congrats!
it looks like she is blowing a kiss!
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Calliope
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ITS A ....... Now with pic
by Es inhealthy baby girl.. .
had my ultrasound this morning, baby is healthy.
i have some pics of her but my scanners not working at the moment, so will pass them on once its working.
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Celebrated WT scholars? :)
by Augustin inprof lester l. grabbe on rolf furuli's "oslo chronology":.
"once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship" (jsot 28:5 [2004], p. 42).. ...celebrated wt scholars?
--augustin --
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i'd like to know, if anyone has a figure,
how many apostates has this celebrated scholar converted back to the wonderful world of jw-ism.
hmmmmm?
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I'm going back to the JW's
by Honesty inif you can acccurately disprove the mathematics in the following i will be at the local kingdom hall first thing in the morning and ask the elders if i may rejoin them in worship.. here is some information i have compiled regarding what the watchtower has printed in regards to the babylonian kings and how the lengths of their reigns can be calculated to arrive at the date of the destruction of jerusalem by nebuchadnezzar.
if you're like me you've probably remained totally clueless whenever the subject of the chronology leading to back 607 b.c.
as the date for the destruction of jerusalem by nebuchadnezzar comes up.
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i don't know about you Honesty,
but i'm still not going back to the JWs.
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I'm going back to the JW's
by Honesty inif you can acccurately disprove the mathematics in the following i will be at the local kingdom hall first thing in the morning and ask the elders if i may rejoin them in worship.. here is some information i have compiled regarding what the watchtower has printed in regards to the babylonian kings and how the lengths of their reigns can be calculated to arrive at the date of the destruction of jerusalem by nebuchadnezzar.
if you're like me you've probably remained totally clueless whenever the subject of the chronology leading to back 607 b.c.
as the date for the destruction of jerusalem by nebuchadnezzar comes up.
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i almost skipped this thread entirely out of pure anger and frustration!
i thought, there's no way any intelligent person would go back to that jw perfunctory way of life after all the evidence against the org.
i'm so glad i did read it!!!
i'm in the process of getting together all the references to prove the date is wrong to one of my "well-meaning" wit friends who thinks she can prove me wrong.
i should post our email conversations here so you can get some reality tv à la JWD.
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as a jw..did you ever have a REAL theological discussion with anyone?
by candidlynuts inthis came up in a conversation with a non witness friend lately.
he said its like i thought i was having theological discussions all the time but from what he could tell...i would go to the door with prearranged comments, which would illicit one of a few comments and my response would be as programmed as the initial comments.
i'm no brainy person.. and freely admit i'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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when we were both still jws, part of what attracted my now-ex-husband and i to each other was the fact that we could discuss theology past the set jw boundaries. to the point where it would at times make others in our jw group feel uncomfortable.
however, outside of that, i don't think i had any other conversations. we both realized at the time, that our comments were not welcome.
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Do You Recognize Yourself As A Jehovah's Witness Still?
by minimus ini haven't been to a meeting in 3 years and when i tell people about my past, i tell them i used to be a witness.
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what's "BTDT"?
see? another side effect of having been a jw. sequestration from similar 'puter expressions!
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ever get "caught" because someone spotted you on JWD?
by Calliope ini've been thinking of changing my avatar or posting my picture, but due to my fasitidious paranoia, i hesitate with the possibility that some wit out there will venture too close and recognize me.
does anyone know if anyone has ever been "caught" because of displaying their picture here?
calliope
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"fading" is frustratingly limiting.
i can't be entirely free.
i approach each new person with trepidation. afraid that they'll give me up to the witness gestapo.
i want to make and be friends with the lot of you, and yet i can't even share my picture?
you'll say: DA yourself.
but i can't because of my family...
anyway, i suppose i have my answer.
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Do You Recognize Yourself As A Jehovah's Witness Still?
by minimus ini haven't been to a meeting in 3 years and when i tell people about my past, i tell them i used to be a witness.
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no longer a witness of jehovah.
"the god who wasn't there" (a movie i highly recommend).
but i am fading. which means when i'm out for a smoke with a friend or coworker, and they ask
why i'm crouched down next to the building, hiding my face into the wall, wearing a hat and sunglasses
on a rainy day... i have to tell them "i was a jw, which means...." so as not to leave them with an impression that i am totally insane. sigh.
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What world do you live in? (long read)
by rune inthis is just a little babble of mine.
once you are finished i would really appreciate if any of you could take the time to flesh out just what existence and the world is to you.
describe the sensation, the feeling with which you generally take it...everything to do with your perception.
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right now, my viewpoint of this world can be somewhat summed up in the word: pulchritudinous.
the word itself, to look at is horrible and further in sound...
but its definition is to describe something characterized by or having overwhelming beauty.
this world is similar. it can be horrible, and yet at times is overwhelmingly characterized by beauty.
it's exhausting and invigorating.
when i was a jw, boundaries and limitations were created for me. i questioned them and couldn't abide by them. i was depressed, i hated life, i did things so jehovah would see my desperation and so in the eventuality of a planned and untimely death, i would be forgiven.
sad.
now? everything is different. the god i so wanted to impress is no longer. i am free. i let my mind go anywhere it wants.
i wrote a song recently,
and one of the verses goes (and i BELT it out...)
"if nothing is true,
than god that means you"
and that's how i feel.
i feel beautiful. i feel intelligent.
i forgive people willingly. i am more open-minded than i've ever been.
i feel i don't have to impress anyone anymore, but i want to touch everyone. i want to know everyone.
in so many ways i've said all i have to say, but then again there's so much left to discover.
i want to live in this world and experience it.
and to me, this is all there is.
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ever get "caught" because someone spotted you on JWD?
by Calliope ini've been thinking of changing my avatar or posting my picture, but due to my fasitidious paranoia, i hesitate with the possibility that some wit out there will venture too close and recognize me.
does anyone know if anyone has ever been "caught" because of displaying their picture here?
calliope
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i've been thinking of changing my avatar or posting my picture, but due to my fasitidious paranoia, i hesitate with the possibility that some wit out there will venture too close and recognize me.
does anyone know if anyone has ever been "caught" because of displaying their picture here?
calliopé