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  How do you explain Christmas to a JW?

  by indireneed in

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  i've come upon a rather perplexing problem .

  my wife, who became a jw after we married, recently decided to help me to understand how i am actually worshipping christmas and thus all sorts of terrible false gods.. this caught me so off guard i was unable to mount a good defense.

  we just ended up fighting.. her case is the following:.

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  What's in a name?

  by indireneed in

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  2. friends

  last wednesday i had the absolute joy of attending the theocratic ministry school and the sales meeting.

  my wife was giving a talk and i chose to support her by being there to here her speech.. one thing i found extremely funny was a point they made about what 'the name' really means.

  see if you think this makes sense:.

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  Breaking Through Cognitive Dissonance?

  by indireneed in

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  i've been thinking alot lately about how my life sucks.

  i guess everyone is entitled to disliking their life a little, but the holiday is really starting to get me down.

  that's strange becaue it used to be my favorite time of the year!

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  Enabling - Good or Bad

  by indireneed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've got a bit of a question, or maybe a poll .

  .. my wife is a jw and i am not.

  that pretty much sums up or life.

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  When did the JWs become a religion?

  by indireneed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in all my research of the jw phenomenon as a result of my wife's new found epiphany and rapid uptake of the jw rote responses, i've asked myself when the jws really become so religionlike.

  i thought i'd see what y'all thought.. my understanding is this: mr. russell was a guy who had the courage to go against the mainstream ideas.

  while it sounds like he had a couple vices (ugly young girls, magic elixir sales and idiocy), he actually made some interesting observations.

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  Festering Helplessness

  by indireneed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wanted to take this opportunity to vent some frustration and ask for suggestions on how to proceed .

  .. my wife is just preparing to be baptized this weekend.

  i have tried to dissuade her numerous times, even preparing a logical argument that i thought was indisputable.

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  How to Disperse the UN Story

  by indireneed in

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  2. scandals

  as i always am when i turn to your discussion board.. after reading the unbelievable news about the bestiality practiced by the governing body, i have been looking for a way to break the news in my local area.

  i would really like to have the newspaper to pick up the story so it could in turn provoke a discussion with my wife.. i was thinking an opinion / letter to the editor article might help in this respect, and so i wrote one up.

  i am posting it here to see if anyone has any comments or suggestions.. the worship of the seemingly powerful.

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  She knows they're wrong, but she doesn't care . .

  by indireneed in

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  i posted some questions a while ago about my wife, and now i'm lost.

  i put together a 200 page exposition on how the governing body are false witnesses using only watchtower literature (scans and the cd) and showing how they claim to be the salvation and that people shouldn't think for themselves, showed it to my wife, and she simply told me that she knew all those things and that if she could she would divorce me.

  it's all in the bible.. the weird thing is though, the next morning, she pretended like things are fine.

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  Does Anyone Know Where to Get Scanned Awake's?

  by indireneed in

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  i am looking for the october 18th, 1968 awake magazine scanned and downloadable.

  does anyone know where i could find something like this?.

  somehow, they seem to have left it off their cd.

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  Non-JW Preacher Resources

  by indireneed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  another question.. does anyone know of a group that might be interested in stopping by my wife and jw parent's house on a casual 'preaching mission'?

  it is essential that they be prepared to argue their biblical faith and have some idea of how to get past her conception.. the biggest problem is that she thinks that all other religions don't read the bible, don't believe the bible and don't preach the bible.

  i would love to have someone at least show her that that is not true.

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