Them guys got some bad hair............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
purplesofa
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60s70sRocknRoll
by purplesofa inhttp://groups.msn.com/60s70srocknrollcommunity
the greatest drummer thread brought this community to mind........ for rocknroll lovers...........this place is awesome for all kinds of goodies..... .
enjoy!.
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JWs And Ex-JWs--Do You Struggle With Depression Because You Were A JW?
by minimus ini've seen how some are so burdened by the fact that they were witnesses, that literally, every day is a struggle.
are you in need of therapeutic help because you are or were a jehovah's witness?
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purplesofa
Initially, I was very happy to learn the truth. But it did not take long before my whole world fell apart, and I fell into deep depression, divorce, 5 kids, no child support, suicided of family member, then disfellowshipped. I worked my way out of all this and felt very good, was very sucessful with career. But it was always nagging at me that I was DF. So, after 9 years I worked to be reinstated.
Same thing all over again, depression soon returned, but this time I was almost suicidal, took meds. Not that I would have killed myself, but my desire to live went to nothing. I was unemployed for 5 months and went days without getting out of bed. I remember waking up one morning and thinking how much I wanted to go back to sleep and wake up in Paradise. It scared me so bad, I jumped out of bed like it was on fire.
That was 5 years ago. I was never really happy as a witness.......only in the very beginning. Now that I do not go anymore I have never been happier. Everyday I feel better and live for now instead of a place way off in the future.
I remember a congo I went to in Texas and most everyone there seemed to suffering depression, like it was contagious as a catching a cold. Everyone just accepted it, it was just a very sad congo. Many at my congo now, are depressed. Now that I remember, even my best friend has been on meds, for quite some time now.
My daughter was getting very depressed, she said the meetings were all about death and destruction, so I never forced her to go anymore. I was concerned about her mental well-being.
How can anyone truely be happy when we are reminded regularly how we fall short and our only hope is to make it thru the close at hand destruction and then spend years and years cleaning up a huge mess, only to be tested again 1,000 years later.............Exhaustion can also lead to depression.
I have found it is a real problem among witnesses and very accepted illness.
purps
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Interesting Talk by the CO today
by bronzefist inthought i would share some notes i took from a talk the co gave at the hall i attended today for the last time.
the talk was entitled ?act wisely in a senseless world.. .
the gist of the talk was that we are being conned by everyone in this system of things.. no mention of anyone in the organization doing this.. ?are we willing victims??.
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purplesofa
Then he mentioned that many have been abused by priests and consider themselves victims. Yet they were a part of that church so they could be considered willing victims.
That is so wrong...................I almost cannot believe he said that. The more I think about it the madder I get.
That is showing just how screwed up the mentality is. Who decided they are willing victims.......I know my stomach would have turned if had heard this talk.......And it is little statements like that, over time that allowed me to get out.
purps
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60s70sRocknRoll
by purplesofa inhttp://groups.msn.com/60s70srocknrollcommunity
the greatest drummer thread brought this community to mind........ for rocknroll lovers...........this place is awesome for all kinds of goodies..... .
enjoy!.
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purplesofa
Your welcome.........It has alot of great info and rare stuff.....
chat room is pretty good too.
purps
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60s70sRocknRoll
by purplesofa inhttp://groups.msn.com/60s70srocknrollcommunity
the greatest drummer thread brought this community to mind........ for rocknroll lovers...........this place is awesome for all kinds of goodies..... .
enjoy!.
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purplesofa
http://groups.msn.com/60s70sRocknRollCommunity
The greatest drummer thread brought this community to mind.......
For rocknroll lovers...........this place is awesome for all kinds of goodies....
Enjoy!
purps
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I really blew it......I am the nightmare householder!
by Why Georgia ini really blew it yesterday.
we had just gotten home from a very long day and we were contemplating what to do for dinner and then a knock at the door.
the sister was back with an elder and he asked to speak to my husband...completely got his name wrong.
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purplesofa
PMSing and low blood sugar not a good combo
I say I don't PMS ..............I do the whole alphabet.
There is nothing like a woman defending her man........
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Tim Olson kicked out of Bethel..............
by integ ina higher profile bethelite has been kicked out of bethel.
there are hints that there are more to come.. .
integ.
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purplesofa
We know this old system won't be here much longer."
I have come to hate hearing that statement. A sister called me tonight and said that very thing to me and I cringed. It is a sloution to everything.......grrrrrrrr..............
you will be so glad to get back home.
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Dawkins Interview; Atheism, Agnosticism, Etc.
by AlanF inthe following was forwarded to me, and i post it in its entirety, with a few edits for clarity, without comment.. ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ .
many of my friends are well aware that i'm not the slightest bit religious.
with other friends the subject has never come up - and might never have - i'm not much of a proselytizer.
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purplesofa
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.
I liked this.
and this part helped me with my questions about the bible and scripting on a thread I started, which I have planned to do research on but have not had the time.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/90077/1.ashx
Q: So why do we insist on believing in God?
A: From a biological point of view, there are lots of different theories about why we have this extraordinary predisposition to believe in supernatural things. One suggestion is that the child mind is, for very good Darwinian reasons, susceptible to infection the same way a computer is. In order to be useful, a computer has to be programmable, to obey whatever it's told to do. That automatically makes it vulnerable to computer viruses, which are programs that say, "Spread me, copy me, pass me on." Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
A: Similarly, the child brain is preprogrammed by natural selection to obey and believe what parents and other adults tell it. In general, it's a good thing that child brains should be susceptible to being taught what to do and what to believe by adults. But this necessarily carries the down side that bad ideas, useless ideas, waste of time ideas like rain dances and other religious customs, will also be passed down the generations. The child brain is very susceptible to this kind of infection. And it also spreads sideways by cross infection when a charismatic preacher goes around infecting new minds that were previously uninfected.
It has helped me with something I was searching for in my own thought process. It is not what I had thought I would find, but makes sense to me at some level in my brain right now.
Thanks for the post,
purps
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Tim Olson kicked out of Bethel..............
by integ ina higher profile bethelite has been kicked out of bethel.
there are hints that there are more to come.. .
integ.
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purplesofa
He's in his 30'S for crying out loud! Why would they have to call his parents? Stupid cult.
If he has been there 8 years, he probably dont have bus fare home. Can't fight his way out of a paperbag sorta thing.
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Grandparents give grandson ultimatum
by EscapedLifer1 inthis is brandon bartlett, formerly 2escaped lifers here on the forum.
quick background: myself, wife, and two boys (10 and 12), left the borg together about three years ago.
were da'd a little over a year ago.
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purplesofa
I am glad you did not force the child that did not want to go to go. I have had to pick my duaghter up from my Mom's earlier than I was supposed to because a visit did not go well(she lives three hours away)
I let my daughter see her grandmother even though we no longer have a relationship. But, her animosity towards me was shown to my daughter. My mother telling her we were not real JW's and this that and the other. My mom would talk bad about me. This really upset my daughter. Anyway, she does not go anymore, My mom ruined the relationship.
I have a friend that her daughter went to see Grandparents and also had to be picked up much earlier than planned(1000 miles away) and the girl has not really been the same since the visit. Alot of talk about destruction at Armegeddon and such. She would never really tell the mother about the whole visit. She became suicidal about 6 months after visit and is in therapy. The mother thinks the visit was a catalyst for this.
We just have to remember that this is a cult and some of the people that go there, ok most, ok ALL, have distorted thinking. and protect our children from it. They really say and do hurtful things.