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  How to get a black eye

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  a pioneer brother showed up for monday morning weekday field service with two black eyes.

  his pioneer partner saw it, and said "where'd you get the black eyes?!

  "he sighed.

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  FreedomFrog

  Heehee...that's funny.

  Thanks for the laugh
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  Graduating from collge next week

  by NYCkid in

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  2. friends

  i just wanted share that i am graduating from columbia university next week with an undergraduate degree in sociology at the age of 39. see, it's never too late, for anyone out there considering attending college.. my partner and around 10 of my closest friends will be there to cheer me on, which is overshadowing any disappointment that my family will not be there, or as of today, yet to acknowledge this accomplishment that means so much to me (i sent grad announcements a few weeks ago along with an invite).

  in all honestly, they live across the country so it is an expensive trip.. anyway, despite the student loans, hard work and sacrifices, it has been well worth it.

  i remember back in h.s in the late 1980s, i begged my parents to let me attend college, but of course, the end was coming and it was a waste of time.

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  Congratulations to you!

  Personally, I've got a ways to go but I've got 4 more blocks then into my BA. I was just "advanced" as a sophomore in my studies, which was a wonderful accomplishment.

  My writing skills are better, I know how to do research and type 7 to 11 page reports in APA format...LOL.

  Anyway, GOOD FOR YOU!
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  What do you know you know?

  by zensim in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been inspired to ask this question by narkissos' thread: "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  " (et al).. whilst my question is primarily directed to you nark, i want to open this up to everyone else also.. nark - from your opening ramblings (and i mean that in the most endearing way) on "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  ", and from other recent posts, i get the feeling that you are asking these questions because you know something and you are trying to grasp onto what you know.

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  I know what I believe in the spiritual sense but it's too deep to actually verbalize it. When I try, I find myself saying "I believe this, well, not exactly but I don't know how to explain it in words".

  I'm studying 3 theories, psychoanalytic, humanistic, and diversity. Each one of them talks about the sub-conscience mind and by storing what we "know" causes us to act on things even though we think we don't know why we do things.

  I'm amused by this because the brain is a very complicated "machine" and we may hear and understand the words but the processing conflicts with our beliefs (or what we have collected in the past) with the actual words we are learning. From birth on we store information, experiences, beliefs and such in our sub-conscience mind. On certain days we may recall what we know but it may slip back in the mind and then we don't "know" it for a while again. So in reality we "know" but we don't really know. Does that make sense...LOL

  Sort of like "who's on first, what's on second" situation. Makes the mind "twist"...heehee....and I'm LOVING it.
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  Mid-life crisis experiences please.............

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do share please...oompa needs to know if he is mental, or just experiencing really difficult adjustment feelings about being lied to his entire freaking life, and having some difficulties with being so alone after having a freaking worldwide bruddahood of friends........................thanks...................oompa.

  i really, really, really wanna get away..........far far away............and think it may help for a total fresh start.......older kids though, and a jw wife...this is going nowhere isn't it.

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  Hi Oompa,

  I don't know if it's mid-life crisis or not but I'm going through something similar as far as wanting to just quit and run away. I've "daydreamed" about running off and starting over but like many of us, we have responsibilities. For me, I have 2 children that depend on me and I think about what it would do to them if I did run away. Besides, running away won't solve my problem because I'll still have the lonely, angry feelings towards some of my situational things.

  What helps me is getting away for a bit like camping. I've camped by myself (of course safe places and basically in my car with locked doors) for a weekend. It's refreshing to me. Another thing I do is "take off" for a day just hiking through the woods with my Kasey Girl (German Shepherd). I feel refreshed.

  When coming out of a high controlled religion, you do lose a lot but it depends on how you handle the stress of it all that will make or break you (IMO). For me, I not only lost my JW friends and family but I lost my husband within a short period of time frame. I won't allow myself to stay idle too long because then I will start to think about what I lost rather than what I've gained. Sure, I slip back into my little hole for a bit (and I give myself that permission) but I make myself to pull out or things can really get out of hand.

  Can you "get away" even for a day? Getting out doors (to me) is refreshing and energizing, is this posible for you?

  At any rate, hang in there.
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  Looking for Old Friends

  by Wordly Andre in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm going to start this topic, i know some of us know people who have left before we did, and have lost touch.

  so i'll go first, i am looking for jennifer n. of lancaster/palmdale ca area, she had a son and i use to hang out with margie.

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  Anyone from West Chester Cong. in Cincy, OH

  No, but one of my ex best friend (still a JW) was from West Chester, she moved to Bethel Cong in Ciny where I went. I may know a few names from her talking to me...not sure.
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  Crisis Mode! Advice please!

  by 5thGeneration in

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  i am in deep shite!.

  haven't been to a meeting for a year.

  rumours are rampant in canada as my family is 'prominent'.. p.o.

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  FreedomFrog

  I agree with H4O's comment about turning it into, "you have questions". If you can avoid getting into the details, it may be something you can let quietly calm down for a bit.

  Some on here have successfully faded but it's a tricky thing.

  This is a tough situation and you are being forced to meet it head on.

  it will be a small price to pay for you and your children.

  I disagree that it's a "small" price to pay but it may be worth it. I don't know how close you are to your family and friends you had, and I don't know how many friends you and your family have outside the Organization, if you don't have any or very few and you need friends, it's gonna be a much bigger price.

  If you can make it into "you have questions and need time to think" , it may go away for a moment giving you a chance to figure out how you want to handle this at a later time.
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  Has a song "GRABBED" at you pulling your soul in?

  by FreedomFrog in

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  it doesn't happen to me much but when it does i can't get enough.... i was driving home from a friends house trying to figure out how to work out my finances/home/college/kids and then the song "eye of the tiger" came on.. i've heard this song many times.

  this was one of my fave's growing up but it didn't catch my soul like it did tonight.

  i was in awe to the point of needing to hear it 6 times already.

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  FreedomFrog

  Yes, thanks CountryGuy, I'm adding this to my desktop.

  It reminded me of Ghost with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, especially the ending where I never make it out with dry eyes. This may end up being my new "Ghost" movie for a while.

  I need these movies sometimes to force the tears out and they sure do that.
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  Has a song "GRABBED" at you pulling your soul in?

  by FreedomFrog in

  1. jw
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  it doesn't happen to me much but when it does i can't get enough.... i was driving home from a friends house trying to figure out how to work out my finances/home/college/kids and then the song "eye of the tiger" came on.. i've heard this song many times.

  this was one of my fave's growing up but it didn't catch my soul like it did tonight.

  i was in awe to the point of needing to hear it 6 times already.

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  Now look what you have gone and done CountryGuy...I used up my last bit of tissues over this video...wow! I now need to go and get the episode..I hope I can find it.
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  A Touching Heartfelt Experience at The ATM Machine!

  by caliber in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a touching heartfelt experience at the atm machine!.

  it was a very touching experience that i had this last weekend at the atm machine.

  it was about half an hour discussion but what follows is the highlights that i remember most vividly.. it begins with a once a upon a time pioneer partner of my wife (h4o) coming in to the atm.. jw says....how are things going?

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  FreedomFrog

  wow, just seen this experience...so powerful...I LOVED it.

  Must have made the stranger feel so good that there are people like you out there that won't judge. And if he heard every word, he may have figured out that she was a JW and will more than likely see them differently with their so called love (if he hadn't already) by the conversation...

  Way to go
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  Has a song "GRABBED" at you pulling your soul in?

  by FreedomFrog in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it doesn't happen to me much but when it does i can't get enough.... i was driving home from a friends house trying to figure out how to work out my finances/home/college/kids and then the song "eye of the tiger" came on.. i've heard this song many times.

  this was one of my fave's growing up but it didn't catch my soul like it did tonight.

  i was in awe to the point of needing to hear it 6 times already.

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  FreedomFrog

  We're Jehoober's Witlesses!! HA HA HA HA HA No not really

  Oh MAN! I know what you mean, that brought tears to my eyes as well (from boredom) LOL