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  Does being a JW damage some children mentally?

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  Gill

  Reading everyone elses posts has also reminded me of a few things.

  I remember my mum and aunt talking about where they would have to flee too if the persecution started to get bad. This was during the 1970's, but it also reminded me of my father. He has always kept a stock of food in the boot of his car 'just in case we have to make a run for it,' and he still has that regularly rotated stock of food and emergency supplies there now, 'just in case'.

  And I wonder why nothing ever felt permanent to me as a child and why I always felt insecure with other people who could at any time turn on me just for being a JW.
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  The JW's came to the door today and asked my son to go to meetings

  by redhotchilipepper in

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  my son answered the door this morning.

  the couple that my mr.horton and i had been studying with when we were considering going back to the truth finally got ahold of him.

  the did the usual routine.

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  Good one Candidlynuts! "Tear 'em up!'

  I caught my mother with the Bible Story book with my children.

  "You love Jesus, don't you children. You know who Jesus is?"

  Kids totally silent.

  "You love Jehovah, don't you?"

  Total silence from three blank little faces.

  I walked in and the book went away immeadiately.

  Let's just say that they won't be going round there on their own!
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  Got news from the doctor finally

  by orangefatcat in

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  well i fianally saw the orthopedic surgeon the other day and from the results of my latest tests and x-rays my left hip and right knee need to be replaced as soon as possible.

  my hip is so bad, and that explains why i have been in such tremendous pain.

  so this wednesday coming up i am going to the hospital for a floroscopy with cortisone both in my hip and knee.

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  Hi there,

  Hope your treatment works well and that you're soon on the move and posting again.

  Sorry that you're in so much pain!

  Best Wishes

  Gill
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  Ray Franz cash pay off...?

  by Gill in

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  when ray franz left brooklyn, he and his wife were given a $10,000 pay off according to crisis of conscience.. was this an act of christianity or was it a pay off to keep him silent about the 'inner workings of the borg'?.

  i wondered this because he put up with a lot of defamatory gossip before, after two years, deciding to write his book?.

  any one any ideas?

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  When Ray Franz left Brooklyn, he and his wife were given a $10,000 pay off according to Crisis of Conscience.

  Was this an act of christianity or was it a pay off to keep him silent about the 'inner workings of the borg'?

  I wondered this because he put up with a lot of defamatory gossip before, after two years, deciding to write his book?

  Any one any ideas?
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  Parpppppp!

  by Englishman in

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  i'm home!.

  functioning on all cylinders too.

  the op was a complete success so i've said goodbye to the bag, hello to my rear end and greetings once again to everyone at our on-line comunity.. christina printed off all your kind good wishes and brought them into the hospital for me to read.

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  Congratulations Englishman! I'm happy to hear that your bottom's in good working order again. We all take these little indelicacies of life for granted until they go on strike.

  I hadn't realised that what I mistook for a minor earth tremor yesterday was you farting!

  Well done, my darling!

  Love to Her Ladyship also!

  Gill
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  Does being a JW damage some children mentally?

  by Gill in

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  I agree with both of you.

  Myself, as a child the occult stories they told in talks and magazines always scared me.

  Now I'm a liberated Harry Potter fan. A few years ago i would have run a mile rather than touch a Harry Potter book.
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  A Badger's Tail, Episode IV (and final)

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  episode iv: a new hope

  ?where are we going, man?

  ?i don?t know, but we gotta go.?

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  Brilliant story, Badger. I really enjoyed reading it!

  Good luck!
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  Does being a JW damage some children mentally?

  by Gill in

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  I ask this question because in the congregation that we used to attent there was a family that had two sons. It became something that brothers laughed about that their mother had been called into school on a couple of occassions because of the things that one of the children had been talking about to his school friends. He was always telling them that they were going to die at Armageddon and Jehovah was going to destroy everyone who was not a JW.

  The mother was warned by the teacher that if she did not stop her son talking like this then he may have to be removed from classes and eventually at the other extreme expelled. The boy was six at the time. His school friends, according to the teacher, were becoming very afraid especially when he told them about Satan and what he could do to them if they touched anything that had been owned by someone who read horoscopes.

  So, do you think he was damaged and like a loose canon that could damage others?
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  Does being a JW damage some children mentally?

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  A Mormon Ray Franz

  by startingover in

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  it appears to me that grant palmer is the mormon equivelant to ray franz.

  the mormons appear to be a little more lenient but it will be interesting to see what happens to him.. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=heresy%20trial.

  if my memory serves me correctly, in the beginning of his discoveries about 607 ray never had the idea to take people away from the organization, he just thought the truth should be told.

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  Knowing the truth hurts! For a while at least. That's why people like to ignore it.