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  lonely...

  by aoxo in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  hello, i am newly dissociated and was wondering how some of you who grew up in "the truth" have started relationships.

  i have never dated for obvious reasons and am now 26 with no experiance and extremely shy about this whole dating process.

  i have tried places of interest like gyms, workout classes and even eharmony with no prevail.

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  DAMNED CONSCIENCE:JW Hypocrites Who Take Blood Products

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the blood letters by r jensen made riveting reading.

  thank you to the posters who advised about the availability of these letters: a lone elders attempts to elicit some sense from the rigidly nonsensical watchtower's pick-and-choose blood transfusion doctrine.

  the guy was probably doomed from the start, but i so admire his persistence and courage!

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  Does your JW baptism still mean anything to you?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

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  all i know is that jesus said to get baptized.

  he didn't say in what religion though.. although i don't go to meetings anymore and don't plan on going anymore, i'm still glad that i was baptized.

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  not posting so much lately

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't been posting so much recently, but it's not because i've had enough of you all.

  actually it's for a good reason.. my firm enrolled me on a home study course in a field similar to my current career but slightly more advanced.. ironically, several weeks after me enrolling on the course, they announced my department is being outsourced to india and we are all to loose our jobs at the end of march.. strangely enough, i'm not too worried about that, it's happened to me 3 times before with the same firm and i always found something else.

  in fact, i might not even bother.

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  Hanging by a thread

  by IMustBreakAway in

  1. social
  2. family

  except that instead of feeling like a thread it feels like a giant knotted iron cable pulling at my heart.

  we are among the 5th generation of witnesses, my great grand mother went to rutherfords funeral, and being a witness has always been central in their lives.

  i went to bethel like my brother, and uncles before me and sat at the same sewing machine that my grandfather had sat at when he was there.

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  What Are Most JWs Disillusioned Over?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is their achille's heel?

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  What are your children doing on the internet?

  by TD in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  ---stories like this make my trigger finger twitch.

  boy's web cam opens portal to a grim worldby kurt eichenwald the new york times .

  monday, december 19, 2005. .

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  Watchtower History in Haiku

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower history in haiku , by leolaia .

  barbour and russell.

  what a team, they alone knew.

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  WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see everything falling apart.

  i have to suck it in; strike the right pose and choose the best angle to keep from grossing myself out.. what do you see?.

  i'm 58 years old; what do i expect to see?.

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  Living in a divided home

  by 24k in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let me start off by saying that i love my wife dearly.

  she is, and has always been my best friend.

  she is a devoted wife and a wonderful mother.

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