Gee, you think they would appreciate "apostates" like us. If it wasn't for Nelson Barbour (the very first apostate) , Russell may never have taken that first step into "crazy as a shithouse rat" land.
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Pro-JW website SLAMS apostates
by yadda yadda 2 inat the site, click on the pictures to read lengthy diatribes against apostates lol.. apostasy "seeing oneself as a victim denied" .
as a result of seeing oneself as a victim denied, there can occur a powerful drive toward disaffection and apostasy.
as is almost inevitably the case, there is a great need on the part of a leave-taker to validate their oppositional stance, and the victim-victimizer scenario greatly assists a person in justifying their course of action.
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Island Life
by insearchoftruth4 inwhich ones do you prefer?
its snowing cold here so some michael franks songs make me want to make my escape.... .
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I've been going to the Caribbean from NY every winter for the last 30 yrs. Cruising to Grand Turk, the Dominican, Aruba & Curacao in 3 wks. Gotta find a bar to buy down there for my retirement. For nonstop action- Cancun. Nude beaches- St. Maartin (French Side). Solitude- Saba (Try the flight in) Good people- Grand Cayman. Worlds Craziest Drivers- the Dominican Republic. Relaxation- Kitts, Aruba, most everywhere. Don't forget Puerto Rico & old San Juan; good stop. Once you dive in the Caribbean, you'll give up diving anywhere else.
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NFC & AFC Championship Games - Who Wins & goes to Super Bowl ?
by flipper ingreat time of year for us football fans !
so let's have your picks !
now that we know it will be baltimore ravens vs. new england patriots in the afc championship and atlanta falcons vs. san fransisco 49ers in the nfc championship - what do you think ?
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mrquik
Got a buck riding on the 49er's against my mother-in-law. God I love taking money from her.
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Ambushed!!!!! Fam'ly Intervention!
by sd-7 inlast night, i went to my parents' house to wash clothes--or so i thought.
apparently, someone's been talking.
so...i get slammed for listening to people on the internet.
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Hi sd-7; I appreciate your situation. I have one daughter still in & have not spoken to her or seen my two grandkids in years. I take comfort in the belief that some day this injustice will end. Until then, you have to continue to look ahead. My best regards. Live Well......Enjoy Life.
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My apologies to everyone on this board (please read).
by Joliette inabout a month ago, i wrote a post about a sister that keeps coming to my apartment giving me watchtowers.
i called her an older sister.
she is in her late 50's.
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Thanks Skeeter; I have though decided not to ski with Jose any more. Fell down in front of the ski lift got dragged 5' & broke a pole. I'm stickin with the Captain. ( Athough the Captain did encourage me to go down the double diamond. Same sad results. )
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My apologies to everyone on this board (please read).
by Joliette inabout a month ago, i wrote a post about a sister that keeps coming to my apartment giving me watchtowers.
i called her an older sister.
she is in her late 50's.
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I got my first tattoo at 60. It has my new wife's name in it. My youngest daughter said " I hope you don't regret that". I told her at my age, I won't live long enough to regret anything. Yahoo!! I also ski, sky dive, wreck dive, fly aircraft, build aircraft, drive fast cars, take the Harley cross country & stare at beautiful women in front of my wife. Any of the above could be lethal, but that's the beauty of getting older. Something's gonna get me & I don't like surprises. (PS: I should add that I don't pilot the plane & sky dive at the same time. Scares the hell out of the passengers.)
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yet another newbie..
by ragnarok75 ini've been lurking here for some time and now that i've registered here's a little bit about myself... i'm in northern europe (so english is not my own language,but i have indeed studied it for more than 18 months) and i was born into this hateful cult in the "momentuous" year of -75.good that my parents stayed alive till then!.
as far back as i can remember i had doubts both about the doctrines and the whole existence of god.however,i instinctively knew that these doubts are not to be mentioned.so i learned to be a fake at an early age.though having read many other stories here i realise how easy i got it.i now understand that we lived in a rather liberal area and also my family was quite liberal eventhough my dad was an elder since mid -80 and mom was really "strong in the truth".i never brought up the religion at school or with friends and was never bullied or anything.it helped that i was good at sports,especially football (soccer for americans) and football is also the source of my biggest hurt in childhood.i know it may sound very trivial,but the fact that i wasn't allowed to join a football team felt just so unjust and painfull and it lasted all through my childhood.whenever we had a new gym teacher,the first thing he asked me was which team do i play for.i was too embarrased to tell the truth and i just gave the impression that i only wanted to play for fun and not join any team.oh,how badly i wanted to!.
somehow i managed to silence all those doubts and got babtised as a young man.very soon after the babtism i knew that it didn't have the hoped for effect of making me more spiritual and meetings and field service still felt an absolute bore.now began the long years of just "going through the motions".all my family (parents,many brothers and sisters,uncles and aunts,nieces and nephews) and most of my friends were in.i never reached out and attended only one or two meetings a week and penned my hours.i kind of liked my congregation (also,the seats at our kh were really comfy,so i often slept through the meetings) and made some very good friends.friends that - as you all can guess- didn't turn out to be so good in the end,but with whom i nonetheless had some good times and felt a strong connection to.. for a long time nothing happened that would've disrupted my rather non-eventfull life as a lacklustre jdub with at least another foot in the "world".i'd done many things that would've gotten me d'fed,but i never had any intentions of going to the elders about it and i had no pangs of conscience about it either.it was just a matter of convenience..i liked my witness friends,wanted to hold on to them and not to lose my family.. however..there was this girl... a (worldly,of course) girl that i had absolutely fell for and had a brief romance with many years ago.now she was back in my life.i must omit the proceeding turns of events for the sake of anonymity,but the end result is that i'm a proud father of a lovely baby girl.well,not so much baby anymore as she starts school soon.i love her so much and it gives me great satisfaction that she is growing free from any influence of vicious cults or of any gods for that matter.we live now in different countries but i see her often and there's always skype.. her birth also acted as a catalyst for the change in relationship between me and the society.i decided that i wanted to share the joy of her birth and existence with my family,eventhough i also knew that that would mean i'd have to go the elders too.if i didn't,they would,and that would result in automatic disfellowshippping.. a jc was duly formed and i had decided that i'm not going to go there and tell them that i regret her,as having her is the best thing that's ever happeded to me.
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Welcome R75; Good to hear you got out when you did. Many of us have lost 40- 50 yrs. in this cult. At 30, you will have a great life ahead of you. Live Well......Enjoy Life.
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Yesterday was my last meeting
by nolongerconfused inyesterday's watchtower study was the last straw for me...as you all have probably seen the post before me, here's the quote that did it for me.
11/15/2012 wt "forgive one another freely".
paragraph 16 - "in accord with jehovahs's will, christian elders have been entrusted with the responsibility of wrongdoing in the congregation.
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Billy; I can't tell you how torn I am every Sunday morning passing the local hall while on my way to the ski resort.
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Still Waiting For the Governing Body To Explain Their New Light
by Cameron_Don inregarding the governing bodys new light relative to matthew 24:45-47, anointedjw.org recently said the following:.
this new light certainly poses a problem for the governing body.
perhaps this is another reason why they have not yet published a sober and scriptural xplanation of this new light.
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Hi Don; I think the light gets brighter & brighter until you're blinded by WT dogma and can't find the way out.
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New Member-Active Elder
by Promitheas ini'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.
i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.
some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..
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mrquik
Welcome P; nice to hear from all corners of the globe.