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  Please don`t read if you are a current witness and have doubts.

  by void in

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  well i am new to the board, i have faded away from the truth lies about 6 years ago.

  it still has an effect on me today, so much so i gave the warning in the title.

  this is because one of the things drilled into me, was that its far worse to lead a member of the flock away.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Besides my expletive above: Welcome!
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  Please don`t read if you are a current witness and have doubts.

  by void in

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  2. friends

  well i am new to the board, i have faded away from the truth lies about 6 years ago.

  it still has an effect on me today, so much so i gave the warning in the title.

  this is because one of the things drilled into me, was that its far worse to lead a member of the flock away.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Void... you have come up with the same creator triggered evolution example I use, except my example is a cake. I came up with it about 5 years ago!

  Holy sh*t.

  God used evolution as a tool(I know some forms of ID teach this) I hate all that 6/7 days crap, days of years, day = 1000 year....what ever number fits their logic suits them at the time. I am trying to put it in a way my mother would understand. But as so as I say the word evolution, I am talking like an apostate.

  Well here it goes, If a baker gets all the ingredients, flour, water, yeast, mixes them together, puts them together and puts them in the oven. Who was the breads creator? The oven or the baker? If you would think of evolution and the earth as the oven, DNA as the ingredients. The bread as the final products humans etc, Jehovah put it all in motion and it follows a natural cycle. So much so the argument "you don’t see things evolving now" is mute because we could be at the end of the cooking cycle. I think this is a pretty reasonable argument, but no luck so far.
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  another recovering exjw....

  by knot4me in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was sooooo happy to find this site the other day.

  i have been free and happy for a little over 6 years now.

  i too grew up jw, pioneered, blah,blah blah, until around the time i moved out.

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  BrendaCloutier

  A big fat Welcome! to you Knot. You've found the right place. I've been out ... 28 or 29 years now, and I didn't find this place until last year... and I've been on the net since 1995 or so. I'm amazed at how much healing I've found here, of things I didn't realize needed healing!

  Hugs

  Brenda
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  Worse Case Scenario Mentality

  by tall penguin in

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  i'm finding this to be a difficult pattern of thinking to over-ride.

  being raised a jw we're always on edge waiting for armageddon and so we see everything around us in light of that.

  i still find myself going down that road mentally whenever i get any unexpected news in life.

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  BrendaCloutier

  
  Dog, I hate those anxiety attacks!

  however, there is another side to "worst case scenario". Question one's self as to "what is the worst thing that can happen if..." can actually have a possitive outcome.

  Example: "What is the worst case scenario if I give my resignation now, without another job to go to?"

  I don't find a job before my money runs out in 4 months
  
  I have to move to a less expensive place
  
  I can't pay my bills

  etc

  or:

  I get the satisfaction of dropping the ball on their pointy little heads, and I get out of this rats nest. (and I had a job in less than 1 month)

  I chose #2 - getting the satisfaction of dumping on them. They didn't grovel to keep me, but they were stuck without me.

  A more simple approach: What is the worst thing someone can say to me if I ask them for something: "No". It could come with a spew of crap, but the bottom line is "no". And you know what? "No" is ok. They might even say "Yes"

  So you can turn this around to become an asset, instead of a liability.

  Remember, Armageddon came in 1975. So from here on out, it's paradise.
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  Stew meat - room temp - 12 hours - is it safe? Your opinion wanted...

  by confusedjw in

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  so stew meat was taken out last evening at approx 6:30pm and was left out until 7 am.

  it was laid face down on the metal stove so it thawed fairly quickly, leaving it at room temp for many hours.

  so at 7am this morning, it was put in the refridgerator and then at 9:30am taken out to be cooked for a stew.. .

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  BrendaCloutier

  I'd wash it well with vinegar, then boil the hell outta it. I'd serve it... and eat it. And I am very very picky about bad food. Edited to add: Chicken, fish, hamburger, pork, sausage, or steak? No way, Id' toss it.
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  Pop music lyric quiz

  by ballistic in

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  i was doing quite well at a pub quiz game yesterday, so i thought it would make a good idea for a thread.

  all you have to do is name the song and the artist the lyrics come from.. i'll start you off with an easy one.... (no cheating by looking it up on the internet, ok?).

  ever seen a blind man cross the road, trying to make the other side

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  BrendaCloutier

  Here's an oldie

  Trailers for sale or rent, Rooms to let - 50 cents
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  Bloody sadistic cats

  by Simon in

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  we have two cats, lovely creatures.

  one is a real outdoor, gone for days, type and the other one is fat and content and sleeps so much we often think she's dead.

  they are sisters and we've had them from kittens.

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  BrendaCloutier

  I call it "Take Out". Or, if it survives, "catch and release" as either I find if after it has died under some inaccessible peice of furniture and begun to decay, or they find it later for further fun.

  I'm grateful Dominic usually takes his prize catches to the Killing Room ... the bathroom next to the front door and cat flap. At least there is only one way in, and usually no way out for the poor victim.

  For a while our old cat Max had Dominic hunt and bring him the live prey, and Max would eat it "on the hoof". I think that was when Dominic was new to our pride and was trying hard to make friends.

  Now it's Tane's turn. He's 5-1/2 months old and last week brought home his first kill. Unfortunately it was a meadowlark - rather rare in our area. But I praised him like a good momcat.
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  14 Things You Really Should Have Done Before Getting Married

  by candidlynuts in

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  1. watch yourself eating in front of a mirror.

  if you're put off, that's the view your future partner will have... .

  2. live on your own.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Candi - it's a hardware error.... the operator had a screw loose!

  That was funny. Do you think a JW daughter of an elder could get away with any of those?!? Especially with a mother that was a clean freak? No way!

  I did do every one of them before the second marriage. Didn't help.
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  Post something to make me laugh

  by JH in

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  post anything to make me laugh, a picture, a riddle, whaterever

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  BrendaCloutier

  Hawai'i Humour:

  Dear Shawn.

  Im writing this slow because I know you can't read fast.

  We don't live where we did when you came to Hawaii. Sam read in the newpaper that most accidents happen within 20 minutes of your home, so we moved. I won't be able to send you the address because the last family that lived here took the house numbers when they moved so they wouldn't have to chance their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works so well, though. Last week I put a load of clothes in and pulled the chain. We haven't seen them since. The weather isn't bad here. it only rained twice last week: the first time for three days and the second time for four days.

  About that coat you wanted me to send . Your Uncle Jimbob said it would be too heavy to send in the mail with the big metal buttons on it. so we cut them off . They are in the pockets. We shipped it today. Bubba locked his keys in the car yesterday. We were really worried because it took him two hours to get me and Sam out. Your sister whom you haven't met yet had a baby this morining. but I haven't found out what it is yet so I don't know if you are an aunt or uncle. The baby looks just like your brother ( you haven't met him yet).

  Uncle Kevin Bob fell into a whiskey vat last week. Some men tried to pull him out but he fought them off and drowned. Had him cremated. Burned for three days. Three of your friends went off a bridge in a pickup truck. Bubba Russell was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. Your other two friends were in the back. They drowned because they couldn't get the tailgate down.

  Your favorite Papa Jack Bob
  """"dirt road, Bubba town,
  Hawaii on the Pahoa side.
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  Now it's war with Japan!

  by ozziepost in

  1. social
  2. current

  this could be interesting!.

  downunder we've always had this problem, getting our products into japan, but we can't put sanctions on anyone!

  us politicians seek sanctions on japan.

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  BrendaCloutier

  A few years back Hawaii almost lost their Papaya crop production due to a virus. Monsanto developed a genetically engineered papaya, Sunrise I think is the name, that reduces it's suceptability to the virus. Plus, it's far more tasty than the original Solo variety.

  Japan banned imports of ALL papaya because of the genetic engineering!