This is my second year of missing out on the passing of the crackers and grape juice and it didnt bother me in the least. Actually it didnt bother me a bit last year either. Once I finally came to grips with the fact that it was bunk, it really meant nothing to me.
justsomedude
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I Have Reached the Pinacle
by XJW4EVR ini saw all the hubbub you folks were making over the memorial, and for the first time in my life since leaving the j-dubs, i had no desire to even go.
as recently as last year, i gave thought to going, but usually did not.
this year it came and went and i never gave it a thought.
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justsomedude
It means I need to avoid phone calls from my folks for about a week, thats what it means to me.
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To all JW lurkers
by Junction-Guy inperhaps you have been reading this board for awhile, and you may believe some of the things we have been saying, however you are still gripped in fear of armageddon.. .
the wt society has been predicting armageddon for well over 100 years, and when the prophecies fail, they blame you and say "we never said that".
if i can impart any words of wisdom to you, it's just this:.
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justsomedude
Kind of going along with what's already been posted about lurkers ----
The day that I finally came to terms with leaving the borg is the day that I first hit the internet. I was struggling with that decision for a very long time and all the information here would have been a huge comfort and probably made my decision a whole lot easier. Unfortunately the mind control was just that strong that I never hit any apostate sites before and honestly.... I felt like I was commiting a crime by doing it when I finally did.
The funny part about it is I've been working in technology - specifically web technology - for over 12 years. It used to make me crazy when I'd go to an assembly and these fools would be giving talks on the dangers of the internet, to people who didnt even clearly understand what it was. I knew they were just building an irrational fear of something because they didnt really understand it themselves. I'd be embarrased for them, because to me it sounded like they were just being paranoid and foolish......... and yet...
Despite all of the above, there was still enough mind control in place to keep me from seeking out a place like this.
A big WELCOME to L&C and Mr C, I hope you enjoy this site as much as I do.
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Who wants to see this year's DC invitation?
by sir82 inif someone is willing to host them, send me your e-mail address in a pm.
i will send you 4 scanned jpg files, of the invitation & boe letters associated with it.. .
teaser: there are some brand-new, unprecedented features to this year's dc!.
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justsomedude
An "audio drama"? Like an old radio series? I can see that the society is keeping up with 1920's technology.
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Funny Memories at the KH!
by whyamihere ini really went out with a bang........lol.
it was a thursday night meeting and i was extremely bored - planning to escape.
while the second song was playing, i quickly grabbed my things and headed for the door.
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justsomedude
I've got some good ones, but I know that Ill blow my cover if I go throwing them all out there so here's just one.
There was a rather senile brother who still loved to comment, regardless of the subject matter. I dont think that anyone really wanted to crush his excitment for coming to the meetings and because of this we got treated to some great stories from years gone by.
"In WW2 I was sitting on a bench next to a ditch, going to the bathroom, and this little kid walked up to me and said.... "Hey Joe, do you want to buy some beads?""
He then finished it up with his signature tag line (which I would love to add here) which he added to all of his goofy comments and then the meeting went on. This was pretty much the practice for years.
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Abusive UK Foster Mother Caught--says she is JW
by blondie inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6449027.stm.
two decades of abuse went unseen the foster children of eunice spry face a lifetime of counselling, after suffering years of physical, mental and sexual abuse at her hands.
the abuse was not spotted by health professionals over a period of 20 years.
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justsomedude
Spare the craft knife, spoil the child.
I wonder how much the congregation knew?
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I left the JWs and all I got was ..........
by Satans little helper ina life, a career, a woman that can think for herself and real friends .
what did you gain?
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justsomedude
- Control of my life.
- An outlook that maybe the rest of the world wasnt all crap
- freedom from guilt over things I didnt really need to worry about
- Two more nights a week that I can go out and do something useful
and so on
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Tell us a weird fact about yourself
by ninja ini will start....i can speak conversational albanian....thanks to the foreign language field...really useful in everyday life as a cleaner....sniff...why didnt i pick mandarin?
..would be useful when they take over the world....but one day i will find an albanian to talk to ...that or a needle in a haystack....the emmerdalian world of jw's
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justsomedude
I can set an alarm clock in my head before sleeping, so that I can wake up at a certain time.
I generally wake up just a minute or so before my alarm clock actually goes off. If it set it for 5:45, Ill wake up at 5:44. Odd..
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WTS still an NGO in US?
by ICBehindtheCurtain inhi all: i came across something very interesting, in looking at this pdf there is a list of ngo's that attended for some conference on anti-semitism and guess who is on there?
if you scroll down you will find that in belgium the wts (under their european christian jehovah's witness umbrella) but if you scroll down to the us section you will find that they show up as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, so apparently as of 2005 when this conference was held, they were still an ngo, does anyone else know about this?.
http://osce.usmission.gov/cordoba/cordoba_ngos.pdf.
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justsomedude
I could swear this has been up here before, but I dont remember all the details.
I wonder if there is an official wts explanation for it yet.
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Fight of a Lifetime - xJW - NBC Sports
by Gayle in.
http://www.nbcsports.com:80/ufc/1170834/detail.html.
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justsomedude
I found a new favorite fighter.