Calliope

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  No help from the JW brotherhood?

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  during your time as jws were there times that you were in need for some help from the jw brotherhood but felt let down because no one cared to help you?

  did you feel resentful and began to suspect that this org is heartless and hypocritical?

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  Calliope

  okay, just a quick post (this is getting to be addictive) and then i must go walk the dog (god i wish i had a yard).

  but last year, my other half da-ed himself.

  i have since allowed myself to question things to the point of finding valid answers elsewhere than from the secret society, and as a result have not been to a meeting in 2 months or so.

  1 year since hubby da-ed himself and 2 months since i've been to a meeting. so who's called? not the elders. not my friends.

  in fact... my friends started some pretty vicious "gossip" that finally got back to me so they had to be put back in their place. that might be why they haven't called. but the elders have no excuse. not that i want them to call. noooooooo.
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  Marriage - Why bother?

  by Spectrum in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  yet another friend's marriage has broken down(5th), this one i did not predict at all.

  it came as a shock to me.

  they got married after 10 years of living together so it's not like they didn't know each other.

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  Calliope

  Good things about marriage: this partner for life can be such a source of stability in your life, someone to always come home to and be totally comfortable with as someone above said.

  Bad things: they can totally insult you and your family, and you get so so so mad, but then you stop and think, there is absolutely nothing I can do change this person. And I will be sleeping next to them for the rest of my life

  We are good friends first.

  yep. been there...

  there was a lot of passion and fun and understanding in my marriage. then there was a lot of supporting and crying and bitter frustration.

  ah, the joy.

  but i'm still not convinced to do away with it entirely. not my marriage, it's already been done away with. but marriage in general.
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  Was Adam's "fall" part of God's plan?

  by dorayakii in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower society and many other fundamentalist christian faiths believe that god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent.

  in other words he is almighty /all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good.

  his omnibenelovence though, clashes with his omnipotence in that if he is powerful enough to change the human condition, and he is willing to do it, why does he permit suffering?...

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  Calliope

  to have such a trick played on them as having temptation thrust in their faces was a cruel move.

  for me, that spawns another question, why was the serpent even TALKING to eve. was this an apparent show of the naivety on her part? and then adam, simply going along with it, again not questioning the source. if the only source of communication they had a part from betwix each other, was with god, so then could they possibly have thought that the serpent was god? or a god.

  and THEN, if god is omni-everything, could he not have been alerted at this disturbance in the garden and rushed over to stop it before it was too late?

  or was this the dawn of televisionaries... god watching the commercial-free scene from his living room.
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  Would YOU Have Allowed Your Child To Die Instead Of Giving Blood?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  be honest.

  i believe there was a time we all would've done it or at least say we would've done it.

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  Calliope

  4 months ago, i was praying to whichever spiritual being there might be out there, that i don't get sick or pregnant and have to face that perfidious truth. to take blood or not to take blood...

  now, after reading the "society's" organ transplant about-face, and how they are inching towards one for blood transplants, it's sad and disgusting that we ever thought that way at all.
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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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  Calliope

  i love reading and writing and long walks on the beach...

  k, just kidding.

  am long overdue for one.

  go along with the advice given here. take your time.
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  HI ALL

  by THE TRUE GOD in

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  hi everybody

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  Calliope

  i think i may have busted my spleen laughing through this thread.

  first - TRUE GOD innocently treads among the wolves...

  second - the reveal.

  third - the fact that 50 posts later, people are still welcoming TRUE GOD.

  oh, so funny...
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  Are you allowed to fall asleep at the meetings now??

  by stillAwitness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the sercuit overseer gave the expierence about an interested one who would come to the meetings every sunday but admitted he would always fall asleep because he worked a double shift at work the night before.

  the s.o said: "and sure enough he fell asleep during my talk.

  " but he said that it was so encouraging because even though he worked the night before he still tried to get what little he could of the talk and the guy related afterwards: "i would not want to be caught falling asleep anywhere else but at the hall.

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  Calliope

  see, i've figured it all out. i just get hooked up on the phone to listen in to the meeting. then i can watch tv and sleep at the same time, and no one will ever know.
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  What's your favourite food?

  by Spectrum in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i've got lots but the one i'ed like right now is... .

  curried goat or fish west indian style with basmati rice or lentil filled roti bread.

  has anybody ever had lentil filled roti?

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  Calliope

  Steamed broccoli... I know, I'm weird...lol

  i totally get that. steamed broccoli, still firm, with butter and sea salt. YUM!!

  but my all-time fav is simply french bread and french cheese (imported from France if you can get it), with a bottle of red.
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  To Those Who Still Go To Meetings, Do You Sense Anything Different?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are people excited by anything in the organization?

  are they tired?

  mostly missing?

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  Calliope

  in my hall, though i haven't been in 2 months (but no house calls yet so i'm happy), everyone is breeding and planning their "house schooling" itineraries. it's a little sad.

  the comments are repetitive. the talks are repetitive. the material is repetitive. the same people (including yours truly) sitting in the back row, laughing heartily with another... that's the only entertainment i get at the meetings.

  note: i have nothing against having children... it's just the twelve years olds having kids and then planning the congregational lives around raising these kids... sigh.
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  I'M MOVIN' ON IN LIFE

  by onesong in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i've been here now about 4 months and about to be upgraded from a newbie.

  (woohooo!!!).

  and since i didn't get to go to college and a host of other things (i really wonder just how good of a baseball player i could have been).

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  Calliope

  So I've been here now about 4 months and about to be upgraded from a Newbie. (Woohooo!!!)

  does that mean i'm still in puberty? oh.... the horror.

  congratulations!!!