Topics Started by Gig
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I'm in love with a witness
by Gig ini'm new to this forum and have been reading all these topics and posts and kind of getting to know some of you.
i've always purposely avoided anti-witness or ex-witness opinion before but i'm tired and am looking for an end to it all.
like it says, i am very much in love with a witness, and she is very much in love with me.
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Why no windows?
by Gig in.
actually this is a good sign for me, progress really.
the only jw question i have for today is why kingdom halls don't have any windows..
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I can't believe I'm saying this...
by Gig ini hope that saddam uses his hidden wmd's.
i hope even more that they're used ineffectively and no one gets hurt, contaminated, or killed.
but i try and imagine this guy facing the loss of it all, his own country and life included, why wouldn't he make the biggest mess he can before departure?
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What's with such young "elders"?
by Gig inhow can the wts consider an unmarried man in his mid-twenties qualified to be an elder?
clearly the "theocratic" process of election by the holy spirit is not what's happening.
ever known any (too) young elders?
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Damage control
by Gig ini could spend many of your minutes describing how helpful this forum has been for me, suffice it to say that it's the way things should be...offer an idea and everybody else have opportunity to put it on the table too, pro or con.
my opinion is that jw's haven't realized (or have been denied) the benefits of such an appropriate arrangement that also provides the best method for discovery and growth.. my offering today is prompted by what i've found to be a recurring theme here...one that never fails to bother me.
as many witnesses "get out", too often (for me) they along with now rejecting the wts, reject many of the good things the wts tried, however horribly, to represent.
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Another only one
by Gig init was just brought to my attention that herbert armstrong and the worldwide church of god are yet another "only us" religion.
have any of you ever studied him and his teachings and found similarities to the wt and gb?
this could prove helpful to me as my jw friend is familiar with armstrong having attended there as a child.
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LETTING GO
by Gig insome of you might remember that i fell in love with a jw.
that was two years ago and now i've decided to let her go.
i've done everything i know to do including trying to apply most every good thing i learned since meeting her.
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Burn baby...BURN
by Gig intonight is the night...i'm going to have myself a nice watchtower bonfire.
every wts pub i own is going up in smoke...one by pathetic one.
the stack of mags, the books...including my two nwts.
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It's working...she's listening...what NOW?
by Gig injust the other day my jw friend, whom i love very much, called me out of the blue after having broken contact yet again a couple of months ago.
this exhausting cycle i'm determined to break.
she has never been able to reconcile the advice she gets from her elders and the sense i make.
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Is the basis for the "true religion" ...
by Gig ini am not and have never been a jw.
however, i have spent the last two years meeting with them and studying with them.
not to worry, from practically my first day of research (independent thinking) i discovered what i am convinced is a very clear example of false religion.