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Think Of a Jehovah's Witness---What Pops Up In Your Head?
by minimus inwhat connection do you make?.
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Written Reviews...what did you really do during them?
by xeracia inremember these silly tests they make you take?
i don't remember how often they were, but thinking back on them, boy does it seem silly!
sitting there for half an hour trying to remember stupid stuff as if you are in school.
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What a scary nerve wrecking Day
by troubled mind inmy son's girlfriends mom has an abusive boyfriend .
today he has had her hostage by gun point all morning .. just now the police got her out to safety .. during the ordeal he called my son and made drunken threats to him too .. i am a nervous wreck .
the police has the whole downtown evacuated and on close down until the issue is resolved .
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All I can say is "WOW"
by lepermessiah ini love those life-changing books that you read and they seem to come at the right time and really touch you deeply.. most of you have read crisis of conscience, but the beginning of chapter 11 just blew me away......unbelievable......... ray is such a gifted writer, the sincerity just oozes off the pages, and even people that treated him like garbage, he still has a kind and respectful tone toward those scum bags.. i just read a three part series on the third reich, and it is truly scary how similar in structure and operation the wtbs is, when it comes to authoritarianism, eliminating "enemies", and instilling fear in people.. ray put into words exactly how i feel, why i feel the way i do, and made me feel good about feeling that way.. i just wanted to share these few paragraphs and see if they had the same effect on many of you!.
i now began to realize how large a measure of what i had based my entire adult life course on was just that, a mythpersistent,.
persuasive and unrealistic.
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Baptism numbers decreasing?
by Mattieu inthe last 3 weekends have seen 3 circuit assemblies in victoria with over 1000 attending each circuit.
yet only 10 baptised over the last 3 weeks, including 3 last weekend.
i can remember a few years ago when only 1 bro was baptised at a 2 day convention.. its funny, when 10-20 were being baptised at each circuit assembly back in the 1980s & early 90s it was always brought out that this was a sign of jehovahs blessing upon the org.
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Why do Ex-JWs start celebrating pagan Christmas?
by DubR inhiya guys and gals.
im not trying to be self-righteous but i want to understand the thought process of someone who knows the origins of christmas, but starts celebrating it (putting up christmas tree, exchanging wrapped gifts; repeating merry christmas to everyone they see in the month of december)??
it seems very silly to me (imo) after knowing how and why christmas was created (to cater to pagans sun worship and convert to christianity)!!
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How Did You Discover JWD/JWN ?
by minimus ini always read h2o, randy's site and anything that might stay current.
i think it was h2o that said they were closing there but another site was opening and it was this one.. i'm curious how you got to find this place..
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What Ever Attracted You To The Witnesses In The First Place?
by minimus ini have an excuse, i was born in it.
the thought of living forever and never dying was certainly a draw but when i realized it wasn't true, there wasn't much of an attraction anymore.. what attracted you as a witness?.
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They have no idea! Fools in darkness
by Aussie Oz inbeen snooping around facebook and am amazed!
(although i guess i shouldn't be) that the ordinary jw has no concept of the 'organization' in control.. every thing is 'jeh' 'jah' that, every teaching they support is attributed to jah.
every action.