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PoppyR
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Take the Quiz - Which Star Trek Character Are You?
by Alleymom inmy family's been having a lot of fun with this!
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http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/startrek.
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Judicial Committee Preparation
by Marvin Shilmer injudicial committee preparation.
recently a friend inquired about how to best prepare for a judicial committee hearing from the prospective of the subject individual.
at a minimum i recommend the following:.
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PoppyR
Apparently some here believe these individuals should just role over and play dead
I think what is not recognised is many people attend a JC because they want to try and maintain contact with their family, I am certainly in that situation and if called to a JC would lie, cry and roll over so as not to be dF'd as I dont have a single family member who is not a JW, and despite their misguideness I really want to hang on to them. Apart from them I have maybe 3 people I can count on, it's a scary place to be.
Now if I WAS DFed I have already decided I could not attend a meeting and be reinstated, so that would be that, and a certain level of freedom could be attained (ie I could put up christmas lights!!)
I admire the person who would go into a JC and do what you have recommended, but think its very unrealistic to imagine that it would not get you DFd in an instant. I think the cases are very few and far between, where they would back off if you threaten legal action, after all, the only announcement made is you are 'no longer one of Jehovahs witnesses'.
Someone mentioned the UK.. believe me, the police wouldn't be interested here in your civil liberties!!
Poppy
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It just seems that Witnesses are less active these days.
by free2beme ini remember being a teenager and being at friends home on saturdays, and every time you turn around there was a witness knocking at the door.
my non-witness friends would be nice, and say no, as they did not want to insult me.
even though, as a teenager, i was not a witnesses (baptized) and did not make a public show of my connection to people outside of the congregation.
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When I was a teenager (cough cough years ago) there were about 10 pioneers in our Cong. And we regularly used to bump into another pair working the street or whatever, and would always see couples when driving around. Now I very rarely see them. In my experience (I've been out a year) when they did used to go on the ministry it was literally half an hour and everyone was off 'on calls'.
Interestingly my friend had someone call on her with a tract and she told me they weren't witnesses, they just handed her a leaflet..lol.
Poppy
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There is no such thing as Agnosticism. Agnostics do not exist!
by nicolaou inmany here seem to believe that the position of agnosticism is somehow more reasonable than theism or atheism.
nonsense!
it is a misconception to believe that belief or non-belief in the existence of god/s are the two extremes which glare at each other over the fence of agnosticism.
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I disagree, without getting into the pedantics of the EXACT meaning of the word.
To the average person an Atheist has definite ideas that god does not exist. An agnostic is not convinced either way.
These are two seperate camps. I am definitely unsure as to the existence of God, I now feel there is not enough evidence either way to sway me, but I am open to a change in viewpoint, especially considering how far my viewpoint has changed this past year!
However I would not consider myself an atheist and dont see the point in someone else insisting I do so just to make up more numbers in their camp. Neither do I consider myself a fence sitter, they are my beliefs. And as someone who has been told what to believe my whole life, I wont put up with that any longer.
Poppy
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Who is your Best Friend?And why?
by megsmomma ini ask this because i have a hard time making and keeping friends since i have left.
my husband is my best friend now....but he is my only friend.
i do have some wemon friends, but i don't like to get too close.
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When I first left I freted about all of the friends I lost
I can relate to this, I found it hard coming from a large, loving family and always having loads of friends.
I have two very close girl friends who I could not choose between, I love them both for totally different reasons. They have been there for me through thick and thin, without really 'getting' what leaving the org is all about. Last year they did my '1st' birthday celebration and made such a big deal out of it. I thank my stars every day that I have them. Every day they make me laugh. Just yesterday I went on a course with one of them, and she made a comment that had us both giggling like fools for about half an hour. To anyone else it wouldn't even have seemed funny!
Sometimes I worry about not having enough friends, which I know is ridiculous because I make them easily and dont really have enough time to look after the ones I have! But it's a hard habit to shake.
Not sure about the husband/wife best friend thing, I experienced that, and we ended up like siblings. I miss his friendship, but we both needed a 'normal' relationship.
Poppy
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-29-06 WT Study (REJOICE WIFE)
by blondie inwww.reexamine.org (wt publications online).
http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm (united nations issue).
with her love may you be in an ecstasy constantly.".
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Just want to say that every week I read these posts and enjoy knowing what is being studied and really appreciate the work involved. This week my mother rang me straight after the meeting to tell me about the WT and how 'brilliant' it was. She wanted to bring me over a copy.
It felt so good to say I'd seen the article and just point out one or two things that I was not happy about. Took the wind right out of her sails! Probably she thinks I'm secretly studying but I can live with that!
But what a load of bull this week. Worse than usual. I'm just grateful I only have to imagine the pictures
Poppy
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The Loved Up Thread [Fluff]
by diamondblue1974 init might have escaped your notice but sirona and i are totally in love and seem to have a mutual appreciation society thing going on; however this has not taken place without causing some online problems as some of you might be aware.. both dawn (sirona) and i are conscious that we have hijacked a number of threads given our perpetual state of being loved up.
given the untold frustration we might have caused to some posters we have decided to launch our very own jwd loved up thread.. this hopefully should allow threads to go on being productive without the frustration of people (us) whispering online sweet nothings and flirting and we therefore invite you all to use this thread if you are loved up, have similar mutual appreciation societies or simply wish to flirt with other online posters.
you can even use this thread to dedicate a post to someone who isnt online and who just lightens your life and makes you smile.. please join us and reassure us that we are not the only loved up people on jwd.. .
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I guess its time for me to tell everyone im in love with Crumpy!
You are so fickle KK. Last week you were being tempted alternately by me and my other half (still not quite sure which side of that fence you fall!) Now Crumpet has tempted you back. Harrumph.
But congrats to You two loved up ones, You certainly looked it at the apostacurry, difficult to get a knife wedged between the two of you! I'm really glad you have found each other, and also are not afraid to say how you feel!
Poppy xxxxx
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Sex with your divorced mate scripturally wrong?
by Fatfreek inlets say youre a jw married couple, get a divorce (unscriptural divorce, that is, so in jehovahs eyes you are still married), then both of you change your minds.
well, not completely.
you both realize the sex was great but your other needs and wants have changed in opposite directions.
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I dont particularly care if it's scripturally wrong... although if you are not scripturally divorced you are still married surely? Thats according to my mother anyway!
But it is WRONG!!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww There was a reason you divorced them!
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I'm a little confused about this forum
by gordon d ini know that i'm new here...and maybe this topic has already been covered.
i keep reading posts from members that make referrence to going to a meeting or going out in service..... holy crap?!?!?
what percentage of the people here still actually consider themselves as witnesses?????
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Each to their own. Personally as soon as I found out the truth about the 'troof' I could no longer go out in service. And that is not judging those that do. That day I started my 'fade' and stopped like an engine running out of petrol! Stuttering to a halt.
It's a horrible place to be, I sometimes long for the freedom of being DAd, but on the other hand I know that would close off completely my avenue to my family, and not just me to them, because I could live with that (they already treat me a lot differently) But it would close off any chance of them contacting me if they were having doubts of their own.
I now feel total distaste for anything to do with the org, my mum often passes on a magazine or something and I just dont want to touch it anymore, I dont know what I'd do if I had to sit through meetings! I feel sorry for them, but totally understand their position.
poppy
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HEY LOOK AT ME, ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
by theinfamousone inone year on tihs wonderful site.. hiatus or not, its been a year.... .
--the infamous one.
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Hey ME too!!! Now I have a claim to fame! I share an anniversary with the infamous one!
Seems like I've come a long way in a year. So Happy birthday to us!
Poppy xx