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  For You Aussies...

  by Priest73 in

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  what ever happened to the greatest actor austrailia ever produced?.

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  you know greg pead?.

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  Its a fair bet to say that either,

  Salties, Sharks, Stone fish, Redback spiders or Box Jellyfish Got him...

  or maybe a dingo ate him
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  You gotta check this guys photos at Bethel, etc ....................

  by WingCommander in

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  2. experiences

  i came across this local guys photo albums on flickr while searching for someone i know.

  found them, and then this guys albums.

  apparently he's a "pro" if you can call taking photos of local girls' sports teams, witness weddings, dc's, and bethel photography.

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  Probably won't see this one in a WT magazine...

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjhfoto/3072921791/in/set-72157608812649711/

  Hes been there since 76 and prob single. Note the carrier bags full of porn on his bed

  lol
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  You gotta check this guys photos at Bethel, etc ....................

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i came across this local guys photo albums on flickr while searching for someone i know.

  found them, and then this guys albums.

  apparently he's a "pro" if you can call taking photos of local girls' sports teams, witness weddings, dc's, and bethel photography.

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  Caption undernethe says "sister at bethel, she was there for decades"

  Shame i cant add "but she wasn't suppose to get old!"
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  First sober Christmas

  by digderidoo in

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  hi all.. i just want to post here about my first sober christmas.

  i posted here first of all about my alcoholism back in january.

  i tried to control drinking for around 3 years prior to this, but last december was a p**s up.

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  Well done mate. I've seen far too many lives ruined throu Alcoholism.
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  An interesting email I got from a DA'd friend I was catching up with

  by JimmyPage in

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  recently i got back in touch with a da'd friend that i grew up with.

  i'm going to focus on one part of her email because i think it's relevant to this board.

  when i mentioned that i had been on an ex-jw website, she writes:.

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  if you ask former JW's who are fixated on deriding the organization and spend their waking hours telling stories of how false the religion and it's people are, you will only get distracted and confused. I stay away from those sad people. My heart goes out to them though, but they seem to be stuck in their own misery."

  I would agree with that statement. We as ex jws need to put what happened in the past behind us and to move on. The more we dwell on it and let it get us down the more power we give to that organisation. We shouldn't let what happened in the past define us as people instead we should go out there and live sucessful happy lives, to act as witnesses to the fact that there is life outside the "truth"

  Do any of us really want to end up like Mr Hazzard?
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  me invited to wife's bookstudy farewell party at elders...GOING!

  by oompa in

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  i just kind of like the irony.

  these are all old friends of mine who i have told all about my issues with wt and my subsequent exit.

  since they understand, i still get to "associate" with them occasionally.

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  Oompa, is this the same cong. that DF'd your son? If so, will your son feel you're turning your back on him by partying with people who shun him?

  Yes that's a good point. Lets drag OOOmps outside and stone him
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  An elder's wife added me to Facebook and msn.

  by merfi in

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  i da'd in feb 06. hadn't heard a word from any jw since then.. about a month or 3 weeks ago, i emailed an elder to ask if my 15yo was still on whatever publisher list it is now.

  when i left, she had just been announced (i think) an unbaptized pub.

  so i was curious about her 'status'.

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  wheren't there talks given at the DC either this year or last telling dubs to stay off the internet, especially social sites like facebook and myspace.

  I believe the talks were aimed at teens. Maybe the elders wife should be paying attention too
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  RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008

  by faundy in

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  have posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:

  i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.

  he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.

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  I didn't know Ian but WOW acording to this thread he was REALLY loved
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  Can you be disfellowshiped for getting Tattoo's?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. scandals

  anyone know of any incidents?

  the watchtower always uses the old testament verses to support this, so elders don't really have a leg to stand on.

  i wonder if i got a little watchtower symbol if that would be okay.

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  My old hall was like jehovah's boot camp, if you were under 20 they would come down on you for the least thing.

  I got a tattoo on my forearm when I was 18 just to be rebellious. I went down to the hall a couple of days later and was walking around with my jacket off and sleave rolled up hoping to get noticed and told off. An elder saw it, asked what it was and then said " thats nice" and walked off. I was really pissed off because the elders didn't care that i'd gone out and gotten a tattoo.

  They even let me do the mics in short sleaved shirts
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  my df bro in law tells friends his family is all dead..instead of jw

  by oompa in

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  he is the oldest of five kids...all dubs...he was kicked out at 16...and shunned badly for 35 years or so by his family, but never me btw...and he still is.

  so he was smart enough to move out of state and start over....and has had a great life....but 20 years ago he told me something i have never forgotten...he said that as he made new friends and tried to explain this totally flucked up shunning thing...that it always went kinda odd....so he just started telling everyone his entire family was dead....i never forgot the moment he said that......................oompa.

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  I do the same. On the one hand it is a coping mechanism, it helps me get through things like Christmas, you know tthat time of year when the rest of the worlds with their families and im not. Or those times your friends tell you that they have been over to their parentts for a meal or social call, or even those times when your friends just drop in a sentence about how they spoke to someone in their family on the phone. Having a family, it seems so alien to me now, instead of being the norm it seems bizarre to me. The only way I can cope with it is to think of them as being dead.

  As well as the coping mechanism it also avoids having to do all that explaining about why your family no longer talks to you. I've tried in the past and on a few occassions people have gone away thinking I must have done something REALLY REALLY awful.