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  How Long did it take you to re-build?

  by Scooby in

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  just wondering how long it took/ is taking many of you to rebuild your lives and say goodbye to phobias, etc.?.

  for those who grew up in the borg and don't have a point of reference to go back to....what have you done to create a new life free from that anguish to your mind?

  did a new religion help or therapy?

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  Steve Lowry

  Scoob,

  Just relax a little and learn to enjoy your newfound freedom. Remember that with freedom comes the responsibility of making good and wise decisions. And this too is a learning process that will take time. When you walked out of those Kingdom Hall doors, that was the first day of the rest of your life.

  The more you learn about the Watchtower Society and what you?ve been trained by them, you?ll begin to stack that "learning" up against real life situations and after a while you?ll start to notice a pattern. You?ve been given a bad or poorly working ?map?. Now its time to make your own map and custom tailor it for yourself.

  Don?t deny feelings of frustration, guilt and even fear. Embrace them. Pull back the layers of what you?re feeling and try to discover the core of those feelings. You?ll discover (over a period of time) that those feelings are mostly groundless and of no use in your life and psyche.

  No one (or group) can have control over an independent mind. Grow your mind.

  Good luck.

  Steve
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  A Music Poll

  by Elmer J. Fudd in

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  i?d like to take a poll of who you think the best rock or heavy metal band is or was.

  i have metallica narrowly edging out black sabbath.

  i look forward to corvin?s comments.

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  Yea, DOA, I think that was their song. I had their record (tape) way back in the seventees. I liked the music.
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  What Is The Root Of All Evil

  by Elmer J. Fudd in

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  money?,,,,,,, no, religion!

  all the wars that i have studied have been attributed to religious beliefs who's foundation whereby being unfounded and un-provable.

  trust in gawd, allah, jesus, jehovah, mohammed and on and on is what the lost say, or "the lord will provide" for that matter.

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  Yes, I thought about pride for this thread too, but really, pride like all the other vices is just another tool, if you will. The root of evil is deeper than any of the vices. It?s the very heart of man and how it wants to be satisfied that is at the root of evil, I believe. Man discovers something that brings pleasure and whatever that may be, he wants more and more and more of it until he?s intoxicated with it. And then he wants even more of same. Whether it be lust or greed or pride or power or sex or wealth, etc., what drives all this is the hunger for more. Man?s appetite is insatiable. And if something gets in his way, he?ll destroy it to get more of what he wants.

  All the ?sins? we can think of are not at the cause or root. It is not the things we do, it is who we are that produces evil.

  (This is just my opinion of course.)
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  A Music Poll

  by Elmer J. Fudd in

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  i?d like to take a poll of who you think the best rock or heavy metal band is or was.

  i have metallica narrowly edging out black sabbath.

  i look forward to corvin?s comments.

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  Steve Lowry

  Hey anybody remember the rumor about Stairway to Heaven,,that if you played it backward it said something about satan??

  Actually it said, "yteicoS rewothctaW"

  I'll bet no one here remembers a band by the name of Blood Rock.
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  What Is The Root Of All Evil

  by Elmer J. Fudd in

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  money?,,,,,,, no, religion!

  all the wars that i have studied have been attributed to religious beliefs who's foundation whereby being unfounded and un-provable.

  trust in gawd, allah, jesus, jehovah, mohammed and on and on is what the lost say, or "the lord will provide" for that matter.

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  What exactly is evil? Ho do we define it? Some people feel that a tornado is evil. Sounds kinda silly until maybe you?ve lost a child in one. Yet a tornado has no consciousness to be good or evil. It?s just a thing, which causes destruction and lost lives.

  If something is the cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction, then natural disasters qualify for evil.

  When it comes to man, then I?d have to say the heart of man is the root of evil (deliberate evil). Man?s core, down on the reptilian level, this is where the potential for pure evil exists. (Greed, lust, envy, religious elitism, the need for power, land, resources, fill in the blank.) When we see film clips of how the Nazi?s committed such inhumane acts towards the Jews (and anyone they deemed subhuman) we are appalled. We say to ourselves , "I could never do such a thing". But that is a lie. We have all the potential do every bit of evil as that of the Nazi?s, and worse. It?s innate in all of us.

  If something is the cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction, then man qualifies for evil.
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  Urine Therapy?????

  by frankiespeakin in

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  here is a link give it a read and comment:http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine.htm

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  Steve Lowry

  So, Urine therapy? I hope it helps.
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  Interesting website . . .

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ok, i missed the dateline episode tonight that we all thought would be jw related so, i goes to the nbc website to browse for another time listing for the show.

  i don?t readily see anything that helps me, so i type jehovah?s witness in nbc?s databank search engine.

  low and behold there are references!

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  Urine Therapy?????

  by frankiespeakin in

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  here is a link give it a read and comment:http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine.htm

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  Steve Lowry

  I like my pee room temperature. When it gets there, I flush it.
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  Interesting website . . .

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ok, i missed the dateline episode tonight that we all thought would be jw related so, i goes to the nbc website to browse for another time listing for the show.

  i don?t readily see anything that helps me, so i type jehovah?s witness in nbc?s databank search engine.

  low and behold there are references!

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  Steve Lowry

  Discussion room? Oh, I'll have to check THAT out! Me thinks JW's will be lurking there. Oh goodie goodie! I haven't dined on a JW carcass in a while.

  Update:

  I went to the discussion board and applied for login privileges. Let?s see if I am allowed. To be honest with you though, from what I've read in a few posts, my words would be dismissed quickly and I'd probably be banned from the board in no time. But nothing ventured nothing gained.
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  Interesting website . . .

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ok, i missed the dateline episode tonight that we all thought would be jw related so, i goes to the nbc website to browse for another time listing for the show.

  i don?t readily see anything that helps me, so i type jehovah?s witness in nbc?s databank search engine.

  low and behold there are references!

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  Steve Lowry

  OK, I missed the Dateline episode tonight that we all thought would be JW related so, I goes to the NBC website to browse for another time listing for the show. I don?t readily see anything that helps me, so I type Jehovah?s Witness in NBC?s databank search engine. Low and behold there are references! The very first one is the website hyper-linked below. Check out this website. Please go and snoop around and tell me what you think about it. The topic titles are written as if to charge the Watchtower Society and the wording that follows seems to follow suit. But ultimately the Watchtower Society is defended. Its written almost as if to challenge the Watchtower Society as a cultic group but really it just seems to be a new kind of word ?smithing? and ?spin? by the clever boys at the Squibb building. It gives a hint in the heading on the main page, "Serving Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Society".

  Interesting that NBC would have the link.

  http://www.e-watchman.com/index.html