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  I miss my friends

  by seattleniceguy in

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  2. friends

  i saw a movie tonight and came home thinking about a couple old friends who are still witnesses.

  i miss them something awful.

  i needed to write, so i wrote in my journal for a while, but i really felt the need to write them directly.

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  shamus

  It's kind of funny. When times change, your friends change too. I miss the good old times that we used to have, but the few that are still in are so trapped, and so alien to me. When I speak to them, it's like a relief that I don't speak the same way.

  Everything is based on the religion. The way they speak, the disappointment of dreams that are not coming true.

  They have they're own families now, and still get together and get pissed drunk. One day when I get down where I used to live, I will look them up and have a beer. (I'm not DF'd or anything to my knowledge. you never know though). But they are not the same people now. We can talk of the good old days, but that's about it. They know what I think of the dubulya's. I told them that I will never go back, no matter what. I just don't believe it anymore.

  Life goes on. Looking back sometimes causes more grief. There are new friends and new times ahead. It's been about 8 years now for me, and I don't regret leaving the religion one bit. Nor do I regret the change in friends that I needed to make.
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  After 5 years, a letter...Beware the Voice of Strangers

  by Bubbamar in

  1. social
  2. family

  after 3 attempts, i finally have a letter that i might actually mail to my mom.

  i think it's funny that she will get my letter at the same time she is studying the "beware" wt article.

  think she'll make something of it??.

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  "they have no natural affection".

  Perhaps it's time to let her go after this. I hope that you have seeked counselling, too. This is too much for your shoulders to bear without some kind of professional help, IMO. One never knows if she will change..

  Remember, the wtbts says that she is doing this out of 'love'.
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  do you believe only the jw's will be saved? from official wtbs website.

  by candidlynuts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you believe that you are the only ones who will be saved?

  many millions who have lived in centuries past and who were not jehovah's witnesses will come back in a resurrection and have an opportunity for life.

  many now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before god's time of judgment, and they will gain salvation.

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  But if you don't do enough hours in the field service, or go to all your meeetings, you can't have certain privileges.

  Or have an 'elder approved' haircut, LOL.
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  Official - There are 6 million Bible Studies - but where are they?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was mentioned at the service meeting.. but, it should be worrying to the society, not as wonderful as it may sound.

  the number getting baptized each year is shrinking rapidly.. at one time, they boasted of baptizing 1000 dubs a day which equals to 365,000 dubs.

  this was back in 1997.. at the dc this year, it was 5,000 a week.

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  There are many doorstep studies--people who don't know they are even counted as a study. During on of the last CO visits, when I was still attending, he carefully instucted us of how to conduct a study without ever calling it a study, so the people were unaware that they were actually studying.

  Just to prop the numbers up. They have been doing this for years.

  If the numbers were not fictional, it would be a whole lot less.
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  Vacation time, even for the JW's

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember going to the meetings in the summer time years ago, and the attendance was really low, especially this time of year.

  usually, right after the district assembly in july, many went on vacations for a few weeks, and the hall was practically empty.

  being inactive and missing many meetings, i loved to show up at a meeting when the hall was practically empty.

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  shamus

  Remember, you were supposed to go to meetings while on holidays. So there is no dammed excuse for you, you pagan.

  I heard stories of people who used to go to one congregation in Hawaii all the time. It was a 'cold' congregation, because they were so sick of seeing visitors there. Or so the story goes.
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  Official - There are 6 million Bible Studies - but where are they?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was mentioned at the service meeting.. but, it should be worrying to the society, not as wonderful as it may sound.

  the number getting baptized each year is shrinking rapidly.. at one time, they boasted of baptizing 1000 dubs a day which equals to 365,000 dubs.

  this was back in 1997.. at the dc this year, it was 5,000 a week.

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  For starters...

  Many 'bible studies' are 'doorstep' without the householders knowledge. If you return weekly, and even go over a few paragraphs in a brochure, you're a bible study.

  Pity the householder was not told about it.
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  We are so pathetic

  by kls in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is friday evening and we are on these damn computers and so many people in chat.

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  what is wrong here, let's party

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  That's about all I've done for the last 6 months. Partied, smoked dope.

  I am practicing climbing knots tonight, and am going up a glacier tomorrow. I will take that over sitting around, high, drunk, thanks very much. (yes, I have been offered to go to a party twice so far tonite. no thanks)

  Shamus... the snobby stuck-up class.

  P.S. it's only 6:14 here! Parties don't get going until the bar closes, and everyone get's they're coke. When I wake tomorrow, they will still be going on.
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  Mountain bikers... Any Suggestions???? *fluff*

  by shamus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey all... are there any mountain bikers out there???

  what do you ride?.

  my kona just had it's derailer go on me, and i'm shopping for a new one (bike.

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  Special K,

  You should see the special bikes that they use just for tri-athalons. I got to see one where I used to live, and WOW!

  Yeah, it was like feather light, and looked like it was moulded to fit like an air-craft. They also had an interesting story in the British Columbia news yesterday how they designed Lance's suit that he uses for the tour-de-france.

  They could not put a price on how much it cost them to develop it. The front had dimples like a golf ball, while the back of the suit was smooth, so as not to trap the air. They developed it at UBC. They also develop suits for other sports, such as rowers and other silly boring sports.
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  Bastards!

  by gumby in

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  not one person wished me a happy 3 year jwd birthday today.

  i don't think i luv you guys anymore.. gumby

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  shamus

  Anniversaries and post 'feats' don't mean that much to me, and I usually don't pay much attention.

  So if you must have it, happy anniversary, Gumby! Just think what we all could have been doing by not posting here... studying to better our job situation... learning a new hobby. Something, other than typing.

  Just imagine how much more money and knowledge that we could have had. It's actually kind of depressing.

  How's that for bringing down your party?

  HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GUMBY! 8,000 posts = 70,000 hours here = medical school training. But I am far worse than you! Look when you joined and I joined!
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  Mountain bikers... Any Suggestions???? *fluff*

  by shamus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey all... are there any mountain bikers out there???

  what do you ride?.

  my kona just had it's derailer go on me, and i'm shopping for a new one (bike.

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  Lance Armstrong (wow, that fellow has a heart of steel and legs of iron)...couldn't hold a candle to mountain bikers.

  I don't know about that. I bet lance would run circles around me going up the trail.