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  favourite games to play as a child during boring meetings

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  my parents were both very strict, and i wasn't allowed any toys at the hall.

  my rations included a copy of my book of bible stories, and a pen and note pad.

  my parents were strict to the point of not allowing me to draw pictures, i had to "take notes".

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  my first family prayer since the fade...

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  it has been some months since my wife and i left the org.

  my mother is an absolute zealot, and had heard through the grapevine (aka the underground policing comitee; we live in a different circuit and district now) that we haven't been to meetings.

  she is the last vestige of guilt that i have remaining about leaving, though not in the conventional sense.

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  Scary pictures

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks.... .

  oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  Scary Pictures in the Live Forever book

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks..... oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  an expose if you will?

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  Making a smooth transition out of the org... is it possible?

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  hello again friends,.

  it's been a while since i posted.

  thank you again for your kind words and advice.

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  Does it ever get easier?

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  my heart is palpitating even as i write this.

  it was only recently that i was introduced to this site.

  i had long had doubts but could never bring myself to peer over the wall built in my head about the evils of apostates.

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