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  Just wanted to say HELLO - NEWBIES, please read!!!

  by berylblue in

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  i see many new faces here since my last visit - .

  this place was instrumental in helping me see the wtbts for what it really is.. .

  please - keep an open mind.

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  Please know that my life has improved about a million percent since leaving the organization

  ditto...just for the newbies.

  Thank you all at JWD for helping me see the real truth.
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  An "Apostate" partakes at the JWs Memorial

  by dedpoet in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccote1skw8a.

  this is a video sent to me by brenda lee, the author of "out of the cocoon",.

  of her partaking of the emblems at the jw memorial last month.

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  I though it was really funny.

  I think her gum-chewing antics might have been to make a point to those there that she was not really considering herself one of the annointed class, and to show that she was just partaking just to make a point of how ridiculous the memorial occasion really is. I think she probably also needed to do some antics to survive the boredom of the talk just to get to the time of the passing of the emblems.
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  Diane Wilson~~~ex-JW

  by purplesofa in

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  published in psychology today~~~here is a small bit from the article.

  http://www.dianewilson.net/disc.htm.

  as desperate as i was to be convinced that the society would have no effect on my destiny, at some level i still believed it was god's channel and that my life hinged on obedience to it.

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  The dragon: the book was really inexpensive (under $20 for hardcover) at Chapters.ca. I was a single mom of 6 when I purchased the book. I'm sure if I could afford it you could too;) She wrote the book, she deserves some rewards for her effort...wouldn't you if you'd gone to all the work of writing a book?

  I read the book while on my way out. It's an excellent book for anyone (especially for women) on surviving post-borg and the control the society really has on you. I recommend it.

  Rose
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  How many remember the 1969 8 day convention?

  by seek2find in

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  2. experiences

  anybody remember the 8 day 1969 international convention.

  i was at the braves stadium in atlanta all 8 days with a sunburn and then wet clothes after the rain storms.

  if you were there (not necessarily in atlanta) do you remember anything about it?

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  I was 4 years old. We went to the Vancouver BC assembly (we lived just blocks away from the PNE grounds.) I believe I recall spending most of our days out on the stadium field under an umbrella.

  My brother was 2 at the time. My dad spent virtually no time with us, as he was volunteering somewhere...lucky him. He left my mother alone with the 2 of us in the heat. The sad thing is, he thinks this is how a spiritually minded father should act.

  About 16 years ago at the Coliseum on the same grounds, a little girl fell over the bleacher bars and onto the concrete below. It's a miracle she wasn't killed but they did rush her off in an ambulance. I think this happens fairly regularly at these large stadiums and Coliseums

  Yes, her name is Jessica, and she survived pretty much unscathed (just a big goose egg and some bruising) after falling about 10 feet onto the cement floor on her head. It was around 1990. She was playing with my daughter when it happened.

  Rose
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  Quick question!

  by emilyblue in

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  hello, how long do judicial committees for possible disfellowship typically last?

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  Oh Emily (((hugs))),

  I know where your man is coming from. At one point I thought completely like that. I wanted to be with someone so much, yet felt the need to hide his existence because of my disfellowshipping. Eventually my JW brain took over and I ended it thinking it was the right thing to do to be right with god. I'm sure to this day he doesn't understand. Geeze, today, I can't even reconcile my brain as it thought as a brainwashed go-bot. The thing is if he's not ready to leave this crazy religion, and by what he's saying to you I'm thinking this is the case, you are either going to have to become a JW yourself (which is a horrible life) or he will make the choice to serve his god and, essentially, screw your emotions over.

  You have every right to be confused. It is confusing! It's just the way a JW brain works. I can't go back and change anything. Make your decisions wisely. Please dont' get yourself locked up in his world. I know I'd be so guilty if that fellow had followed me and became a jw now just to be with me. I only wish I had learned that this organization is one big lie long before I did.

  Rose
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  Hi, it's me again

  by fullofdoubtnow in

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  it's really great to be back on here, i've missed you all so much.

  i'm home for the weekend, and feeling a lot better than i was earlier in the week.

  i picked up an infection and felt really awful for a day or two, but it's ok now.

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  Hi Linda...enjoy your weekend at home. My thoughts and best wishes go out to you at this time and hope all goes well with your treatment plan. You are often in my thoughts.

  (I'm more of a lurker and not much of a poster.)

  Rose
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  For those who were raised in "the truth"

  by Hangin_on in

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  how many of you always felt like you would be killed at armageddon no matter what you did... it was never enough and your parents put a guilt trip on you?

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  Me...

  Absolutely.

  Even though my dad was scary sometimes, this was a bigger fear in my world.

  When I was being sexually abused by an elder, I honestly thought it was my fault. Something I was wearing. Something I was doing. I reasoned that I was like Potifer's (sp?) wife trying to seduce the righteous ones - even though I didn't know what I was doing...I just must be Satan's agent to lure Jehovah's elders into wrongdoing.
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  Whats the "rule" on shepherding calls?

  by ButtLight in

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  i dont remember that much, but arent they suppose to stop by at least once a year to df'd ones?

  or did that change?.

  its coming up to two years now since i was df'd, and not one elder has stopped by...........not that i want them to!.

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  I've been df'd since 2002. Not one person has stopped by since, not even to talk to my 6 kids. ( now 9, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19)

  Yup...the love!

  Rose
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  Name the favorite thing your pet does

  by looking_glass in

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  i have two cats.

  one is a fat female cat.

  i have one of those soaker tubs and when i soak in it, she will sit on the back ledge and bury her head in my hair and just purr up a storm.

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  Our budgie bird has to be my favourite...it mimmicks the sound of the burglar alarm, sneezes, laughs, wolf-whistles, etc. But the thing that cracks me up the most is it does such a great mimmick of the guinea pig I have a hard time figuring out which is actually making the sound...the bird or the pig!

  Rose
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  Starting my story...very long

  by Synergy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  [the watchtower, july 15, 1961 issue, page 420: .

  [the watchtower, july 1, 1963 issue, page 413: .

  [the watchtower, july 15, 1974 issue, page 442: .

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  bttt....

  ...for a long, but very profound and well-written story.

  Can't wait for the next part!