I don't do resolutions per se, but every year my wife and I try to come up with a theme that we can focus on throughout the year. One year it was getting out of debt, another was cleaning up our eating (an ongoing process always), this was our self-proclaimed "year of adventure" and it certainly was. Now that we're officially DA'ed and rebuilding our lives, I think that next year will be the year of relationships or something, trying to build upon that foundation that we have now and really strengthen and expand our circle of friends and the new family that we're building for ourselves.
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America - Do They Teach Science in North Carolina?
by cofty ini don't know whether to laugh or weep.
us town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun'...... jane mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.
ms mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.
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People are often terrified of things they don't understand. So a little weeping seems in order for science and progress in the Tar Heel state. -
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Care Home Exclusively for JW's "Inadequate" and "Unsafe".
by snugglebunny inthe home: http://www.jah-jireh.org/.
the independent report: http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/aaab3073.pdf.
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Seems like that inspector adequately identified many of the problems in the organization as a whole. No real training, no individual care, time spent in mindless Bible study as the sole focus, no real community, and mindless people walking around while on the whole the participants have nothing but praise for the way they are treated. -
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I ate a REESES PEANUT BUTTER CUP
by JWdaughter init had a football printed on it!
do they sell more because of it?
do they think i need a reminder of the season (its been a rough season for football in seattle)?.
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@diogenesister - A Reese's peanut butter cup is peanut butter wrapped in milk chocolate. They are delicious. They do come in different sizes and shapes around different times of the year, and sometimes they mix it up and have crunchy peanut butter or dark chocolate.
I just had one out of the freezer the other day and it was heavenly.
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Untrusted
by Esmeralda001 ingreetings,it seems that jw immediately assume that all "wordly" people (as they like to call it) are immoral and unworthy of their trust.
i sort of understand how it can be dangerous for a christian to have association with someone who doesn't share their values, but don't you think that some members take the conceal lied in corinthians 15:33 to the extreme?
what about romans 2:14?
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I'll take it another step farther. In the congregation I grew up in, it was unusual for brothers and sisters to even work out in service together, even if married. The brothers always went in car groups of brothers, and the sisters likewise. There was a prominent elder and a pioneer that were both married to other people decades ago that were hooking up while out in service and that congregation was paranoid like no other. I don't think I ever even spoke to any of the young sisters in our hall until I was in my late teens. It just didn't happen. We were all kept apart.
How great would it have been if a same sex partnership developed out of the bros on bros car groups, or the girls on girls ones? Those people would have insisted on working solo at every door forevermore.
I pioneered out of high school and worked alone many times because the sisters didn't want to work with me. It was one long, awful year. One time I did give a ride to an elderly sister to her house just a few blocks from the hall for some reason (maybe her car wouldn't start or something). I'm sure it would have been scandalous if we were caught together. I was maybe 18, she was in her seventies, so anything could have happened.
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The lord of the rings
by BlackWolf innow that i've found out ttatt i've been indulging in a lot of so called "spiritistic" entertainment lol.
i recently watched all of the lotr/hobitt movies and man were they awesome!!!
who knew spiritism could be so much fun lol.
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I'm with ya Black Wolf. I'm 38, my wife 35, and she's wanted to see LOTR and The Hobbit since they came out but we were always ultra conservative as we both grew up in really strict families/congregations. We just watched all of them recently and they were awesome. Good for you! I'd worry about the demons but apparently Satan already got both of us according to my wife's family when we decided to start speaking to my DF'ed brother after 10 years according. -
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How do you overcome SHUNNING after leaving the organization and move on?
by suavojr init amazes me how many of you have left it all behind, including family, brothers and sisters, friends and a full network of people.
i for one cannot find the courage to breakaway, and this causes me great anxiety and stress.
it eats me alive to think that if i open my mouth everyone i know will simply turn their back on me.
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I focus on the freedom I have and the life I'm building with infinite possibilities. I focus on new relationships with people that actually choose me, not just people that I'm stuck in some group with. I focus on what I've got, not what I don't. Gratitude and appreciation every day for the beautiful new life that's opened up to me. I have my moments where I miss my parents of my siblings that are still in, but it is brief because I then realize that they have the cult contagion on them and that in their presence I would be exposed to toxicity. I'd love to sit with my family like old times and to shoot the breeze and laugh at life, but I have new people to do that with that care about me regardless of religious affiliation and without manipulation.
With that said, we just DA'd in September, and we were shunned since May entirely, with our last meaningful contact with family being probably over a year ago. I do think it gets easier with time in my limited experience.
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Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized
by ILoveTTATT2 inhi people,.
i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).
1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.
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1. Raised in
2. Baptized 1992
3. DA'd 2015
Total: 23 years
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Why designated hotels?
by punkofnice indoes anyone know why the congregations are urged to use only recommended hotels for a$$mbies?
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The Borg probably gets a cut of the action. Someone here once told me they get comped rooms for special delegates and such. The organization profits by controlling the rest of the people. I would get my own room and find better prices without having to watch my brothers and sisters steal food or be rude at breakfast to one another. -
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Kid has Xbox stolen, police buy him a new one
by Simon init's easy to get down and disheartened about depressing world events.. it's important to remember that the good guys outnumber the bad guys, they just don't make the headlines as often.. so here's a nice story:.
on sunday, 11-year-old tontrevion campbell went to church with his mom.. at the same time, police say, burglars entered his home and broke one of the commandments.. as the memphis police department describes it on its facebook page: "the thief or thieves stole several of his mom's items, but they also stole the young man's xbox game system and every single game that this 11-year-old owned.".
there are quite a few adults who'd be upset.
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Wow, that's awesome. Good for them!