Thanks for sharing the good news. Keep hanging tough.
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My Scan Results
by Dansk inas many of you will know, yesterday i received my scan results from the haematologist.
when i entered his office he was beaming and so i thought the news would be good.
the chemotherapy has shrunk the cancerous lymph nodes in my stomach substantially!!
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How did you tell old distant friends that you faded? Or do you?
by cab1000 inyou all have been so helpful in the past with these things...and i have another "how to deal" question.... ok, we have been faded for a while now.
we have pumkins out for halloween, as well as fun decorations...the problem is..we got an anniversary card today in the mail from some old witness friends where we used to live...they wish they could visit...they are prone to drop by un announced...so..have any of you had any sucess of "warning" old witness friends that you have changed?.
we are still trying not to get disfellowshiped for family reasons.
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I think it is good you are thinking about these things now because if you continue displaying things the WT frowns on it won't be long before they confront you on this issue. If you are not ready psychologically to deal with friends and family turning on you I would suggest taking the pumkins and other decorations down till you are ready. Things spread very fast among the witnesses. Once one finds out there is a good chance they all will. For the same reason I wouldn't recommend telling anyone you have changed even to soften the blow until you feel you are ready to deal with an inquistion into your behavior. There is a good chance the elders will show up before your visitors get there.
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Louis Farahkaan?
by gringojj inhow many people follow this guy?
he is a real wacko.
he talks about being on spaceships and stuff.
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Believe it or not there is a Watchtower connection with Louis Farahkaan. Around about 1931 Elijah Poole later to be know an Elijah Muhammad came under the infuence of Wallace D Fard. Fard was a peddler of African clothing. He urged his followers to renounce their birth names and take on Muslim names. Under Fard's infuence Elijah renounced the Christian faith of his parents and his birth name. Fard got much of what he had to say about the Christian religion from the Watchtower. Fard actually went from house to house using Watchtower literature to tear down the Christian beliefs held by blacks and replace them with his own warped view of Islamic teachings. The funny thing about this is that Wallace Fard was a white man.
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That is toooo funny!!!!
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Did anyone here know Jeannie Cole? (retired JW missionary)
by upside/down in.
she was an eccentric "allergic to lifer"...was a gilead graduate and missionary in guatemala and finally ended up the guinea pig for a bro.
"doctor" (quack) in socal.... she idolized a "dr." springer...the socal dub "faith healer".... anyone?.
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She idolized a "Dr." Springer...the SoCal Dub "faith healer"..
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Did your relationship change with your partner when you left.........
by vitty in...........well what more can i add, only to say mine got fantastically better!!!!!!!!!
ive been married for 24 years, i went back in the org 4 years after i was married, it has put so much strain on us over the years, its undescribeable.
my husband came in the org, about 6 years after me.
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How did that happen. My reply to TS disappeared. I'll try again
TS said:
i try to be nice and loving, but my wife is married to jehovah, not to me. and so, after five years, it's on the fritz. she told me the other day after one of her meetings that she thought it would be good if we separate. and at this point, after really wondering how she can say she loves me but that i will also be destroyed shortly by her real husband, jehovah, that perhaps it is a good idea to split up. plus, believe me when i say, that an atheist and a JW really do not have much meaningful fodder for conversation.
so yes, it did change with my partner when i left.
life sucks sometimes.
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Sorry to hear you are going through this. It is hard to deal with when someone is so brainwashed that they choose fantasyland over real friends and family. Often JW ruin their marriage only to realize later how good they had it.
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Did your relationship change with your partner when you left.........
by vitty in...........well what more can i add, only to say mine got fantastically better!!!!!!!!!
ive been married for 24 years, i went back in the org 4 years after i was married, it has put so much strain on us over the years, its undescribeable.
my husband came in the org, about 6 years after me.
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i try to be nice and loving, but my wife is married to jehovah, not to me. and so, after five years, it's on the fritz. she told me the other day after one of her meetings that she thought it would be good if we separate. and at this point, after really wondering how she can say she loves me but that i will also be destroyed shortly by her real husband, jehovah, that perhaps it is a good idea to split up. plus, believe me when i say, that an atheist and a JW really do not have much meaningful fodder for conversation. so yes, it did change with my partner when i left. life sucks sometimes. ts Sorry you have to go through this ts. The brainwashing is so deep they choose fantasyland over real friends and family that care about them. I hope you can work it out but I know how tough it can be.
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Did your relationship change with your partner when you left.........
by vitty in...........well what more can i add, only to say mine got fantastically better!!!!!!!!!
ive been married for 24 years, i went back in the org 4 years after i was married, it has put so much strain on us over the years, its undescribeable.
my husband came in the org, about 6 years after me.
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Everything works back-arsewards for me. I left the dubs and my wife did not........and we have gotten along better in our marriage ever since......go figure. I....like LittleToe, didn't give my wife a bad time over the witnesses except on a few occations when I first exited. I became myself when I left and didn't pretend over many things any longer .....so I feel she likes the' for real' apostate bastard, better than the dub who lived in a make believe world. I was lucky
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Has anyone else experienced this
by I quit! inlast night god appeared to me and said.... .
just kidding.
i thought that might get your attention.
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Last night God appeared to me and said....
Just kidding. I thought that might get your attention.
Since last night I haven't been able to log on to this board through MSN. I also can't open my hotmail through MSN. I have to go on Firefox to open anything with a password. -
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Oh My Cawed! $29,000+
by BrendaCloutier inok. i "won" a "fully favorable" social security disability claim on august 29, 2005. from there it takes 2 - 6 months to receive a letter outlining just how much i will receive in back pay and in monthly.. today i got an envelope with $29,794.00.
no letter, no nothing!.
oh, my, cawed!.
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Good for you. I hate to bring this up but will you have to pay taxes on it? It is a one time shot so use it wisely. I hate to say things like that but it is the way I think about money.