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Do great crowd members receive holy spirit?
by Pistoff inhas anyone else wondered this?
the wt places great emphasis on the fact that the anointed receive holy spirit, are anointed with holy spirit, and were/are baptized in name of father, son and holy spirit; until the 80's, baptism was still done that way for all witnesses .
great crowd members, on the other hand, what do we get?
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The Question Of The Day Do You Want Eternal Life?
by minimus indo you still hope to live forever?
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Ex-JW looking for help with difficult ex-spouse
by MsJam ini am an ex jw with two children that i share custody with their father (still a witness) we have become very involved with our church (my new husband and i) the problems we are having deal with birthdays,and all the ususal non-witness activites where my children are concerned.
we do celebrate all birthdays and holidays.
my 7 year old has been spanked and threatened by her father for the mear mention of any of these things.. their father had increasingly become emmotionally distant from them.
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Watch your weight
by JH inaround christmas time, people tend to eat too much and gain weight.
do you gain weight easily?
does it get you mad to see some people eat alot and stay slim?
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The Reasons Why You Were A Jehovah's Witness
by minimus inmany here have been raised as witnesses.
others were introduced to the "truth" through various forms of witnessing.
what was the common denominator for remaining a witness for the time that we have?
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #28
by ozziepost inhow's this weekend faring?
today mrs ozzie and i have been to our second xmas end-of-year party of the season.
food good, beer ok, but no shiraz!
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Ready, set, GO
by Gig ini believe all of you will be happy to hear that a jw friend of mine is finally willing to listen to me.
i have slowly but surely been breaking off little tid-bits of info about why i can't see the one true religion thing happening with the wts.
i have resisted the tremendous urge to "let 'em have it" and patience is prevailing.
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Shunning/Going To Meetings Question
by reubenfine ini was never df'd or da'd.
i am curious if you ever were and were reinstated, what was it like to be shunned and treated as a non-person while sitting in the rear of the hall?
i can only imagine it to be the utmost humiliation on top of a public disfellowshipping and can't imagine having to go through it.
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Thoughts
by Wolfy indoing the "fade" thing is like a slow, painful torture to me.
i have to do the fade because of my current circumstances (wife being a jw but starting to doubt/both our families very strong jw's).
it makes me angry at having wasted so much time and energy (and money) being a jw.
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Told my JW Story at AA Meeting
by COMF ini was invited to be a guest speaker at the saturday night aa speaker's meeting.
this meeting usually has a large crowd and they get somebody with longtime sobriety to come up and tell his story of "what i used to be like, what happened, and what i'm like now" as an example for others.
i'll have eight years in january, so i guess that makes me fairly longtime.. i told them:.