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  Best birthday present

  by greendawn in

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  what was the best birhday present you ever had?

  i know many here only began celebrating birthdays recently or perhaps haven't yet started due to the stupid jw ban on something that is in fact totally innocent and harmless.

  for me it was food.

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  It's hard to say really, I've had so many birthdays now (57 next Feb),
  but I guess my then fiance (later my first wife) getting tickets to see
  a Neil Young concert for my 25th birthday would be up there.
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  What Cars Do You Drive Now?

  by JK666 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after the thread about our first cars, i was wondering what everyone drives now.

  i know that roller has the apostatruck, but what does everybody else drive?.

  i personally have a pontiac grand prix for work, and a saab convertible for fun.. jk.

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  2007 Peugeot 207 5-door 1.6 hatchback
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  Value your XJW buddies....even the online ones.

  by avishai in

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  2. friends

  there's this guy i've been corresponding with for a couple years.

  i was finally supposed to meet up with him @ the burning man fest this year.

  our paths did'nt cross, though we tried to find each other.

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  I am sorry for your loss Avishai. Losing any friend is a blow.

  Friendship is one thing you can't put a value on, it's priceless.
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  MsMcDucket: Would you miss her if she wasn't here?

  by AuldSoul in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  msmcducket doesn't believe she'd be missed.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/143341/2578096/post.ashx#2578096.

  i believe that's a sign she's gone dotty.

  i also believe we can convince her she's wrong.. respectfully,.

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  Of course she'd be missed. We miss all those who leave,
  with the exception of jw apologist trolls, of course.

  Let's face it, we've all lost enough through being former
  jws. We don't want to lose each other as well.
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  Please join us in a toast to freedom!

  by dedpoet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted this thread last week.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/142937/1.ashx.

  about a friend of ours who had been informed by her elders that she .

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  dedpoet

  It's almost 11:30 am here Jeff, the morning after the night before
  for Julie. She was a bit tipsy last night, and just may have reached
  for the paracetamols this morning - we haven't heard from her yet.
  Her bf and herself are having a few days holiday, so they have plenty
  of recovery time
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  What was your first car?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mine was an old fiat 127, i bought it 1983 and it was at least fifteen years old then!

  the seats were vinyl and there were no rear seatbelts so i could send my girlfriend and her sister flying with each bend in the road!

  it wouldn't go above 55mph and was rattling like rollercoaster when it finally got there.. the rear window fell out and it finally croaked in puff of blue/black smoke.

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  Mine was a 1959 Morris Minor, which I bought in 1969,
  just after my 18th birthday
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  Please join us in a toast to freedom!

  by dedpoet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted this thread last week.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/142937/1.ashx.

  about a friend of ours who had been informed by her elders that she .

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  dedpoet

  Thanks everyone, we had a really good night, and we drank
  the toast at 7:55, and another one at 8:05, just to make sure!

  Julie was in a happy mood, although she may well have lost
  most of her family last night, apart from one sister who was
  df'd as a teenager and had the good sense never to go back
  to the watchtower. Her brother phoned her on her mobile to
  express his feelings about her "disgrace" as he called it, so
  she won't be seeing much of him from now on. No matter, the
  way Julie looks at it is that she may have lost him, but she's
  gained a lot more.

  We drank toasts to Randy Watters, Danny Haszard, Quotes,
  silentlambs, and all of you at JWD, who have all had a part in
  Julie breaking free of the watchtower. Julie wanted to play a
  special song for the occasion, and asked me to post a link to
  it. It's Chimes of Freedom, by Bob Dylan, which contains this
  line, kind of appropriate

  Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
  Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
  Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
  An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woTjNqOLzYA
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  Please join us in a toast to freedom!

  by dedpoet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted this thread last week.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/142937/1.ashx.

  about a friend of ours who had been informed by her elders that she .

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  dedpoet

  I posted this thread last week

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/142937/1.ashx

  about a friend of ours who had been informed by her elders that she
  has been disfellowshipped. Her announcement is tonight, at about
  8pm UK time, in an hour or so. Julie will be here when the
  announcement is made, and we will be raising a glass at the time,
  and probably another straight afterwards to make sure!

  Please feel free to join us as another one escapes the org and finds
  freedom. I know she will get a real kick out of knowing others are
  as pleased as we are about her release from the watchtower

  Cheers!
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  Well it's official: free2think is no longer part of the congregation

  by free2think in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as some of you may know i am fading.

  well my dad, an elder, has now said that i am no longer part of the congregation, woohoo.

  i am not da'd or df'd or reproved so my question is what does that mean?

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  dedpoet

  Maybe it's what your dad sees as a subtle way to get you to
  commit yourself either way. If you still have any feeling for the
  watchtower, you will go back, if not you will reveal this to him,
  and the boe will then be able to take what they consider the
  appropriate action, ie df'ing you.

  I very much doubt it's an off-the-cuff remark by him, there is
  likely to be a reason for it, and I'd be willing to bet that your
  name has come up at an elders meeting already, which could
  be why the elder you saw the other day was uncomfortable at
  being around you while his wife was friendly.
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  Well it's official: free2think is no longer part of the congregation

  by free2think in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as some of you may know i am fading.

  well my dad, an elder, has now said that i am no longer part of the congregation, woohoo.

  i am not da'd or df'd or reproved so my question is what does that mean?

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  dedpoet

  I guess if you've been away for a while, and show no sign of
  returning, the elders now consider you a bad associate, and
  may advise others to stop talking to you altogether.

  When I left in 1999, many in the hall stopped talking to me,
  though I didn't da until 2005, when with a couple of exceptions
  they all shunned me.

  Maybe they are a little scared of the fact that you seem to
  be managing your life very well without jah, and might be
  a threat to others spirituality. If that's the case, it's in their
  interests to keep others away from you.