Welcome Teela! Enjoyed your story.
One thing though is confusing though.. you say your parents became dubs "just after WW2, about 30 years ago" WW2 was around 60 years ago. Did you mean Vietnam?
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New Girl on the block
by Teela ini have been reading the threads for about a year now and thought its time to post my story.
i cant remember much up until i was ten except the usual no birthdays, no worldly friends or bad associates.
then it was a series of arguments of why i didnt what to go to church.
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WTS offered $50,000 to Vicki Boer to keep her quiet!!!
by badwillie inhawkaw posted this on another thread.
this is amazing!
makes me wonder how many others are out there who did actually accept the "hush" money from these clowns?
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Hawkaw posted this on another thread. This is amazing! Makes me wonder how many others are out there who did actually accept the "hush" money from these clowns? I guess we'll never know that.
Thank you Vicki for letting your story be told. Even if you weren't give a fair $$ compensation. Being able to read the court's decision and learning of their attempted buy out is truly priceless!
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The pain has kicked in
by Pistoff inhi all and thanks for being here and caring.
i have had a bad day today.
most of you have heard me rant and rave about my thirty years in the borg, not yet over.
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I've been out for about 2 years now. I'm also grieving the loss of 2 sisters and my mother. It is worse than death really, because you have no contact with them and yet you know that they consider you an EVIL, destructive influence. That really hurts. Especially when my whole life I've been nothing less than a thoughtful, caring family member who would (and did) do anything for my family. The bad days are less than at first, but I still have a lot of pain at times too. I wish it would go away. I also identify with the other poster who mentioned his cursing fits... I suffer from this too, I call it Post Witness Turret's Syndrome. I think it is caused by the very high level of frustration we are feeling. I don't know what the solution is. I am hoping that others who say "time is a healer" are right.
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Christian - Pagan Parallels.
by nicolaou inan inscription in the vatican states plainly, "he who will not eat of my body, nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and i with him, shall not be saved.".
this is not terribly surprising, unless you consider that this is inscribed on the remains of the temple the vatican was built on- one dedicated to the god mithras.
such eerie parallels between the pronouncements of jesus and mithras are not the only similarities.
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Very interesting Nic, thanks!
It's amazing that most Christians still will not allow their minds to even consider these similarities. I was recently attempting to discuss with a Christian (not a JW) at work something I read about the similarities between Buddha and Jesus. The guy just shot the conversation down before I had a chance to say anything - this really showed me that he was really afraid of hearing any conflicting information. So nice to have a free mind huh?
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Judge: Elders NOT required to report abuse
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.nashuatelegraph.com/main.asp?sectionid=25&subsectionid=377&articleid=83009
judge: elders not required to report abuse .
saturday, june 21, 2003. by andrew wolfe telegraph staff, [email protected].
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I don't get this. Where would the law then draw the line?
What If I go to an elder (minister) and report that my father has been kidnapping children from my neighborhood, bringing them back to our house and raping them. Would the judge say it is ok to keep that quiet.
No, I don't think so. I think the biggest problem here is that the society we live in is somehow minimizing these atrocites when they occur within a family in their own house. This is an outrage!
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Suing Tobacco companies
by StinkyPantz inwhat do you think about all of the lawsuits recently against tobacco companies?.
i see 3 sides to the issue:.
1. people should know better; it's clearly printed on the box how dangerous cigarettes are so they shouldn't sue.. 2. it hasn't always been known how bad they were.
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2. It hasn't always been known how bad they were. People that started smoking 50, 60 years ago had no idea and then got addicted before they knew it.
I see a parallel here with the fact that some people got baptised pre-1985 and had no idea that the baptism questions were changed after that to now include and demand their total allegiance to the Borg. Get it? Or, as in my case, those baptised while still a minor had no idea how harmful this "religious addiction" was and before they knew it could be kicked out and shunned (very serious consequences).
3. The tobacco companies knew how addictive AND how harmful they were, so they should have to pay for the consequences.
The WT CORPORATION is also guilty of lying and covering harmful policies . They should pay.
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Suing Tobacco companies
by StinkyPantz inwhat do you think about all of the lawsuits recently against tobacco companies?.
i see 3 sides to the issue:.
1. people should know better; it's clearly printed on the box how dangerous cigarettes are so they shouldn't sue.. 2. it hasn't always been known how bad they were.
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Stinky - Applying this logic, we should be able to sue the WTS for the same reasons.
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WT's tremendous humantarian aid efforts!
by badwillie inhumanitarian efforts .
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Family stuck in "the truth"
by YellowLab ini often find it difficult to not be able to share some of life's important moments with other family members still stuck in "the truth".
i'm talking about the things that other people take for granted in this world.
after fading away 8 years ago, i still struggle with having to turn off my feelings around my family, or keep quiet about certain things they might deem as "worldly".
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I agree it sucks bad. I know I shouldn't care but I still do. When I walked away from the Borg almost 2 years ago my baby boy was only one year old. Seeing how he's grown and the funny things he does day to day still makes me feel empty sometimes. I have a natural desire to share his life with the people who once meant something to me. I see now how cold hearted they really are. It's all their loss...but I hurt sometimes thnking of what they're missing.
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JWs are HUMBLE, MEEK, and they DON'T BRAG!
by Funchback inguys like this are a dime-a-dozen in god's so-called organization.... http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1054546530199272.xml.
michael wilcox, 67, cleveland .
q. when do you consider a gentleman fully dressed?
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This guy sounds like a complete A-hole. I knew an elder at my old cong in London that used to brag that he only would buy his dress shirts from Harrods.. another a-hole!