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where to go from here?
by jacethespace insome of you on here know that i have been fading for sometime now and stopped going to meetings for quite a while but the past month or so i have returned.i am still just not sure whether at the end jws will be found to be gods people or not.. well today i attended the early sunday meeting eager to try and do what i still think could be right and despite the doubts i have about the watchtower.. now to be fair a number of people came and spoke to me said hello and stuff.the majority just didnt bother.but what really got me today was a number of people who i thought were my friends were just hateful.i even held the door open for one of them and they just were so hatefull and gave me funny looks as if i had the plague or something.i left feeling like this is no diffrent to any other religion.
some nice and other people not so nice.all i could think of on the way home was so much for jehovah never forgetting what you have done for him.im starting to wonder whether the bible is really gods word after all.. i just feel im at a fork in the road and dont know what to do for the best..
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The WTS deprogramming
by greendawn indoes anyone have any interesting and helpful details regarding what this deprogramming involves?
we always here one should deprogram but what exactly does it involve what could be some useful tips to facilitate this process?
i was reading recently in the psychological studies of jung about the concept of the shadow the part of our mind that contains all the repressed and rejected material, some of it was rightly repressed (eg the desire to steal from, or otherwise harm innocent people) and some not.
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crisis of conscience online?
by Gringa ini thought i read that someone was reading this book online but can't find the post.
does anyone know if that option is available?
tyia!.
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Church of the Nazarene (edit to FRIENDS OF THE NAZARENE)
by Gringa indoes anyone know when this church was founded and who founded it?
this is a spin-off church from the jws.
i had almost forgot all about this group.
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If not shunned by family, why stay away?
by 4mylove ini was chatting with a friend that is a very active witness.
lazy, but active.
i actually went to school with her brother but she and i have gotten very close these past few years.
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Wanted to say hi
by digderidoo ini used to visit this site on many occasions a few years ago.
in fact i was just lookin at some old posts which were dated back to 2001. doesn't time fly?.
this site really was a tool to help me comin to terms with myself as an individual, but at the same time there were many people who were angry with the wbts which in turn made myself angry with certain elements of the organisation and the way i was brought up.. i have not gone back to any meetings since i last visited although just lately i have considered the spiritual aspect to life and have been waying up the pros and cons of attending a meeting.
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Were You Also Molested by Tom Pulsipher?
by feenx ina little background on my question: i recently was contaced by a cousin of mine who lives out of state because he wanted to apologize to me for anything he may have done that was unkind to me when we were kids (he's a couple years older).
he also elluded to "images" in his head (what i'm going refer to as memories) of doing terrible things to me.
this is the closest that any of my cousins have come to remembering or acknowledging the abuse we all sustained from our grandfather, thomas (tom) pulsipher.
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Why I never say "run"
by jgnat inyou might be wondering, when i respond to a lovelorn person in love with a witness, why i never say "run"!
believe, me, i understand the huge personal cost when a non-witness gets seriously involved with a witness.
in my situation, i have a lot of mitigating factors that allow me to take greater risks.
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Comments You Won't Hear at the WT Study 11/25 FEATURING MINIMUS
by V inhere are the fully formatted watchtower comments for the week ending 25 november.
despite the trampling of wt comments last week, this feature will go unabated.
my appreciation to minimus for his commentary, see his original post here.