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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

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  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  O parakeet! 4th graders. When they are 10 years old they are funny and wiser than they will be for years. Thanks!
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  Tammy, Phizzy! Thanks!

  I am so slow at typing--hunt-n-pecker.

  There is a darkness of faith when I have moved to any action. The results don't come in for a while. Yet the manner I have come to accept the darkness may be how you have seen events of this past year for your loved ones: you can only act as you have the light to act.

  The light may be as dark and the time so strange as that old old story of Abraham at Gen 15. Sweaty, batty old man laying out dead animals in an open field before a God that he could barely apprehend. Fighting off carrion birds past sundown. Was God there at all?

  I am so glad that there have been good things come about, Tammy. The decisions must have taxed your faith --but look now! The retelling of these things is what we owe our own family and the sharing of it with others is the sharing of faith. It is good to know the weight of love and grace can make us doubt, it is so heavy. But it isn't the new normal--it is the old normal.

  At least that is my perception.

  Thanks for bringing up my letters of struggling from the power of the FDS. Looking back at them myself I am amazed that whatever namely cipher had to type and send Bethel's response could not see the dishonest attempt at crushing my faith in God. That process--talk about dark!--took soooo long that I wondered what God was up to. Well, I see something that probably needed to happen--I needed to REALLY think about what religion does to any of us who seeing "through a glass darkly" nevertheless are honestly trying to see what there is to see.

  It was a revelation--a monster posing as God.
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  Good morning, tammy-up-north! you old tea drinker you!

  Your family doing okay? ("Okay" being very loosely defined, I know. Mine is fine--yet I am certainly hoping for things to improve.)

  Maybe doing "okay" means nobody is crashing and burning? I will let you say or--not!
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  Are the Witnesses Really Losing Their Young People?

  by What Now? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that article about jehovah's witnesses having the lowest retention rate for born ins keeps popping up every now again ... i'm just curious if any of you have noticed that this is actually the case.

  in the congregation that i grew up in, i'm going to say that 95% of the young people in their teens to mid twenties are either regular pioneering, regular auxiliary pioneering, serving in foreign language congregations or where the need is greater.

  both of my younger sisters are regular pioneers - and the young people in their hall even organize 8 pm to midnight service on friday nights of their own accord.

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  The internet is a real danger to the WT. Young people use it.

  This is an interesting topic.
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
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  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  Just up and about--having my coffee.

  Good morning! Lois, whatever time zone you are in, I hope you are well. The wild plum in the fencerows are preparing to bud and all the old homesteads are marked with yellow daffodils.

  Your mother may have felt the same tearing pain that I felt that when I was "in"--always working to buy out time to serve Jehovah. The Joy of life was always near and yet always unattainable. Perhaps her memories of the Ozarks and her grandpa and riding horse back--because they were so happy and so gone-- made her a little bitter...but you stayed sweet.

  Only two of my children were baptised. One DA'd the other was DF'd. My daughter who DA'd made me reflect on the blind crudity of the manner young ones are handled when they have honest doubts. She was amazing in how she managed herself at age 17. But for a time I was afraid she would kill herself. She is 34 now. It took her years before she felt free to pray.

  My husband is in good health but has had a lot of broken bones that act up every day--but he was surprised that his 'young' wife got sick. I am staying in a place with running water and a washer/ dryer while I am doing this cancer treatment. Much closer to everything.

  I wonder if I can do something to help the pain that JW lies have caused for others. I can see the topics under dicussion--and I hope there may be a way to invite local discussion. Everyone has their own way to help. That's how I feel.
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  new member- my story

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. jw
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  "that which can be asserted without evidence, can.

  be dismissed without evidence.

  " - christopher hitchens.

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  Very honest to say the new perspective you have on your time in, the seductive pull of being "in". The class distinction among the royalty of Bethel. You wrote it well. Thanks.
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  Laughing still, h@l !! I'm sure that happened!!!!

  Lois, Siloam Springs is only @25 miles from here. Small world--I haven't done much riding since I had the first of our 7 children. Been a-foot mostly.
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  It has been turbulent. I was still "de-toxing" from my 22-year run with the Witnesses when I went up to live again with my husband on the family farm. One of my sons was becoming deeply involved with drugs--meth. During these past 3 years he was arrested twice and there was a lot -a LOT--of trouble on the mountain--Drugs and chaos. My husband broke his leg , etc. etc. It sounds like a bunch of made up stuff--drought, fights, car wrecks.

  The kind of stuff that often happens to a lot of us.But I have seven grown children and my husband works horses still--he is 80 next birthday.

  But I did get to go back to spooncarving at the farmers' market in Fayetteville, AR.There I got to be gently shunned by passing Witnesses. Some,apparently because I hadn't been expelled for any sensational sin, hadn't heard that I was "unavailable" as one put it. These would come up saying a greeting and I would tell them that I was disfellowshipped. And I became a hot coal to them. They never asked what happened or why.But I have a lot of friends, many good, wonderful people who are not witnesses. They have been incredibly loving to me.

  I have been laid open in front of God.

  How's life for you?
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  Hallo!

  You are my Brit friend?!!

  There are some distressing things in all this but I am most grateful -for many reasons-that this didn't befall me in, say, my 30's, 40's. ummm-maybe even my 50's. "O, the horror!" It is easier to laugh at myself.

  That said, I believe my colo-rectal doctor is vastly underpaid
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  Not A Captive got Humbled

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar....... it is i, nac, with a new given name come back for a visit since i have internet for a while.

  i have missed you these three years.

  i've been in a far away land--the ozark mountains of nw arkansas.. because i've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.. any quality potty-humor (no naughty bm's---oops!---.

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  I'm sure the more discerning of you thought that the silly, green, wooly-headed avatar called "humbled" that strolled on the scene here looked familiar......

  it is I, NAC, with a new given name come back for a visit since I have internet for a while. I have missed you these three years. I've been in a far away land--the Ozark Mountains of NW Arkansas.

  Because I've been blessed with anal canal cancer (nothing so hum-drum as rectal cancer) circumstances allow me to share your company 'til my sad bum can get radiated more-or-less back into shape.

  Any quality potty-humor (No naughty bm's---oops!--- I meant pms) that can pass the censors will be much appreciated.

  Other than that I have enjoyed a few days' lurk-about to see what's up topic-wise--Very lively!

  Maeve Courteau