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  anyone feeling a wee bit guilty about celebrating Thanksgiving and Xmas??

  by Star Moore in

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  i was feeling a bit guilty about celebrating as this is my 1st year out and i know the history of all the holidays and birthdays are pagan or bloody or idolatrous.. .

  but i was thinking that it's not what someone made them in the past but what they are right now.. to us, at this moment.

  am i going to sit down on thanksgiving.. and say, "i hate those indians, think i'll go kill some"..????

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  WHY DOES GOD HATE ME?

  by Mary in

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  do you ever feel like god really hates you?

  when nothing ever works out for you?

  when you're stupid enough to actually think that you might find happiness?

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  Why would this even cross my mind?!?!?!?!

  by Juniper in

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  well, after 10 years of being together, hubby has decided that he's found his 'soul mate' (the second time this year, neither of which was me) and is moving out.. i'm thirty years old and no kids, thanks to the fact that i spent 12 years in full time service telling everyone it's better to wait until the 'new system' for raising a family.

  that's all beside the point - and perhaps better suited for my counselor.

  :) anyway, the thought that keeps going through my mind is "this never would have happened if i didn't leave" and "how am i going to find someone to spend my life with at this age and who will understand me the way an ex-jw can"???

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  I Want To Collect Kingdom Melodies!

  by Nosferatu in

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  could someone please tell me how many different versions of the kingdom melodies are out there?

  i'm only aware of the piano recordings and the orchestra crap.

  what other arrangements (box sets) has the wts released?.

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  Curiosity dictates a question like this...

  by Juniper in

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  have any of you out there ever taken the "opposite route" and studied paganism or wicca?.

  i know of some that practice that.

  but i've been thinking about what a strange irony that would be, right?

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  Mass? Maine?

  by Juniper in

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  anyone out there from massachusetts or maine?

  i'm looking for old friends that may have left!

  i'm not too keen on saying where i'm from yet (family doesn't realize i'm officially "not coming back").

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  Fading: A Little Craziness Helps

  by metatron in

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  as you may know, i am a zealous advocate of using depression as a means of fading out of the organization.. let me add that a hint of craziness or mental illness can work wonders, too.

  instead of shunning you, your witness.

  relatives and "friends" may make quite an allowance for you, if you just keep your mouth shut about deep apostasy.. they may just feel sorry for you and leave you alone- at least, that's largely my experience.. remember that movie that said "love means never having to say you're sorry"?

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  Was Being A Witness, All THAT Bad???

  by minimus in

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  i mean, you could've been made to be an islamic fundamentalist or something, right?

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  Higher Education

  by uwishufish in

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  this may have already been done if so sorry.. how many have gone on to earn college degrees after leaving the borg?

  in what feild?.

  how many are full time students now earning a degree?.

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  October Announcement Tid Bit

  by Juniper in

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  ok, i dont know what it is either.

  but i can tell you that it exists!

  i know an ms who was talking to a bro from bethel who said that there was big stuff coming and big changes.

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