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  I wish I was Stronger

  by apocryphal22 in

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  but im not.

  i have lost everything.. i am a third generation jw on both sides of my family.

  all of my family is in full time service, pioneers, elders, cos, international construction, anointed and gb.

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  What Were Your Consequences For Leaving The "Truth"???

  by minimus in

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  was it as bad as everyone says, that if you leave the organization, you'll go back to the world, get into trouble and suffer?.

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  Memorial Thursday: why am I still getting an invitation?

  by And He Ran in

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  i stopped going to meetings five years ago.

  all my family are jws.

  why does my mother still give me a memorial invitation even though i don't go?

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  How is the WTS preparing for the new system?

  by heyfea in

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  if anyone has any knowledge regarding this, please tell me.

  however, i do wish that someone in the watchtower is reading this and think about it for a moment.

  how is the watchtower preparing for the new system?

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  Privacy Rights of Ex-JWs

  by Scott77 in

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  iam writting to ask how do the wts tracks ex-jw's members who have moved from place to place or moved to out of state locations?

  in tracking them, is not this a violation of individual right to privacy?

  i know of an individual who have been tracked after he moved out of state after he was severally 'persecuted' for deciding to cut of himself off from the congregation only to find wts groups tracking him once again to his new location.

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  My First Passover

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  i am now a born again christian with a wife who is too sick to be an active jw but who is insisting on going to the memorial.

  i know i am not under any obligation to celebrate the passover but i found out a few months ago that i am part jewish.

  for some reason my folks never told me about it and i had to hear it from my cousin who told me that besides being part jewish, my maternal great grandfather was also part irish.

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  question on memorial for Research Lady

  by isaacaustin in

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  hi rick and inez.... i was just curious if you guys and the gang ever thought about peacefully and quietly attending the memorial, (with the intent of partaking)...you have a pretty sizeable group.

  would the elders ask you all to leave and call the police if you did not leave?

  bear in mind there could be visitors so this could be sticky and undesireable to have to call in the police.. thoughts?.

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  Superhuman?

  by The Berean in

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  since there appears to be no eye=witness testimoney of sin or defect within the governing body of the wbts, could we be dealing with superhumans such as the bible's nephalim?

  would this not explain the powerful control this org seems to weild over common folks?.

  anyone care to comment?.

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  In a Jam and Without One Friend

  by cameo-d in

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  has that ever happened to you?.

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  The Memorial is a fraud

  by truthseeker in

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  i received my memorial invite this weekend.. the title of this tract is "keep doing this in remembrance of me".

  those who are used to celebrating mass and partaking of the bread and wine could be forgiven for imagining that the same thing would happen if they accepted an invite to the memorial.. the memorial speaker tells the audience all that jesus has done for us.. this is where the fraud comes in.

  he describes two flocks with two different hopes, the great crowd has the earthly hope and those of the little flock have the heavenly hope.. many of those interested ones who accepted the invitation to attend the memorial may already have the heavenly hope, but the memorial talk shuts the "kingdom of heaven" to these ones.. there is also nothing in the scriptures to indicate that jesus only allowed the little flock to partake of the emblems.. and so the audience engages in a kind of pass the parcel game, with the bread and the wine, not knowing who, if anyone is actually going to partake.

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