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  Found an Awake at the rest stop today..and I knew exactly what to do....

  by Dawn in

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  found it at a rest stop today while traveling.

  i thought about tossing it, but decided it had a much better purpose.

  it was an issue on what to teach your young child - cute picture of a little girl (about 4 years old) on the cover.. so - i took it to my car, got out a pretty purple pen and wrote on the cover "this religion has a major probelm with pedophiles and is hurtful to young children.

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  Purza

  You go girl! I would have never thought to do that.

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  The Daily Show- Red Sox Kid

  by Nancy Drake in

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  i don't know very much about sports, but i happend to catch something about boston a week or two ago on the daily show.. did anyone see the segment about a kid who ended the curse because he got hit in the face with a ball?

  he seemed pretty sure that the curse was over, and walla...the sox win?.

  that is no less than creepy.

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  Purza

  That is funny you mention that -- I have thought about that kid all the way through the games with the Yankees and then the WS. Weird.

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  Check your medical records!!

  by Wallflower in

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  i never thought would my jw upbringing would ever come back to haunt me, but it sure gave me a jolt today.. brought up as a jw from birth.

  my father always an elder and my mother the prima donna, we were at every assembly and meeting, there was always the home study, field service, had the co stay with a few times, we moved to where the need was greatest in 1974, (moved back in 1989).

  at about 1 or 2 years old, so i was told, i should have an operation to have my adenoids(?!

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  I agree with you and Blondie and I might add -- revoke any previous powers of attorney/health care directives that appoint your JW relatives as your agent. I did this recently as my brother was listed as my agent -- yep the same brother that turned the elders on me.

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  Do You Look Down on "Religious" People Now That You're No Longer a JW?

  by minimus in

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  i try to respect everyne's opinions on religion but i find myself thinking, "what's wrong with these people?

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  I guess I would say that i am no longer judgmental of religious people (JWs or otherwise). As a JW I had that superiority feeling -- like I knew they truth and they didn't.

  Now that I have detached myself from religion in general, my attitude is "whatever" -- just don't try to preach to me and we will be fine.

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  THIS IS ALL COMPLETELY NORMAL???

  by Corvin in

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  2. child-abuse

  remember the kingdom hall bathroom spankings for us kids that did not sit quietly for the meeting?

  the threats, the manipulation, the head games, the forced meeting attendance, forced field service activity, forced family wt publication study, the forbidden association with non-jw?s, the berating and chastising for having a thought or idea of your own, the dresser drawer searches looking for music or magazines you were not suppose to have .

  you know, the typical jw upbringing .

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  I was just discussing this with my BF this past Monday. I told him that I first got hit with a belt when I was 6 years old for lying about taking some candy from the living room. I told him that the bible said "do not spare the rod". . . .literally. My BF said. . . "so "they" believe in corporal punishment" and I never really thought about it until he made that comment. I always thought hitting your kids with a wooden spoon or your hand was normal and I never gave it much thought. Now that I have been "deprogrammed" I realize that way of thinking is very ABnormal.

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  What if potential convert sat in back of K.H. and talked w/ shunned j.w.'s?

  by hubert in

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  i've been hearing a lot about shunned j.w.

  's having to sit in the back of the kingdom halls when they go to meetings.. so, what would happen if a new bible study person went to the kingdom hall for sunday meeting, (or whatever) and sat in the back of the hall, and talked to the shunned j.w.'s?

  also, are there always shunned j.w.

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  Purza

  When I was DF'd I WANTED to sit in the back of the hall. I wanted to be as inconspicuous as possible. My mother used to save me a seat in the back. Then the elders told her not to do that because she was "enabling" me *roll eyes here* and she no longer saved me a seat. So I would come in during the song or right after the meeting started and would be seated wherever there was an empty seat -- one time that was closer to the front. I was mortified -- but I am also stubborn so I made it through to reinstatement. Looking back. . . . the whole thing was such a farce.

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  My daughter is getting married today!!!! But I'm too EVIL to attend...

  by Bryan in

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  i wonder who the noe-jehovah s.o.b is that's walking my daughter down the isle?.

  bryan

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  I am so very sorry Bryan. My parents will not attend my wedding and it really hurts.

  If she is young she may regret not inviting you later on in life. Maybe one day she will see the "light" and leave the JWs.

  My thoughts are with you.

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  This is my pug....

  by Preston in

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  this is my pug..... .

  her name is ms. piggy.

  my mom refuses to call her by her real name.

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  ADORABLE!!! My teenage daughter just found a pug in the field near our house. She saw a sign for that dog and there was a reward posted. She brought the owner to the dog (cause my daughter couldn't catch it) and the owner was very happy and gave my daughter a $100 reward. Apparently it was a $1600 dog!!!! And it was only 4 months old. It was adorable, but pretty hyper (when I held it - i tried to jump out of my arms). They are so cute!

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  What Do You Do Now ----That You Would Never Have Done As A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  has your behaviour changed that much that you are doing things that you would never have done as a witness??

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  Purza

  I registered to vote today. AND. . . I didn't even feel guilty.

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  whats the worst mistake you ever made>>U WONT beat this>>>>

  by Brummie in

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  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20041004/od_nm/penis_dc.

  bucharest (reuters) - a elderly romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state rompres news agency said monday.

  it said 67 year-old constantin mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.

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  Purza

  This was on our local radio station. The DJ checked four different sources to make sure it was true.

  And I can honestly say that if that happened to my fiancee (which it wouldn't because he is not that stuuuuupid) our dog would gobble it up in a second. And he is fed regularly!

  Anyway, the guy didn't seem like all that much of a "catch" -- he really won't be now.

  Purza