ChrisVance

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  Give A Sample Of What a Watchtower Magazine Will Say 10 Years From Now

  by minimus in

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  any thoughts??

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  ChrisVance

  Thanks everybody for you insightful postings. I laughed out loud several time. Youall made my day.
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  Did You Attend Meetings When You Were Away On Holiday?

  by Englishman in

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  my parents did.

  as a youth, i would accompany my parents to wherever they decided to holiday that year.

  number 1 priority was to find the local kingdom hall!

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  ChrisVance

  Sometimes I did, but not always. If we were visisting a country that had a branch office I always tried to visit it. My x-wife hated that. She said they were all the same. As far as I know she's not a dub anymore either.
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  Yesterday was my B-day, feeling sorry for myself

  by bittersweet in

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  ok, so i'm feeling a little sorry for myself.

  pity party happening here.. so yesterday was my birthday, and until i went to work at 4 pm, not a single birthday wish came my way ( actually, i did get a couple birthday wishes from web sites i had joined, lol ).

  most of my family is jw.

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  ChrisVance

  Happy birthday.
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  I'll Pray for you. What's your feelings when someone says that to you?

  by El Kabong in

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  for those of us who left organized religion, how does it make you feel when a xtian says they will pray for you because you don't believe the same as they do?

  personally, in my opinion, that is a very obnoxious statement, especially if i don't ask or want someone to pray for me.

  to me, that's saying that i am wrong and they are right, and they are praying to god that i will see things their way.

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  ChrisVance

  I would like to say: "Please, don't," but I usually say: "Thank-you."

  Such a waste of effort for the prayer: "Use you mind and you will find, that nothing fails like prayer."
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  to stinkypantz

  by ChrisVance in

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  i am argumentative yes, but not only for atheism.

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  i have adamently defend gays: .

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  ChrisVance

  razorblade, your OK, too!
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  to stinkypantz

  by ChrisVance in

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  i am argumentative yes, but not only for atheism.

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  i have adamently defend gays: .

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  ChrisVance

  I am argumentative yes, but not only for atheism.

  I have adamently defend gays:

  You're OK!
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  Quit School / Encouraged not to go to college/ unit

  by shamus in

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  how many of you quit school b/c of the religion?

  another question - how many of you did not go on to college / uni b/c of the religion?.

  do you regret it?.

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  ChrisVance

  i graduated from high in 1968, in the heat of the 1975 hysteria. Even though I wanted to go to college it never occured to me to seriously consider it. I had been so brainwashed. The school superindentant offered to help me get a scholarship but I turned him down. I did OK as a computer programmer as I was lucky enough to be able to learn it on the job. I never would have chosen that field if I had been in a normal family and gone to college. I was always angry even when still a witness that I wasn't allowed to follow my dreams.

  At the age of 53 I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Spanish and I'm now in graduate shcool. Even though I'm doing it now I'm still bitter I didn't do it while young.
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  I don't believe in "GOD", and a song that to me is VERY moving to me......

  by Jesika in

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  a song by alice in chains...............god am........if anyone can post a link to the music.......you will get the entire feeling from this song..........i love it!!!!!!!!!!!

  dear god, how have you been, then?.

  i'm not fine, fuck pretending.

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  ChrisVance

  Big Tex, I appreciate what you said very much. I do have a tendency to overact and I'm verry sorry. If it's OK I'll send you an e-mail, telling you a little more about myself. The best, chris
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  Did Christ start a cult?

  by petespal2002 in

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  interesting thought.

  if we say that jw's, mormons, etc.

  are 'cults' because they are not affilated with any 'mainstream' religious organisation, and that their founder is a man who becomes a sort of figurehead, could not the same be said of the organisation founded by christ?

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  ChrisVance

  IMHO, yes.
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  I don't believe in "GOD", and a song that to me is VERY moving to me......

  by Jesika in

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  a song by alice in chains...............god am........if anyone can post a link to the music.......you will get the entire feeling from this song..........i love it!!!!!!!!!!!

  dear god, how have you been, then?.

  i'm not fine, fuck pretending.

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  ChrisVance

  So Lord, I see you grinnin'
  Must be grand always winning
  How proud are you being able
  To gather faith from fable

  As another song written by Dan Barker puts it:

  "Never apologize, never explain"