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  Interesting ...

  by Dan-O in

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  so this is what it's like?.

  obiwan has taught me well.

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  Dan-O

  So this is what it's like?

  Obiwan has taught me well.
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  How Long did it take you to re-build?

  by Scooby in

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  just wondering how long it took/ is taking many of you to rebuild your lives and say goodbye to phobias, etc.?.

  for those who grew up in the borg and don't have a point of reference to go back to....what have you done to create a new life free from that anguish to your mind?

  did a new religion help or therapy?

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  Having grown up in the org, I bailed shortly after I turned 18. I suppose I was on my way out for a few years, and solidified that exit with choices I made at 17 ... leaving home, going to college, chasing as many skirts as I could, frequenting bars until closing time, experimenting with recreational drugs, and quite a few other items of 'conduct unbecoming a Christian'.

  I have not embraced a new religion, even after 22 years. I think I'm pretty much turned off to the whole concept of organized religion. And that's fine. My sundays are now spent playing golf or watching NASCAR or just hanging out with my kids & watching TV ... dashing out to the patio to set fire to a pile of charcoal to grille some steaks for dinner.

  I guess what I'm saying is that clearing my mind took place thru the process of trying a bunch of things that were always forbidden while I was growing up. some of those things felt right, and some didn't. It's just that I got to make those decisions for myself.
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  Time to get on with it

  by onacruse in

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  if you do the "work", there comes a "time.".

  there is so much i could say, and feel yet the need to say "what can i say"?.

  it's so hard, and yet so simple, to "get on" with our exjw life.. damn that religion me all the more if i let them continue to influence my life.. it's over.. from now on, as far as my participation on jwd, it will be only and simply to cut the guts out of that pathetic sociopathological antisocial mind-controlling cult.. i hate what that religion has done to me, to my marriages, to my family, to my life.. i hate the wts, and i hate those that defend them.

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  Disagree if you wish, Onacruse.

  But as much as I hate drawing references from Biblical passages ... this is kinda like the story of Lot's wife. You can look back and be frozen in place. Or you can look forward & make the most of what lies before you. It's your choice.
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  Time to get on with it

  by onacruse in

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  if you do the "work", there comes a "time.".

  there is so much i could say, and feel yet the need to say "what can i say"?.

  it's so hard, and yet so simple, to "get on" with our exjw life.. damn that religion me all the more if i let them continue to influence my life.. it's over.. from now on, as far as my participation on jwd, it will be only and simply to cut the guts out of that pathetic sociopathological antisocial mind-controlling cult.. i hate what that religion has done to me, to my marriages, to my family, to my life.. i hate the wts, and i hate those that defend them.

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  You know the cool thing, though? The WTS (and anyone else) has only as much power over you & your life & your feelings as you are willing to give them. If you're not willing to give them that control ... if you release it & move forward, then you win.
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  Things Learned Along the Way

  by blondie in

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  i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

  i will post a few every day.

  if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

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  "SpongeBob is not a contraceptive."

  -- from the chalkboard wisdom of Bart Simpson
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  A Little Down Tonight

  by copsec in

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  well everyone, i am a bit down tonight.

  i don't know if ya'll remember but a good friend of mine dies in january.

  now her husband, whom i am even closer to as i have known him longer is also going through a bad spell.

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  I wish him well, Copsec. There's a lot of that going around these days.

  I got an e-mail last night from a former employee. Her hubby recently had surgery to remove his vocal cords because of throat cancer. His prognosis had been good. He was still having trouble swallowing solid food, though, and went back for more surgery to enlarge his esophogus so that he could swallow comfortably. The doctors discovered last week that his cancer has spread, and they give his odds at less than 10% for survival. The VA will now do nothing for him, quoting a policy that requires them to pass on all cases with less than a 25% chance of recovery. So now they wait ... for whatever may come.
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  Apostates-Scar's and Hyenas in Pride Land

  by reason in

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  the bible clearly defined what an apostate is: loose morals, like dogs returning to their vomit, arrogant and haughty, impatient, cynics, causing divisions, have trouble following authority-all of these qualities, all summed up, i saw here.. if i am simba, i wouldn't want people like you in pride land.

  you people will only cause trouble and problems.

  you are the scar's and hyenas whose place is in the elephant's graveyard..

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  Stef, I think the line will form in Dallas in about a week. I'm counting on seeing some great pics!

  edited to say: And I just saw one!
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  Apostates-Scar's and Hyenas in Pride Land

  by reason in

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  the bible clearly defined what an apostate is: loose morals, like dogs returning to their vomit, arrogant and haughty, impatient, cynics, causing divisions, have trouble following authority-all of these qualities, all summed up, i saw here.. if i am simba, i wouldn't want people like you in pride land.

  you people will only cause trouble and problems.

  you are the scar's and hyenas whose place is in the elephant's graveyard..

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  I wish the Watchtower magazine will feature more about apostates.

  Me, too! If they had an apostababe centerfold, I might start reading it again ... umm ... errr ... well, maybe not reading... but ...
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  The Star Spangled Banner....

  by Evesapple in

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  this morning my daughter was practicing the song for her 8th grade graduation.......i sung it at a few cubs games but don't really know the words....i'm sure it was due to my jw non-participation in singing such pagan songs...... does anyone else know this song all the way through???

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  Dan-O

  Yeah, but the melody of God Save the Queen sounds suspiciously like America The Beautiful.
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  AOL SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Stefanie in

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  i am just getting online since yesterday afternoon.

  i have talked to 3 different teck people and the last one is the one who helped... i have an appiontment to get roadrunner tomorrow!.

  aol can kiss my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

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  Dan-O

  RR is a subsidiary of AOL/Time-Warner.