"somewhere in Daniel it says that in the end of days we are going to have to pay an entire days wages just to buy bread."
Hasn't that already been happening in third-world countries since the beginning of time?
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22JW says high gas price fulfills bible prophecy...the end is near
by DevonMcBride inhere's a gem from a jw group on myspace.
http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewthread&entryid=5886853&adtopicid=27&categoryid=0&issticky=0&groupid=100229164&mytoken=20050903180812.
okay so i know this doesn't directly effect me because i don't quite drive yet, but indirectly it does effect me.
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Born In, the Difference
by wanderlustguy inborn in, what difference does it make?
i was thinking about this one a lot over the last few weeks.
what difference does it make whether you were born into a cult or were brought in as a teen or adult?
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wanderlustguy,
Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Walking through the neighborhood - then and now
by alias innot ringing a single bell .
isn't it awesome to take a stroll through the neighborhood with a friend or significant other.
to gaze at the homes you pass and admire the flower gardens, manicured yards, a pop-up in the backyard.
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All of your comments are so validating.
It takes so much time to "undo" what I had no choice in until I became into my own. Residues remain, but I have the power to over-ride the patterns.
I have met so many amazing "people" just by opening my heart and putting religion aside.
Accepting others as they are, and them me. The clouds of a looming armageddon have dissipated.
Now I understand the householder's response when standing at his door when I was 14: "Your religion is nothing but gloom and doom."
Now when I knock on a door, it is to a friend's home. And I am welcomed. And they, in mine. Our differences are now a point of intrigue.
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Walking through the neighborhood - then and now
by alias innot ringing a single bell .
isn't it awesome to take a stroll through the neighborhood with a friend or significant other.
to gaze at the homes you pass and admire the flower gardens, manicured yards, a pop-up in the backyard.
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Not ringing a single bell
Isn't it awesome to take a stroll through the neighborhood with a friend or significant other. To gaze at the homes you pass and admire the flower gardens, manicured yards, a pop-up in the backyard. To understand the homes as private fortresses for others to retreat from the world. An oasis for their minds, troubles, and stress. To see people as neighbors and prospective friends.
...Instead of only seeing a house number to note on a small slip of paper. Of hearing the loud tone of a doorbell, hoping nobody answers. To fear the loud barking of a huge dog with bared teeth clawing at the front window? Feeling discouraged at another closed door disinterested in a religious message you're trying to "push" into their lives?
I love taking walks now. And I love meeting the people on my street without planning religious intervention. What an awesome way to see life.
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No, did you? Where do they hold it, do you know? alias
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what do ex jws become
by jwfacts in.
what do most ex jws become, christian, athiest/agnostic or some other religion?
and since we all need to be labelled, what do i call myself now?
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*** Channel C forum closing ***
by truthseeker injust checked out channelc.org, and it looks like it will close.. posted by ccadmin on thu - jul 21 - 6:40pm: .
.. dear all: .
i've thought about this a lot today, while i was away at work.
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Never been too interested in channel C, but I've appreciated some of the other things Ros has done for exiting JWs.
I was on one of her e-mail lists years ago (pre-JWD), and it was instrumental in helping me sort through a lot of muck. Dark days those were, and she sought me out from a post on H2O that unsympathetic "luminaries" trampled on. I left her group when I was strong enough to take the next step.
I have much appreciation for all Ros has done over the years, even towards those who walk a different path. I wish her well, and understand her need to move on. LOL, there is nothing new under the...
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WHY INVITE A ZEBRA INTO THE PARLOR?
by Terry inthere has to be a good reason to invite a zebra into the parlor.
what is the reason?
now, don't say, "i don't have a parlor", because that is dodging the question.
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To analyze the real color of the stripes... Are they white, or are they black?
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Internet Dating......has anybody tried it?
by JV inwell seeing as my social skills are severly limited or it's just really really hard to meet women i thought i'd get everybody's opinion on "netdating".
i think it's worth a shot, i think it gives you an opportunity to meet people that you'd never meet in the real world, well it's 2 am and i'm bored, i guess i'd better hit the sack now
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Turns out - she lives in the same trailer park - only a few trailers away from me. We met - I took her out - and we are now very much in love with each other. It has only been about 2 months now, but I look forward to seeing her each and every day. Being with her... touching her... talking to her... etc.
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Did losing your religion send you into/exacerbate depression?
by SixofNine ini think most of us here agree that our past belief in the jw organization as being god's sole chosen people was delusional on our part.
for myself, when i lost that delusion (fairly abruptly too), i came out of a long period of depression immediately.
while i was incredibly angry at having been decieved, i can't say that that anger translated into any other negatives, in fact, overall, i think my general level of anger, even at elders/the gb/etc subsided, as i now understood why they do what they do even better than they themselves understand it.
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I'm curious though, if other people have had an opposite reaction?
The first two years I dangled the edge of suicide and couldn't see my way out of the most horrible depression in my life. In my mind I lost it all. Friends, family, God. What was left to live for? Thus my gravitation towards JW boards to see if it was me or them.
It's hard to undo what being 'raised in the truth' does to you while having a HSP temperment.
Those were some tough, mixed up years for me. Even with outside help, I almost didn't survive.
Really.
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