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  Ex-JW Friends - Learning Who They Really Are

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  learning to find friends as an ex-jw.

  i wrote this essay because of what i have observed and experienced in the way of disappointment and reward in the relationships and freinds i have made online.

  i can relate to how you some x-jws feel about leaving online discussion boards.

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  bernadette

  I am now in the process of finding out who my true friends are. Now that I am fading I find that I don't miss anyone particularly from the KH.

  My husband and I have always viewed each other as best friends but our present situation is very challenging - however I am focused on salvaging as much of our relationship as I can.

  Like you though I have rediscovered a friend from the past. That friend went on to become an athiest whereas I, of course a dogmatic fundamentalist. On the rare occasions that we did meet it always ended in an argument so we saw less and less of each other. But now we have so much to share and rediscover, it truly is wonderful.

  Bernadette
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  one year today

  by darth frosty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today is my one year aniversary on jwd.

  what a difference a year can make.

  this time last year i was just mustering the courage to type jehovah into a search engine and view the results (and this after being away from the hall for 2 years.

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  H A P P Y A N N I V E R S A R Y

  D A R T H

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  another surgery for her

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok hannah's facing another surgery.. here's the deal:.

  last week they found something behind her right ear drum.

  they did a cat scan while she was in the hospital.

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  bernadette

  Hope everything goes well for Hannah - thinking of you all

  bernadette
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  Sitting Here Crying

  by Undecided in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just head that my grandson has a bad kind of cancer.

  it's hard to accept stuff like this.

  i just hope they can do something to help him survive.. ken p..

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  bernadette

  We will be thinking of you and your family and praying for your precious grandson.

  Bernadette
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  Thanks all now I'm leaving

  by wozadummy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  due to funkyderek i have come to the decision to leave this board.

  when i posted on the current gay thread in a way that i thought would stimulate thinking and lighten up the seriosness of the thread and have a laugh, he and others put me down publically labelling me.

  so i find it difficult now to continue posting knowing that someone has influenced others into thinking that i'm not worthy of being here because my phrasing and spelling is bad and that i'm apparently a "hyporite".

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  bernadette

  ((((((((((((please stay so that we can get to know you better)))))))))))

  don't know what its all about, but accept that it must be pretty bad to make u feel the way you do

  please reconsider
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  The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

  we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

  apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.

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  Leolaia

  Thanks for the article. I can't believe it - its like christmas everyday. Have to keep pinching myself. Must have been starving

  Bernadette
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  NEW BOOK Take Back Your Life

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i emailed the publisher this morning and did not expect to hear from him at least until monday.

  but i have my response already.. the book can be found at the publisher's website .

  http://www.baytreepublish.com/take-back-life-fr.html.

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  bernadette

  My experience with the psycho-psychiatric community is that they gloss over, completely, the inner relationship between a human's heart and the heart of God. They don't get it; they talk around it. Loving God, who's not "in the room" is a matter that psychology doesn't abide with at all; and it doesn't matter which church you find as a sanctuary after leaving the Witnesses. Psychiatry will try to talk you out of all spirituality because they are strictly behaviorist; and psychology will try to talk you right in to the Occult and New Age unitarian/universalist concepts.

  I hae been for counselling and did not find that they talked me out of spiritually but enabled me to go in the direction that was most beneficial for me personally

  Many years ago I was offered stress management with a clinical psychologist but was told more or less what you have said above 'they will try to talk you into the Occult and New Age unitarian/universalist concepts'

  I wish I had not listened to that JW teaching at that time.

  Bernadette
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  Please welcome my friend chaiyah

  by unclebruce in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  g'day chaiyah,.

  welcome to jwd.

  this place needs your broom of truth to sweep through it like there's no tommorrow!

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  bernadette

  welcome chaiyah ----- good to have you with us

  bernadette
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  Gays Leave JWD!

  by hambeak in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got a phone call from a person that i gave my phone # to.

  and this person said that gays are not welcome here and this is not what this board was really about.

  i told them that this is only one part of the crap that the wts did to people and that we are people too.

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  (((((hambeak)))))

  Sounds like the chap who rang you has a lot to deal with .......... but he does not speak for me and never will
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  Here's my latest poem

  by Abandoned in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i worked this morning and on my break i felt inspired.

  let me know what you think.. the real life.

  terrified of friendship's bite,.

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  a victory poem.

  Shows what a complete transformation we make. Courage through tears