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  FREE Ex-JW Newsletter...one more time...

  by Cocoon in

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  it's brenda, publisher of "cocoon," the newsletter that helps support the flight of ex-jws.

  if you aren't receiving my newsletter, let me know and i'd be happy to email it to you free.

  my email is: [email protected] (no spammers please).

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  JustTickledPink

  I just think Quotes post is hilarious.... and very true!
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  The Myth of Unconditional Love

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i here this a lot all the time.

  i think it is one huge myth,,based on a self-biased view.

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  JustTickledPink

  If you ever get a dog that adores you and follows you around your house, licks your feet, sits on your lap, basically worships you, you will understand the concept of unconditional love. It's just that very simple pure adoration between living beings. It doesn't have to be romantic or have anything to do with family, even people, ... because a dog can just love you for no reason at all.
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  The Myth of Unconditional Love

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i here this a lot all the time.

  i think it is one huge myth,,based on a self-biased view.

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  JustTickledPink

  Unconditional love I believe is real, alive, and well.

  The key is learning to GIVE it out. Measuring unconditional love by how much you can dish out, instead of "no one loves me" unconditionally. We have all been there, we have all been treated unfairly or had some sad poor story of being rejected by parents, friends, etc.... So yes, you can walk around and believe it doesn't exist, OR, you can choose to be the person that loves unconditionally. Measuring unconditional love actually by your own heart's capability of loving others.

  Coming from a judgemental religion I still find myself judging people when I don't want to. Love is an action, you have to exercise it every day. It's not a blanket statement. It's renewable. Like you need to drink water every day, eat every day, exercise, breathe, you need to love every day. If you give it out, trust me people will respond to you in the same manner and you will find it.
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  Are UK JWs more faithful the US JWs?

  by Qcmbr in

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  do you find there are significant differences in religious commitment across the atlantic?

  feel free to chip in if your from another country which is even more die hard / soft and slushy than the us /brits.

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  JustTickledPink

  I don't know anything about the UK JWs, but my mother initially got baptized and was a JW in Canada, then we moved to the US. She is one of the most dyed in the wool, follow to a letter, JW. She believes everything is black and white and if it's in the Watchtower it's gospel.

  Although I believe people like her aren't the rule, there are several that I have met over the course of my life both in Canada and in the US that are super strict and faithful.

  The only difference I wonder might be that the European JWs actually suffered persecution during the world war and that might have indoctrinated more Europeans, that the US Witnesses know happened, but never literally SAW those things with their own eyes.

  Like I've said before though, if persecution means you have the "truth" maybe the Jews, gays, disabled, handicapped people are really God's "true" people because they were persecuted by Hitler too. It makes no sense to use that as the identification mark. Gays and blacks are still persecuted in the US, what does that mean?????? Please, give me a break.
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  Do you people have jobs?

  by DavidA in

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  how do you guys find the time to chat on this board all day?

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  JustTickledPink

  Not only do I have a full time job, but I also attend college classes at night, have a husband a home that I give attention to.

  I prefer a bit of a message board to watching Star Trek re-runs or reading mindless cartoons.
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  Is Baptism a contract?? If so, are minors able to give legal consent??

  by coult9056 in

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  dear friends,

  i believe the judicial committee wheels are starting to turn.

  let me explain why.

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  JustTickledPink

  I am right there with everyone on the subject. Baptized at 11 yoa and really didn't get baptized as a vow to God, I did it because I wanted and desperately needed approval and acceptance from my mother and others in the cong that gave you praise if you did it. I also did it to get attention of this older boy who was baptized, I thought he might "like" me if I got baptized. I know I was only 11, I guess I was an early bloomer.
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  Saw my JW parents yesterday. Dad not doing well. Neither am I!

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  this place has helped me to "face" my parents.

  actually, get off of the "oh they hurt me sooo much" and go see them, again.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/79128/1.ashx older thread on reunion with my parents.

  they are 87. my dad has been diabetic for 40 years and has lost the lower portion of both legs.

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  JustTickledPink

  I'm really sorry to hear that.
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  Buying houses, building houses - where's the URGENCY of the times?

  by truthseeker in

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  recently while at a witness gathering, i noticed that many "young ones" in their twenties and thirties are talking about buying or building a home.

  buying or building a home is one of the most expensive commitments you could ever make.

  in the usa, an average mortgage lasts 30 years.

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  JustTickledPink

  I know when I was growing up as a teenager it was drilled into my head that Armeggedon was just around the corner. That was between the years 1985 - 1993. I left around 1994. Anyways, that was ALL THE TALK.... so I guess things have calmed down now that 1994 came and went.
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  JW Media site - Russian ban proves severe to JW's and the WTS

  by truthseeker in

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  this is a very interesting news article that the wts has put on their website.

  notice how many times they use the word "slanderous" without mentioning specifics...

  jehovah?s witnesses?russia.

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  JustTickledPink

  I wonder if the ideaology of the Witnesses in Russia is a bit different than here in the States? I wonder if being in that culture and that area has made them a bit more strict? Many people think that the Witnesses living in the States are too "worldly" and so what are they like in Russia? Are they are bit more extreme? Could they be called extremists?
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  Baby's "second head" removed -- no moral issues described?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  in this news article, a baby is described as being born with a second head, referred to as "the parasite".

  as a parent, i would have had a hard time looking at this under-developed conjoined twin as a "parasite".

  it really looks like a second child, though one incapable of independant life.

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  JustTickledPink

  There are no moral issues to discuss because a head without organs or a body isn't viable. You have to look at the WHOLE... there are cases of conjoined twins that both can survive independantly and they have to weigh the risks of both surviving or both dying, but in this case the extra head, wasn't able to survive on it's own. The fact that the head had a face, is what draws sympathy. You look into a child's eyes and they blink and of course it makes you sad, but I don't think there ever was hope for this baby from Day 1.