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  It's Sunday????

  by J-ex-W in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am so off on my body clock.

  another person posted on here about watching friends on this sunday, and i'm sitting here that since her note says she's from netherlands, she must be at least twelve hours ahead of me, or something.

  --that and, i just realized, i never got a phone call today from my congregation to get hooked up on the phone line for sunday wt.

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  J-ex-W

  I gotta ask. Do ya have the speaker phone on the WT meeting, listening (at least half-listening)
  while you are reading and posting on JWD. That's the ultimate hand gesture to the WTS.

  I'm sending you a PM.
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  It's Sunday????

  by J-ex-W in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am so off on my body clock.

  another person posted on here about watching friends on this sunday, and i'm sitting here that since her note says she's from netherlands, she must be at least twelve hours ahead of me, or something.

  --that and, i just realized, i never got a phone call today from my congregation to get hooked up on the phone line for sunday wt.

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  I am so off on my body clock. Another person posted on here about watching Friends on this Sunday, and I'm sitting here that since her note says she's from Netherlands, she must be at least twelve hours ahead of me, or something. --That and, I just realized, I never got a phone call today from my congregation to get hooked up on the phone line for Sunday WT. Must be a special assembly day or something. There's a relief to that, and also some anxiety.... [You know--what if they've found out I'm on this board, etc.]

  Man, I knew I had been holing up, doing some wound-licking, but I had no idea I was this out of it!!
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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
  2. friends

  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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  I posted on this thread a day or two back, and now I feel horrible!!! I didn't look at the thread, just at the topic--a fun survey, I thought. So I wrote something about 'too many posts'--MINE, I meant!! Now, today, I see it is actually an online diary, and I feel terrible for giving 'negative feedback' that wasn't even feedback to that at all!!!

  SORRY, CoCo!!! I wasn't saying you are making too many posts...I was being flip about ME making too many posts.... My bad...!

  Keep on...keep on....
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  anyone else out there land on a psych ward after being df'd???

  by Messy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  its a long story that starts with panic attacks going door to door and ended with a 2 month vacation in the cornwall on.

  psych floor for two months.

  i was stalked by the elders for 3 years after i stopped going to meetings.

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  Messy---Yes...your story deserves to be told...and you deserve to tell it.

  And yes, again...I do feel this overwhelming need to write a book about my experiences, as do so many others I hear from on this board and similar sites. [In fact, many have done, and I thoroughly congratulate them for their fortitude and follow-through!!]

  Welcome....
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.silentlambs.org/denmarklawsuit.htm.

  [see more information at the link above] .

  jehovahs witnesses lose court battle to suppress freedom of speech.

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  J-ex-W

  I just did comment. Thank for you the link. Most of you have read what I have to say (my story), but now others outside of JWD board will have opportunity to read it as well.
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  shunned? advertise for a new family..

  by candidlynuts in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll post page one..there are 3 other pages at the link below... she also has started her own website to help other people find new families.. http://www.familywanted.com/.

  http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/02/newparents?currentpage=1.

  single white female seeks new parentswhen jenna macfarlanes mother and father cut all ties with her, she placed an ad looking for new ones.

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  Wow!! What a wonderful idea!

  --The only problem I have with putting out an ad like that for my situation is that the family I miss the most would be my children...and I can't help thinking that I would be suspected as a pedophile reaching out for access to child victims or something....
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  What is marital rape?

  by Lady Lee in

  1. social
  2. family

  i had never heard of this term until i was divorced for many years.

  the term "marital rape" confused me as i am sure it confused others.. but i knew what it was.

  i knew how it felt.

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  FreeChick, What you wrote about and to your mom was beautiful. --I only hope my own boys learn to look at my nearly identical situation [minus the family support] in the same understanding, forgiving, loving, and appreciative way. My kids have NO idea the effort and self-sacrifice I put into caring for them--more than very many mothers, quite honestly, since I considered educating/ nurturing them to be my job first and foremost.

  They have no concept of the fact that I was killing myself to try to care for their needs well and to please a jealous dad who would, throughout all of their earlier years, contribute little on a social/ emotional/ spiritual level and would demand time and attention away from the boys that he should rightly have been pitching in to enhance. I ran interference for the boys--I was their buffer from their dad's anger against them--besides receiving his wrath and unreasoning, relentless demands upon myself [not to mention the WT's].

  I am so glad to hear an adult recognize and honor that effort on her mother's behalf. I guarantee you, FreeChick, she did the best she could! You're a wise, loving, and appreciative daughter. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your words as a voiceover to my kids' faces. I need that kind of encouragement to come from somewhere.
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  info on recognizing abusers/ personality disorders

  by J-ex-W in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  found a website that talks about narcissistic personality disorder (and borderline and anti-social, etc.

  ) and how to recognize it and stop the abuse.. http://tearsandhealing.com/narcissistic-personality-disorder5.htm?utm_content=5whatis-ishe-notcrazy-lrndis-stopab&gclid=ckpeqekngyocfqlqwaodukvqqw.

  http://www.toddlertime.com/sam/66.htm.

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  J-ex-W

  Found a website that talks about narcissistic personality disorder (and borderline and anti-social, etc.) and how to recognize it and stop the abuse.

  http://tearsandhealing.com/narcissistic-personality-disorder5.htm?utm_content=5whatis-ishe-notcrazy-LrnDis-stopAb&gclid=CKPEqeKngYoCFQlQWAodukvqQw

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  http://www.toddlertime.com/sam/66.htm

  http://www.toddlertime.com/narcissism/what-is-npd.htm

  Notice how the description of narcissism also applies to cult leaders/ cult leadership mentality
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  Have they denied this one yet?

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  "... shortly, within our twentieth century, the 'battle in the day of jehovah' will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.

  " the nations shall know that i am jehovah - how?

  1971, chap.

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  If they even remember/ pay attention to it, they will say that the fulfillment DID occur in the 20th century--invisibly, in heaven--and that some later (present) JW event on earth is proof that the 'battle in the day of Jehovah' is well underway and moving toward its successful culmination.
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  Met anyone Famous? What were they Like?

  by Clam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever met and had chance to talk to someone "famous"?

  maybe an actor, politician, musician?

  if you have were they different from their public persona?

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  J-ex-W

  At an assembly, I met Larry Graham (of the 1960's/ 70's music group Sly and the Family Stone) and his wife Tina, and Prince's first wife. [But not Prince--just watched as he was getting out of his limo, purple get-up and all.] Larry and Tina were very personable and friendly, down to earth. They were longtime regular pioneers by then and also the ones who studied with and brought Prince into the truth. [one famous musician to another--apparently, it works]