Billy the Ex-Bethelite
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I Snapped at a Witless Today
by Gretchen956 inyou know i'm not usually the type to do this, i really didn't even think i had it in me.
i was waiting for the bus, it was time for it to pull up, i was chatting with a co-worker and standing right in the middle of a whole bunch of other people, and here come two men in suits with briefcases, one looked to be in his 20s and one older, maybe late 30s or early 40s.
the younger one tries to hand me the magazines, the new way, by shoving them in your hand.
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What Can You Say to Jehovah's Witnesses Lame Excuses ?
by flipper ini noticed jg nat started a thread kind of similar, but dealing with elders .
my wife helped me come up with this thread with some good ideas here.
there are a few gems that witnesses use as excuses, phraseology they use to make excuses for their beliefs.
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Pedphiles are Criminals, New Light -- Cartoon updated
by Fatfreek ini decided to update the cartoon to further emphasize its inspiration adding wt's own verbiage from their official web site.
for those who wish to use either in, say, postcard campaigns to loved ones and friends i'll paste both versions below for your cut and paste purposes.
len miller .
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and so it goes...
by metaspy inthis morning i started this topic: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/147355/1.ashx.
now i shall post the follow-up.. as i predicted, my mom would come with elders in tow to have a conversation.. actually, she threw me for a loop at first.
no elders with her.. she had them wait a half an hour then she let them in.. thus i couldn't reject the whole lot of them at the door, she was their way in.. secondly, she brought the elders from the nearby hall, not the ones who know me.. the whole time i thought she would go for someone who she knows can dominate my thinking, but instead she went with the unknown.. .
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Amazing responses from a pioneer/missionary/elder re Child Abuse
by What-A-Coincidence inpioneer response: i agree with you that you will find child molesters in any religion, even ours.
and i did see the dateline show about 3 years ago about jw and how the elders in some halls handled it.
i did think the answers were lame on our part.
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Heartbreak - A Marriage Divided By Religion
by daniel-p init's very hard for me to type these words - just as it was when i first knew i didn't believe in the wts and jehovah anymore.
i have a huge ball in the throat, my stomach refuses to settle down, i feel like vomitting, crying, wretching, heaving.
when i first left the truth my self-esteem plummeted.
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Local Needs tonight
by metaspy inhere is something i thought was a bit weird.. tonights local needs was about depression.
not so much in how we can help those with depression, but about getting over it.. the brother used the scriptures about elijah and the widow to show who was relying on jehovah.. he mentioned how the widow was obviously depressed.
then showed how she should have been like elijah.. as i sat there and listened, i realized his underlying message:.
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Life and times of Metaspy
by metaspy ini am going to tell my story, it will probably be the dumbest thing to do.. especially since i am trying to fade.
however, recently i have decided that i need to get.
the ball rolling a little faster.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man ini often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
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Most recent Bethelites.
by ThomasCovenant ini notice there are several posters here who once attended the bethels.
it's great to hear their stories.. what i would like to know is, .
who was the most recent attendee?.