Posts by freedomlover

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HELP! I Can't Find The Resolutions!!!

by Sunspot in

i just spent the last hour looking through old threads trying to find the "resolutions" read at the last dc that someone so kindly listed here fairly recently!

i simply cannot find that thread!

annie

freedomlover

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/117549/1.ashx

here's the link....

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Conway? Florida area?

by freedomlover in

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howdy - .

i am wondering if anybody knew this family in the st. petersburg fl area.

i was really close with two of the kids and i recently found a letter from one of them and i wonder what's up with them.

Conway? Florida area?

by freedomlover in

jw
friends

howdy - .

i am wondering if anybody knew this family in the st. petersburg fl area.

i was really close with two of the kids and i recently found a letter from one of them and i wonder what's up with them.

Conway? Florida area?

by freedomlover in

jw
friends

howdy - .

i am wondering if anybody knew this family in the st. petersburg fl area.

i was really close with two of the kids and i recently found a letter from one of them and i wonder what's up with them.

Howdy -

I am wondering if anybody knew this family in the St. Petersburg FL area. I was really close with two of the kids and I recently found a letter from one of them and I wonder what's up with them. I really think they are probably out of the witnesses. It would be kind of cool to know how they are and if they are out of the org.

thanks!

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Need Your Opinions.. To have dinner with inquiring minds or not??

by Lady Liberty in

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hello dear friends... well, many of you are aware of my on going daily saga.

my husband and i left the organization about a year and a half ago.

we have not been disfellowshipped, nor have we disassociated ourselves.

freedomlover

Hey LL -

I do think it is a setup. I've been shocked to disbelief at the extent these people will go to get info. to use against you.

If you and hubby don't really care what happens to you then I would say go to dinner and give them some things to think about. You never know - you may help them out also.

let us know what happens!

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-13-06 WT Study (YOUTHS CHOICE)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 08-13-06 wt study (july 1, 2006 issue date, pages 26-30 )(youths choice).

review comments will be in red.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

freedomlover

ugh.

this is so guilt ridden. I feel so bad for the young people who have to sit through this garbage.

I can't believe they actually lump witnesses in with atheists and roman catholics! basically they gave me permission to tell my meddling jw relatives that they have no business trying to "lure" my kids back to jw land! I'm saving this article and that paragraph in case I need it later....

thanks again blondie!

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The book of Genesis

by startingover in

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i was unsure where to post this.

i suppose it's safest here.. http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2006/08/ricky-gervais-live-book-of-genesis.html

freedomlover

great stuff!

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Who Pioneered?

by sass_my_frass in

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my two sisters did the right thing, pioneering straight out of school, janitoring to pay for the petrol (one didn't even bother with her final year of school).

it was this kind of fine example that got me guilt-tripped into auxiliary pioneering just after getting baptised at age 20. i only lasted six months; i took a holiday in queensland and returned not knowing much more about life but at least that it's bigger than my little congregation.

i despised the field service, i dreaded the daily schedule and every morning i was on my way out there was this awful countdown from the alarm going off to the first door opening, knowing that it's just a big setup to another depressing humiliation.

freedomlover

I did.

right out of High School.

I kind of liked it though because all of my friends were pioneering also. we would go out in service but then usually we would end up at the pool hall shooting pool, or the movies or something like that.

I felt pretty good pioneering because I finally got some approval from my parents, and the elders, and it made me feel valuable for the first time in my life. The schedule was brutal though and I burned myself out before I quit.

It's so nice to not have to do that anymore......

:)

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Nearly Lost my Son Yesterday

by XJW4EVR in

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i got a call from the ex, she was in tears, and said that our son was struck by car while riding his bike to work.

when i got to the er, he was lying there in the bed.

he was bruised & scratched.

freedomlover

this made me tear up thinking of my own children!

I am so sorry you had to go through this, but I'm so glad he's alright!

love to you and yours-

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I love my saturdays......

by freedomlover in

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i woke up this morning and made coffee and we are planning on eating a big breakfast and then doing a hike to a waterfall where we can play in the water and pick wild blueberries.

it got me thinking how wonderful it is to have my weekends to myself now.

when i was a dub i would skip out on service a lot but the whole day was ruined for me because i'd feel guilty for not going out in service.

freedomlover

I woke up this morning and made coffee and we are planning on eating a big breakfast and then doing a hike to a waterfall where we can play in the water and pick wild blueberries.

It got me thinking how WONDERFUL it is to have my weekends to myself now. When I was a dub I would skip out on service a lot but the whole day was ruined for me because I'd feel guilty for not going out in service. UGHHH! Now - I love having a fun weekend and letting the kids watch cartoons all morning on saturdays.

poor jws that are going out in "the field" today. maybe if they knock on my door today I'll have them in for coffee and breakfast and I'll show them how much better their saturdays could be......