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  Impending Divorce

  by love2Bworldly in

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  will someone please tell me things will get better for me.

  i know i'm going to end up filing for a divorce in the near future, and i've already moved out.

  but i feel terribly guilty, as i was not really in love when i married my spouse 3 years ago--and he is ending up to be such a mess for me financially and emotionally.

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  I agree with the above poster.
  
  Things will definitely get better. It may take time or things may turn out better quicker than you expected.
  
  I was sad for my kids during my divorce but my relationship with my children is stronger now than ever. I wish you luck and support. If you are sure you are doing the right thing, and by the sound of it you are, then things will work out for you in the long run.
  
  All the best.
  SAB
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  Why has Scotland got no Assembly Hall?

  by slimboyfat in

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  is it 'cos we is black?

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  slim.

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  Obviously the society doesn't work the way this government does, i.e taking lots of money from the South of England and redistributing it to so called 'less well off' areas, or is it that the WTBS can't find any tartan curtains to put up at the wee Scottish Assembly Hall?
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  Question for JW believers...or whoever wants to answer

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  i often wondered this myself a lot growing up, and i must know.... if there was no paradise hope, no promise of living forever or having your dead loved ones resurrected....would you still serve your god and follow the organization?

  would you have ever began studying with the witnesses for that matter or stayed in the ''truth'' if you were raised in it?.

  because isn't that the golden ticket that jw's wave in front of their studies or interested ones?

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  I remember my mum and dad telling me that we should serve Jehovah not for the reward of everlasting life, but because we love Him and everything he has done for us.
  
  That was quite hard to fathom out.
  
  When I was growing up I always was thinking if I left now how many years of freedom would I have before the big A struck.
  
  Soon I started thinking that I wouldn't want to live in paradise with all the Witton losers anyway - just take a look around you at the conventions, would you really want these people as the only ones on earth?
  
  When I left I soon realised that it all was a load of crap and my big mistake in life was not leaving earlier.
  
  Woofer - I liked your answer and I thought your bio was very thought provoking and interesting. I'm so glad that like me, you are happy now.
  
  Regards
  Ian
  SAB
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  HAPPY BIRTDAY TO LADY LIBERTY AND TO ME...IT'S MY B-DAY TOO!

  by lv4fer in

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  yup, another year gone by!

  it has been a good one though!!

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  south african beef

  Happy Birthday to you both.
  
  I will be celebrating my 4th birthday next month - I will be 45!!
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  I'm new and nervous!

  by kitten whiskers in

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  i am new here and have been "lurking" for several months.

  the discussions have helped me tremendously to break free from the society.

  i want to thank you all for your help and heartfelt posts.

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  Welcome kitten whiskers.
  
  I thought your opening comments were very very well written and full of meaning. There is no reason to feel nervous though I understand why you might.
  
  I even felt a bit guilty for just looking at this site but now I visit regularly and am going to meet many others from this site when we meet in Manchester in October for a curry!
  
  You will feel a lot more confident as time goes on and no one will criticise you either. This forum has certainly helped me and I look forward to learning more about you.
  
  Regards
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  Post Your Strange/Interesting Animal Anecdotes

  by Stephanus in

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  a mate of mine used to live in penshurst, and i had to pass the corner pet shop to get to his place.

  more often than not, a small black and white cat was sitting just out of the doorway in front of the shop.

  he was sitting patiently, with that dreamy, half-asleep expression cats sometimes get, looking up at the cages full of birds fluttering around!.

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  When I was apyoung lad (many years ago!) my parents were farmers tennants living in a cottage in rural Kent. We had a dog (half sheep dog half something else), two guinea pigs and a cat. One day the farmer told my mum that one of his sheep had given birth to three lambs and as they only bring two up would we like to rear the lamb?
  
  So we brought up a little black wooly lamb.
  
  However, it grew little horns, it started butting the dog out of the way and sleep in its kennel at night whilst the poor dog had to sleep outside, it ate the dogs food and more surprisingly made a terrible racket when we took the dog for a walk.
  
  So we had to take the lamb for a walk whenever we took the dog out!!!
  
  Eventually we reintroduced the lamb to the flock and every so often my mum would find out which field the lamb (now a full grown sheep) was in and we used to walk over to that particular field. When we reached the gate we would hold up dog bicsuits and call out to 'our' sheep and it would notice us and come charging over to the gate, put its front legs up on the gate and scoff the biscuits whilst all the other sheep would stop eating and wonder what was going on!!!
  
  This story is genuine - I am not on any medication!
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  Hi!

  by sarahbear76 in

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  so i just registered and i thought i should say something about myself instead of just lurking about.

  i'm 21 years old and i left the the jw's when i was 18. i was born into the religion so it's been really hard getting use to things.

  my story is pretty complicated and for some safety reasons i can't say to much.

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  quite an amazing story you have Sarahbear. Glad you are able to tell at least some of it - it helps to share things with others doesn't it?
  
  You will find many sympathetic 'ears' here.
  
  Welcome to the forum and good luck!
  
  Ian
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  Would you feel safe traveling to the Middle East as a tourist?

  by free2beme in

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  one of my dreams is to one day making to cairo egypt and see the great pyramids.

  i want to see a lot of things in that area, as well as other parts of israel, and the middle east region.

  i have been into history, for as long as i can remember.

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  I've just got up (well it is sunday) and I see there is this thread on travelling to the Middle East, and that my wife Bubble has beaten me to it and replied already.
  
  I'll just add that not only did we feel completely safe in Cairo, we also did not worry about being robbed - considering the abject poverty most there live in, street crime is far far lower than in any major European (or American) city.
  
  The Muslims who live in Egypt do not get agitated at any little thing and in fact they live alongside millions of christians in Cairo.
  
  I worked in London during the time the IRA were trying to bomb England and London in particular - it didn't stop me going to work. If it had, then the terrorist has won and I was determined that the IRA would never win.
  
  You must go to Cairo - the pyramids are an absolutely awe inspiring sight. You will be left wondering 'how on earth did they build these?'. You also will be glad that you have seen the only remaining wonder of the 'seven wonders of the world.
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  YOU MUST WATCH THIS TONIGHT IF YOU CAN!!!

  by Gill in

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  the doomsday code.

  this is on in the uk tonight on channel four at 7 pm.. this is the write up on it in the radio times:.

  'st john's apocalyptic vision of the end of the world in the book of revelation is one of the bible's best known passages, inspiring morbid fascination in many cultures.

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  I thought the program was very very interesting.
  
  I know a couple of born again christians whose views seem a bit extreme. Some of it seemed a bit similar to the Witto's but overall I thought what they were saying seemed to fit in with bible phrophecy much better then anything the JW's say.
  
  The Wittos are so vague about the king of the north, flip flopping on the wild beast/UN etc.
  
  It is very worrying that these 'End Timers" have so much say and power in the world.
  
  however, I personally don't subscribe to their views at all - oh there goes my chance of being caught up in the Rapture, the great tribulation must be coming for me!
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  Probably going to church tomorrow

  by fullofdoubtnow in

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  i may well be making my first visit to a place of worship since i da'd tomorrow.

  my friend marion wants to go, and i have agreed, a little reluctantly i must admit, to accompany her for support.

  the service we are planning to attend is at a baptist church near where we live, and is billed as a family service.

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  I personally have no desire to go to any church at all, but everyone to their own I suppose.
  
  Good luck, hope it goes well.