Posts by Still Totally ADD

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What Simple Pleasures Do You Enjoy Since Leaving Watchtower?

by pale.emperor in

what simple pleasures do you enjoy since leaving watchtower?

here's some of mine, in no particular order:.

a cigar: i dont smoke cigarettes at all, but i do enjoy a good cigar from time to time.

Still Totally ADD

I stop the cigars in the last two years but it was a simple pleasures I enjoyed at the time. I go to a men's group every third Thursday of the month and sometimes I remember what I use to do all my life on Thursday. Then I just shake my head and smile because of how much I have changed. Every afternoon around 4:30 my wife and I have a cup of coffee and tea on our front porch and just relax and talk not having to worry about going any where. During this summer on Saturday we have been going to all the local farmers markets. Just because we can. Still Totally ADD

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My mums dying she refuses blood transfusion...the horror.

by Witness 007 in

mum has a mild form of lukeimia if she took blood like normal people she could live to be 100. but no, anointed sisters dont compromise jehovah wont allow it.

so here i am moving to sydney for one month going to hospital everyday putting my life on hold to watch my mother die slowly.

watching her gasp for air, struggle to breath.

Still Totally ADD

So sorry for your loss. So sad, so sad. Still Totally ADD

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Article: WBBR-AM: A “Pioneering” Radio Experiment by the Watch Tower - A revealing history of WBBR- Includes the last broadcast - April 1957

by AndersonsInfo in

jw
friends

http://watchtowerdocuments.org/wbbr-am-a-pioneering-radio-experiment/#more-9319.

wbbr-am: a “pioneering” radio experiment by the watch tower .

introduction to main article.

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Thank you Andersons for the history of WBBR. I did not know it lasted to 1957. For some reason I always thought it ended back in the 1930's. I remember how they braged about how they used the latest technology to spread the word. Then they gave it all up to using a ancient way of telling people the so called good news. Now what I have seen and heard they just look silly on their new way of using the latest technology. Still Totally ADD

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opportunity for fornication

by road to nowhere in

ever see brother ugly who is 86 being taken to the doctor by sister frigid who is 65 and also not good looking?

they have to have a chaperone or at least sit in back and front seats.

or a man who can't bring the freezing daughter in the house when he stopped briefly by because hubby is not home.

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I always found this to be true. Most of the sex talks I heard at the meetings I never ever thought of. But after the talk that all i would think of. The WT was the main culprit in putting idea's into people's head. Still Totally ADD

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How has 2017 treated you so far?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

jw
friends

i can't wait till 2017 comes to an end.

here are s few things that have happened to my family and i:.

my jehovah's witnesses mom died in the beginning of the year.

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Moved into our own home with no mortgage. One month later I had a very bad fall at work. I am on temp. disability and will have surgery on my back on Sept. 5. Was told if it all works out I will be able to go back to work in January. I have a great vegetable garden this year. Eating a lot of food from it. A good friend of mine died of Alzheimer last month. He was one of my first friends I made after leaving the cult six years ago. My wife is now working at the humane society and loves it. We are still very much in love with each other going on 44 years this coming March. To top it off we had a great garlic crop this year. Also we was able to get rid of our two old high mileage cars and was able to buy a very low milage van. So far I feel we have had more ups than downs. Greatest thing is we are still cult free. Still Totally ADD

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August 1, 2017 BOE Re: Using and Maintaining Kingdom Halls

by wifibandit in

august 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: using and maintaining kingdom halls.

us.

uk.

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P.E. so true, so true. Children be damn but buildings? Let's use all our treasure's for the great building maintenance program. We the great and powerful Borg can make money on property but not on children. Sad very sad. Still Totally ADD

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Happy birthday Watchtower!

by Half banana in

just before the month ends i would like to congratulate the watchtower magazine for completing its run of 138 years of publication.

the first copy was printed july 1st 1879. well done watchtower!.

as a reminder, let people remember that in its time this magazine has one of the world’s largest print runs for a periodical.

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Thanks Wake Me. I always wondered why my parents never trusted doctors and would not allow me to have vaccinations as a kid. Even though they came into the cult in 1953 those old teachings was still holding on to many members. I do remember the 1967 teaching on organ transplants. At a assembly I was at they had one person dressed up like a heart on stage. Trying to convince everyone that during the development of a person the heart and the brain develop in the same place. So if you receive a transplanted heart then you will start having the same feelings from the person you got the heart from. Such nonsense!!! Still Totally ADD

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JW Parents and kicking out their children

by NJ501 in

is it a common practice for jw parents to kick their children out of the home, if the child doesn't want to be a jw.

(even though their not disfellowshipped they will still get kicked out for not going to meetings etc.??).

do other religions encourage kicking family members out this as well?

Still Totally ADD

Twenty-twenty years ago our oldest son was DF. He was eighteen just out of high school. He was scared to death we was going to kick him out but that never came to our mind. Instead we try to help him in anyway we could even sending him to a trade school so he could support himself. To this day he is using those skills to support his family. During this time I was servering as a elder. When the CO came for his visit he did every thing in his power to remove me but the body of elders said no to him. He made sure a letter was sent with the congregation report to the WT. Also many of our so called friends marked us and had nothing to do with us. After one year our son was reinstated. He finished his trade school and started working. In other words we stuck with our son through thick and thin. Forward fifteen years when my wife and I woke up and left the cult, guess what happen? He started to shun us and continues to do so. All I am saying it works both ways. Still Totally ADD

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Some Good News About Me (Although Anthony Morris Will Be Furious)

by pale.emperor in

just wanted to share with you some good news i'm really excited about.

i have been accepted for university to study psychology and counseling.

my goal is to become a counselor and, in time, to specialize on treating those who have left high control relationships/groups like we all did.. it'll take a few years before im qualified but studying in university has been a dream of mine since i was 12, which was systematically dashed to pieces by watchtower.. .

Still Totally ADD

Good news P.E.. So how do you feel about that? LOL. Just kidding! Very happy for you. I know in the future you will be able to help some poor soul leaving a cult. Take care and good luck to you. Still Totally ADD

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Imagine if Jw ran schools ?

by Chook in

after learning the alphabet no other education required.

history would be distorted, science rejected.

i'm surprised that gb didn't realise there is big money in education, big tony could be the professor of bullshit..

Still Totally ADD

JW school would be crappy but at least I would not have been beaten up by the Catholic kids every week for being a kid of JW's. LOL. Still Totally ADD