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  Last Call for the 3rd ABC Fest in Wisconsin!!!

  by ButtLight in

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  it would be nice to get one last "row call" of who are all attending.

  also, i suppose you would all like to know what time it starts hey?.

  this sat.....8/25 at 2:00pm!

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  Sassy

  yeah me too.. if I still lived back there I definately would have!
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  Just got off the phone with my mom and I feel weak from the emotions.

  by kitten whiskers in

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  nothing major happened, i have just noticed that she doesn't say she loves me anymore.

  i used to find it annoying.

  i always felt like she only said it to guilt me into having to say that i loved her.

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  Sassy

  kitten.. I have a question.. do you ever tell her you love her, is she silent after you tell her?? I think the fact that she stopped the shun and will talk to you now does show she does love you in a round about way..

  My dad and I never said we loved each other for many years.. he wasn't raised to talk such things..

  a few years back I started saying I love you when I would talk to him on the phone.. at first there was a silence.. then he would stay he loved me too.. I always intiated it though... but I'm glad I did.. overtime it goe easier and now that he has died this past May, I'm glad I said those words.. (he was never a witness.. only my mother was though)
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  Suddenly and inexplicably enraged

  by katiekitten in

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  2. friends

  my mum showed me this e-mail her jw friend had sent her last week.. in it the friend explained how wonderful the magazines are and how they provide food at the proper time because they had recently had an article in about ' being prepared for the unexpected'.

  the article had told them to have a bag packed with emergency stuff in case they ever needed to leave the house in a hurry.

  so they were told to pack dried food, a wallet with important documents in, waterproof clothing etc.. now this, it seems, was pretty relevant because i live in gloucester where were had terrible floods a few weeks ago, and some peoples houses were flooded out, the entire city had its water cut off for a fortnight because the pumping station flooded, and most work places were unable to allow staff in because they were not able to provide flushing toilets or running water.. so my mims friend was totally blown away by how jehovah is so clever - although having dried food and your passport in a waterproof wallet did nothing to help you flush the toilet for a fortnight.. but - now heres to point of this long and rambling story - i suddenly got super angry about this article and its survivialist mentalilty.

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  Sassy

  yup.. as you started the thread, I immediately thought to the persecution training we received growing up.. we were always in fear of the day it would all be taken away.. Our home back in Wisconsin has a bible hid in the sheetrock just in case our literature was ever taken away..

  what a way to live our lives..

  this was a trigger for you.. but its ok.. its part of our past and we will have some of these moments
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  I hugged my dad tonight...

  by memario in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ..... for the first time i can remember doing.

  i posted in "my story" that my dad had never hugged me.

  when i really thought about it i decided it was time to do something about that.. we went for supper at my parents tonight.

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  Sassy

  my family is not huggers.. neither side when I was growing up.. so I know how that is..

  but you will see it will get more and more comfortable and really really nice.. its a great start!
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  Anyone here live in Las Vegas?

  by exwitless in

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  2. experiences

  i've never been to vegas before, but i'm flying

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  Sassy

  I go there pretty often.. I have a timeshare there, as well as it is a great place to meet up with friends.. (my drive is about 3 1/2 hours)

  Definately check out the Bellagio water show.. I can never see it too many times and its free! I personally love to people watch, there are all kinds in Vegas!

  Food is every where....

  I also love to walk along the shops at Caesars Palace... Its so relaxing..

  where are you from in Indianna? I used to attend the Goshen congregation up by South Bend many moons ago..
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  My Sister's Visit

  by Sunspot in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  most of you know that my family disowned me in 1972 when i was baptized into the wts.

  i have only one sibling, a kid sister .

  i was thrilled, but nervous, not having a clue how things would go and trying to keep in mind all the things i should not say as well as things i was eager to find out about, concerning the rest of the family i have had no contact with.. the moment we laid eyes on each other (and recovered frm the gigundo hug), it all went just great!!!

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  Sassy

  this is wonderful SunSpot! I'm so glad your reunion visit went well! May there be many more now!
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  A warning would be fair

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  given the often devastating consequences of disassociation and disfellowshipping isn't it fair that those studying with the jws should be explicitly warned about these precedures in advance so that they know where they walking into?

  so that they would be able to better judge whether they want to become jws and potentially risk losing jw family and friends at some future time?

  how many of you would get baptised into the cult if you really knew about the policies of dfing and shunning?

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  if we had a clue that if you ever change you mind you can never speak to your family members again.. no I wouldn't have done it....
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  Name your Top Ten or However Many you can Favorite Comedy Movies

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  started one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.

  so what say yee to this?

  here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.

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  Sassy

  well.. off the top of my head..

  Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  Soap Dish

  Head of State

  Young Frankenstein

  9 to 5

  Forrest Gump

  Arthur

  National Lampoon's Vacation

  Coming to America
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  The warm and fuzzy, snuggly, cuddly thread.

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay i felt a bit sick typing out that title but having been a wee bit 'prickly' in my last few threads i thought i might try this on for size - not sure how well it's going to suit me.. what makes you feel content?

  at peace and restful?.

  i just spent the last couple of hours reading in my recliner.

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  Sassy

  I don't feel it today.. thus I'll withhold my comments until another day
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  Does anyone else feel like this???

  by YoungAmerican in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't post much but sure do love reading everyone else's post.

  everyone here for the most part seems so normal (for apostates, haha).

  so, i was born and raised a jw, baptized at 14, disfellowshipped at 17, reinstated at 28. the only reason i think i did that was because after 10 years of no contact with my father, mother and little sister they came to visit me (they lived on the east coast i live on the west coast) and i was so overwhelmed with seeing them and talking to them and hugging them, i wanted so much to please them and have a relationship with them again that i fooled myself into thinking i needed the "organization" and jehovah's approval to be worthy of their love.

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  Sassy

  I understand where you are.. probably if I was married, so I could have kept up a facade that I was still a dub, I might have to have kept my mom in my life.. I let a man move in with me 4+ yrs ago so I had to tell her the truth.. had my circumstances been different and I do live miles from my mother, I may very well have not told her...

  we all do what we have to do..