mentallyfree31
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Were You A Happy JW or An Unhappy One?
by mentallyfree31 inwhen you were a witness, were you happy or miserable?.
i feel like i was pretty happy for over 20 of the 25 years.
only the last 5 years and especially the last 1-2 years did i really burn out and just wasn't that into it.
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My First Donation To Another Religious Organization...It Felt Good!
by mentallyfree31 inas i was driving this past saturday, i came to a 4 way stop and there were people holding up signs.
something about vacation bible school and i was like "hell yeah".
this is my first opportunity to donate to "babylon the great".
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I Have All The Latest New Magazines If Anybody Needs Them!
by mentallyfree31 inmy wife is still active, so i still get the latest magazines.
i don't plan to post them just to be posting, but if somebody needs a snapshot of a cover or particular article, just let me know.
i will be happy to post it for you.
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What Is Harder? Getting Somebody In a Cult or Out of a Cult?
by mentallyfree31 ini just happened to think about this today.
would it be harder to start today and get somebody into the watchtower organization and get them baptized or to tackle a jw and get them out of the cult?
it seems that getting somebody to baptism can take up to a year.
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JW Pioneer That Has Baptized Over 100 People!
by mentallyfree31 inthere is a sister in my former kh that has helped over 100 people to baptism.
she is a genuinely nice person, and a very low key person.
she is pretty much fairly quiet and keeps to herself.
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Book - A History of the End of the World? Have you read it?
by mentallyfree31 ini'm about 80 percent through the book "a history of the end of the world" by jonathan kirsch.
i have enjoyed it immensely.
it focues exclusively on the book of revelation: who wrote it, the context of what was happening in the times in which it was written, along with the way revelation has affection generations over a span of 1900 years.
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Info For Newbies and Current Jehovah's Witnesses! Please Read!
by mentallyfree31 inexample: gravity is real.
because if 607 bce is wrong, then so is 1914 and 1918 and 1919. very simple.
so if we cannot trust secular research, then we can definitely discard the date of 607 bce.
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As a JW, Did You Pray & Study With Your Spouse?
by mentallyfree31 inwhen you were a jw, did you pray regularly with your spouse?
what about a "family study"?.
i was a pioneer and ministerial servant, but praying with somebody was always the most awkward, uncomfortable thing ever.
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My Parents First Taste Of Being Shunned Since They DA'd.
by mentallyfree31 inmy parents sent their da letter back in march.
my mom bumped into a jw who has been a friend since 1985, in fact they were baptized the same day at the same convention.
this particular jw quit attending meetings in 1996. my mom saw her in a grocery store.
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Sign of the Last Days by Carl Oloff Johnson - Have you read it?
by mentallyfree31 ini started reading sign of the last days by carl oloff johnson this week.
i am almost to page 50 right now, and have finished the section on world famines.
wow - he really deconstructs the idea of whether famines have increased or decreased over the past 2,000 years.