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  Hello Everyone...Just Joined Today

  by DarioKehl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been reading this thread for some time and finally had the opportunity to create an account.

  i am anxious to meet you all and have a support group/active audience over the next crucial months and years following.

  background: long-time doubter, giving way to frustration and skepticism beginning about 10 years ago and finally to total admission that this is a cult and that atheism is the way to go.

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  Hate Crime / Graffiti on KH

  by awaken2004 in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2flocal%_flos_angeles&id=7930229 (sorry don't know how to post link).

  this is the kh my family attends.

  of course my brother only posted this on facebook because it happened to the dubs.

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  elders would like a talk with me

  by varian in

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  2. friends

  hi everyone.. i recently had a phone call from an elder of my former cong.

  they would like to chat with me, and obviously want to encourage me to come back.. to make a long story short: the last 4 or five years i was a jw in their kh, i was more or less completly ignored.

  had in that time no phone calls, visits or any interest how i felt etc.

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  Is there a "dominent family" in your hall?

  by pontoon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  back years ago when we were getting ready to split, i suggested that two or three bros and their families went to the other hall, otherwise 75% of our new body would be belong to the same family.

  my idea was shot down.

  so, any time we needed a show of hands, all six of those men (father, two sons, two son in laws, a brother to one son in law) always voted the same way.

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  how important was the hope of the paradise to you? and what do you hope in now?

  by Curtains in

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  2. friends

  many become and remain witnesses because of the hope of living in a paradise earth.

  for those who have left how did you cope with the loss of this hope?

  or do you still have this hope?.

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  Witnesses involved in Multi Level Marketing

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just ran across an old aquaintance who is a former missionary (along with his wife) - although i think they just went to serve in s.america on their own, not gilead endorsed.

  they live in the las vegas area now, and are promoting a new mlm company called 'kaching kaching' (look for it on youtube, pretty cheesy) wactching them on these videos saying things like "do you want a piece of the multi billion dollar pie???

  " just blows me away.. i can't help but wonder if they are even still active.

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  Anyone catch the history channel this morning on Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Doomsday?

  by sinis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they started talking about archeologists in the last 1800's that believed that the pyramids were a key to the future by measuring the passageways of the great pyramid of giza - this method is called the "pyramid inch".

  anyways, they supposedly could foretell 1914, 2001 (9/11), etc.. as soon as they mentioned 1914 it caught my attention.

  after all, is this not how the wts originally came up with the year 1914????

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  How often do disassociated people go back to the organization?

  by SEL in

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  2. relationships

  a friend disassociated in order to get divorced, hoping not to get disfellowshipped.

  some time later, he has a serious non-jw girlfriend whom he'll probably end up marrying.

  the thing is, he didn't disassociate because he no longer believed the wt doctrines.

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  "Apostates main topic is always Disfellowshipping! And I agree with the arrangement 100%"

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there are a lot of witnesses that have examined the df'ing arrangement and deem it worthy to be the main force of discipline for god's earthly organization.

  the prodfers as i just named them, are advovates of the policy and believe that it churns out, once the offender returns through the system in place, very "spiritual" people.. think about this process and figure out what the desired result the originator of the policy was:.

  the subject is acused of a "high end sin" (requires the quantification of sin).if subject has been viewed by two or more witnesses a private hearing is formed with a panel of three elders.the subject is interogated by the panel of elders and information is gathered using policies from a secret elder handbook.

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  Help: Re: Letter to elders NOT to disfellowship otherwise legal action will be taken

  by LouBelle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hello there everyone.

  i remember reading a while back about someone on here ( i think) that wrote a letter to the body of elders & headoffice that they should not take any action to disfellowship them as they would be distancing them from friends and relatives and would proceed to take legal action if the body of elders went ahead.. if anyone has that link or can point me in the right direction i'd appreciate that..

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