teenyuck
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The end: so what?
by larc ini first heard about the end of the world when i was 5 years old.
that was in 1945. when i left the jws, i was in my 20's and never cared much for end time predictions ever since.
i have heard how man will destroy himself.
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For poster of the month, I nominate...
by TweetieBird intatiana.
for sharing with us her experience of "brotherly love".
if you have not taken the time to read it, i highly recommend.. "if love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Being a JW Kid
by Scully ini've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .
my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.
it wasn't allowed.
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A story of brotherly love.....
by Tatiana insince i've been here, from around july, 2001, i haven't really shared any personal experiences of why i left the society, except for the story about my sister who committed suicide.
this is kind of long, so i will tell it in parts.
if this is god's organization, i will gladly be a devil worshiper.. here goes....... when i was about 27 years old, (around 1984) after my divorce, i'd moved from laurens, south carolina back to andrews, sc, and rented the house beside my grandmother.
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Getting "Shined On" by the Watchtower
by DakotaRed inas i saw it then and see it now, i leveled charges of inappropriate conduct against the elders at this congregation, yet, the elders seem to be the only ones the society was concerned with talking to.
i don't consider it a fair or unbiased investigation if you only talk to one side.. this was the only communication i received from the society on this matter.
not even a phone call.
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Who Have They Sold Redundant KH's Too?
by Celtic inthe witnesses have obviously sold off lots of stock and fixtures over the years, as they replaced older, redundant technologies with new, including within this, buildings, kingdom halls and such like.. 'bernard' brought up the reminder in a reply post below, quoting his old kingdom hall as being sold to the mormon's.
frankly, this raised my eyebrows.. what else have they sold that we know of to people on the 'outside' that they would normally disagree with?
and how have these fresh funds been used, to what ends, if any specifically?.
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free at last
by epicurius inrecently df'd ,at great cost.
divorce final last week.only able to see my kids for 3 days every 5 weeks.stories a long one which i will share when i have more time.
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The War of The Elders: Dubs & $$$
by Mindchild ini thought i would take time today to share a true story of what happened in my own jw family as i was growing up as a dub that puts the spot light on what money starved dubs are willing to do when it comes to money issues.. both of my grandparents on both sides and my parents were dubs.
when i was growing up we were never well off financially thanks to the constant harping that armageddon was near at hand and that my father should only work just long enough to make enough money to barely get by as jehovah would provide (yeah, right).
to make ends meet in our large family, my mother used to work by taking in older people who would otherwise need to be spending their last days in a nursing home and we typically had two or three people stay with our family until got to the point where they needed to be in a hospital, and often died soon thereafter.
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Is praying good for you?
by sleepy inwhen in the "truth" most of us used to pray.. i used to pray for help in doing things , say give a talk , and would ask for holy spirit .i felt i needed it to give a talk well.. but was it all just a placebo effect.. did the belief that i was getting help cause me to become more confident because i though god was helping me?.
as time went on in the truth i felt as if prayer was just talking to your self.in fact i found it embarissing to give prayers in public as i felt silly talking to an invisible creature.. but in the night i would prayer and maybe go over the days events , think about new things coming up , other people and life in general.. is this benifical to a person?.
in doing this we are meditating on events we would not otherwise think deaply about , this can help us think of solutions to problems or put things in perspective.. how often would we review events if we didnt pray.. now i doubt that we are conversing with god , but i think to "pray" or go over events in your mind maybe once a day or whatever, is good for your well being and can help you with lifes problems.. although not getting help from another creature we as humans need to meditate in order to make good decisions.. the placebo effect doesn't seem to work anymore and i rely on myself and my experience to help me do difficult tasks.. but when something really big comes up i admit i still say a little prayer.
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Judicial Hearing Notification
by DakotaRed inin other threads i have outlined when two elders came out to my house to provoke a situation to have reason to df me.
below is a copy of the certified letter i received about two weeks after i threww the two elders out of my house, followed by my reply to the secretary, who is also the elder that instigated the the situation as well as the chair of the judicial hearing they tried to form.. i have edited out personal information as well as his signature, since my wife is still an active dub and has enough trouble with them as it is.
salmon creek congregation of jehovah's witnesses.