Give them a month and they will have another account under an AKA name or just more private settings .
troubled mind
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The JW 2011 Facebook exodus begins...
by baltar447 inwell, i'm starting to see some jws on facebook since attending the dc that are closing their accounts.
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anyone else seeing this?.
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Buried my father today
by littlerockguy ini mostly post fluff and music posts on this thread more often now but just thought i would let some people here who still know me about what has been goin on with me recently.
my dad about a 7 month battle with lung cancer which metastasized to the bones and he died early wed morning.
my dad was a fascinating man, complex, sometimes open and sometimes a very aloof and detached person.
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troubled mind
So very sorry for your loss (((( littlerockguy)))) . What a wonderful thing it was for you to see another side to your Father . Thank you for sharing his story .
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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troubled mind
Rammstein
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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Oh yeah Godsmack
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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I love this song ......raaaaaaahhhhaaaaaahhhaaa
Is it bad that a 50 yr old Mommy of three loves this music ??? it makes me happy
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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This one really helped me when I left too
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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Three days Grace helped me get through the first year of leaving the Witnesses
I felt like this was my anthem
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HEAVY ROCK LOVERS - Unite Here
by sizemik ini'm a sucker for heavy rock .
so long as it's good .
always have been since early 70's.. thought i'd start an entertainment thread so post your fav heavy rockers here.
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troubled mind
Love ,TOOL http://youtu.be/UUXBCdt5IPg best driving music ever
Disturbed is another favorite ,
as is Three Days grace
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Got Shunned By Doomsday Brigade Sitting in Front of the Grocery Store
by foolsparadise intoday i went to my local grocery store and there were three doomsday brigade jw cult members that have watched me grow up from a teenager.
i walked right up to them and said hi...not once but three times.
they looked right through me as if i was invisible.
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I noticed the Witnesses put up a table at our local Wal-mart last summer ,and i have been thinking of asking the manager about putting up a cult awareness table too ! Let me know if you go through with it ....
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Did you ever shun someone close? How did you feel?
by jean-luc picard inhow does a jw feel when he "has" to shun someone he likes/loves?.
during the time i was in, i shunned people.
but as i didn't like them, it was no problem.. but now, i'm trying to understand how my family might really feel.. (i presume here, of course, that they do "like/love me".).
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Yes ,and it always made me feel horrible inside . I constantly battled with my own conscience telling me love of family should come first ,and Watchtower counsel saying if we really loved our Df'd loved one we should shun them .
I missed my brothers wedding because the 1980's (86-89) KM had just come out with the strong wording about shunning a family member that no longer lives in the home . I went back and forth speaking at least a little to him whenever we crossed paths ,but never intentionally planning association .We missed watching each others kids growing up . We had some contact over those years ,but not enough to build a strong familiar bond that families should have .
He was DA'd in the 1970's ......over the yrs it dawned on me the disfellowshipping policy made no sense in his case . It was meant to keep the congregation clean and to make the person feel sorry for the lost association so they would want to return . After 30 yrs the fact was my brother was a good kind person that just didn't want to be a JW so the reasoning behind the DF policy fell flat .
In 2000 my oldest son was graduating High School and i wanted my brothers family there . I called and invited them to the ceremony and to a small family gathering at my home afterwards . I was so excited and they were too . They even suggested they would come out early and be at the house to host until we got home from the ceremony . The night before the event my other brother (a recent baptized JW after yrs of being out ) called and said I had to uninvite my DA'd brother or else all the JW family and friends would have to be notified of his presence and would most likely not attend . He berated me and made me feel horrible .....he used the Watchtower magazine advice against me . I called my older brother in tears and explained the situation ,he calmly said don't worry about it ...I won't come .He was more worried that this would distract attention away from my son and it was better to just not attend .....
This event was the first major wake up call for me that I was brainwashed ......afterwards I knew I had made a huge mistake . With in a couple of months after this I made a final decision that never again would i allow anyone to tell me shun anyone again . I went to my older brother and apologized profusely over what I had done to him . I promised never to allow this to happen again . He forgave me and has given me another chance . We now are involved in each others lives along with each others children . My other brother attend a few 'all' family included gatherings ,but now that i quit attending meetings he has cut off all communication . So I gained one brother and lost the other .
I am sure your family feels the utter dispair shunning you causes their hearts to go through . Hopefully they will be smarted than I and not wait to long to wake up to the sheer nonsense of cutting off a loved one .