Maya

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  Did You Feel "Safe" Being A Jehovah's Witness???

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  i think many people remain as jws because they feel an isolation that spells security for them.

  they enjoy being in their protected bubble.

  the realization that they never have to make any real decisions is appealing.

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  Maya

  It's ok....don't be sorry......

  And (((((thank you)))))........

  That is the nicest thing I have heard in a long time......
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  Did You Feel "Safe" Being A Jehovah's Witness???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think many people remain as jws because they feel an isolation that spells security for them.

  they enjoy being in their protected bubble.

  the realization that they never have to make any real decisions is appealing.

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  Maya

  Maybe another day, minimus.........

  Some of these threads today are taking me to "the bad place".......

  And when I get to "the bad place", it is so, so hard to leave......

  Thanks for understanding.....
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  Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

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  men donned womens shoes to support the end of violence against women.

  apparently, every 2 minutes a rape occurs somewhere in the world.. did any of you ever hear of date rape coasters??

  the coasters are cards that can test whether a date rape drug has been mixed into a drink, merely by applying a sample of the alcohol on the card.

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  Maya

  When I lived in Cali, some friends and I went to a club.......

  To make a long story short; someone drugged my drink when I went to the ladies room.

  Someone found me unconscious on the bathroom floor after I had finished my "tainted" drink...

  The ambulance was called; I was told a day later, while I was in the hospital, that my breathing and my heart both STOPPED while I was being transported in the ambulance....

  NEVER went to another club after that.........
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  Did You Feel "Safe" Being A Jehovah's Witness???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think many people remain as jws because they feel an isolation that spells security for them.

  they enjoy being in their protected bubble.

  the realization that they never have to make any real decisions is appealing.

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  Maya

  That is NOT necessarily true........

  Sometimes the more you follow, the more excluded you feel............
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  Did You Know A "Bad" Elder or Circuit Overseer???

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  was there ever a person that you just "knew" to be a "bad guy"?

  i knew a co. his name was [edit] angelacos.

  he loved to go into congregations and remove elders.

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  Maya

  Gee, let me think.....

  Well, every elder on my sister's JC was REMOVED within 2 years because they were all screwing someone else's wife.........
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  Did You Feel "Safe" Being A Jehovah's Witness???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think many people remain as jws because they feel an isolation that spells security for them.

  they enjoy being in their protected bubble.

  the realization that they never have to make any real decisions is appealing.

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  Maya

  uhhh...."validates" you?

  Maybe for some, but for others, it "excludes" you.....
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  In Memory of Miguel

  by lisaBObeesa in

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  i know this has nothing to do with jws or anything, but i needed to talk a bit ?

  i work with at-risk teens in a continuation school.

  last night i learned that one of my dear students, a bight young man with a difficult past, born into a difficult world of gangs and drugs, was found dead, shot to death in east palo alto, california.

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  Maya

  ((((((Lisa)))))

  I'm so sorry.......
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  How Long Were You A Jehovah's Witness?

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  for me----over 40 years!

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  Maya

  too long...........
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  Do You Realize How Much Being a Witness Has Hindered You?

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  the truth is------- we have lost out on soooooo much, simply because we were witnesses.

  it might b like almost starting all over again, for some of us.

  what hits you as to what you could've had or have outrightly lost??

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  Maya

  Noooooooooo...........it CAN'T be said........
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  When a Rhino falls in love....

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2004/world/europe/04/22/amorous.rhino.reut/index.html rhino gets amorous with car

  london, england (reuters) -- a rampant rhinoceros gave a group of visitors a glimpse of nature in the raw at a british safari park when he tried to have sex with their car.

  sharka, a two-ton white rhino, got amorous with dave alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner trixie at the west midland safari park.

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  Maya

  I always suspected that those British rhinos had NO manners...............