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  Time to close ranks

  by DagothUr in

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  lookie look what the jdub talk forum just brough in!.

  we have the co visit this week.

  as he closed the meeting tonight he said something interesting that was a direct statement from the governing body... .

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  Morbidzbaby

  I really am amazed that so many people think that the events happening in the world are anything new! People turning against their governments has been going on FOR CENTURIES. Since the beginning of government itself! Natural disasters have been happening, and yes on the same scale, since before humans ever evolved. It's just another day in paradise for humans living on this rock. But people need to see "signs" in everything that something better is coming. Maybe it is! I feel we as humans are heading into a period of enlightenment...more knowledge is more readily available and those who want to avail themselves of such knowledge will be the ones who progress in this world...again, it's survival of the fittest. Only, instead of adapting and evolving physically, we're going to have to do it mentally. But no great cataclysm brought by any god is going to destroy everything and bring in peace. These aren't "signs of the times we're living in", they're ancient writers stating the obvious about how things were and will be. There will be earthquakes, food shortages, pestilence...UM, yeah, those things were happening when those words were spoken and written. So what's new? Nothing!
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  Finally, Jesus got it!

  by DagothUr in

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  this is a statement from the article 8/1/1996 questions from readers "since jesus has now been empowered as the one to conquer in gods name, it seems reasonable that his father has told him when the end will come, when he will complete his conquest.. oh, joy, oh, joy!

  so the boy finally found out the date of the big a. it certainly seems reasonable!

  even jesus gets new light from time to time....

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  Morbidzbaby

  What happened to nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the son, but only the father??? Talk about adding to the scriptures!!!
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  Were You Ever Treated "Differently" Because One of Your Family Members Was Disfellowshipped?

  by Was New Boy in

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  "by their love"...... shunning in the "borg" many times has effected not just the person that was dfed but other family members too.. my father was dfed in 1962 for "rebeliousness against the organization" he wanted to go to a different kh than we were assigned to.

  needless to say that decision was later reversed.. that was strange, but how the witnesses treated my mother, sister and myself....was even stranger.

  it was as if.... we now had some kind of leprosy.

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  Morbidzbaby

  Yes, this is classic JW behavior. I grew up with an unbelieving father and then my brother got DF'ed a year after he was baptized. My brother didn't live in our home because he was an adult...but my mom and I were still treated like we had spiritual herpes. Mom hardly ever got called on to comment at meetings, and where I was hardly ever invited over to associate with friends and was leftout of most events, the shunning was even moreso in that I didn't even hardly get spoken to at the hall! People were wary around mom and I for the whole 7 years that my brother was DF'ed.

  The really sickening part? My brother got reinstated, and then my dad started studying and got baptized. Now my parents are the freakin' cat's meow because my dad has privileges in the congregation! People who treated my mom with utter contempt because she had an unbelieving husband and who looked on my dad with disdain whenever he'd have the gumption to show up at a memorial or a JW gathering, now these same people are up my parents' asses and act like the history is not there (much like the WTBS). These people treated my mom and I like absolute shit. Gossiping, rumors, not wanting to work with us out in service, treating us like we were not worthy of their good graces because my dad wasn't a JW and my brother was DF'ed. And now they're all chummy chummy and wanting to do things with my parents and inviting them for dinner and.....AAAAAH! It makes me physically ILL the hypocracy of these people. My mom is the same person she was before...but they get the golden treatment now because my dad converted. Interestingly, neither my brother nor I are DF'ed, but we're both inactive/faded and it hasn't affected their social status because nobody really knows what's going on with us.
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  I should just be DF'd

  by Lunatic Faith in

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  so i have been texting with an inactive friend all day.

  she sent a text this morning asking me if i had had second thoughts and decided to go to memorial after all.

  i told her 'no, did you have second thoughts and decide not to go?

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  Morbidzbaby

  This is why I don't have contact with non-family JW's anymore. I just can't deal with it. You handled it really well, I think. Maybe wait on a response to her, considering what she says will just drive you nuts.
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  Memorial musings

  by undercover in

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  things i thought about during the memorial talk last night:.

  i don't know if it was just the memorial i went to or if this was across the board, but it seems that the talk was dumbed down a bit more than it had been in the past.

  not that it wouldn't surprise me if was dumbed down.

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  Morbidzbaby

  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! Many of these thoughts have passed through my mind at one memorial or another... The ritualistic passing of the "emblems" is nothing short of ridiculous. The "servers" have been touching the plates and glasses HOW MANY TIMES while serving? And yet, they need to do it AGAIN? Whatever.

  There was one memorial talk I heard about 4 years ago. Not a dry eye in the house. This brother gave such a moving speech about Jesus, his death, details of what he went through... It was amazing. THAT is they type of speech and "remembrance" that should be given. He kept the necessary recruitment part to a minumum at the very end of the talk, but the vast majority was about JESUS. Interestingly, he was never asked to give a memorial talk again...
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  Lead Codices Now Called Fake

  by Quendi in

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  well, that huge sigh of relief we're hearing is from brooklyn.

  evidence is mounting that the lead codices found earlier this year which depicted jesus being executed on a cross are fakes.

  so jehovah's witnesses can still maintain their assertion that christ was executed on a stake and not a cross for now.

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  Morbidzbaby

  Dang it... Oh well, the JW's can keep their delusions...for now...
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  Did you watch R rated movies when you were in it?

  by ldrnomo in

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  last night, i watched an r rated movie that featured violence.

  at least 30 people were shot in the first 45 min of the movie.. while i was in and an elder, i watched r rated movies all the time just didn't talk about it.

  so how many of you watched r rated movies even though "mother" said not to?.

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  Morbidzbaby

  I went through spurts. My ex was an inactive for awhile and we went to any movie we wanted without even checking the ratings. Then he went all Super-Dub on me and completely cut that all out. But I used to sneak out to a movie once in awhile and see whatever the hell I wanted.
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  VIDEO. Violent bloody protest at the Memorial in Burgas, Bulgaria. 2011

  by 3Mozzies in

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  you will need to be signed in to youtube to see it, or go to the bulgarian website (link below).

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupvrlg-i8g&.

  beat the pastors of jehovah's witnesses and wrecked their prayer house.. story from a bulgarian website - google translated.. .

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  Morbidzbaby

  That's horrible! Growing up I was always afraid something like this would happen during a meeting or Memorial. No matter what your disagreement is with the ORGANIZATION, it's wrong to take it out on the ADHERENTS, who (although they claim to have free will) really have minimal control over how they think and act.
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  My Memorial Report

  by purplesofa in

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  i did not know last night was the memorial until about 6:00 pm, when someone on my facebook page mentioned something about it.. .

  it felt good to be that detached.. .

  purps.

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  Morbidzbaby

  I will soon be that detached lol
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  "temporary enjoyment of sin?"....why does it have to be temporary??

  by oompa in

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  i just read this phrase on a thread about the 7-15 wt and how shunning of family is so important....it just made me laugh.....some sins feel so damm good....so why do they have to be temporary?.....i am starting a revolt....we need permanent enjoyment of sin!!!!!!

  !.....hahah....see i made myself laugh....needed that......oompa.

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  Morbidzbaby

  LMAO I'll cosign on that...