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  Has it really been FIVE years?? wow....

  by Scully in

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  i just realized that it was five years ago, today, that i joined jwd.. i didn't think i'd be around very long - i didn't think i had a lot of residual "stuff" to deal with - was i ever wrong!!.

  thanks to everyone who has made jwd what it is - a safe haven, a place for fun and friendship, a place to talk about our jw experiences and figure out what comes next, a place where we can offer support and friendship to people who feel lost and alone.

  when i joined, there were less than 2000 members, and we've grown to over 25000 memberships.

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  Thank you Skully for all your great input into this board.

  I'm sure I'm not the only one who you've helped in their journey out.

  Rose
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  Um..hi...I'm new too!

  by Ex-Jo Ho in

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  wow!

  i came across this site and i felt a huge weight come off of my shoulders!

  someone understands!

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  misguided

  Welcome Josie

  as Leslie said...

  The guilt is just instilled in us, it goes away after awhile

  is so true. For me it still sort of comes and goes. (It's feeling a little gone right now, thankfully.)

  Rose
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  What kind of "real" Christian lets the kids do Halloween?

  by lovelylil in

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  2. friends

  as you all know we have been out of the tower about 3 years now.

  i am still a christian but my hubby thinks of himself more as an agnostic.

  anyway, my son who is 12 asked if he could go trick or treating with my nieghbor and her son just to try it as it never has - and i said it was up to him to decide.

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  I don't worry about the origins of Halloween any more. To me, it's not important. Halloween is about having fun. I LOVE it!

  My boyfriend and I went to a halloween party Saturday night, had a wonderful time, won a prize for our costumes, and got engaged the next day (yesterday)!

  Even though my youngest child's father (he's 9) is still "in" (a JW) and fighting me hard not to let him go out...my son is so excited about it...and willing to do it in spite of what his father thinks (he even sent him home from his last visitation with a huge bag of candy to try to bribe him to not go out.)

  It just doesn't matter what the origins are to me...it's what it means to our generation...and to me and my 6 kids, it's the best!

  Rose
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  Do You Really "Care" If Someone's Gay Or Not???

  by minimus in

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  so often, you see people all up in arms because it is revealed that an individual is "gay".

  do you really care??

  personally, i don't.

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  Absolutely NOT!!

  This summer I had the priviledge of meeting again someone I grew up with (in JW) who is now gay. Both of us are now DF'd. It's been almost 20 years, but we're still the same people.

  I met his parter. It was great. If I could only figure out to post pics...I'd show you our reunion...any help???

  Rose
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  Did you get the new tract?

  by kid-A in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to run an informal poll to see how "effective" or hopelessly "ineffective" the borg tract assimilation drive has been.. i for one, have not received the tract, and i live in densely populated development.

  did anybody get it left in their doors/mailboxes?.

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  So......I've been home all day today...

  my first day off in weeks (my son is home sick)...and...

  my daughter just walked in the door from school and began reading to me what I immediately recognized as the title of the tract. They'd left it jammed in the door. Why did they not ring the doorbell???
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  HAPPY B'DAY, ORBISON11 !!!

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  i just found out today's wendy's b'day!.

  happy, happy birthday, wendy!.

  hugs,.

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  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Wendy!

  If only they (the drones from Whalley) could see you now!

  Cheers! Enjoy the Southern Comfort.

  Rose
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  WAYNE CAIRNS - JW Elder EXPOSED - Pleads Guilty to "Indecent Act"

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the morning star sept 24, 2006 page a6 vernon bc canada newspaper.

  the article reads and i quote in full: .

  school bus driver given conditional discharge .

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  Wayne - [edit] Cairns [edit]
  I wonder if we should just give him a call? DO NOT HARASS THIS INDIVIDUAL WITH PHONE CALLS.

  source: [edit] It's the only Cairns listed in [edit].

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  What TV Show Can You Absolutely NOT Miss???

  by mama1119 in

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  i myself cannot miss project runway.

  its great.

  and girl next door, they crack me up!!!!

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  Let's count the years together.....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  my years in = 43 total of those on this thread = 43. .

  make it progressive - add yours to the last one posted and keep adding - lets see how many years we have invested.. so we have 43 - now add yours and keep it going.

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  1205 + 37 = 1242
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  THE BORG WANTS YOUR NUMBER

  by Mary in

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  my elderly dub aunt (who's the biggest whiner the world has ever seen) came over tonight to first of all, whine about how her neighbour shuts her kitchen cupboard doors in the most annoying way possible and her dog barks and what was she supposed to do about it?

  anyway, as soon as these monumental problems were solved, she informed me that at the bookstudy the other night, the conductor told everyone to "stay after the prayer" as he had 'something important to announce.

  " naturally everyone did this, all the while wondering if the red phone at patterson was in direct contact with jehovah himself as the study was being conducted.

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  I just spent 3 hours driving home from my parent's wondering what was up. I went to drop off an item of my father's and to let them have a visit with my kids. We were there less than 2 hours.

  Firstly, when I was on my way over, my mom invited us over for lunch...but then added, that I could go "sit in a corner" (literally what she said) while they ate. My kids and I decided Burger King was better than having mom sit in a corner while they ate.

  Then when I was leaving, my dad came up to the car and gave me a big hug and said he loves me, and that he didn't know when he was going to see me again. I thought it was a weird statement based on the watchtower article on when a loved one leaves jehovah.

  His comment left me with a very disconcerted feeling. Then my daughter said, tears were welling up in his eyes as he hugged me and said what he said. I'd really like to know what's up!

  Thanks, Mary, for posting a piece of this puzzle.