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  Signing Off on "The NET THANG"

  by JT in

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  i would just like to thank everyone for the excellent posts that have appeared here on this site.

  i esp would like to thank simon for making this possible.

  i sincerely believe that the "net thang" will continue to play a role in helping jw who are sincerely searching for a confirmation that all their doubts and wondering over the years was not the result of them being spiritually weak.

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  Frenchy

  Thank you for taking the time to make reasonable and insightful posts and for the care that you have always taken to be civil and considerate of the feelings of others. The respect you earned on this board is a testament to your good character and wisdom. I wish you well.
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  Why don't people like me

  by joelbear in

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  i've recently discovered that the great majority of my problems are my own fault.

  which leads me to conclude that it is also my own fault that people don't like me very much.. y'all have pretty much seen me at my best and my worst.

  why do you think people don't like me?.

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  Frenchy

  There's a story about a man sitting outside a town. A stranger approaches and asks him: "What kind of people are in this town?" The man asks him: "What kind of people were in the town you just left?" The stranger replied: "They were mean, selfish, hateful people." The man said: "That's exactly what you'll find over here, I'm afraid." Shortly after the stranger passed on, another stranger approached and asked the man the same question and again the man asked the stranger what sort of town HE had left. The stranger replied: "Oh, it was a great place. The people were very friendly and outgoing and very kind." The man replied: "I'm happy to say that's exactly what you'll find here also."
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  Will the WBTS order JW's to Kill??

  by Anne Marie in

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  dear post reader,.

  about nine months ago, while surfing through different jw web sites, i came across a reference to an e-mail that was sent to the poster.. the e-mail basically said that with the way that things are going with the society, i.e., so many " waking up", and not being so easy to mislead and control., that there very likely will be a "big" announcement regarding the order to kill the "apostates" and the "wicked people".. the source said that it would go something like this:.

  there would be talks, and some wordings in the magazines, alluding to an upcoming announcement.

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  Frenchy

  I think someone was either 'pulling your leg' or that person has a serious mental problem. What you describe as having been written to you is totally out of character with how the society behaves anyway.

  I don't think there is anything there for you to worry about.
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  Totally Stumped

  by Jourles in

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  here it is april 16, 2002. i have not been out in service for, oh, about 2-3 years now?

  my wife is the die-hard jw who always reaches her quota, if not a little more.

  we have been in a new congregation for about a year now, and we have yet to receive a "shepherding visit" from the local elders.

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  Frenchy

  I was a member of my congregation before we built the hall. I helped build the hall, served as an elder and presiding overseer for many years. I stopped going to the meetings about three years ago...I go every now and then to see everyone, visit some of the friends at their homes, answer at the meetings and yet NO ONE has ever come forward and asked my WHY? Why did I relinquish my position, why am I not attending meetings regularly, why I am I inactive, what is the problem???? Nothing.

  I went to the Memorial and it felt strange to see someone else delivering the talk. That was my job for a very long time. I knew the brother (assigned to this cong. from a neighboring cong since I left) so I thanked him and told him he did a good job. He smiled at me and nodded and then he asked me: "How many times have YOU given that talk?" I replied: "Oh, a few times." He patted me on the back but he never asked me why he had to do it instead of me doing it.

  So, I think I know how you feel. It does feel strange and quite frankly I'm puzzled at the way that I'm being treated. I'm greeted heartily when I do attend and it's as if nothing has happened.
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  I can prove that God does not exist.

  by LucidSky in

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  just thinking.... i can believe that a higher intelligence entity (hie) cannot be proven.

  i am willing to accept that a hie cannot even be definitively induced, even for marvels that we cannot demonstrate at this time (e.g.

  natural transformation of elements into living material).

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  Frenchy

  ...so the the title of your post is...shall we say...somewhat not accurate?
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  Suggestions Please

  by ConnieLynn in

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  my mother has been sick for a couple of months and undergoing a battery of tests, she is a jw.

  we live 3000 miles apart.

  well she just called and informed me that she had just received some bad news from her doctor this afternoon.

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  Frenchy

  Go see your mother. If you don't, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. From what you say your mother is in no position to discuss whether or not she is scripturally free to have a transfusion. The rest of the JW family will fight you tooth and nail on this and it will only end in great frustration for you.

  Sad as it is, we must accept some situations for what they are. It takes great character to humbly bow our heads and remain silent when our soul boils with anger and frustration. It's good to be indignant at injustices but wisdom tells us when speaking out will help and when it will not.
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  I'm not D/f or D/a and my dad wont even talk to me

  by LyinEyes in

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  the last time i heard from my father, was last july , a few days before a special assembly day.

  he heard that we were not going to meeting anymore, which was stange since hubby was an elder last time he thought to check on me.

  i have always been the good daughter, the one who stayed in "the truth" , the one he was so proud of.

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  Frenchy

  It's a sad story but not as uncommon as we would suppose. Like someone has already mentioned it really has little to do with religion. I know two separate instances of people who have re-married and after doing so pretty much alienated themsleves from their families. It's as if they don't want to remember their former lives and they are totally immersing themselves in what they now have.

  It causes a lot of grief (and anger too!) for the family that has been abandoned. I'm sorry for what you are going through.
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  I need your prayers please

  by WildHorses in

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  i was at the hospital all day with my best friend, mattie.

  she had a biopsy on her colon this morning.

  they are looking for cancer, seeing they can't seem to find anything else causing her problem.

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  Frenchy

  I will pray for your friend Lilacs…and for your cousin also, Lara. I have lost many friends to death. I had a sister-in-law that died at 29 with leukemia. She left two small children.
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  Jesus - Michael or God?

  by Dawn in

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  2. bible

  i've been researching this issue for myself - it's a doctrine i was still having problems understanding - is he or isn't he.... i came across a couple of interesting scriptures that i had not noticed before so thought i'd share them with ya'll:.

  1) genesis 1:26 - then god said, "let us make man in our image..." i was taught as a jw that god was speaking to jesus (michael) here.

  if that's true, and jesus/michael is an angel - that would mean that god created angels in his image also (since i refers to "image" as singular - it doesn't say images).

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  Frenchy

  Will:
  To which of the various versions of the trinity concept do you subscribe?
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  "You Are Expected to Believe As We Do&quot...

  by stevieb1 in

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  i am currently having visits made on me by the elders,who are trying to help me "unbelieve" the things i have learned to be true from the bible, which naturally contradict wt doctrine.. as well as asking me "where else will you go" they said that members of the public walking into a kingdom hall expect all within it to be jehovah's witnesses holding firmly to their doctrines and not holding divergent viewpoints like i do.

  they said it would not be proper for someone to hold a belief that was contrary to the society and still be expected to remain a jw, even in name only.

  i have stated to them that i can no longer preach the wt version of the "good news" so they automatically assumed that i am not obeying jesus' command to preach.. i am in a bit of a predicament as you can see.

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  Frenchy

  You are in a difficult position. Tread carefully. Your attempt to help others see the real truth may very well be the very thing that will be used to oust you from the congregation. Consider carefully the effect that the shunning will have on you, esp. if you have family in the organziation.

  Best wishes to you.