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  Did not Attend Mid-Week Meeting but Felt Good - Strange Feeling?

  by ProfCNJ in

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  hi folks.

  the usual feeling for me - when i missed mid-week meetings - is to feel guilty, sad or depressed.

  it normally involved negative feelings.

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  ambersun

  Oh yes, I can totally relate with how you feel ProfCNJ. I remember turning up at the end of a Thursday night meeting to collect my mother very early on in my fade and as I heard the final song and prayer, instead of feeling guilty as I had previously felt when missing meetings, I had a wonderful warm feeling of peace and relief wash over me that I had made a stand and not put myself through two hours of WT indoctrination. I think I used the excuse of feeling sick which was quite true as I was sick to death of that religion.

  Edited to say, I don't think my initial guilt was because of missing the meetings, but more to do with worrying my family.
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  HOW CAN WOMEN BE ANNOINTED BUT NO PRIVELAGES IN HALL?

  by NoMoreHustle in

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  i had listened to the degrading talk by gb heard (on women) & watched a video on evie bklyn channel & there was alot of interesting questions that are raised.. i had always wondered why can't women in the hall handle mics or run magazine counter etc.?

  but they (if annointed) will rule in heaven with jesus.

  that is a pretty heavy responsibility to help jesus rule millions of people on earth, but yet they can't pass a mic or even run the sound system in the kh.

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  ambersun

  Ahh but when the annointed go to heaven won't they lose their physical bodies and become sexually neutral? Willies are only a necessary requirement for full brain function and positions of authority whilst in human form as far as I always understood things.
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  If you thought Tony Moris the Third was extreme, wait till you hear this other GB member!

  by Island Man in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba&list=uus0vqkpnsxult0gsz6ahpta.

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  ambersun

  A woman wants 'the man's' job

  ---> that woman must want to be a man

  ---> That woman must want to have sex with women like a man then!

  ---> Therefore a woman who wants 'the man's' job is tantamount to homosexuality and transgenderism!

  Soooo, according to that logic, all the women doctors, dentists, surgeons, university lecturers, lawyers, politicians, bank managers, etc....etc..... have ALL turned into lesbians or had sex changes due to doing what are traditionally considered to be men's jobs?!

  And these words of wisdom are coming out of the mouths of men who are demanding unquestioning obedience from all their followers?

  Riiiiggghhht
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  Governing Body .............Exteme Sexism

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv6bn0rcjzc

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  ambersun

  I can remember it being instilled into our silly little feminine minds during the early 1970s how inferior we were to the brothers. Besides our tiny inferior brains we were unable to make sensible decisions due to our emotional makeup and we were incapable of thinking logically. Our role as women was basically to act as servants to the men, keep house, cook, clean and produce children. There seemed to be loads of talks on the subject and also magazine articles. Sam Hurd was just one of many elders giving talks of this nature.
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  Would You Care If You Were Disfellowshipped?

  by minimus in

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  just curious.

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  ambersun

  I have been out for 25 years and my JW family all seem to accept me for the heathen that I am . I've never officially da'd but I consider myself to be so after all this time, and if my family haven't got the message by now that I'm never going back they never will!

  I used to live in dread of the elders coming round and asking questions which would inevitably have lead to me being df'd but I don't really care any more. In fact, I would welcome it as it would help me to feel finally free.

  If that ever happens and my family suddenly start to try and shun me after all these years I will just ignore the shunning and tell them to stop being so silly! I am still the same person I have been for the past quarter of a century for crying out loud. It holds no fear over me any more!
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  Surreal experience last night.

  by objectivetruth in

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  recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".

  her response went something like this, " we are all out!

  everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..

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  ambersun

  Wow, your very own little apostafest!! I'm jealous, I want to come too lol.

  Have a wonderful time and let us know how it goes!
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  Today's "gay-bashing" and other embarrassing content public talk!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  oh wow..... the public talk today is certainly embarrassing for witnesses!.

  started (completely left field too...seemed to come out of nowhere) with condemning homosexuality, and anyone who even tolerates it.

  if you like tv shows or movies with gay characters, you are "just as bad" (eg modern family tv show).

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  ambersun

  If homosexuality is so wrong and unnatural then, as Crazyguy said, why are there so many examples of it happening throughout the animal kingdom? Just google gay animals and see what stories come up!
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  Are Jdubs going to put the elderly out to pasture with JW.org?

  by Coffee House Girl in

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  it will be interesting to see how things play out...but one example which got me to thinking about this is my mother.

  my mom is a 76 year old regular pioneer (she is one of those who believes that you are "nothing" if you are not a pioneer...the position is everything)-.

  i am moving in two weeks to go to grad school, so i have been trying to go out to visit...say goodbye...do things for her before i leave.

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  ambersun

  I can't help feel sorry for the many elderly JWs who loyally refused to have anything to do with computers back in the early days of the internet when the Society warned against its use. Many JWs refused to allow computers in their homes as they felt they were instruments of Satan. As a result of their misguided loyalty they are now techno dinosaurs in an age where the Society have done a complete u turn and expect all JW homes to have a computer, as long as the rank and file promise to only ever look up jw.org and no other web sites of course
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  Playing LIVE worldly music and dance party INSIDE kingdomhall??? Is the WT turning pentecostal??

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i can't believe this was a gb approved event since it was for international convention people.

  if somebody tried to do this on a wedding they'd get dfed in a heart beat.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqcj6e78jm.

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  ambersun

  I am only just getting my head round this one after being rendered totally speechless. Back in the 1960s me and my siblings were banned from listening to pop music as it was from Satan the devil and only classical music or Kingdom melodies were allowed in our house. Yet here we see a group of brothers and sisters on the platform of a Kingdom Hall girating and warbling their way through a medley of the very same songs that I, as a JW teenager, was banned from listening to on the radio by my strict JW parents!! Then to cap it all they end up with the entire congregation up on their feet jumping around and clapping to a worldly song from today's charts with enough gusto to rival any self respecting Pentecostal congregation on a good day. Was this really done with the blessing of the GB?!!

  I can only wonder what my elder dad would have to say about this if he was still alive today. In fact, how many elders and elders wives who previously looked down their noses and actually condemned members of the congregation for listening to pop music were there joining in or watching this video on you tube and commenting on how wonderful it is, just because the current GB apparently approves of such behaviour?

  The words fickle and hypocritical come to mind.
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  Name Some Things That JWs Look Down Upon That Normal People Wouldn't Even Think About?

  by minimus in

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  jws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.

  it has something to do with the demons.

  another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!

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  ambersun

  If a woman or girl turned up at the meeting wearing trousers (pants). Her husband or father (as her head) would be severely reprimanded for allowing such immodest behaviour. I know this from personal experience when attending our very first meeting as a family back in the 1960s! Alarm bells should have been ringing loudly in my dad's brain or even in my mom's brain but sadly not...