You are welcome billz, you've helped us as well
fullofdoubtnow
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What a change! My journey
by Billzfan23 inmy first post was just over 6 months ago - and what a ride it has been.
just want to give a shout out and a big thanks to everyone on the board that has had my back and my best interests in mind over the past few months.
wouldn't have my current balanced perpective on things - and i certainly wouldn't have the peace of mind that i do now without you all!.
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Not been here for a while
by fullofdoubtnow inthis is the first time i've been on here in about a month, though trev has been posting some days, so i've been able to keep up with everyone's news.
thankyou all so much for the well wishes you keep sending me, they all mean so much.
apart from my other problems, i've had a really painful back injury for the last few weeks, which has made it impossible for me to sit comfortably at the pc.
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Stealth
bald women are sexy. Hope you can run faster than your hubby. hehe
He said that, but no I can't run faster than him lol.
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...what was your 1st expirence like inside of a church?
by A-Team inwere you still a jw, or did you just leave?
what did you expect from a church, was it like you thought, etc.
what happened afterwards, especially if you were still a jw.
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I went to a Baptist church last September, about a year after my last jw meeting. I was apprehensive about going, but went to support an ex jw friend of mine who wanted to go. It was fine, very friendly and a lot more joyful than attending the kh. I've been once more since, again having been asked by my friend, who was being baptised as a christian that day.
I wouldn't go regularly, but I'd go again if she asked me.
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2 years this week
by geevee inwell, this week marks two years since i stopped going to meetings!!
my last book study, i got up and walked out becasue i disagreed with the conductor about the whole pedophile, child rape thing.
not the societies policies that harm victims!
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Congrats!!!
My 2-year anniversary of not attending comes up in August, though I didn't da until November 2005. I think I'll celebrate both anniversaries
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Not been here for a while
by fullofdoubtnow inthis is the first time i've been on here in about a month, though trev has been posting some days, so i've been able to keep up with everyone's news.
thankyou all so much for the well wishes you keep sending me, they all mean so much.
apart from my other problems, i've had a really painful back injury for the last few weeks, which has made it impossible for me to sit comfortably at the pc.
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fullofdoubtnow
Hi everyone,
This is the first time I've been on here in about a month, though Trev has been posting some days, so I've been able to keep up with everyone's news. Thankyou all so much for the well wishes you keep sending me, they all mean so much.
Apart from my other problems, I've had a really painful back injury for the last few weeks, which has made it impossible for me to sit comfortably at the pc. I''ve really missed coming here, and it's great to be posting again for an hour or so. My back isn't completely better, but I can manage for a while anyway.
I'm feeling very tired, as always, and am completely bald now because of the chemotherapy. As for the chemo, I finished 8 weeks of treatment last week, and it has only been partially successful. The cancer has shrunk, but hasn't gone. I have an appointment with my doctor on June 7th to discuss where we go from here. I will post about how that goes once I've seen him, or Trev will if I'm not up to it. We'd hoped to have some kind of party this summer, and invite people from the board and other friends, but it's difficult to really plan anything just yet, so we'll have to leave it for now. We do hope to go on holiday in the UK sometime this summer, so hopefully we'll get to call on some of you then, but as yet we haven't made any definite arrangements.
Well, that's my news, it's really great to be able to deliver it in person.
love
Linda
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MOUTHY NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS AND/OR SUPPORT
by Mary inour dear mouthy is really having a tough time right now and needs our support and/or prayers.
as some of you may know, she's already lost 3 of her children in death and the other one to the borg.
in the last couple of days, she's had to worry about her 2 year old great-granddaughter being in the hospital with an illness and yesterday, her daughter had a suspicious mole removed from her back and was told there is a lump in her breast which has to be biopsied.
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((((((((((((((Grace))))))))))))))))))
We will be thinking of you
Linda & Trev
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Interesting comparison +, between watchtower and Jonestown, = watchtown.
I wasn't a jw when the Jonestown massacre happened, I joined about 3 years later, but I remember a public talk at our kh in the 1980's where a brother had the "cult of death" cover from Time magazine, and said that armageddon might well be Jonestown on a world wide scale, with all the dead bodies lying around.
Of course, he said the watchtower in no way imitated Jonestown, and I believed him at the time, but now I'm not so sure:
JWs don't live communally........................................................so how about bethel homes?
JWs will never be asked to commit mass suicide........................no blood policy?
Peoples Temple had a single leader with absolute power..............the gb have absolute power
Jim Jones changed his ideas......................................................new light doctrine?
Jones used threats and blackmail to stop people leaving...............watchtower shunning policy
Jim Jones made prophecies that didn't come true.........................1914,1915,1918,1925,1975
Jones was always demanding money from his followers................so is the watchtowerThere are probably more comparisons as well, they are just a few I thought of
Linda
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WHY?????
by jut1981 ini was bought up as a jehovahs witness in a divided home, my dad being baptized but not having gone to meetings etc for years.
my mum being driven on by the influence of my gran.
i was forced into baptism at 15!
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Hi jut, and welcome to the forum
I knew people in my kh who got away with many of the things you describe, and still do. I saw the po's daughter virtually eating her boyfriend, himself the son of an elder, in my local pub a few months ago, as well as drinking and smoking, and she is a regular pioneer, very well thought of in her kingdom hall.
It is so unfair that you have been punished for being honest, while others get away scot free despite breaking the rules and concealing the fact. As to why that happens, I really don't know.
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Someone making lifesized replica of Noah's Ark in Holland
by MadTiger ingo to the yahoo!
homepage.
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Well, everyone needs a hobby
In one leap this guy has taken believers in the Noachilan Flood from obscurity to ridicule, good job
Precisely!
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Nicotine Withdrawl - How long does it go on for?
by Clam inthe last couple of weeks haven't been too good.
my wife has given up smoking.
initially it was out of necessity as she had had her tonsils removed, but as she got used to doing without her cigarettes she felt as though she might as well give up altogether.
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Hi Clam,
It is very hard to quit smoking. I've tried a few times recently, and I've hardly been fit to live with for the usually short time I go without cigarettes.
I gave up when I was studying with the jws, and wanted to get baptised, in my 20's, and I was irritable for a few months afterward, though less so after the first 2 or 3 weeks. Once someone is addicted to nicotine, they are always addicted, as with other drugs. When i gave up to be a jw, I found that there are were some situations, usually moments of stress, when my brain told me that a cigarette would help me overcome, and I did have an occasional one over the years as a jw (my secret sin lol). I would think that your wife will go through the same thing, but the irritability will fade in time.
In the meantime, good luck to both of you - your wife on quitting successfully and you for getting through her irritable moments.
Linda