There are a lot of other places that are wrong than the ones they listed. I've been doing a lot of studying into this subject lately. Some of the discrepancies are horribly off. I think they have a lot of nerve to completely disregard the last passage in the bible which is very straightforward. God warns specifically about adding to or taking away from any part of the bible.
Ciara
......................i'm 45 today.
tonight my kids, hubby and close friends are taking me to an old english style pub for dinner and ale!!!!!!!!!!.
oh how good it is to be out of the borg and celebrating life again.. hope you all have as good a day as i'm having!.
Ciara
if you keep picking your nose, your nostrils will get as big as a horse's!.
we can use your face for a halloween mask if it freezes suddenly with that expression on it.. how would you feel if your sister died after you said such awful things to her?
(this following a normal, sibling scuffle).
My mom had an odd one: "Since you don't pay any attention to me anyway, I'll just wander off and die in the woods!"
I kept waiting for her to try it. It wouldn't have bothered me that much, she wasn't much of a mom. I've never used things like that on my kids and I don't plan to.
Ciara
i wanted to share my pics from last week's trip to the gator park.
we had lots of fun!.
this turtle is livin' on the edge!.
When a female gator is looking for a suitable mate she climbs on top of the male gator and if she doesn't push him under the water, he's suitable....
That's how I picked my hubbie....hehehehe. 
Ciara
well-trained jws tend to view all current events in relation to armageddon.
they see the world as having no hope of improvement, and view all efforts to improve our home as a waste of time.
have you totally broken free of this destructive viewpoint?
Left it far, far behind.
That was such a miserable way to live. I can't imagine having to go back to that. Then they wonder why they have so many suicides happening. People can't live up to their legalistic standards and the rest of the world looks so bleak from their perspective. "The dead are concious(sp?) of nothing" starts to not sound like such a bad option.
Ciara
you know, something dawned on me a while back and as i'm reading all the posts tonight, i can't stop thinking about this.. all of you guys seem like you knew for quite a while before you left that the jw's were full of crap.
i had doubts and questions, but the reason that i left was that i just gave up.
i knew that i was never going to be able to live up to their expectations and i just got so depressed that i quit.
Thanks so much to you all !!!!!
It's nice to know I'm not all alone with feeling this way. I still have some problems with depression (nothing 2mgs of xanax can't cure 
). But I feel free and nothing can replace that. I have made more progress in recovering since I got involved with this site than I could have ever imagined. You guys are intelligent and have important things to say. You are nothing like what the witlesses portray apostates to be. They claim that Jesus true followers are identified by their "love, one for another". I guess that makes all of you better disciples than they could ever be. Thank you for caring.
I just want to say I'm happy to be getting to know all of you.
Ciara
hello everyone, i am new to this discussion board.
my name is pinned blouse because once i was wrongly df'd and i no longer attended the meetings, i noticed all my blouses had pin holes in them where i fastened safety pins in them to make sure i was always "modest" lol.
mind you i do not have large boobies but i did not want to "tempt" the brothers.. .
I mentally disrobed various speakers....
ICK!!!! Disrobing the brothers in my old congregation, even mentally, is enough to make you want to vomit hard.
Welcome to the forum. There are some really cool people here. Sorry to hear about your brother.
Ciara
you know, something dawned on me a while back and as i'm reading all the posts tonight, i can't stop thinking about this.. all of you guys seem like you knew for quite a while before you left that the jw's were full of crap.
i had doubts and questions, but the reason that i left was that i just gave up.
i knew that i was never going to be able to live up to their expectations and i just got so depressed that i quit.
You know, something dawned on me a while back and as I'm reading all the posts tonight, I can't stop thinking about this.
All of you guys seem like you knew for quite a while before you left that the JW's were full of crap. I had doubts and questions, but the reason that I left was that I just gave up. I knew that I was never going to be able to live up to their expectations and I just got so depressed that I quit.
After I was inactive for about half a year I started seeing them for what they were, but while I was active I always thought that I was the one with the problem. I don't know how I could have been so blind. Were they that deceptive, or was I just totally dense? I get so angry at myself for this. Sometimes I'm more furious with myself than the Witnesses.
Anybody else have problems with this?
Ciara
someone mentioned this in one of their posts and i had a flashback.
i remember getting a w on one of my theocratic school talks when i was working on gesturing.
the funny thing about it is that it was given to me by my dad!
I got one all the time for timing. I consistently went overtime.
I consistently went undertime. I felt like such an idiot with those dopey dialogues that all I could think about was getting the hell of that platform. I also hated "working from an outline".
Ciara
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i'm solid roman catholic now, w a slight change in my name.. ss
I like the new name much better. IMO, it's a little less offensive than the other (not that I was offended, I can just see how some people might be).
Ciara
