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  Simon & Garfunkel...

  by Frog in

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  mainly cause i've nothing much else to do, and cause i love it so much that i fell asleep to it on repeat last night, that i wanted so share the lyrics of my fave s&g tunesimon and garfunkel lyrics: flowers never bend with the rainfall .

  through the corridors of sleep .

  past the shadows dark and deep .

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  atypical

  I think Simon and Garfunkel pretty much top the list in my book, both musically and lyrically. What an amazing, one of a kind duo. On top of that, Paul Simon is also unbelievably good on his own. I could quote them all day long. One that comes to mind lately is "Blessed". Anyone know that one? One of the best lines in that song is "church service makes me nervous"

  How about Fakin' It ?

  Such a dubious soul

  And a walk in the garden

  Wears me down

  Tangled in the fallen vines

  Picking up the punch lines

  I've just been fakin' it

  Not really makin' it

  Is there any danger?

  No, no, not really

  Just lean on me
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  Have you ever just wanted to pick up and leave?

  by destroyedbyhate in

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  has anyone ever wanted to do that?

  to just leave and tell no one where you are going.

  start over fresh in a new place where nobody judges you based on your past.

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  I am definitely considering moving and starting over somewhere else. I live in the same area where I was born and I can't even go to the store without seeing several people from the congregation. Makes trying to fade extremely difficult. Been working on finding a place my wife would like to live and then selling the house and going. It's hard to have so much history with so many people and then try to make a dramatic change (not attending meetings or going in service) without starting a crapstorm of problems.
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  admiring zealousness

  by carla in

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  do any of you get annoyed when nonjw's say they admire the jw zealousness?

  they agree it's all crap but still admire the zealousness!

  would they feel the same if it was a pure satanic cult knocking on their doors?

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  Another reason I have heard witnesses do this is because they equate a "misquided" zealous person with the apostle Paul. You know, he persecuted christians very zealously, then he saw the light and became a christian himself, then applied that same zeal to christian living. So, since witnesses view everyone as another potential witness, they love to say that they admire zealousness because they imagine they could bring that person into the org and have a real firestarter.
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  How Did You Feel When You Were Passed Up For A "Privilege"?

  by minimus in

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  the watchtower thrives on the pecking order.

  who's in line next to "be used"?

  who can we allow to "handle the microphones and mow the lawn"?

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  atypical

  It made me feel like the kid in high school who wasn't cool enough and so everybody excludes him, making him feel embarrassed. (I wasn't that kid in high school, I promise!) It's like the football players vs. the one computer geek in the corner. The geek is probably the cooler one, it's just the fact that he's different from the group, so the others use that fact against him.
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  Add an Awake caption here!

  by doodle-v in

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  here is the original one:.

  here is a blank one for you to add a caption to:.

  have fun!

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  atypical

  Well, better late than never....
  
  
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  I may have sealed my fate.....

  by atypical in

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  well, i have been trying to fade peacefully for months, for the sake of my wife and family.

  to do this, i have had to hold my tongue about most of what i know, and i have done a good job of it until now.

  the other day, i was hanging out with my buddy who misses most meetings, but still believes it's the truth.

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  atypical

  My wife, who is hardcore jw, just laughed when I told her the basic story. She said, 'do you really think he wants to tell the elders you guys were drinking too much and speaking against the truth?' She also said, 'Do you think he said anything he doesn't want you to repeat?'

  I had to admit that was true. The part she doesn't understand is the extent of what I said that could be considered "apostate". But, my friend did tell me some other personal stuff I'm sure he wouldn't want me to repeat, so that may keep him from talking. I think probably if nothing else, he will tell other witnesses in private that I have "apostate" views and that will eventually get around.

  Well, I will give updates if there are any.
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  I may have sealed my fate.....

  by atypical in

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  well, i have been trying to fade peacefully for months, for the sake of my wife and family.

  to do this, i have had to hold my tongue about most of what i know, and i have done a good job of it until now.

  the other day, i was hanging out with my buddy who misses most meetings, but still believes it's the truth.

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  That's funny, because I have sort of taken the same tack with my family. My mother really tried to get into a discussion with me, and I told her that if she could just give me some kind of reason to believe that the watchtower is god's chosen organization, it would help me to deal with my doubts and make me want to be active again. She tried valiantly; used the increase in numbers (what increase, I know), to which I mentioned tobacco companies with their huge success; she used the ministry thing, I pointed out the entire branch of Christianity called "Evangelical", and so on. After that, she dropped it and never brought the subject up again, and in fact has not even acted as though we had that conversation.
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  If you could ask

  by carla in

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  if you could ask one question of brooklyn, what would it be?

  (pretend they are on the receiving end of a jc)

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  atypical

  Ok, I officially feel stupid now. I'm not as used to my fake name as I should be. I wish I was braver and had my real name posted.

  But you are right, they are a business, a machine producing policies. It's funny, but that's kind of what started my whole process of doubting, then questioning, then researching. It was the fact that I felt the reason I didn't fit in and felt miserable all the time was because the society was a machine with a business policy that I did not fit into. I was not "profitable", therefore I did not matter. I kept thinking about what I learned in real estate school about having a business model and sticking to it. I started seeing the org as a corporation with a very specific business model. It really fits if you think about it; they have the business model, they have systems, they have verbiage, they have an answer for every objection that may come up(I didn't say a good or truthful answer), they are following every step that you might read about in some business guide. At least, that's how it seems to me.
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  Who Gives a Shyte if Russell was a Freemason or not?

  by LittleToe in

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  a poll, inspired by gumby.... one vote here for not giving a shyte..

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  atypical

  Gumby - You are totally right, dammitt!!
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  If you could ask

  by carla in

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  if you could ask one question of brooklyn, what would it be?

  (pretend they are on the receiving end of a jc)

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  atypical

  I'm sorry, I don't know what that means - "AT" ?