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  Need help with a shepherding call!

  by brotherdan in

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  so the elders are coming by for a shepherding call on tuesday.

  i am not ready to "out" myself just yet.

  i don't know how to act when they are there.

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  Lion Cask

  You have only one option: You must lie to them.

  An interesting nuance within the context of a Society that equates itself with The Truth ™.
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  The Gloves Are Off - Its Official Round 1 has just taken place .. !!!!

  by sleepingbeauty in

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  i woke up today a right grumpy basket case.... not a good day for the jehovah's witness to call on me to do there usual shepherding call, bringing me the usual mags of shite!

  i stood there on the doorstep in my pj's, care free and all fired up.

  i was asked how i was doing & then informed that they had my latest mags.

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  You have my attention, reslight2. If the current state of affairs within the WTS and its adherents was not Russell's doing, whose was it? Do you think there were no people who waited in vain for Armageddon during Russell's tenure, giving up children, education and careers because the End was just around the corner but never came? How naive. How many victims do you think there were?
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  How Many People Are Still Happy That They Married Their Mate?

  by minimus in

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  i know of someone that has made no bones about being somewhat unhappily married.

  they got married because they "fooled around" and felt it was the "right thing to do".. i wonder how many people are unhappily married?

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  Take credit where it is due. Your relationship with your children won't necessarily change even if your relationship with their mother has.
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  How Many People Are Still Happy That They Married Their Mate?

  by minimus in

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  i know of someone that has made no bones about being somewhat unhappily married.

  they got married because they "fooled around" and felt it was the "right thing to do".. i wonder how many people are unhappily married?

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  I wonder sometimes about people who enter into what they believe will be a lifelong relationship with someone only to realise years later they've made a mistake - or, maybe the person they think they married has either changed into someone else or had kept private his true self from the beginning. And at some point the chickens come home to roost. It's not easy finding someone with whom you want to spend your life. When he or she turns out to be the wrong one, it must be a diminishing, if not devastating, experience.

  Edit. Hardroad. The piece of paper is a piece of paper. A word to the wise is sufficient.
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  The Gloves Are Off - Its Official Round 1 has just taken place .. !!!!

  by sleepingbeauty in

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  2. friends

  i woke up today a right grumpy basket case.... not a good day for the jehovah's witness to call on me to do there usual shepherding call, bringing me the usual mags of shite!

  i stood there on the doorstep in my pj's, care free and all fired up.

  i was asked how i was doing & then informed that they had my latest mags.

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  A Russell apologist. How many people forfeited their lives to the ideals of this man? It may be logical he has been falsely accused of some things just because we have a tendency to blame the bad guy for even more harm than he has actually done. He is by no means an innocent.
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  The Gloves Are Off - Its Official Round 1 has just taken place .. !!!!

  by sleepingbeauty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i woke up today a right grumpy basket case.... not a good day for the jehovah's witness to call on me to do there usual shepherding call, bringing me the usual mags of shite!

  i stood there on the doorstep in my pj's, care free and all fired up.

  i was asked how i was doing & then informed that they had my latest mags.

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  Lion Cask

  Congratulations.
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  How Many People Are Still Happy That They Married Their Mate?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of someone that has made no bones about being somewhat unhappily married.

  they got married because they "fooled around" and felt it was the "right thing to do".. i wonder how many people are unhappily married?

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  Lion Cask

  Gregor, you have a PM.
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  How Many People Are Still Happy That They Married Their Mate?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of someone that has made no bones about being somewhat unhappily married.

  they got married because they "fooled around" and felt it was the "right thing to do".. i wonder how many people are unhappily married?

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  37 years, 4 months and 29 days. She was 19, I was 21. She told me five years later she wanted to become baptised a Jehovah's Witness. I said no. She did it anyway, and we have not been completely on the same page since. We have had some bad times but mostly good times together.

  But, to your question, yes, I would marry her over again. But that would require going back in time and, while I was there, I'd make sure neither of us ever came into contact with the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. I know our lives together would have been better. Back here in the real world, I still have hope to win back her mind, because I love her more than life itself.
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  If you could ask one question to an active JW to get them to open their mind about their beliefs, what would it be?

  by Franklin Massey in

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  this question was posed to me by a poster named ice cream.

  i don't know my answer yet.

  it's one of those, "if you could have just one wish.." kind of questions.

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  Lion Cask

  One of the telling hallmarks of fundamentalist belief systems is their propensity to embrace science that either conforms to, supports or is not otherwise in conflict with their established dogma. However, when science appears to contradict or disprove said dogma, it is automatically rejected out of hand. It does not conform to The Truth, therefore there cannot be any doubt that it is false.
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  I'm so very saddened right now

  by sooner7nc in

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  i just received this from an old friend on fb.

  i can't hang with an apostate or someone cheering.

  on apostates...of course, if jw's are not your cup.

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  Lion Cask

  Thank you for clarifying that for me, Joliette, that puts a different complexion on the statement from your father. Ie, it was not intended to be helpful or supportive but to put you down. My mistake.