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  describe yourself...

  by Calliope in

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  come on, be vain for a moment.

  maybe you haven't posted your picture because you're trying to maintain some level of anonymity, .

  maybe you have posted your picture... .

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  happy1975

  Okay, I'll bite....

  5' 11" tall, trim figure - I like to work out, dark blonde hair and blue eyes. Lots of freckles.

  Oh, and I'm also currently 3 months pregnant, although people who don't know me probably wouldn't be able to tell.

  -Happy
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  How Do You Feel About Life & Yourself Now That You're Out?

  by minimus in

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  personally, i'm feeling better about things.

  i don't cringe when i see a witness now.

  i may still try to avoid contact with certain ones but now i feel more than ever before that jws are crackpots and whether they look down on me or not, they are the ones with the issues----not me!

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  happy1975

  Only about a zillion times better than I did before.

  Happy
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  Would you still be a JW

  by purplebunnyfoofoo in

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  would you still be a jw if you had not been disfellowshipped?

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  happy1975

  I faded, so NOPE!! Wild horses couldn't drag me back.

  -Happy
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  What do the JW's need most desperately right NOW !!!

  by JH in

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  what do you think would encourage the jw's enormously right now?.

  another war, a pandemic, a meteor striking the earth, bird flu in the us?

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  happy1975

  To get an effing life. Sorry I'm bitter - I got REALLY sick of being judged.

  -Happy
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  When you receive an ...shepherding visit, why not express appreciation ..?

  by jgnat in

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  "when you receive an encouraging shepherding visit, why not express appreciation for it?

  " wt may 1, 2006, p. 21 pp.

  sorry for stealing your thunder blondie, but this suggestion really struck home.

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  happy1975

  During the last shepherding call my husband and I had the Elder commended us on not having a TV in our living room.

  Our big screen TV was in the rec room in the basement - too big for the upstairs living room that we never really used anyway.....

  : )

  Happy
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  You people are all the same....(dispelling myths about apostates)

  by beautifulisfree in

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  i know you are sick of that phrase by now....because jdubs use it all the time when referring to 'apostates'.

  they come on this forum or (people you know) generalize 'apostates' as though we are of different class...that we are no longer human.

  they are obviously fed these little tid-bits about 'apostates' from the society since i am sure they don't personally know many.

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  happy1975

  I don't like being labeled period - but I really don't like using the term apostate. From the time I was really little the term apostate was used (in hushed tones, of course) to describe Joel Stanley - a former witness who would picket outside of our Disctict Convention in MA. We werent even allowed to look in his direction as we walked into the civic center.

  I guess the term just has a REALLY bad connotation to me. The witnesses find a way to demonize anyone who doesn't think like they do and it's sick.

  -Happy
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  Did you have a Witness approved car?

  by free2beme in

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  when i was a witness, i was told that a responsible witness purchased a car that was able to be used in field service.

  as an example, it would have four doors to allow easy entry for a car group of 4 to 6 people.

  it was something that was not to showy, meaning it was not a lexus or something that would make it seem that witnesses were materialistic, especially when working a poor part of the community.

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  happy1975

  Yup, I did then and I do now. I have an old four door Volvo that I LOVE. It's too hard to get a screaming, protesting 17 month old into/out of a two door car so I guess I'm stuck with a family-mobile for the time being.

  -Happy
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  Hello...

  by gymbob in

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  i've been reading you all for a couple years now, it's about time i post.. the first thing i would like to say is....thank you.

  without this forum, who knows what my life would be like.

  you all have been such a big help to me since i left the witnesses about 4 years ago, and i'm very grateful to you all!.

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  happy1975

  Hi Gymbob-

  Welcome! I'm more of a reader than a poster too - it takes all kinds.

  Happy
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  new too

  by RaceBannon in

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  i am one confused dude and need serious therapy.

  leaving is very tough.

  my family are in a life and death race to save me before "the end".

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  happy1975

  Hi Race,

  Welcome to the board. Glad to have ya - the more the merrier. You'll find lots of information and support here. As an adult, I am so relieved that I NEVER again have to explain my choices in life to anyone. Just food for thought.

  Happy
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  Do you still pass in front of your kingdom hall?

  by JH in

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  since the last few days, i pass right in front, and i noticed the vines growing on the side of the kingdom hall.

  now, the whole side wall is completely covered with vines.. looking at the vines, it reminded me of a face with a goatee or a beard.

  so, if they can have vines on their building, a brother should be allowed to have a goatee....

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  happy1975

  Yup, I do - A few times a week, and I cringe every time thinking about all of the hundreds of hours I wasted there. Oh well, at least I'm not STILL wasting my life there.

  -Happy