  i know that we have some resident authorities on the history around jf rutherford and i am anxious to see what they make of it.

  (leolaia i'm talking to you lol!).

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  Dagney

  Well that was interesting. I think he was mugging for the camera. Can't wait to hear that tongue story Barbara. Eeesh.