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You Never Did Enough As A Witness!
by minimus inone thing that i will never miss is how you were made to feel inferior----that nothing you did was ever really good enough to satisfy the organization and of course by extension, jehovah god.
i know of sooooooo many witnesses that are truly depressed because they can never seem to satisfy god or the elders.. people even start getting mysterious illnesses and believe the "demons" are always trying to get at them.
the mentality is that "everyone hates us because we're jehovah's witnesses".
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Longtime JWD posters/professional lurkers with low post counts
by Black Man inhey all,.
just checkin' in.
been here since '01, but don't even have 500 posts.
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The Story of Minimus
by minimus inwhen i was a teen, i aspired to be an elder.
from my pre-teens until i was 18, i was in every circuit assembly and district convention----having either ministry school talks or parts or experiences.
at 20, i conducted a bookstudy in the afternoon, also regular pioneered, was the theocratic ministry school overseer in the 2nd school and regularly taught the main school.
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Psssst, Ladies. You should have been in Duluth today.
by frozen one inrecognize this guy?.
i noticed on another thread with a similar title that a few of you are quite smitten by mr. clooney.
anyway, he and rene zellwegar were in duluth to promote a new movie called leatherheads, a football movie loosely based on an early nfl team called the duluth eskimos.
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Facebook surprise: looks like most of my childhood friends got out!
by Awakened07 ini only recently joined facebook (yes, a little late to the party).
and today i found one person there that i still consider somewhat of a friend, that i know is disfellowshipped.
this person turns out to be a 'hub', in that this person has a lot of facebook 'friends'.
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Brother and Sister Marry Each Other Unknowingly--
by YoursChelbie inback to story - helpseparated-at-birth twins get married 2 hours, 57 minutes ago .
twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister, a peer has told the house of lords.. david alton, an independent, pro-life member of the lords, said the brother and sister were granted an annulment after a high court judge ruled that the marriage had never validly existed.. the catholic politician -- who discovered the case after talking to a judge -- used it to highlight perceived deficiencies in the government's proposed human embryology and tissues bill, which is currently going through parliament.. the bill is designed to make it easier for lesbian and gay couples to have children through assisted reproduction, recognising same-sex partners as legal parents of babies conceived through donated sperm, eggs or embryos.. but it contains no provision to require the identity of the donor to be disclosed, potentially meaning a child could not be told they were conceived by assisted reproduction.. alton raised the case of the married twins -- who were born after ivf treatment -- during a debate on december 10, details of which only appeared on friday.. "there are implications for everybody involved, but the needs of the child will always be paramount, and it is right that we should therefore make the process as transparent as possible," alton told the lords.. ivf -- which increases the chances of multiple births -- meant such cases could become more common if the law does not require children to be told they were donor conceived and have access to their genetic history, he said.. "the right of children to know the identity of their biological parents is a human right," he added friday.. "there will be more cases like this if children are not given access to the truth.
the needs of the child must always be paramount.".
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How long did you blame yourself before you realised.......
by jambon1 in.....that it simply wasn't the truth?.
i never really felt spiritual as a jw.
i knew that i should feel like a spiritual person, but couldn't work out why i never did.. .
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Anyone feel lonely at holidays?
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit ini do, i think my husband does.
everyone we know now has family to be with at tg or xmas.
we really love going all out for the holidays, but in the end it's a little disappointing and sad.
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This WT article makes me mad.... this is evil
by dawg init's bad enought that young people in the wt have to sell magizines, risk shunning when they find out the truth about the gb... but this article really makes me laugh and angry at the same time.
the part that made me the maddest was when the father said he "conquered" the habit, lying bastard!
http://www.watchtower.org/e/200611a/article_01.htm.
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Were you pressured into marrying/having children young?
by breakingfree inthis is probably something women in the organisation experience more than men.
even though we were instructed from the platform to use our youth to go pioneering, the older sisters in the congregation always seemed to be pushing younger women to marry and have children so they would be 'happy' like them .
when i got married (far too young, lucky it worked out) there was instant teasing, encouragement, etc to procreate.