on saturday, september 9th, 2006 i will be running my first 5k (3 miles) race in the freedom run (www.freedomrun.com).
we start running at 8:30 am.
there will also be a 1 mile walk for anyone who wants to support the cause but is not up to running three miles.
Congrats Elsewhere
It's awesome!!!
I will never forget my high school days. I was highly wanted because I was a very fast sprinter. My gym teacher ASSURED me I wouldn't miss any meetings for Track.
I spent 2 weeks of grewling workouts. Only to find out the first meet was on a meeting night.
Maybe I can do a 5k...after I get settled in our new home!
anything by raymond franz is a given.. 1984. siddartha.
lord of the flies.
grapes of wrath.
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse---
i was a jw and i d/a myself.. i have sinced married and had two wonderful kids, my parents are still jws, and hardly ever see my kids.
i do not regret d/a myself,my parents are the ones missing out on their grandkids,.
i was accused of doing something and the brothers acted like they did not believe me, i told them that the only ones who mattered,was me the other person and god.
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So sorry for all your suffering. Hope you find this a place of healing.
growing up, i had, like we all do, archtypes regarding the way relationships are supposed to work, what a marriage is supposed to look like, and we use these archtypes as guides to our behavior, the sort of people who we find attractive, etc.. according to jung, there are also "built-in" archtypes that arise from the collective unconscious.
he found that men and women have in their psyches archtypes of the opposite sex, anima and animus.. the anima is the personification of all feminine psychological tendencies within a man, the archetypal feminine symbolism within a man's unconscious.
http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/anima.html.
Congrats Daystar and Brigid
What a sweet love story...is there more to tell???
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/
Wow...still can't believe this thread is going, 18 pages now...
Guess someone is counting a lot of time like I said before.
Spiritual prostitution has been committed by the WTBS. Face the fact!
Someone needs to end this thread now!!!
divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.
probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.
possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.
I have had a divorced. I became anorexic because of it. I wanted to die.
First husband of almost 20 years was a major womanizer............even with my best friend when I was a JW......
He almost killed my sense of self esteem.......in fact he did for 25 years......
i am marion, a friend of fullofdoubtnow (linda), and i have just disassociated from jehovahs witnesses.
i was only announced a couple of days ago, after a lifetime of association.
linda has posted about me before, but it's wonderful to be able to post in my own right, and i am really looking forward to getting to know you all.. i am 59 years of age, 60 in november, and have been a jw all my life, baptised since 1961, and i thought i would always be a witness, but i now know absolutely that it isn't the truth.
Welcome
hiya folks.
just joined on board and figured i'd say a quick hello to all.
i'd get into more, but i'm soooo watching this ingrid bergman marathon on right now on turner classic movies...
Welcome
This is a great place for healing your spiritually abused wounds.
Codeblue
i have a co-worker that came from the same small hometown i did.
small world, we both ended up about 450 miles away from there working for the same place.
shortly after tracy started working with me i walked with her to the coffee shop on break and got to chitty chatting.
I agree with you Gretchen. It is pretty sad that all she knows about JW's are their child pedophile problem.
The JW's argue there are pedophiles in EVERY religion...but they claim to have "pure worship". "Pure worship" should NEVER be tainted with pedophiles and child abuse.
That's what woke me up to the JW hypocrisy.
will you react with prejudice when faced with "absolute truth?
sometimes, an irrefutable "truth" can be spoken.
and yet, this statement or fact of "truth" can be glossed over or dismissed or not recognized by the community at large, because of preconceived ideas taught us and engrained in us, from our previous upbringing or training.
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