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  New Girl

  by Gypsy Sam in

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  hope everyone is having a lovely day.

  i ended up here after spending the past few months researching jw, without the blinders on.

  i was a born-in, baptized as a teen, pioneered out of high school for a couple years (turning down a 4 year scholarship).

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  WELCOME Gypsy. Glad you're here with us!
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  Anyone else having a bad week? Thought I was going to die!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  so, this week has been hell!!!

  it's been bad enough that all of our jw friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on facebook and sending nasty emails to gojira...

  so i have a dog, zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans.

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  Oh Yeah, metal pipe it is! That's what was so scary because the entire area by the back door reeked of gas. That would have been a movie sized explosion! Capt Kirk [ Love the name by the way] usually 13 is my lucky number. The last Friday the 13th I won $100 on a lotto scratcher.
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  With out Fear

  by Brother of the Hawk in

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  It's great to have families on here.

  Hubby also hand forges the knives & tomahawks.
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  Anyone else having a bad week? Thought I was going to die!

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
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  so, this week has been hell!!!

  it's been bad enough that all of our jw friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on facebook and sending nasty emails to gojira...

  so i have a dog, zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans.

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  Thank you. Then Hubby wonders why my nerves are shot.
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  Anyone else having a bad week? Thought I was going to die!

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
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  so, this week has been hell!!!

  it's been bad enough that all of our jw friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on facebook and sending nasty emails to gojira...

  so i have a dog, zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans.

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  So, this week has been HELL!!! It's been bad enough that all of our JW friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on Facebook and sending nasty emails to Gojira... So I have a dog, Zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans. If they are doing something she doesn't like she comes and jumps on me whining and tells me. So Zoey starts raising hell and scratching on the side of the house, so I opened the back door to see what she was pitching a fit about and I hear hissing, so I noticed the other dog, Abby had dug a hole beside the sewer pipe so I thought we had a leak since I was running the dishwasher. So I went to investigate and HOLY S#!T, Abby had dug up the propane gas hose that runs from our tank to the house and had chewed it all up and propane was spewing out. So I had to run around the house and hurry and figure out which valve to shut off on the tank. Thankfully Zoey is a tattletale and let me know. I could be dead and where the house is a big hole in the ground. So I called the gas company. $60 an hour + parts. Good thing it's not the middle of winter and we would desperately have to use the furnace because he cannot get here until tomorrow. She's lucky I don't hurt animals other wise she would be dead.
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  Candace Conti v. Watchtower | March 11, 2013 | Watchtower Society Appeal Dismissed For Failure To File Opening Brief

  by jwleaks in

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  edit correction:.

  the court web site lisiting reflects the following below, but we have been informed that the watchtower society has been given yet another extension until march 26, 2013.. the below post will be left as is, for those who may have wondered what happened.. .

  congratulations candace conti.

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  They're waiting for a miracle that will deliver them from satan's evil system.
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  When Real Life Becomes Fiction

  by TD in

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  this is a spin-off from the argo thread.. who here has read the 'little house' books by laura ingalls wilder?

  were you disappointed when you realized how much could not possibly have happened the way it was told?.

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  Yep. So boring, I only got to the 3rd chapter of the 1st book.

  I know I'm going off topic here..... I just noticed you are in AZ. We used to live in Central AZ. Cottonwood to be exact. The infamous 'problem' congregation.
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  The bible is a letter to the 144,000

  by sosoconfused in

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  i don't really remember where i heard this... either at a public talk or a district convention or c.o.

  visit or something.. .

  my question is, has anyone else in there time with the org heard that said?

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  United in Worship book pg 114:

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  God’s spirit gives positive assurance of adoption as spiritual sons to baptized Christians who have received the heavenly calling. The apostle Paul showed this when he wrote to the “holy ones” in Rome, describing what was at that time the situation of all true Christians. He said: “All who are led by God’s spirit, these are God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but you received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which spirit we cry out: ‘Abba, Father!’ The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. If, then, we are children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together.”—Rom. 1:7; 8:14-17.

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  Two uses of the word “spirit” are here brought to our attention: “the spirit itself” and “our spirit.” The first is God’s invisible active force. It inspires in his spiritual children a conviction of having been adopted as God’s free children. That spirit also bears witness through God’s inspired Word, the Bible, which is like a personal letter to his spiritual children. (1 Pet. 1:10-12) When those who have been begotten by holy spirit read what the Scriptures say to those who are spiritual sons of God, they properly respond: ‘That applies to me.’ Thus God’s own active force in various ways bears witness with their spirit, the motivating force of their own mind and heart, that they are God’s children. In accord with what God’s spirit thus indicates, their minds and hearts become set on the prospect of being joint heirs with Christ, and they accept the responsibilities of God’s spiritual children.—Phil. 3:13, 14.
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  If 1914 is wrong then how is it that it was such a landmark year?

  by awakening in

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  this is the question that came up in my mind.

  now dont get me wrong i know the dates from 607 - 1914 are rubbish, but how would you explain to a witness when they will automatically say, look at the momentus year 1914 was.

  that is evidence enough that 607 is correct!.

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  I would say.... 1945 when WWII was over was MORE momentous and the Jews were allowed to go home by proclaimation issued by the United Nations. JW's always say the WWI was the worse war up to that point, but it wasn't. The 100 year war between Britain & France was MORE devasting. Think about it, 100 YEARS of war? or a few years? The Jewish Halocaust, 6,000,000 men, women & children murdered. So I always ask them, "So you tell me, how can 1914 possibly be momentous in history?

  Plus, Russell, Rutherfraud and the IBSA were all looking to 1874, not 1914.
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  With out Fear

  by Brother of the Hawk in

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  Hi Everyone, yep, finally got Hubby to post.

  Thank you all for the warm welcome. It is truly wonderful that the 4 of us have come out together. Now if we can just get our SIL signed up. He did do a post on JWStruggle awhile back which was very brave of him to discuss his abusive past. If anyone is interested, this is his post:

  http://jwstrugglehelpforjehovahswitnesses.yuku.com/topic/557/Im-Finally-Here

  Hubby & I both have a little Native American blood. My Great Grandmother was allegedly full blood ???? the family doesn't remember from what tribe tho.

  Hubby started doing the Mountain man rendezvous re-enactments and goes to several a year. It's great now, because now he can go full force and go to as many as he wants to without criticism from the elders for missing meetings. We have a small Trading Post on our personal property here in the Southwest and our family makes about 99% of the items we sell. We have fun and enjoy what we're doing. Our family always has been a little 'different' and never really 'fit in' to the JW congregations we were in

  More later, peace & hugs to everyone