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  First Post - Emotionally Torn

  by scaredtospeak in

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  2. experiences

  i haven't been on here long but i found this site a couple days ago and quickly realised it had a lot of posts by people going through similar experiences as me.

  i read some of the answers and it helped relieve some inner anguish i've been carrying since everything i came clean to my parents about everything i've been reading about.. .

  i just have been going through a rough patch right now; that might be an under or overstatement depending on your own personal experiences with this kind of stuff.

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  compound complex

  Welcome, scared:

  It's good that you've found new friends who will help guide you through this difficult time of awakening.

  I'd like to share some words of Thomas Jefferson, words that have influenced me.

  Best regards.

  CoCo

  Bill Establishing Religious Freedom in the State of Virginia

  Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
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  Allow Me My Dreams

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today, today, as with all those new days before, .

  i awoke from the sweet dreams of nocturnal .

  flights of fancy, and that they should take .

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  compound complex

  Nan, Tal, Rip:

  I love you!

  CoCo
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  Allow Me My Dreams

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today, today, as with all those new days before, .

  i awoke from the sweet dreams of nocturnal .

  flights of fancy, and that they should take .

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  compound complex

  I have become old but sensible,
  too busy for foolish dreams,
  too distracted to smell a rose.

  An abundance of occupation
  weighs me down, demanding
  I should keep my nose to the
  
  Grindstone and shoulder to
  the wheel. Ah, perhaps then
  I will please my taskmasters,

  They who promise cake but
  fail to offer bread. This life, so
  short, is probably all there is.
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  Today's watchtower admits they appoint people who are sinners

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.

  he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.

  but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

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  compound complex

  Andre gave it up at 22-plus years old -- he was already married and an ms?
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  Any strategies to deal with elders who just don't like you?

  by toto555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so any ways to deal or cope with elders who just don't like you (you didn't do anything wrong or they're just making stuff up about you) assuming that you can't leave?

  especially when it comes to for example becoming appointed as an elder.

  or are you pretty much "dead in the water" if the elders are determined to like you despite reasonable efforts to win them over.

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  compound complex

  A belated welcome, toto555!

  So many excellent thoughts are presented here.

  'Kill them with kindness,' as stillin said and gave examples of worked for me. Little drops of water -- continually -- did the trick. Like The Searcher, I was overlooked constantly at Q&A sessions, even if mine was the only hand raised. Veiled comments about me, too, came from the platform. A trusted friend was warned by a particular few not to talk to me.

  Now I laugh!

  I'm in a different hall now and the lovebombing I get is genuine and heartfelt. I love these people -- I need community -- and I've decided that crazy doctrine and weird rules and regulations will not again separate me from family and lifelong friends.

  Best regards.

  CoCo
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  Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, health-conscious friends:.

  i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

  .. what do you eat and drink?.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, happy eaters!

  Signing off and heading to the dogs . . .

  Love,

  CoCo
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  Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, health-conscious friends:.

  i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

  .. what do you eat and drink?.

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  It does help, stillin!!!

  Are Brownie points fattening?

  Keep it up!

  CC
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  Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, health-conscious friends:.

  i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

  .. what do you eat and drink?.

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  compound complex

  Greetings, health-conscious friends:

  I had a wonderful cup of Peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.

  Just isn't the same . . .

  What do you eat and drink?

  Thanks.

  CoCo Consumes Nice Fats
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  "...A God's Voice, And Not A Man's!" (Acts 12:22; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4) ... That Day Is Here!

  by bjc2read in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  question: how are members of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses themselves, actually viewed by jehovah's witnesses today?.

  well, the following related experience may help answer that provocative question, giving us a glimpse of what the possible future days will bring us.

  yes, the answer to that question may even be quite shocking to us, ... with simply terrible, disastrous results!!!

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  There were two Brothers Knorr.

  During one of many slide presentations of official WT sojourns to the Third World was a shot of Nathan Knorr holding in his arms a little African Witness boy. He was chuckling over the fact that the parents named the lad "Brother Knorr" in his honor. What a namesake!

  Where are you, Brother Brother Knorr ? You'd be about 40 years old by now.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/124322/1/Nathan-Knorr-Holding-Brother-Knorr-Memory-Lane#.U2Pm_t31vaY
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  Come On And PLAY!!!

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

  come on, y'all.. sylvia.

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  compound complex

  Nan & rip:

  CC