Posts by bernadette

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The Loaded Language

by The wanderer in

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the loaded language the hot button words that placed a label and.

identification on everything that was considered.

either good or bad.. it occurred to me that the organization had many.

bernadette

Inative

low

bitter

worldly

meek

haughty

rebellious

disobedience

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2alcholicparents:$$$ 1jwabusivemother:$# Being screwed up for life:priceles

by luvbug2007 in

my story is simple really.. sorry its kida long.

mother was dfd in 1975, during this time we were free to celebrate all holidays.

during this time were were livng overseas, where my grandparents were missionaries.

bernadette

Hi luvbug, welcome

I'm really sorry that you've had such a terrible life.

Unfortunately elders are so busy slaving for the wts they ignore the vulnerable, suffering ones.

this is a good place to heal

love

bernadette

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Revelation-Book Related Collages (Art)

by GermanXJW in

there is a german xjw-board at http://www.f25.parsimony.net/forum63052/index.htm (this is different to the one i normally refer to).. there appeared a member with the name '+' and presented very sophisticared collages for each chapter of the revelation-book.

(i would love to know who this is.).

they consist of quotes and pictures from this very book but also from very old (contradicting) wt-literature.

bernadette

Good one geramanxjw. Had a look earlier this morning. the cartoons made me laugh.

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Lonely Hearts Club Roll Call #2

by crazyblondeb in

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ok, we did this a couple weeks ago.

personally, i gained something very special from that thread!!.

what are you doing tonight??.

bernadette

Sunday morning here. Husband gone to the meeting - glad am out of that. We had a storm in our area last night. Gales of 100mph. Sun shining away now. Think I'll go to the park.

bernadette

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When it's not hypochondriasis

by MsMcDucket in

i've been through "this is not nothing" more than i care to recount.

with my husband, they said that he was faking illness to get out of work.

long story short we found the right doctor and he was diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma.

bernadette

Hope her treament is successful.

She's not afraid. When I called her, she said "I'm blessed".

She is a very brave young woman

Bernadette

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praying to Jesus - an analogy

by TheListener in

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for those who are christians,.

as a witness i never prayed to jesus and would have felt icky and evil had i done so.. .

as a christian who is no longer a jw i still haven't prayed to jesus.

bernadette

As a christian who is no longer a JW I still haven't prayed to Jesus. I feel I should. I feel I want to. But, the old dread is somehow still in me.

I have found the above to be true in my own case. I am presently working on simply keeping aware of Jesus and what he portrayed - as a sort of heart thing rather than a mind thing. Thats quite liberating and expansive.

The talking to rather than a praying to is good analogy. My daughter (she is now fading too) and i were discussing about talking to Jesus rather than praying to him. We both agreed that we found it difficult because trying to articulate is nigh on impossible because of our indoctrination.

Hope the above makes sense.

Bernadette

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NEW BOND - ANYONE

by tijkmo in

i thought he was fine.

good story too.

bernadette

i know where I'm going on holiday next year

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Apology to all

by wozadummy in

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this is an apology to all for my recent posts, i did'nt mean to upset anyone .

just coping with leaving the org ,and the past ,and trying to support my wife who, as some know from my prevoius posts has tried to deal with her pedophile elder(past) father for many years now thru the org ,and then being badly treated by them and her large extended family (most are witnesses and are trying to silence her), made me hit rock bottom.

we are now taking action via the police and court system and she is barely coping ,and me being bi-polar does'nt help matters much and i fell into to an unreal state for a while as we don't have much support of any kind.

bernadette

(((((((((((WELCOME BACK)))))))))))

Bernadette

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

bernadette

Terry/JamesThomas

All is well and good with this system until we attempt to step out of the finite, particle, phenomenal, thought world -- into the foundational or Wave reality. The Bible is suppose to be about the ultimate Truth, our Source, the Wave that gives birth to all particles of people places and things. The Bible doesn't do this though. It can't. It instead offers up a grand fictitious drama of particles in the form of isolated characters and events. It's not at all what it presents itself to be. It's a lie. One of the biggest lies ever told. It's a particle pretending to be a wave. A charade.

Don't want to sidetrack the thread but want to know if there is a sort of dummies guide to wave reality with respect to what we are discussing

thanks

bernadette

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Thanks all now I'm leaving

by wozadummy in

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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".

bernadette

Steve

I've borrowed this from a website I've bin reading

A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to James Madison, January

INHMO a little rebellion on a discussion forum can have a good effect because it enables us to gain new perspective - we bring out half formed ideas, dust them off, look at them in the cold light of day with friends and discard the ones that are not relevant to the life we are living today and in that way then prevent them from doing us harm in the future. The WTS opposes such thinking because they have found that they can control us through our half formed buried fears.

Gaining new insight is worth the blood sweat and tears of painful reawakening and isn't that what we are all doing here

If you are not coming back then farewell.

Bernadette