Madame Quixote

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  Wife vented tonight!

  by 5thGeneration in

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  my babe (wife's approved nickname) finally vented today because it was her birthday, which we couldn't acknowledge, and she feels really emotional that she never had a chance at a real career, may have wasted her life, etc.... she may be coming around a bit but now this is really uncharted territory!.

  ironically i'm getting through to her but it's scaring the bajeebers out of me now!

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  Don't be afraid of it. Tell her it's okay and to let it out when she vents like that. She's probably so out of touch with those feelings herself, that is scares her, too! Cool!
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  Excuses Excuses

  by REBORNAGAIN in

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  what were your excuses for not going to the meetings?.

  ours were the usual ones, boredom, illness or weather, yepp even the tiny snow flurries were a good excuse to stay home.

  linda.

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  monthly misery, illness, homework - usually it did not work - but sometimes it did

  I wore them down. By the time I was 16, they quit pushing it; I stayed home and did the dishes and housework instead. I think they actually loved that. Unbelievably, so did I. I got to listen to American Top 40 every Sunday while my sibs had to sit thru sh!t meetings.
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  Apology for raising children in the Truth

  by jeanne40love in

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  would you apologize in writing to your children for raising them in the truth?

  i've apologized verbally........ none of them is going to meetings any longer...... my husband and i have been drifting away for several years..... .

  i was raised a witness, and thought we were doing the right thing.

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  One of my affirmations is,"I may not have created all of my problems, but I am still responsible for them."

  I guess that goes for mistakes, like a parent joining a cult, but that's my affirmation, not theirs. When I am responsible for a mistake that I recognize, I apologize for it and try to move on.

  If they actually believed they made any mistakes by bringing us up as Jehovah's Witnesses, an apology would go a long way to making peace, and I would certainly accept it.

  Unfortunately, people who still believe they are chosen by god usually don't apologize for their delusions.

  It would be impossible not to forgive the people I love for being deluded, but that doesn't mean I have to put up with being abused or neglected by them.
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  My first post

  by Dianna in

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  i was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me i decide to do it.

  i grew up in a jehovah witness house hold.

  it all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when i started to have my own opinion on things.

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  • Prozac has helped a lot off and on over the years.
  • So has psychiatric counseling,
  • Education;
  • Staying away from the stupid, rude and abusive people
  • Drinking and drug abuse have been useful at times, but not very helpful.

  Sometimes things are lovely in the real world and a lot of times they're not, but it's real, not a make-believe-daydream- blue pill scenario.
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  who havent we done a 'fave of' yet.. i know - ELTON JOHN

  by tijkmo in

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  fave song - someone saved my life tonight.

  fave album - madman across the water.

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  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (if that's the name of it)
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  LIGHT A CANDLE TODAY FOR LINDA & POST A PIC HERE

  by rebel8 in

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  is there something we can do for linda as a group?

  purplesofa sent a nice card from jwd.

  is there something else we can do to support her and trev right now?

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  LIGHT A CANDLE TODAY FOR LINDA & POST A PIC HERE

  by rebel8 in

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  is there something we can do for linda as a group?

  purplesofa sent a nice card from jwd.

  is there something else we can do to support her and trev right now?

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  (((Linda))) (((Trevor)))
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  Anyone tried to get your congregation records?

  by karter in

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  im curious as to what they say about me.. any one tried and succeeded?.

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  They keep records?

  Yeah, melart. Kinda' like the Nazis.
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  Thoughts on the Spirituality of Atheism

  by nvrgnbk in

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  thoughts on the spirituality of atheismc.

  george boeree.

  i am an atheist.

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  We aren't as alone as we think we are, each of us locked away in some soul-walnut.

  Truly true and funny!
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  The Most Insane Thing Ever Printed by the Watchtower?

  by Leolaia in

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  i found this while perusing through old golden ages at the new york public library.

  it is so patently ridiculous and offensive, i thought i'd just post the thing without comment.

  *** g27 11/30 pp.

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  Clayton Woodworth was the editor,

  Wow. The very tall, old, white-haired man who asked me my baptismal questions was a brother Woodworth. I wonder if that was him, or his son . . . what year? Let me go back.

  Thanks for the explain, Leo. Sorry to be so lazy. Now, I really must read this article!