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  WHAT ARE YOU HAVING FOR DINNER TONIGHT? GOING OUT TO EAT?

  by juni in

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  we will be going out for wisconsin's famous friday fish fry.. .

  juni

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  Well, I am pregnant, so the possibilities are endless. I can't wait to eat. Maybe some "Jacks naturally rising pizza", which I think is the best frozen pizza around. Today, I felt a little emotional over a conversation I had with my husband. Really silly actually, I just wanted to go to the zoo tomorrow. He said no. I started balling in the bathroom at work, then it went away. lol....I say this because we would normally go out to dinner tonight, but because he made me cry by not wanting to go to the zoo tomorrow, Iam going to settle for a frozen pizza...lol....

  Nikki
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  How Will You Die at Armageddon?

  by Nosferatu in

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  before i found this website, i accepted the fact that i was going to be destroyed at armageddon.

  but now that i know it's a big lie, i don't worry about that.. but just for fun, if you could choose your armageddonly death, how would you like to go?

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  Nowman

  If it were to happen, I too would like to be drunk.
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  What has this board given to you?

  by Crumpet in

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  having cooled down a bit in the garden i got to thinking about what this board has given me and wondered what anyone else feels they have gained from it.. for me its been invaluable and even life changing:.

  1) freedom from the brainwashing - when i came here i had already read ray franz's books and still believed it jws had the truth - hat i was basically worthless and that i would die at armageddon.

  the reasoned conversations and help of the posters from all over the world has enabled me to have freedom of thought - something i didnt even know i didnt have until i spent time here.. 2) friends who empathise and know from an experience what i have been through in a way outsiders can never possiby understand.. 3) entertainment - unbelievable laughs and moments of humour that have cheered me up so many times.. 4) association - via the aposta bbqs and telephone chats i can now have so i don't feel so isolated and to some extent alleviates the awful pain of separation from my loved family.. 5) information - from this board and posters here i have found out things that were my right to know but would never have learnt otherwise - my sisters marriage, my aunts tragic death.. 6) reunions - i have now met at least one person who knows me from my childhood and has grown into a man of such kindness and patience that i would have missed out on completely had he not been here and been kind enough to hold my hand - even when i've been an irritating totured little idiot!.

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  Because I left when I was just turned 18 (1992), I really do not think I knew exactly what I was apart of all these years. JWD is my favoritre! I have so much more knowledge and understanding of what I do not want to believe in.

  Nikki
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  Random Glass (Photo's)

  by OpenFireGlass in

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  i've gotten lot's of pm's asking me about the proccess that i use to create my glass.... it's kinda weird to walk into my studio and check out where i left off 5 months ago.... instead of asking me what each word means, just google it!...

  heres some words to google: lampworking.

  lampworking torch.

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  Nowman

  When I went to the website, I looked at the jewlery. Beautiful! Unless I missed it, how can I go about buying one?

  Nikki
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  Were YOU Depressed When You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i've seen soooo many witnesses taking meds or alcohol because of unhappiness and depression.

  i know of one woman who regularly gos to her shrink and is the most depressed person that i know of.

  personally, i believe it's because a jw can never do enough to satisfy god or the elders....what do you think?

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  I had felt depressed many times mostly because of what went on in my house. But, I feel I was always a happy person by nature. My mother was diagnosed with depression sometime after I left. I knew so many people with depression problems in the org but at the time, it seemed so normal. Currently, I hear of those same people that just snap and do something crazy. For example, and I have posted this before. The Betty Whitten murder case, she murdered her disabled daughter with intentions to kill her other daughter too. She has just been diagnosed with depression days before the murder. She was on Zoloft a few days prior. She then killed her daughter and even lifted up her shirt to make sure the stabs went through, there were no knife cuts in the girls shirt. She claimed that her husband brought demons into the house. She claimed she was doing the right thing by killing her daughter. She is pleading insanity. See, I knew the Whittens as a kid, they were a normal JW family. Betty just snapped. I know of numerous cases like this. Its crazy.

  I think my mom got depression from the org for all that she had to go through. I think if I would have stayed in the org, I would have been eventually diagnosed with depression too. It so sad.
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  What is all this about Smurfs?

  by Stealth453 in

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  i have been out a long time, and i have recently noticed a lot of you making mention of smurfs.. obviously, i have missed something.

  has the watchliar sociopath society "demonized" smurfs somewhere along the line.. reminds me of the old fear of paintings of clowns, with big eyes, that made the rounds back in the late 60's, early 70's.

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  I loved the smurfs in the early 80s. Then my mom told me a story about a smurf stuffed doll inside a babies crip, and the smurf strangled the baby. How crazy! This also happened with the carebears with me. I used to collect them. Then a carebear movie came out, and my mom took me to see it, there was a part in the movie where the children had become possessed by something, my mom said we had to leave the threater. I also had to get rid of my carebears. Now, I have a daughter that loves them (you know, they came back), and I am so happy she can have them, she won't have to worry about one day that I decide to tell her "you need to throw those away".
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  Are you happier out of the org?

  by dobbie in

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  hi everyone i was just wondering if those of you that have left the org for whatever reason, have found your'e much happier than when you were in it?probably a daft question but i tried to talk to a friend about how i was feeling about a few things and why i don't go to meetings and she said would i really be any happier out than in?it just got me thinking about why i joined in the first place, because i was lonely and down, although i still am several years later it seems!have you found life better on the outside?did you feel a sense of freedom or was it really hard to adjust?when i try to explain what i find hard in the religion they can always say something back that then makes me think i was wrong in the first place and it is the truth after all - aagh!

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  What a question! I love it.

  Been gone since 1992, although I am fairly new here at JWD. It was hard at first because of the shunning thing, but there was so much I had to look forward to. So many things I could learn, do, and see. I have come into my own, and my mom finally came to her senses in 2000 and left the org too. We did not see or speak to each other for 8 years! I am so happy not being a Jehovah's Witness. Im a "worldly" person. lol

  Best to you...Nikki
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  Predicament and Question: An Ex's Friends

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

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  i am not sure how to handle this and don't want to do something rude, or stupid, or both.

  i was seeing this guy (non-jw) for a few months.

  his friends are absolutely fabulous.

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  Been in this situation before except they did not speak to my ex-boyfriend anymore but I did feel bad for him. Yet, I made some lasting freindships with those people, you only live once. I say go for it if you enjoy being around them so much. If the ex is there, it may be tough, but eventually it won't be. If he makes a fool out of himself while your there, then let it be him not you. To me, he will just have to deal with it.

  Nikki
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  Has being a Jehova's witness totally shattered your faith?

  by Silvia Plath in

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  just because the watchtower society is wrong doesn't mean that there is no god, nor does it mean there is a god.

  it would interesting to now how former members have adjusted thier cosmology, or whether they are now atheists and why.

  i personally see religion as a more personal matter, rather than belonging to an organization.

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  Yes and I am OK with that. I consider myself an agnostic. Sometimes, I have discussions with my husband that lead me towards evolution, but what always come back to is pregnancy. How could that whole process have happened by chance? Therefore, I really do not know. But, I ve said this before, I do not need to have all my questions answered.
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  Movie lines...

  by Justice-One in

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  what movie were these lines from?

  "chris knight: if you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right.

  but - and i am only saying this because i care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

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  Nowman

  Dumb and Dumber

  "What's the soup today?"

  waitress: Its the soup dejior (?)

  "MMM...sounds good, I have that"