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  As witnesses did we ever have a normal family life?

  by nugget in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something i read about people born into cults and high control groups stuck with me.

  this was that we have never known normal family relationships our family life has always been abnormal.

  witnesses will argue that they spend time with their children and that they are constantly following bible based counsel on how to be good husbands, wives, parents and children.

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  panhandlegirl

  My father was df'd when I was 12 and the overbearing CS became the family father figure. He was a pervert who had all of the young people's names recorded at the local police station. He told me that himself. He was

  to be called anytime we did anything wrong. That's not normal.

  Yes, loyalty to the organization was always placed above any family loyalty. Like Band on the Run said, we were robbed of our childhood and don't know what we were meant to be or could have been. Actually I feel the

  world was robbed of what we could have given to the world. I feel like Marlon Brando when he said "I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody." That, I think, applies to us all.
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  Quit being apostates and give me some real advice

  by AwSnap in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, my subject is totally joking, but i really do need some advice.

  i purchased a $7 dollar keychain digital picture viewer from ebay.

  it arrived in the mail, i uploaded a bunch of pictures....and then realized its a piece of crap.

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  I would keep sending appropriate gifts and cards to your niece. If she gets them, that's good, if not, you tried. I sent graduation announcemenst when I got my BSN to my older JW sisterrs. They never acknowledged

  it but my non-jw cousin told me they mentioned it to her. They also told her that they had had to give me up because I left the organization. It's hard not to desire a connection with your family.
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  Favorite Quote?

  by Snoozy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i saw this on someone's facebook and thought it would be a really fitting response to certain people... "people like you are the reason people like me need medication".

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  panhandlegirl

  journey-on

  She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you giver her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."

  I love this and men you better believe it!!
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  Favorite Quote?

  by Snoozy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i saw this on someone's facebook and thought it would be a really fitting response to certain people... "people like you are the reason people like me need medication".

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  panhandlegirl

  I think therefore I am - Descartes.
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  How has Watchtower attempted to explain...

  by N.drew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2 timothy 2:16-18 please?.

  16 but avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, 17and their talk will spread like gangrene.

  among them are hymenaeus and philetus, 18 men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.. how were they saying the resurrection had taken place?

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  Just for the discussion, do you not want to live under God's rule and if not, why not? Whose rule doyou prefer?
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  How has Watchtower attempted to explain...

  by N.drew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2 timothy 2:16-18 please?.

  16 but avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, 17and their talk will spread like gangrene.

  among them are hymenaeus and philetus, 18 men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.. how were they saying the resurrection had taken place?

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  Don't want to mess with your thread, but does anyone remember the articles written in about 1964-67 explaining all about the resurrection? Are you saying that Hymenaeus and Philetus were saying that because

  Jesus had died and gone to heaven all who put faith in him were assued a resurrection so His will was a done deal?
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  Don't know where to turn, Don't know who to trust

  by BrotherPrince in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  no, not that prince, its just a username.

  hey apostates, i've heard about these types of forums at meetings and such, never would've guessed it was called jehovahs-witness.net lol.

  (excuse my shock, hope no one is offended).

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  panhandlegirl

  Welcome to the forum Brother Prince. You have already received valuable information and advice from the others. You can learn much from the experiences of these members and the sites and books they have

  recommended. I see that you don't know too much about the history of the world in general. We, the world in general, may be having bad times but conditions in the past have been much worse that what we face

  today except for maybe a nuclear war. You need to educate yourself and make your own decisions. Forget about when the end will come. If/when it comes, it comes. My advice is to live for today because that is all you

  have. As for what the WBTS has to gain, as the others have stated, Money and Power over these millions of people are great motivators.
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  Be Honest---Describe your most prevalent feeling as a witness in ONE WORD!

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lets's go!!.

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  suffocating.

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  panhandlegirl

  enslaved
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  Are YOU a consumer, or an artist?

  by HintOfLime in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  do you create, or consume?.

  an ipad has somewhere around 1 gigaflops of processing power.. apple's ads brag about this.

  1 whole gigaflop of processing power!

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  I am a consumer. I know very little about computers yet I have an IBN desk top on the second floor landing, a HP laptop on my firstfloor on my desk, a notebook computer I take to work, and an iPAD + a blackberry which I can't find most of the time. I spend too much time in the cp. I would like to learn more about the cp; maybe tomorrow.
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  "How Awful This Place Can Be!" Life at Bethel by Keith Casarona

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  remember the video of all the nice dudes who were on the governing body in the 70s?

  (here's a refresher).. well this is what their lives were really like - the same as when i was there.

  by the time it got to the end, all was left was chicken backs.

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  panhandlegirl

  OMG what a story! I have two nephews that went to Bethel. Because I have been df'd for years, I have not heard any of their stories. I believe they were probably "company men" don't know. These stories should be made into a book. What a Hell hole; and to think they (the DO/CO) wanted me to go there! I would not have survived.