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What were your reasons for becoming a JW?
by Narkissos inreasons, not excuses -- even valid ones (like, "i was ignorant, depressed, fooled").. yours in the sense that you can still own (to) them -- even though you now know the "answer" was wrong.. this obviously applies to those who became jws -- hence mostly not born-in, although some of the latter might admit to having chosen the jw way for themselves at a certain stage of their childhood or teenage years.. this question is triggered by a previous conversation with purplesofa on another thread:.
i think most of us that came in and not born in were searching.
our hearts were pure in our search.
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Your favorite "bumper stickers"
by new boy ini have two.
"please god protect me from your people".
"if you love something let go.......if it doesn't come back, hunt in down and kill it" .
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Disfellowshipping is good for a person
by Honesty inmy spouse was df'd 4 years before we were married.
within 13 months she was "re-instated" and by the time we were married had almost healed from the "loving" treatment she endured in her "disfellowshipped state.".
she sincerely believes that her life was enriched by being disfellowshipped because, as a third generation jw she had never "made the truth her own.
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Who Was Your Favorite School Teacher and Why?
by compound complex indear grown-up students,.
a lot of adults were influential in my formative years, but right now i'm thinking of how school teachers got me to where i am today.
it's one in particular to whom i owe the most.
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Damn those Pyramids!!!!
by Gill indamn those egyptian piles of rocks and stones, so skillfully put together without an instruction book as to what their 'true' or not so obvious uses are, or may have been!!!.
for nearly forty years, because of some blokes pyramidology fantasy i wasted my life and others have wasted their whole lives, waiting for something that was never going to happen in the first place!.
now, i find myself reading up on pyramids!
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Check this out!!! WT Prophetic Speculations - List starts from 1831!!!
by Lady Liberty inthank you alan feuerbacher!!http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/some-prophetic-speculations.html.
some prophetic speculationsalan feuerbacher.
1831: william miller begins preaching christ's return in the fall of 1843.. 1842: miller and followers begin publishing a journal, the midnight cry.. 1843, late: miller and followers disappointed; fix christ's return in the spring of 1844.. 1844, spring: miller and followers disappointed; fix christ's return on october 22, 1844.. 1844, late: miller and followers anticipate disappointment.. 1844, october 21: miller says: "i told some of my brethren christ would not come on the morrow" because the second coming would be "in an hour they think not".
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Holy Cow! Scans of all the old literature. Here is the Holy Grail
by BlackPearl inactual scans for almost any old document you may be looking for!!!
what a find indeed!!!!.
thanks lady liberty.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-13-06 WT Study (YOUTHS CHOICE)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 08-13-06 wt study (july 1, 2006 issue date, pages 26-30 )(youths choice).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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Continually pounding the "Deliverance at Hand" drum...
by bennyk inbrothers!!!
surely we rejoice to know that "deliverance is at hand"!!!
how grateful we are that the faithful and discreet slave has given us such timely warning!!!
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What Would You Like to be Written on Your Tombstone?
by Warlock insince i have a rather morbid sense of humor, and none of us is going to see armageddon................................ what would you like to be written on your tombstone?
i'll start.. "buried face down...........and you know the rest".
"his last word were..............boy, i'm getting hot!".