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  Are You Ready for The Memorial?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
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  it's this week, folks.

  i thought i might give you a new thread to vent on.

  many on our forum still go to the memorial or have to answer to family about not going.

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  My wife mentioned the Memorial for the first time today! She didn't ask if I was going, she only said that she was going...My son was around so I said innocently: "I work with a Jewish girl and she told me Passover starts on Friday night", to which my son replied: "the day starts after sundown" to which I replied: "Jewish passover starts after sundown on Friday so Jesus would have celebrated Passover on Friday night and not tonight"...big silence, then my wife said: "Well the Memorial is tonight!" My only comment was: "I don't really care on which night the Memorial is, I just know that the Jewish Passover Jesus celebrated falls on Friday and not tonight".

  I had hope that my comment would have them question why the Memorial is celebrated a day before the Jewish Passover...and question why the speaker will say that on this night some many years ago Jesus ate his last Passover meal with his disciples...but I guess the WT "scholars" must know better than the Jews when Passover is celebrated!
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  Are you attending the Memorial this year?

  by XPeterX in

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  dunno about you but i'm going..

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  No for the second year - if I am to attend and not participate, I may as well do my non-participating at home...
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  C.O. Is coming this week

  by Freeof1914 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i had the elders come to my house about two months at the time i told my wife and family that i was having doubts.

  they came by i explained my position and they basically told me i needed to be more humble and just tow the line like many others have before me.

  well i have not gone preaching or to any meeting for two months after that and did not recieve any phone call from the elders, which was fine by me .

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  JNY and OTWO are right...I just did what they suggested and I have been left alone.
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  The peace in the worldwide brotherhood. Proof that it's gods organization?

  by BreathoftheIndianNose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and things are within a week or two of being d.a.ed/d.f.ed, and my jw best friend sent me an email to check how i was doing.

  i was fairly sure that he was very much on the edge of leaving to, or at least that he didn't believe it for a long time.

  so i sent him an email in reply and told him basically everything i believed and the reasons i knew jws are not the true religion, and i also told him i was leaving.

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  JW learn to submit to their leaders - religious, secular and governmental. JW don't protest, have no political opionions and they act in uniformity...Not fighting and tolerating others annoying traits doesn't equate to true peace and love...If they were free to speak their mind all this "peace" would vanish...and we would be no different then normal people.
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  So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.

  if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?

  other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........

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  I would buy the Bossert Hotel and turn it into a homeless shelter...and show the WT what charity really means....
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  What's Your Status? Are You Technically Still A JW?...

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  are you disfellowshipped, disassociated, active, inactive???

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  Inactive, returned from the 2010 District Convention and never went back to a regular congregation meeting. Since, I attended a funeral and a wedding...the same way I would if they were held in a Catholic Church. I told my immediate family I will never return, but deep inside I think they are still in denial since I always was the "strongest" JW of the family. My sister thought I was depressed but when she visited with my COBOE brother, I told them that I have never been happier and for the first time in 50 years I finally enjoy life...that I would chose death over returning to the slavery...
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  Tim Horton's

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a question for my canadian friends here.

  i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.

  i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.

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  Yes Talesin....?
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  The Obsession Of Apostates

  by Bangalore in

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  the obsession of apostates.. a jw apologist's view.. http://dismythed.blogspot.com/2009/01/obsession-of-apostates.html.

  bangalore.

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  The description of the methods used by apostate resemble what JWs learn on the Service Meeting and Ministry School....they lead with a question of interest...quote Bible verses out of context and twist or misquote secular sources to support their stand...and when you are painted in a corner you resort to discrediting the other party's reputation or motives...
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  Tim Horton's

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

  1. jw
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  i have a question for my canadian friends here.

  i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.

  i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.

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  Tal,

  Mind you it was in an industrial league in Montreal and Ray's brother looked like him but that's where the comparison stopped. Still, it was a 12-team league and the hockey level was quite good. Teams were sponsered by different companies so it cost me nothing to play a some of our equipment was paid for. This was a long time ago...but at 57 I still play in a team where most players are in their late 20's to mid 30's.
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  Tim Horton's

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a question for my canadian friends here.

  i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.

  i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.

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  Wha H...I did the research because it happened to me...McDonald's free lotto ticket...hid it in the glove box...found it 2 months later with gaz receipts...check the number...bingo! 50k...considered not claiming...but reasoned that JWs can accept blood fractions which are acquired from illicit blood donations...if that is OK accepting the prize money acquired from gambling must also be acceptable...!