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  Amazing Animation

  by cantleave in

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  2. entertainment

  this blew my mind!

  be warned it contains a spider.. http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/05/loom-incredible-masterpiece-3d/.

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  Open mind

  Definitely worth the watch.

  Thanks for sharing it with us.

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  Waking Up From a 34 Year Slumber.

  by alg1052 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  july 11, 2011 will be 34 years since i was baptised as one of jw's.

  the sleeping pill i took was in the form of them providing the information that made the bible come alive with the truth and insisting that they go by the bible not adding or taking away from it.

  i had negative experiences from local brothers from time to time, however i excused them as part of being imperfect.

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  Open mind

  Welcome to JWN!

  Excellent first post.

  (Please check your Private Messages when you get a chance. It's the envelope to the right of your username.)

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  She shows too much cleavage. What should I say to her?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i met a gorgeous lady yesterday and she shows too much cleavage.

  i see her facebook page, all of her pictures has cleavage in them, i would not want to date her because she shows too much all the time.

  i am tempted to tell her to cover up her cleavage, she might not like me telling her that.

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  Open mind

  Explain the headship principle to her and then have a "spiritually qualified" person give her counsel.

  She'll be putty in your hands.

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  Is there no hope? (daughter getting baptized)

  by camicia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm really distraught about the fact my 23 year old daughter is ready to abandon a potential career in writing where her talent lies, and become a jehovah's witness.

  i banned the study being held in our home, but it only hurt my relationship with my daughter, who screamed at me "i pay to live here and i'm not hiding, you're sabotaging my relationship with god!

  " so i gave in.

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  Open mind

  Oh well. Strike one. Like I said, it was uninformed.

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  Is there no hope? (daughter getting baptized)

  by camicia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm really distraught about the fact my 23 year old daughter is ready to abandon a potential career in writing where her talent lies, and become a jehovah's witness.

  i banned the study being held in our home, but it only hurt my relationship with my daughter, who screamed at me "i pay to live here and i'm not hiding, you're sabotaging my relationship with god!

  " so i gave in.

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  Open mind

  "WHAT KEEPS HER GOING BACK!"

  Let me make a wild, uninformed guess: A dude?

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  trying to reach teenage daughter

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had some interesting chats with my daughter today about whether she believes everything she hears at the meetings and reads in the watchtower.. turns out she does.. until i pressed on a few subjects... turns out she does not think worldly people are bad, that the wt is wrong for blanket statements about how evil they all are, that she does not think it is right that they have failed predicting the end for over a hundred years and disagrees when they keep pushing the end,.

  and i find this all rather alarming!.

  because although some lights are firing (and i mean that in a nice way!).

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  If I was an elder assigned to "counsel" Scully, I think I'd decline.

  Scully rocks!
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  A Monday Morn Ditty

  by snowbird in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  607 and 1914 never really interested me.. is it perchance just man-made chronology?.

  my faith hinges squarely on the messiah,.

  not something that happened to zedekiah.. 2520 years or 25 years or 20 years.

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  Open mind

  Not bad for a Monday morning.

  (Except for the "happified".)

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  Recent activities at the laundermat and Payless shoe store

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok last time i went to the laudermat all i found was a trifold tract from the jw's.

  they gave me so much room to write ( why do they do that?

  ) i wrote on there "when will you jw's stop leaving mags and tracts at this laundermat"...lol i wonder what will be there next week.. my friends works part time at payless shoe store.

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  Open mind

  Somebody posted on here a while back about JWs renting a fancy winery for a party and then leaving JW literature hidden all over the place.

  There are plenty of active JWs who would also give this a thumbs down.

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  Still going strong

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around here for ages, thought i'd pop back in and say hi.. my hubbie met sass my frass over the weekend.

  i've never met her b4, small world thing, her friends are his friends, etc, etc.. .

  funny how things happen, anyway he comes home telling me about this ex dub he met and i should add her on facebook, after adding her i realized i knew her from here.. well i've been spending the last few hours on here looking at old posts.

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  Open mind

  Sounds like you didn't personally need to post this. That is fantastic.

  It's very good you did though. Not nearly enough postings like this one here, IMO.

  Best of luck to you and yours in your new life.

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  Its been six months...

  by MrFreeze in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today is my 6th month anniversary of leaving the organizations.

  time to have a beer and celebrate!.

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  Open mind

  Maze: " Like Jehovah's Organization is the only pitfall in today's world. Good luck..."

  Nice straw man you just invented. No one said or implied that. But good job knocking down your own imagined objection.

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