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  What is the "world" we must not love?

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  john2:15-17)15 do not be loving either the world or the things in the world.

  if anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him; 16 because everything in the worldthe desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of ones means of lifedoes not originate with the father, but originates with the world.

  17 furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of god remains forever.. how do you understand this scripture after leaving jws?.

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  Do you have a spritual eating disorder?

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. social
  2. humour

  with all the talk of puking on the site lately, i wonder if many of us don't have spiritual eating disorders.... after all, many posters say things like "i'm puking in my mouth" while reading a pro-jw poster.. perhaps some have to really spiritually puke after attending a jw meeting to get the wt influence out.. so are you a spiritual bulimic?

  a spiritual anorexic?

  or do you just get that spiritual nausea when you see anything jw related?.

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  Book for Bible research someone posted? Please help...

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a few weeks ago someone posted a book that seemed very interesting, but i can't seem to find the thread or the book online.. it was a book about reading the bible, but keeping the context of the bible writers views in mind... does anyone know which book i am talking about?.

  thanks,.

  a@g.

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  A tract from "Christendom"

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a faithful and obedient jw, i have always rejected christendom's literature for the trash that i imagined it was..... today as i was getting off the subway a woman was handing out tracts... for the first time in my life i said, what the heck, sure, i'll take one.... i must admit, since i have only been "out" for about 3 weeks, i was trembling somewhat as i opened it (needlessly, a shakeover from jw days).

  it was titled "the power of god", and had a very brief introductory paragraph recommeding the imporatnce of getting to know god through the bible.

  the rest of the litle tract (48 tiny pages) is only scripture citations.

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  I tore up my Blood Card yesterday

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as you may know from my previous posts, i am fairly new to being an xjw, having taken may decision about 3 weeks ago.

  during this time i have read the information about blood on jwfacts and in isofcf, for example,.... so yesterday, much to my wife's chagrin, i tore up my blood card in front of her.. i wanted to drive home a point... she will be needing surgery soon, and has told me that she does not want blood.

  i wanted to demonstrate to her that i no longer agree with the blood policy.... and i even went so far as to check about donating blood.

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  Has anyone disassociated themselves in public at the KH?

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i read of someone on this site that gave a public talk and disassociated himself at the end of the talk.

  has anyone here da'd by giving a comment at a meeting?????.

  it would be kinda cool with the big generation light coming up to just raise my hand, say i don't believe it, and be done with it.

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  Stay or leave your spouse after leaving JWs - Do you have regrets?

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i am in a situation that many of you have faced... whether to stay with my spouse or not after having learned the falsehood of the org.. my wife is diehard witness who gets upset whenever i talk about the org negatively.

  she is not happy that i am on jwd... in fact the other day she picked up the keyboard and wanted to throw it accros the room or bash me with it when she saw i was on jwd... she is also very upset about me making friends with "apostates" and worldly people, and told me never to bring them to our home!

  this concerns me, since i am not going to have any friends in the org, and i need at least a few friendships...she doesn't want me to talk to the friends in the cong about my decision so that i don't share my doubts.

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  I met Joseph Rutherford today!!!! Really!!!!

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was at a meeting today for my job.

  about 30-40 people were there, most (besides me) movers and shakers in the public health field in new york.

  as i looked on the list of attendees, one name struck my eye..... joseph rutherford... this led to an interesting experience for me (sorry to use such theocratic sounding terms, i'm such a newbie!!!).

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  Missed college when you were younger? Here's a good solution!

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at my age i didn't want to spend the next 4-10 years going to college classes after work.

  i have mentioned this in a few popsts but wanted to share this on a new thread so that everyone can find out how easy and cheap it can be to go to college.. i am studying online with cuny (city university of ny).

  tuition is $2165 per semester if you take 4 or more classes.

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  Faders

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm new to this board but i see many term themselves as faders.

  i may just fade away, but on the other hand, i went ahead and told the elders that i don't believe in the wts garbage anymore.

  1914, fds, al of it, i told them, is "rubbish" (i didn't want to say bs in the kh).

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