Posts by thecarpenter

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Has anyone tried eharmony or Match.com?

by thecarpenter in

i just joined eharmony (tired of meeting chicks who are married or too young for me) and i was wondering if anyone has had any success with it?

has anyone had any success with match.com?

thecarpenter

I just joined eharmony (tired of meeting chicks who are married or too young for me) and I was wondering if anyone has had any success with it? Has anyone had any success with match.com?

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How Long Did It Take You To Snap Out Of Watchtower Think?

by The wanderer in

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friends

how long did it take you to snap out of watchtower think?it took me better than a year to let go of watchtower think.

the teachings held on to me.

more so than the emotions and i did not have family in the organization to tie me down.. disconnecting yourself from watchtower thinkwhen you first discovered what the society was behind the scenes how long did it.

thecarpenter

I've been out about a year now and sometimes I feel a little guilt, but I usually dispense with these feeling relatively quickly. I like to confront these feeling head on because if I allow them to linger, it just creates fears (this is one of the techniques they recommend in cognitive behavioral therapy, don't run away from your fears). I plan on giving blood next month and to do other things that would surely get me df'ed if the borg found out, which at this point I don't care.

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Do Watchtower Flashbacks Still Haunt You?

by The wanderer in

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friends

do vietnam watchtower flashbacks still haunt you?occasionally, there are times in which i get up from a sound sleep.

tearful because of my vietnam watchtower flashbacks of being.

one of jehovahs witnesses.. sad to say, these dreams come back to haunt me in a negative way.. do you ever dream of still being stuck in the organization?are there times in which you find yourself back in the kingdom.

thecarpenter

sometimes, when I plan on doing sometime to piss off the Watchtower. Then I remember why I left and the doubts go away.

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Women are hateful

by Hellrider in

i hate women.

they are evil.

disagree?.

thecarpenter

I might add they are soft... smell good... have lovely smiles...

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I Lost Everything Today

by compound complex in

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friends

dear friends,.

i just received a call from a concerned jw friend about what is going on behind my back.

a dfd friend whom i've been supporting through his mental distress and suicidal tendencies has done me a very strange turn.

thecarpenter

hey coco, the same thing happened to me before except is was a "weak" brother who was a little unbalanced. The df'ed brother sanity will be questioned but the elders may give you a call to see how you are doing (and also to see if you incriiminate yourself). You don't have to tell them anything and nor say that you went to apostate websites. Just mentioned you suggested to the df'ed brother look on the internet to see if he could find anything on mental illiness, maybe the society may have something on their website. And end it at that, they need two witnesses (the df'ed guy and you) to verify the story. The elders in my congo couldn't do anything to me. Let this be a lesson to you, JW's cannot be trusted, they are under cult mind control.
thecarpenter from the recovering idealist class

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Photographs and Illustrations in WT Publications

by RubyStevens in

this is i guess geared more toward bethelites or those in the know.

in the endless sunday meetings i was always facinated by the photographs and pictures in the books and magazines.

is there a large photo studio at bethel were the pictures are taken?

thecarpenter

"You think it is bad in the congregations, you should see what is happening at Bethel." that should made into a video.

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Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?

by gumby in

many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.

for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.

for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.

thecarpenter

love you mouthy, it's good having a grandma looking over things...

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Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?

by gumby in

many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.

for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.

for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.

thecarpenter

I am reaching a breaking point here with this type of selfish insanity. How much more precious is YOUR family compared to your fellow brothers family gumby, and others [LURKERS IN PARTICULAR]? Or that of the unsuspecting potential "householder with children" that very well will take the "golden carrot of everlasting life"? DO YOU CARE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES BROTHER?

How in the HELL could you condon this organizations death records of young life due to the mangled blood policy by re-ALIGNING YOUR-SELF with Them, again?

wow, I won't have believed it if I didn't read it myself... someone is seriously misdirected...

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Guess what... someone hit my parked Mini Cooper AGAIN. :S

by Elsewhere in

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friends

back in july of 2006 someone hit my parked mini cooper in a parking lot and then tried to say it was my fault... even though i wasn't even in the car.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/116712/1.ashx.

after laughing at the other driver, their insurance paid for my repairs.

thecarpenter

Sorry to hear that buddy, I had a similar problem with a honda civic hatchback I owned about 12 years ago. Small cars in NYC just seem to get hit a lot or maybe it's that they sustain more damage when they are hit...

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Are kids getting stupider?

by roflcopter in

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friends

now i am just a young guy myself, but do you feel that kids these days are getting stupider?

i personally feel that kids are getting stupider.. take for instance my exprience today.

i went to pickup stix and ordered the kung pao chicken.

thecarpenter

well, anony-mouse says it all...