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  So, Christimas....

  by Phaedra in

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  love the music.color, season's greetings, etc.

  even have a desktop tree.. neighbors on the block are all lit up (since thanksgiving = awesome!).

  the colors are gorgeous!.

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  Job Hunting Advice

  by Phaedra in

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  what might you recommend to someone looking for a job?

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  Yeah, my parents plan to will everything to this parasitic organization and forsake their seed

  by Phaedra in

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  yeah, they'll leave it all, their home, savings, etc.. never mind helping out their struggling children who never had a chance.. fuck this organization and everything it stands for when its members think god will favor them more by willing everything to a corporation instead of their own struggling seed..

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  WOL Alumni? (Big Ray's Witnesses Online)

  by Phaedra in

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  years ago i was a member of big ray's witnesses online discussion board, when i was a questioning jw, which seemed to have come at a time when many were leaving of obed fernandez's witnessesonline, which went off air.

  i'm wondering if anyone who use to post there is here and out?.

  obed posted a link to this site (simon's) when it closed, which helped facilitate my next step out of the jw organization.. no matter, my hats off to both obed and big ray for the space they each created for the processing i needed as a jw.

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  Old Hat

  by Phaedra in

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  15 years ago i joined this forum under a generic alias.. if it weren't for the fact that i have close family weaved into this tapestry of a religion i think i could have moved on long ago.. when you're connected, you're connected.. to those in the same boat, you're not alone.. we get it, and you.. hugs,.

  phae.

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  "...and they were eating and drinking and marrying, etc"

  by Phaedra in

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  2. experiences

  was just thinking of how i used to sit in audience growing up at the kh hearing of "those in noah's day" eating and drinking and what not during some wt article.

  i thought, "those poor people, doing what their hearts desire, and then perishing because they were not people of jehovah.".

  they lived, partied and died.. we don't live any differently today.. we are those people.. we thought we were the exception.. fools we were.. phae.

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  too nice and polite

  by Phaedra in

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  anyone finding themselves being labeled as "too nice" or "polite" after being a lifelong jw and integrating into the "new world" of realistic beings?.

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  Just when you think you're past it all...

  by Phaedra in

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  you"re now the "unbelieving mate" who is now pursuing your degree just before your mid-life crisis hits because until you woke up to the tatt, you bought into the whole "you'll never grow older in this system of things...".

  you're watching your parents grow old fully-invested.... your spouse still invested because "there is no better alternative....".

  your in-laws still won't come over tomorrow (thanksgiviing day) to eat turkey because it might just look like.... just when you think you're past it all and you feel that little bit of jw that is still there at your core eventhough you think you're beyond jwism..... and you remember and empathize and love your loved ones just a little bit more... because as of yet, they cannot find it in them to distance themselves from somethign you found limiting, closing, dark, and oppressive.. may they all find their freedom one day.

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  My Satantic Smurf Scratch n' Sniff Stickers Story (True!)

  by Phaedra in

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  back in the early 80s when i was around 9 or 10, my slightly-older best jw friend relished telling me all the latest scare stories she heard about the satanic smurfs popping off of wallpaper, cutting babies with sharp objects, and running through kingdom hall corridors swearing.

  wide-eyed with no critical thinking skills at.

  i listened and believed every single word.

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  The Bethel "Compound", CULTure & Cults

  by Phaedra in

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  2. beliefs

  i was reflecting on some of the traditional cults mentioned in hassan's book that recruit members and have them move into some kind of compound, give up their worldly lives, possessions, leave their families, etc.

  and work solely for the furthering of the cult... isn't that exactly what "going to bethel" is?.

  when you become a bethelite, you take a vow of poverty and devote your life to the org.

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