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  Okay...boring but I just needed to Post A Topic...

  by HadEnuf in

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  quote from "don't sweat the small stuff" (appropriate for all practicing apostates).. "although it can seem, at least initially, that you're giving up something by quitting, in the end you'll probably realize that, in reality, you're gaining more than you're giving up.

  you're getting back yourtime and your sanity--and what could be more important that that"?.

  yeah...that's how we should all feel after being set free.. love...mumsy.

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  luna2

  It was good to get my time back...my sanity is taking a bit longer.

  Good to see you here, Cathy!
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  whats the deal with long hair

  by aoxo in

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  to add to the previous thread regaurding beards i have a similar issue with long hair.

  i wanted so long to grow it out but of course couldn't.

  there is, however a scripture that baffled me, 1co 11:14 "does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him; but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her?

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  luna2

  They like these rules. They are easy to enforce and take a stand on. Its not like having to counsel somebody on depression (which they are not trained for) or, even worse, a physical or mental illness where the person might need actual help or something beyond handing out shaving cream or platitudes. With hair they can just go up to whoever it is and "lovingly" tell them to either cut it shorter, grow it longer or shave their face cuz Jah likes his sales force to look a certain way.
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  just a note to say hello and good-bye

  by junctions-wife in

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  i am very proud of what this site has given him in the past few years.

  self pride and help for how he was feelling.

  but this will be my last topic and last post.

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  luna2

  I wish you the best, junctions-wife. Looks like you are moving into a difficult situation yourself. Caring for your elderly grandmother probably won't be easy. Take care.
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  How Do YOU Diet To Lose Weight?

  by minimus in

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  typically, by the end of the summer, i usually take off some weight due to good exercise and better eating.

  then, in late fall and in the winter, it gets tough again.....what do you do to keep the weight off or if you've put a few pounds on how do you keep them off??

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  luna2

  Right now I can't stick to anything. However, I did find a frozen roasted vegi pizza with whole wheat crust so I can feel less bad than I usually do when scarfing down pizza.
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  How Do YOU Diet To Lose Weight?

  by minimus in

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  typically, by the end of the summer, i usually take off some weight due to good exercise and better eating.

  then, in late fall and in the winter, it gets tough again.....what do you do to keep the weight off or if you've put a few pounds on how do you keep them off??

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  luna2

  right porker

  I love that term. LOL

  ballistic, you look great these days!
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  1914 ,the Generation that got tossed in the Garbage Can

  by OUTLAW in

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  as many of you know i`ve just got back to the board in the last little while..what did i learn yesterday?..the generation of 1914 means nothing..nothing!

  !..back in the day,you could have been disfellowshipped for such a remark..disfellowshipped!

  !..what did you think and how did you feel when you found out the generation of 1914,now means nothing?.....outlaw

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  Midwich said: You mean that the end of a failed Prophesy coincided with New Light from God? Gosh, that was lucky.

  This is what I said about 6 months ago to the one sister who kept coming by and calling me on the phone trying to guilt me back to the KH. My words were more along the lines of how very convenient it was that just as it was getting to be obvious that the 1914 generation thing had reached its absolute upper limits, Jehovah provided new light to save the day. Her response was to ask me if I'd been looking at apostate stuff on the internet.

  This is an intelligent, college-educated woman, folks. It's amazing how muddled you get when you let the WTS do your thinking for you.

  I think the GB waited as long as they did to twist this thing because they knew that it made Jehovah's Witnesses as a faith look completely stupid. They made no huge announcement of this fabulous new information received from God Almighty Himself, just kind of buried it in a bunch of almost incomprehensible rhetoric in a Watchtower study. I remember coming away from the KH that day feeling completely confused...which was the response they were probably hoping for.

  I mean, you get all this "Important Announcement" crap about a dopey tract campaign that is just busy work to keep the R&F trotting on their treadmill, thinking they are moving forward, but major doctrinal changes get slipped in more quietly...talks at conventions, a few paragraphs in a Watchtower study...like its no big deal.
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  Hello All

  by Es in

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  hello all, thought id drop in and say a big hi to everyone.. hope you all are well.. 5 weeks to go till bubs hopefully makes her appearance, im eagerly counting down.. take care everyone.

  much luv es.

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  Hi, Es! Sorry you aren't feeling so great, sweetie. Won't be long now, though. Hope the time flies by for you. Soon you'll be greeting your new little girl.
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  An anniversary of sorts today

  by fullofdoubtnow in

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  i didn't realise it, but trev just told me that today is one year to the date since i first visited him at his home to do some research on the internet about the wts.

  i hadn't been going to all the meetings for a while at that time, and the month before i came here i hadn't been at all, but was unsure, despite my doubts, whether i wanted to leave the jws then or not.

  i read on quotes, freeminds and this site, and trev printed some stuff for me to read later.

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  luna2

  Awww, that's great! Happy Anniversary...sorta.
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  1914 ,the Generation that got tossed in the Garbage Can

  by OUTLAW in

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  as many of you know i`ve just got back to the board in the last little while..what did i learn yesterday?..the generation of 1914 means nothing..nothing!

  !..back in the day,you could have been disfellowshipped for such a remark..disfellowshipped!

  !..what did you think and how did you feel when you found out the generation of 1914,now means nothing?.....outlaw

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  luna2

  for me it was the beginning of the end.

  Yup. I didn't start going inactive until 5 years later, but I had never been able to reconcile that messed up Watchtower study where they tried to explain their new and improved definition of "generation" with what I knew had been drilled into our heads for years before. I couldn't get away from the feeling that they were playing us.
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  How Do YOU Diet To Lose Weight?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  typically, by the end of the summer, i usually take off some weight due to good exercise and better eating.

  then, in late fall and in the winter, it gets tough again.....what do you do to keep the weight off or if you've put a few pounds on how do you keep them off??

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  luna2

  Absolutely, Mary! No one should be able to eat a large plate of french fries covered in cheese and gravy, wash it down with a sugary Coke and not gain any weight. That's just wrong.