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  Hello everyone

  by Wordlygirl in

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  i have been lurking on here for some time and i finally decided to join the fray.

  i am 25 years old and was raised in the society.

  fortunately when i was 8, my father left the organization and this allowed me to see the wrold from both angles, the jw (mom) and not (dad).. at first, i was strongly on the side of the witnesses and i even allowed myself to be convinced that getting baptised at 11 was a good idea.

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  Emma

  Welcome and thank you for sharing your story. I'm so sorry about the loss of your husband. You are blessed with your daughter.

  emma
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  whats the best memorial you DID NOT attend?

  by darth frosty in

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  every body has a thread about r u attending the memorial or whats gon happen who's gon partake...what i want to know whats the best memorial that you missed or skipped?.

  for me it was the first memorial i missed.

  i stopped going to the hal in 04 but, got conned into going to the memorial in 05. in 06 i wasn't having any of it.

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  My first one. We'd gone to Cancun. i remember looking up at the huge moon hovering over the ocean and how remarkably peaceful it felt. It wasn't ujntil we got home and found a memorial invite that I realized what night it was that I was admiring the moon. Haven't been since and that must have been fifteen years ago - how time flies.
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  Read

  by mother-ice in

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  mark 12:30. and you must love jehovah your god with your whole heart.

  and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with.

  your whole strength.. .

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  Emma

  Well, the WT likes to say that but they really meany "governing body." They've made them one and the same by their actions.
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  Question Box in new May KM...more spin of things to come

  by TooBad TooSad in

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  i have a scan of the question box but i can't figure out how to upload it so i. will just type it out.

  i can guarantee you that only we who post on this web.

  by jehovah's witnesses have different logos.. congregations or individuals should not use logos or names of the organization's legal.

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  Emma

  It's because "the end" is just "around the corner" and "jehovah" is "protecting the brothers" for when the "UN turns on all religion" to "destroy" it. "God's people" are being "protected" by the "faithful and discreet slave." Don't ya know.
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  Choosing Death (for born ins)

  by brinjen in

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  it's a powerful weapon isn't it?

  death.

  it was used on all of us at one stage when we were inside of that cult.

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  I thought I was choosing death; what bothered me was that I was likely choosing death for my kids, too, and yet even that could not get me back to a k.h. I knew I'd never go back; that was freeing for me, and that last bit of thinking that "they" may just be right still wasn't strong enough to make me do it. There was almost something physical making me know I'd left for good. How evil they are, manipulating people into the inaction of leaving by death threats!
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  Dumest thing you did !!

  by cluless in

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  i thought i would enjoy a few hours cathing up on events on the board.. i purchased a kebab pizza and opend a cold beer.

  unfortunately i put my cigarette butt out in the newly opend beer can-.

  okay by my standards thats not dumb...but has anyone done a dumer thing whilst on this board?.

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  This happened to one of my coworkers today. We're having a pot luck luncheon and she got a local business to donate 30 heads of Romaine lettuce. She came in yesterday and put all of them in the commercial freezer instead of the fridge. Guess where she is right now?
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  i am 20 minutes away from a sheparding call........

  by oompa in

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  first one in at least 5 years.......wife does not want to sit in and i just told her if she does not, then i am not either.....this loss of faith thingy has really been rough on our marriage.......i have decided to not bring up a single issue i have........i will relate to them my illustration of the taxi driver who keeps giving out bad directions i posted yesterday.......i think what will surprise them maybe is that my loss of faith goes way beyond wt.......i have lost virtually faith in the bible and god......one has already told the "first place to start is to get going to the meetings again!"....lmao!!!.........

  i hope their programed brains can grasp that maybe you need faith in a god first.....then find out what method (or book) he is using to educate us if he wants to....and then if you feel the need....look around to find out if there is a group of folks who all have similar beliefs.........this should be interesting...........oompa.

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  "Jehovah sent the right elder to help me continue to do that"
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  We Don't Want to Know Why You're Leaving

  by passwordprotected in

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  our exit from the watch tower society was fairly speedy.

  within about 3 months, we'd ceased attending meetings and lost all of our friends (apart from hobo ken and his wife).. what was shocking - and only confirmed that we were right to leave - was how our decision was met by our so-called friends.. we were leaving behind people whom we'd enjoyed friendship for over 20 years.

  we were leaving behind friends who were closer to us than our own families were.

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  What a great analogy! My family "wanted to know" why but what the were looking for was a confession that I'd committed a terrible sin that I couldn't face up to. Nothing was further from the truth

  "My wife and jumped off the bridge 8 years ago, we landed O.K., the water was deep and we had a soft landing.

  The water was running fast, so we soon lost sight of the bridge and its onlookers.

  KT"

  Me, too!
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  Comments For Service Meeting This Week

  by dismayed in

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  for those attending, a couple of possible comments for the service meeting.

  there is a "2009 yearbook" part where the audience gets to gush over the statistics that they found interesting.

  how bout "i was really impressed with the number of memorial partakers last year, with an increase of about 10% over last year and nearly 10,000 partakers, it looks like we will be privileged to have many anointed with us for some time" or.

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  Let us know how it goes!
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  I want to leave but don't know how

  by God_Delusion in

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  2. experiences

  hi.. i have been a witness since birth (will be 30 years in june 2009).

  got baptised when i was 15 (pressured into it by my parents, plus, i was promised my first home pc if i did get baptised before turning 16).. both my parents serve in the uk bethel.

  i have an older brother and younger sister, both of which are witnesses.. i am married to a witness and live in cyprus (i am english).

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  Emma

  I want to add that you've given enough personal information to be identfied by people who know you; it's happened before. If you've given your personal info correctly, maybe you can still go back and edit it out a bit.

  Congratulations on having your eyes open. It's not always easy to get out, but is worth what you go through.