Well done Shelley what an achievement, i'm so pleased for you, you do so much good here on this board as well.X
Posts by dobbie
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33WooHooooo!! 1 year clean......
by crazyblondeb inone year clean from meth/ice!!
i wanted all of you to know what a role you have played in my life.
i can't even start to tell you what it means to me!!
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Mom Died -- and I found out from an old friend!
by BrendaCloutier inok, i'm writing this thru tears as i just found out in the last 5 minutes.
my dad died in august, and they had been together just 1 or 2 weeks over 70 years married!
i didn't expect her to last without him, and visa versa.. i just tried to call my sister, and no answer there.
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dobbie
Brenda i'm so sorry for what you are going through, losing your mum and your siblings treatment of you, its so horrible it beyond belief
love hugs and many thoughts to you xxx
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Do you feel that "Christians and JW's" try to impose "guilt" on members
by booker-t ini know this might sound like a very unusual questions but i was recently talking to a ex-jw's girl at my school and she made a very good point that i had never thought of.
she said that christians and jw's try to impose "guilt and fear" in their members by constantly comparing what the apostles and early christians suffered such as "beheadings, nail to crosses, burned alive, thrown to lions" and all sorts of horrible things.
she said they never just encourage you to serve god and jesus without their being a hidden doom and gloom message.
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dobbie
They try it on me by saying my children will be killed at armageddon if i leave
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Do you hate Jehovah's Witnesses?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} .style2 { font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; } .style3 {color: #ff0000} -->
do you hate jehovah's witnesses?
since becoming a member of this board, it has often come.
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dobbie
Hi Wanderer to answer your questions
While i don't hate any witnesses, there are some who irritate me by the way they act, not in a christian manner etc. I will lose some good (though conditional) friends when i am 'out' for good but i try and remind themselves that they are all under the spell of the WTS and its teachings.
As to the organisation itself yes i do get angry thinking about it, now i've learnt of all the changing doctrines, its peoples lives they are messing with and when it comes to important life and death things and keep changing back and forth,ie organ transplants, that does make me want to shake all jws and tell them somethings not right in the borg..
I feel more anger and disgust at myself than the above to be honest, anger at believing it all and not checking it out properly, anger for wasting 14 years being active inactive active all the time.Most of all anger and self disgust that between the wts and myself and husband we could have been instrumental in causing my baby to die through the blood doctrine, if the courts had'nt stepped in. I still look at my children when they're asleep and cry my eyes out that my gorgeous son would not have been here because i was too scared to speak up.
So no i don't hate any of them, just myself!
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[FLUFF] Do you want karate?! (more funny cat photos)
by daystar inthings are looking a bit serious here today, so i thought i'd bring you some cute funnies.. more funny cat photos!
- http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/cats.htm (many pictures, slowish load).
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dobbie
hilarious - especially the one on an invisible bike!still laughing!
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On ebay
by dobbie inwas just browsing on ebay out of sheer boredom and typed in 'jehovahs witnesses' .one of the things i spotted was a no blood keyring for children, asking for their parents to be contacted, apparently from an ebay shop a pioneer couple run.
this made me feel really sick, fair enough to carry one if your'e an adult, but children?
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dobbie
Was just browsing on ebay out of sheer boredom and typed in 'jehovahs witnesses' .One of the things i spotted was a no blood keyring for children, asking for their parents to be contacted, apparently from an ebay shop a pioneer couple run. This made me feel really sick, fair enough to carry one if your'e an adult, but children?
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The odometer rolled over, and I didn't even notice!
by AuldSoul in5,000 posts!
woo-hoo!
question the quality to your heart's content, but there is no mistaking the quantity..
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dobbie
the qualities always great auldsoul congratulations oh supreme one!
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JW Weddings
by Jeffro inat every jw wedding i ever went to, the celebrant has always said without fail that "the bride and groom have requested that no rice or confetti be thrown".. is this spiel used everywhere?
is it actually a request of the bride and groom, or is it just bombastically imposed by the elders (i.e.
a lie)?.
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dobbie
toasting - Pagan -yes another thing! Was used to drive away spirits (the evil kind not the ones u find IN your glass!)
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London
by bikerchic inlookie what i just got today from a friend who just got back from england:.
makes number 13 in my collection.
so far i have, hollywood, la jolla, san deigo, las vegas, aspen, honolulu, new orleans, orlando, phoenix, nashville, athens and madrid.. i ask everyone i know who's traveling to get me one of these plus the ones i get myself while traveling.. does anyone else here collect from hard rock cafe?
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dobbie
Manchester - went there once when i stayed at the lake district - great shops!NOT good for the credit card though!
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grandparents day in latest Awake!
by becca1 inin the new awake!
there is a short experience of a young sister who said: "we don't celebrate granparents day".
what is the basis for this conclusion?
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dobbie
seconded!Wonder if you can get greetings cards for that!