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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

  per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

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  Dear Diary,

  The sun is out, and rather warmly so, notatal wan as it is oft wont to be, the wintry season. Took a longish walk about Walden Pond; more like a forced march. But it was good. Upon my usual bench, fronting the shoreline, I sat and gazed languidly upon the dozens of water fowl, bobbing upon the gentle, wind-driven waves. No motor boat wakes this time of year. Did, however, spot a kayaker away in the distance. Three - at least three - varieties of oak in the park: live, black, white, or mush oak, and then, perhaps a fourth. Don't know the descriptive name, DD. Reason I mention it, is because it is a deciduous oak, yet retains its crispy, brown leaves thru early spring. Most unattractive to the eye, but a delightful earful as the wind crackles in and about the headdresses of the arbores. Came home and left the front door open. Need some fresh air in here occasionally.
  Tell you later about the flick rentals/ Linda Hunt/Penelope Ann Miller/ Meryl Streep/ Nicole Kidman/Julianne Moore -------- are you guessing?

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

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  Dear Diary,

  It is so cold! Cannot get warm. Reading "Comments from the Friends," Jan-Mar 1998, p.9. That old scoundrel, Atty. JFR, was framing mischief by law. To unseat the majority - 4 of 7 - of the GB, he employed legal technicalities and trickery to bring local Bible Student "ecclesias" under central - WT - control. To control members, Jones and Koresh used physical isolation. However, JFR used social isolation to separate followers from family and friends. No holidays, a new "language," a god by a new name - JEHOVAH.
  How crafty, the old coot! Then add to the mix Freddie and Clay. Thousands die... will the madness ever end? Who will shoot the silver bullet?

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

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  Dear Diary,

  Had to turn off phone permanently because of Schizo. Gets through, tho, to answering service......what's the treatment going to be today? end up shaking or sick to my stomach.
  Antonio Vivaldi - the Red Priest - on NPR right now. "Winter" - from "The Four Seasons"
  AG sent weird WT info on NWO, from 15 July 1952 Watchtower:

  "Patriarchal Society"

  "By the force of events many of these secrets are now being unlocked by the Great Interpreter himself. (Dan. 2:47) From these it is possible to obtain a clearing [sic; "clearer" (?)] vision of the details which will operate in the new world order of things. Actually the new order of things is already taking shape and will be fully operating at Armaggedon time to fill the vacuum left after the cataclysmic disappearance of the old order."

  More to follow............

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

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  Dear Diary,

  Brahm's Piano Trio # 1, finished off a little bit ago. Performed by the Beaux Arts Trio. Dow Jones: 12604 - commentator said "record territory." NASDAQ: 2493.

  Something earlier on NPR about Dwight Eisenhower's speech and warning about the Military Industrial Complex. Mention of "anniversary." Is today the anniversary of that speech? Is that warning he gave some 50 years ago significant today? Have to look into my favorites for that speech.

  C...
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  My Wife Just Left Me Because of the Evil Watchtower

  by rassillon in

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  this is very difficult to write because i am crying.

  i am normally not the kind of person you will ever see cry because things don't affect me that much but this has got to be the hardest things i have ever went through.. i just got through discussing with my wife my feelings.

  i guess it has been hard to hid some of the things that i have felt since i have learned that many of the wt teachings are false.

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  Dear Rasillon,

  I am so grateful for the good JWD does, especially in the time of one's desperate need. You were helped WHEN you needed help. While it's not possible to be available nor helpful in every instance, I find that keeping JWD on for long stretches is a very good idea. Electronically we can stay in instant touch with each other, offering comfort and love and cyber-hugs. I agree particularly with Drew's comments, as many of us seem to have been - or ARE - in like circumstances. I know it's fear that drives the wedge, where otherwise there would be loyalty and faithfulness to a mate. I wish the horrid WT stand on "absolute spiritual endangerment" would be tossed into the heart of the open sea. Not in every domestic scenario, perhaps, would we see a glimmer of hope. But I feel it might be in a far larger ratio than we see in Destructo-Dubdom. I have a new life here and it enrages me no end how the Society demonizes what is good:
  
  "He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous,
  Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD."
  Proverbs 17:15

  NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, Reference Edition, 1971

  Love and Peace,

  CoCo
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

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  Dear Diary,

  Boy, did I ever crash! Slept 5 hours after a very strange brew of cafe ancien. Gotta hit the bored and see what's happenin'. WT's on a very slippery slope and more friends are being shunned or somehow abandonded due to HER evil. Will God destroy the REAL Babylon the Great - MOTHER? I sense an unspoken knowledge and understanding of the real state of affairs. I'm glad to be where I am now. I hope against hope that my dear family, who followed me in, will follow me out. Stay open... back shortly.
  Haydn's Symphony # 60 - The Absent-minded Symphony - was on earlier. Also Sibelius' # 7, strangely commencing with an ascending C major scale. A symphony of contradictions......... Contradictions everywhere.

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  Is the Watchtower beginning to lose its grip on its members?

  by Gill in

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  i have seen a counsellor on and off since leaving watchtower land.

  she has made efforts to find out more about jehovah's witnesses.. we were discussing why my jw family (not my husbands' they shun us as if we smell bad!!!!

  ) are beginning to spend more time with us.

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  Greetings Gill,

  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stayed tuned!

  Thanx for message. I think you and your thinking powers are maybe 5 or 6 hours ahead of me here on the Pacific coast. Back atcha later! Back to the sack.

  CoCo
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  The Church Of Toast

  by Madame Quixote in

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  okay, someone just gave me a fun idea.

  who wants to role play?

  i want to be god for the church of toast, but we can vote on it; however, all true believers know that they have free will to believe in me, or else "they're toast.

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  A simple but healthy breakfast for my young son: He was beggin' and eggin' me on to feed him, but all I had on hand was oatmeal. So I made 'em quik oats and he gave me a rye smile and gulped it down like a little gluten. But then, in his haste, he spelt his glass of milk. He was barley out the door, but came back, saying he kneaded some dough for lunch. He ran out, yelling good-bye, but came back in again with a fistful of flours in his little hand and gave me a hug. I'm waffling on what I'll fix him tomorrow, but I've got some thyme on my hands.....sorry - that's another thread.

  Thank you, Made'em Quikoats, for this neat Post Toasties. You're the toast of the town! I never metaphor I didn't like.

  CoCo
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  Dear Diary,

  I'm up For how long? gonna make cafe, write some, crash again. home today, no appts. will you stay open so I can get back atcha? "Egmont Overture" by Beethoven on NPR. Have to eat something.

  CoCo
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

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  Dear Diary,
  
  I've just returned from dinner and a music lesson at the home of my newly "adopted" family. We join hands and Dad or son or I offer the prayer at this weekly affair. The entire family is kind, smart, talented and humble. Dad's the boss, but he's fair and loving. Reasonable, too. Sees BS a mile off. The kids love and respect their parents and seem to readily obey what papa says. Mom is wonderful and supportive of all. The teenage boy commented on something - forget what - but it was supportive of this harmonious and working family set-up. Dad believes in the basics of Christianity but told me that he will not push religion on the kids. It spurred me to ask the family, "Is it enough for the children to want to please their parents by obedience, or do they need to be told that they must be good to please God?" Dear Diary, I was trying to figure out if all the years we JWs told the little ones, "DON'T MAKE JEHOVAH SAD!" or "He sees everything you do!" and "If you're naughty, He will punish you.", were we warping their moral and spiritual sensibilities? Such thoughts and words as the above mind-controlling scare tactics are so foreign to the thinking of my new family. Why do JWs insist that no body else - like moms and dads - can get it right? Kids don't need to be beaten over the head with rolled-up WTs! Had to tell you this, Dear Diary... Back soon.

  CoCo