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  How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now???

  by minimus in

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  for what it's worth, i never did.

  i just never really believed in '75 or any other time.....signed, faithless minimus

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  myauntfanny

  From reading all these I think I must have been just not born to be a dub, because I could scarcely relate to Armageddon at all. I think I was very confused by the whole thing, and I don't remember having any fantasies about what it would be like. I do remember looking at those ridiculous pictures and thinking "I don't want to live there if I have to dress like that!" when I was 12. I was very "worldly" at heart, as far back as I can remember.
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  Finally the baby has arrived

  by Lady Lee in

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  matthew alexander has made his grand entrance .

  tues may 18 2004 at 11:07 pm .

  9 lbs 10 oz .

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  myauntfanny

  Congratulations, Lady Lee! Matthew Alexander is a beautiful name.
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  My life has not been peachy

  by logansrun in

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  it's been kinda rough in the mind for logansrun, dear folks.

  if you've got a god now would be a good time to use him.

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  myauntfanny

  Hi logan

  you can take the boy out of the dubs but not....)

  This is funny, I say this all the time, except I say "girl". I don't know you well on the board but I wanted to answer because I had the exact same problems as you at your age, with a few minor variations from being a girl, and I had a similar family situation. Listen, you were smart, a JW, and had a depressed parent, and that's a triple whammy, it means that you probably never got to be a child at all. But Tom Robbins says it's never to late to have a happy childhood, and it's true. You need to let yourself have some fun. JWs aren't allowed to have fun as a general rule, and those raised by dubs tend to feel something terrible is going to happen if they aren't serious at all times. Go forth and be frivolous! (I think the first thing you should do is have your horoscope done by an expensive professional. I understand that Ronald Reagan's astrologer was very good. JUST KIDDING!).
  
  
  
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  Relative lynched over Oil in Iraq. Oh wait... I ment Mississippi

  by XQsThaiPoes in

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  btw the land in question is the farm my grandfather grew up on and roy veal is related to me.

  this happened a few weeks ago.

  <br> </br> /*<br></br> /*]]&gt;*/<br></br> new orleans independent media center

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  myauntfanny

  Oh, XQ, that's dreadful. His poor family. You have all my sympathy.
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  Communication from the subconscious

  by seattleniceguy in

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  it's been a while since i've posted here.

  hope you all remember me!

  in the final months before i left the organization, in the days before i consciously could accept that it was not the truth - indeed, before i could even entertain such a notion on the conscious level - my subconscious knew the truth, and it took to sending me ever stronger messages.

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  myauntfanny

  seattleniceguy

  I'm also very interested in how the subconscious sends messages, I find it very enigmatic. I think that some physical symptoms are messages, but I'm never that clear what the message is. If my throat were closing up, I might think that there was something I wanted to say but couldn't let myself. Maybe you don't want to be such a nice guy? Maybe you want to tell off some JWs?
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  What tune or pic do you have on mobile phone?

  by Brummie in

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  a bit of fluff, .

  i have the fanta orange tune & pic.

  i think i'm in need of an update, my mobile is a nokia and is 2 years old.

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  myauntfanny

  My husband's has Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. I haven't figured my phone out at all, because I know it will take me three hours and I usually have something else I'd rather do.
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  Should I renounce my baptism to the JW organization?

  by outbutnotdown in

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  i got baptized in 1986, when i was 17. i got df'd in 1992, when i was 22.

  (april birthday.. df'd early in 1992.... .

  i don't want to sound like i am complaining about this next part because i actually have a very happy life right now with very few exceptions/concerns.

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  myauntfanny

  I think blood ties are very important no matter how difficult your family is, but it's not always the best thing to be in actual contact with your family. Sometimes you just have to love them at a distance, if they are dangerous to your mental health or your marriage or your children. If you did somehow manage to regain contact with them, the pressure and guilt would still be there waiting for you. I still think it would be worth trying to get the baptism revoked, although I doubt you have much hope of success. If people could get baptism revoked in order to regain contact with their shunning families, the whole point of disfellowshipping would be undermined and the religion would lose control. But why not try? Then at least you'll know you did your best. If you get contact again through all this, and then find that it isn't the best thing for you and your family, you can make a different decision down the line. But it's always good to have as many options as possible.
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  JW recruiting poster

  by FirstInLine in

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  are you tired of religions that make promises but never deliver?

  shouldn't you learn about the true god?

  isn't a true religion the only worthy religion?

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  myauntfanny

  That's very cruel but very funny.
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  Breaking news: Nerve gas found in Iraq

  by Simon in

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  no information on where it's come from yet - sounds "home made".

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3722255.stm.

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  myauntfanny

  There's also this:

  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4997808/

  which includes this

  Because the old "binary-type" artillery shell requires the mixing of two chemical components in separate sections of the cell to produce the sarin, it is likely that the insurgents who rigged it as a roadside bomb were unaware that it contained chemicals for producing the nerve agent rather than explosives, Kimmitt said.
  Because the old "binary-type" artillery shell requires the mixing of two chemical components in separate sections of the cell to produce the sarin, it is likely that the insurgents who rigged it as a roadside bomb were unaware that it contained chemicals for producing the nerve agent rather than explosives, Kimmitt said.

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  But David Kay, the former chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, said the discovery does not provide evidence that Saddam was secretly producing weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War, as alleged by the Bush administration to justify the war that removed him from power.

  Shell could be leftover from before Gulf War"I think all of us have known that because of the sheer volume of artillery (containing agents like sarin that were in the Iraqi arsenal prior to the Gulf War) ... that there were likely to be some of these still around Iraq," he told MSNBC TV. "But (the discovery) doesn't speak to the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction were still being produced in Iraq in the mid-1990s."
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  Apostates are contributing to the fulfillment of a JW interpretation

  by reason in

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  by constantly irritating the un and other government organisations about their complaints against the wts as an organised religion, do you think these men are contributing to the fulfillment of the wts 'interpretation' of the prophecy regarding the wild beast turning against organised religion?

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  myauntfanny

  The WBTS got in bed with the wild beast in the first place, if the wild beast turns on them now, they have no one but themselves to blame.