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  Do we have trust issues?

  by KW13 in

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  since the 'incident' with trevor and company, do you feel you cannot trust people here anymore?

  i don't mean online in general, i don't mean in your day to day life i mean on this site.. i think some of us have taken a direct hit right where trust was and the issues are starting to become apparent on this site.

  i'm not referring to individuals but rather the general feel of the site - it feels like the site has developed a limp.

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  helncon

  In some things there will be a few while will be sceptical when someone announces they have an illness.

  But i think the majority of us have put it behind them and moved on.

  helen
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  How many years before you left did you realise it was not the truth?

  by jambon1 in

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  i was only in for 10 years.

  however, i never feel that i 100% believed it all, even at the point of baptism.. i think after the initial period of 'love' shown on the part of the brothers, i must have only been a baptised brother for about 4 years when i knew it was all wrong on so many different levels.. i remember a sister saying to me "once they have got you under the water, that's when you see the real way they treat you".

  it all changed after baptism.

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  The same day i was baptised.

  I remember a sister saying to me "once they have got you under the water, that's when you see the real way they treat you". She was right. It all changed after baptism.

  This did it for me too.

  Helen
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  What are you doing tonight/weekend?

  by KW13 in

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  tonight i am going to be driving down to st. helens (not far from liverpool) with an aunt to drop off her car at a friends garage and then coming back with her, fortunately her friend is lending her a car otherwise we'd be stuck there lol.. saturday i am going to a bon-fire with family minus mum and stepdad (don't get me wrong i wish they were there).. sunday - no idea.... .

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  Well its now saturday morning for me.

  Last night i do athletics with my kids and i have every friday off.

  Today wil be a kinda lazy morning just doing a little housework and if it stays fin will mow the yard then have to leave for work at 3pm and then get home from work at 1am.

  Sunday will consist of hopefully a small sleepin and get up and leave for work for midday and get back home about 4 in the afternnon and cook dinner and have an early night.

  Helen
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  I got shunned yesterday

  by loosie in

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  man i love the feeling of power i get when people run away w/o me doing anything but beiing me.. but now that i think about it.

  it's not my power but the power that fear has over them.

  dang it i liked my first feeling better.. anywho.. i was in walmart yesterday and i was walking down the main aisle when the p.o.

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  I think its worse when you are with a group of people and they can see that you are getting shunned.

  Keep your head high you have nothing to be ashamed about.

  Helen
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  Is it POOR PARENTING to raise a child into a religious faith?

  by nicolaou in

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  or, by the same token, to raise a child to be atheist?

  surely we should teach our children how to think, not what to think.

  equip them with the mental tools they need to be able to work things out for themselves.

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  If it all that you know.

  For me its more of teaching my children in everything but the most important thing if for them to know from good and bad and right from wrong.

  Helen
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  How it looks from both sides of JWD mods v posters :-)

  by Sad emo in

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  moderators view:.

  poster's view:.

  http://icanhascheezburger.com/.

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  lol... too funny.

  Yes they show as pics

  Helen
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  Need information concerning my infant child

  by willz in

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  hello all, i have been attending meetings for about two months, but have been reading about the truth for a year now.

  our firstborn was on oct 7th, this year ;) however, my wife is in a c.o.g.i.c.

  and because im not as humble as most, i often argue with her about the lies being told in her babylonian church.

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  Welcome Willz,

  And congrates on the baby.

  However i am a little confused with your situation unless i am not reading it right.

  You are only studying with the jw's?

  my wife is in a C.O.G.I.C.

  I'm not sure what that is.

  But im guessing that your wife wants your child to be baptised now which i am guessing is a whole lot different to being baptised as a jw.

  I'm sure someone here can help you more than what i can

  Regards

  Helen
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  Saw this on a sign today

  by coffee_black in

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  "unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.".

  whoever wrote that could have been a dub.. coffee .

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  Got to admit its a good quote

  Helen
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  Christmas Card exchange?

  by bem in

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  has someone started a christmas card exchange list yet for this year?

  we did this in the past and it was such fun to get all the great cards.. .

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  Yes i will be in.

  Helen
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  Is there a God? The musings of madman as he walks through the woods

  by dawg in

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  bear with me, i promice you'll be happy you read this, .

  here at uga, i studied in the micro-biology department for the first three years of college-organic chem 3 pretty much ended my career.

  i think evolution is pretty sound sans the fact that they haven't answered the question of how life began.

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  Now to the point, if there is a God, why the hell would he allow something like this? Why would he listen to my prayers and let babies be born in such ways? I'm asking what ideas you here on the board have because I really do want to believe in God, but damn man, look at stuff like that and see the randomness in it! He don't do squat for man.... What do you guys think and please leave out the myth about the talking snake.....

  Hi Dawg,

  You know i often have wondered why would a kind god let be created humasn with such deformities and illnesses. Not only mental but also physical and some that you cannot even see

  We ware taught that jeh is a loving god but how can he let this happen.

  We are also told its from that we came from perfect but now that we are so far from perfection that these things happen.

  For me i don't believe that there is a god.

  I know that we were created but by whom is another matter.

  We have eveolved over the many thousends of years and we can see this change but the technology that has happened and buy what human kind has accomplished.

  It beats me if there is a god why he has let things go on for so long and if the bible is true will this system come to an end and who will be saved.???????

  Another thing that also frustrates me is that it is written in the great big book the bible( for those who believe me im not sure) about homosexuality but yet it occurs with our humanity. Just a though

  Helen