Lehaa

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  Do Active Witnesses Find Meetings Exciting?

  by Band on the Run in

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  2. friends

  kh meetings were utter hell.

  the boredom, particularly for a child, was awful.

  i feel it was a form of child abuse.

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  Lehaa

  Nope, boring.

  One of the good things about having kids, can sit out in mothers and babies the whole meeting.

  B4 I had mine I used to look after friends so I could do the same thing, I was such a nice friend
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  Still going strong

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around here for ages, thought i'd pop back in and say hi.. my hubbie met sass my frass over the weekend.

  i've never met her b4, small world thing, her friends are his friends, etc, etc.. .

  funny how things happen, anyway he comes home telling me about this ex dub he met and i should add her on facebook, after adding her i realized i knew her from here.. well i've been spending the last few hours on here looking at old posts.

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  Lehaa

  Hi all,

  Haven't been around here for ages, thought I'd pop back in and say hi.

  My hubbie met sass my frass over the weekend. I've never met her b4, small world thing, her friends are his friends, etc, etc.

  Funny how things happen, anyway he comes home telling me about this ex dub he met and I should add her on Facebook, after adding her I realized I knew her from here.

  Well I've been spending the last few hours on here looking at old posts. I'm amazed at how far I've come, soooo much happier and stronger than I was 7 years ago. Wow has it really been 7 years. It's amazing that i've forgotten sooo many things that I went through, things that totally floored me when I was first disfellowshipped. Things that I spent night after night crying over, when I thought my life was over and I was going to die lonely and miserable. It's funny how now bumping into people that I used to know doesen't make me cringe any more, discussing beliefs of JW don't anger me any more. It really is like that part of my life never existed and my life started 7 years ago.

  I now have 2 beautiful Grandaughters, the joys of marrying an older man, who my children and I adore. The youngest is only 14 months and is the cutest thing you have ever seen. I have a great relationship with my parents and step-parents, and my sister and I get along really well. She struggles at times with the fact that I'm no longer a witness but is really good about it. I even looked after her daughter for a week while she and her husband went away for a week.

  The reason I wanted to post all this is just to give hope to those who are right now dealing with what I went through years ago. There is light at the end of the tunnel, things will get better. Just take things a day at a time and you will survive. I did.

  I also want to say thankyou to all those on this board that we're there for me, who listened to me a helped me when I felt my life was over. Thankyou, without you all I don't think I would have survived.

  Leah. xoxo.
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  Final Separation from the JW brain washing

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made the final step the other day.. i donated blood.. .

  i've been meaning to do it for ages, just never gotten around to it.

  felt absolutely no guilt or akwardness at all.

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  Lehaa

  Thanks all.

  Glad there are soo many of us out that there doing whe can.

  Thinking of doing Plasma next time, apparently they prefer it here if you can do that and I can do it every 2 weeks.
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  Final Separation from the JW brain washing

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made the final step the other day.. i donated blood.. .

  i've been meaning to do it for ages, just never gotten around to it.

  felt absolutely no guilt or akwardness at all.

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  Lehaa

  I made the final step the other day.

  I donated blood.

  I've been meaning to do it for ages, just never gotten around to it. Felt absolutely no guilt or akwardness at all. Feel great. My Hubbies family we're sooo proud of me.

  Will definately go do it again.
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  Radio programme tonight, trying to get witnesing banned in Aust.

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around lately, but life is great.

  rarely think about the witnesses these days and my mental health is getting better and better.

  was listening to triple m (a radio station here) and the dj was doing a talk back segment about how annoying it is to have witnesses etc.

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  Thanks all for you're responses.

  I really think that a law should be passed in Australia to stop any religious bodies, charity organisations and any other organisations coming uninvited to your door.

  My time with my family is precious and I really hate people disturbing that.

  I'd also love to have the witnesses banned from door nocking so my poor kids don't have to be dragged form door to door with there dad every other weekend.

  Hope for others, it's not a satelite radio station, normal free to air station, but it's on after 9.30 so he has a lot more freedom in what he says.
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  Radio programme tonight, trying to get witnesing banned in Aust.

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around lately, but life is great.

  rarely think about the witnesses these days and my mental health is getting better and better.

  was listening to triple m (a radio station here) and the dj was doing a talk back segment about how annoying it is to have witnesses etc.

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  Lehaa

  No it was Spoonman.
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  Radio programme tonight, trying to get witnesing banned in Aust.

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around lately, but life is great.

  rarely think about the witnesses these days and my mental health is getting better and better.

  was listening to triple m (a radio station here) and the dj was doing a talk back segment about how annoying it is to have witnesses etc.

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  Thanks.

  I rang up and put my 2 cents worth in, I also apologized on air to all those people over the years I'd bothered knocking on there door all hours of the day and evening.
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  Breastfeeding not allowed.

  by The Scotsman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  shocker at the group last week..... i was at the group last week (1st in about 4 weeks) and the conductor (the p.o.

  ) takes a sister aside and tells her that she was not allowed to breastfeed her baby before or after the book study because "someone" found it awkward.. hmm, i wonder if it was him that found it awkward.. anyway the twist in the story is that the group meets at her house.

  the sisters husband was far from happy but is to reserved to do anything about it.

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  Lehaa

  How horrid, being told what she can do in her own house. Totally controlling. Mind you I loved the excuse to go into another room to breast feed my kids, didn't have to sit through a boring meeting or book study. I could never see what was wrong with sitting feeding kids in the hall though, if it's ok to do in a shopping center why not a Kingdom Hall.
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  Radio programme tonight, trying to get witnesing banned in Aust.

  by Lehaa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  haven't been around lately, but life is great.

  rarely think about the witnesses these days and my mental health is getting better and better.

  was listening to triple m (a radio station here) and the dj was doing a talk back segment about how annoying it is to have witnesses etc.

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  Lehaa

  Hi all,

  Haven't been around lately, but life is great.

  Rarely think about the witnesses these days and my mental health is getting better and better.

  Was listening to Triple M (a radio station here) and the DJ was doing a talk back segment about how annoying it is to have Witnesses etc. knock on his door at 9.30 on a Saturday morning.

  During the show many people called in and complained too how much they hate it.

  THe basic consensus was that they think the JW have a right to there religion but we, as individuals, have the right not to be bothered by them.

  By the end of the segment he had decided that he was going to get a petition together and try to get Witnessing banned in Australia.

  I know it seems like a big task, but worth a go.

  I was wondering if anyone had any info on countries where it is banned and the supporting arguments.

  Also when he does get the petition organized who would be interested in signing it.

  Thanks heaps,

  Leah
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  How did you dispose of your JW books? (Or did you?)

  by exwitless in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  little drummer boy and i have a small house and we do not have room for the wasted space all of these books are creating.

  here's a brief rundown of what we have:.

  several nwt hardcover bibles, chinese bibles (lots of chinese students in our town), insight on the scriptures, concordances, a few bound volumes, song books, km books, reasoning books, the entire bible on audio tape, and more.

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  Lehaa

  I left most of them behind in the house I shared with my ex husband, ohters I gave to other ex dubs who wanted them