When I realzed they wanted to control my free time, no hobbies if they involved time. I had work or school on week-daye, kh on Sunday, and they (elders) were unhappy that I took Saurday off.
lighthouse19something
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What Do YOU Think Is The BIGGEST Revelation That Has Gotten JWs Exposed???
by minimus infor me, it was the un debacle.
their association and weak retreat was priceless.
after that, silentlambs ranks right up there.. of course, if it were not for ray franz, many of us would've never even thought about leaving!.
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How Long Did It Take You To Snap Out Of Watchtower Think?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; color: #000099; } .style2 { font-size: 16px; font-family: arial; color: #000099; } .style3 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } --> how long did it take you to snap out of watchtower think?it took me better than a year to let go of watchtower think.
the teachings held on to me.
more so than the emotions and i did not have family in the organization to tie me down.. disconnecting yourself from watchtower thinkwhen you first discovered what the society was behind the scenes how long did it.
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My wife and had been fading for sometime, stayed because my family and 'friends' were in. When we moved were they didn't know us, fading was easier., but 2 years ago my needed blood, and I told her medical treatments should be a personal private decision.
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Does the Watchtower Society acknowledge the UN's help?
by jgnat inthe un regularly defends jehovah's witnesses rights to worship.
they have "written up" such countries as armenia, bulgaria, gabon, georgia, greece, latvia, romania, singapore and slovakia for human rights abuses against jehovah's witnesses.
press release ga/shc/3443 12 november 1997, armenia, bulgaria, gabon, georgia, latvia, romania, singapore and slovakia.
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lighthouse19something
WTS disassociated itself from UN in name only, some GB members have themselves listed as NGO members
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Specific banned shows, songs, etc...?
by AllAlongTheWatchtower ini know the society tells people not to listen to rock n roll cause its from teh satan, not to watch r rated movies because they're "worldly", etc.
but i was wondering if folks had any specific instances where one song, one show, one movie, or whatever was singled out as being particularly 'evil', and banned on an individual basis?
i was never a jw, but was in the worldwide church of god...the two are rather similar, i've seen many (and made quite a few myself) comparisons on the board; and i can remember as a child that every once in a while certain things would get brought up as being more evil and worldly than others.. examples of specific bans:.
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The Fightin' Side of Me- M Haggard
Couldn't watch westerns(parents)
Vampire movies- eating blood and use of crosses, but watched Wizard of Oz at CO's house
My father destroyed "Behind Closed Doors' 'cause my mother played it so much
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Watchtowers Investment in Warfare Technology
by carla inhttp://www.geocities.com/wtgreed/article.htm just a reminder and for newbies
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lighthouse19something
I believe Mc Cann kept the voting proxy so the WTS could claim they do not have any control of the stock, not even able to sell it without the proxy. Was the proxy wts' idea for plausible deniability?
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"Apostates end up bitter and angry"
by XBEHERE ini actually attended the bookstudy on friday, don't ask me why.
anyway the revelation book is being considered and we're at the paragraph where the congregation in ephesus is comended for "not bearing bad men.." apostates.. .
the comments from the ones attending were so baised and ignorant.
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The only thing I'm bitter and angry about is all the attractive girls that liked me (really liked me) that I had to ignore, and I was too embrassed to tell them why.
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NEW LIGHT ! Wedding Rings!!!!!!!!!
by bigmouth indoes this sound right to you????!!!!!
to all congregations; .
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Surprised it didn't say to selll the rings and donate the $$ to the 'worldwide work'
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If Christ the Mediater Only For the Annoited
by lighthouse19something inif jeseus is only the mediater for the 144,000, and wts now says the 'system' may outlast the remenent, then the earth would be without a mediater between man and god?
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If Jeseus is only the mediater for the 144,000, and wts now says the 'system' may outlast the remenent, then the earth would be without a mediater between man and God?
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Do you believe Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had a son?
by winnie inafter the 'discovery' of jesus' family tomb in jerusalem, does anyone believe that jesus was married to mary and had a son called judah?.
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No, since the bible teaches sin is inherited through the father's line, Jesus' children would have been perfect, and would not have died from sickness or old age.
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Withholding sex in a relationship or marriage
by free2beme ini once heard that when you first get married, you should take a jar and put a penny it in each time you have sex your first year.
then after the first year, take a penny out for each time you have sex, and that jar would never go empty.
basically, the sex gets old and you never do it much after the first year.
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Our sex life was practically non-existent for quite awhile before her death. Her health problems made it impossible, she would go into respiratory arrest, and I stayed with her til the end.If however,she had refused me without a health reason, I would have walked