Welcome to JWN! Yes, I would read your book, but I hope you follow Steve's suggestions. Also I hope that by the time you write it, you'll have an ending different than
I doubt I will ever really accept the world.
jamiebowers
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I am thinking of writing a book. Would you read it?
by ekruks ini had a nervous breakdown, growing up in a very strict, abusive religious community that you know of.. .
living throughout the world in modern 21st-century cities, we strongly believe the end of the world is nigh due to moral decline, and thoroughly follow a moral code which i respect, seeing drugs etc.
do harm people.
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Looking back -- 2 years as sd-7
by sd-7 ini won't likely be able to post on the 31st, so i'm taking this moment to make a post now, in honor of my 2-year anniversary at jwn.
happy mother frakking anniversary, sd-7!!
as we ponder it, we start to realize just how much i've grown.
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jamiebowers
Happy Anniversay, dear heart. There are so many funny one liners in yur post that I don't have time to quote them all. It's going to be tough, but you'll get through. Check your email if ou haven't already, hav a good weeked, and GET SOME REST, (yes, I'm yelling at you!).
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Victoria, Australia: Steven Unthank's Press Release: JW's Hierarchy Formally Charged Today With Child Abuse
by AndersonsInfo injehovah's witnesses hierarchy charged.
immediate press release: 26 july 2011. link to this press release: http://wp.me/p1g1hc-4o.
worldwide church hierarchy charged with child abuse.
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jamiebowers
Please try to remember this everybody -- There is no fee for a background check for religions in Victoria!
My mistake then.
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Victoria, Australia: Steven Unthank's Press Release: JW's Hierarchy Formally Charged Today With Child Abuse
by AndersonsInfo injehovah's witnesses hierarchy charged.
immediate press release: 26 july 2011. link to this press release: http://wp.me/p1g1hc-4o.
worldwide church hierarchy charged with child abuse.
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If I remember correctly, an article I read a while back said there is a charge of $75 a year for each person who is background checked. Maybe the Watchtower doesn't want to pay, or they don't want to lose that money indirectly, as dnations will be reduced by elders and other congregants who would have to pay it themselves.
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Hmmmm....interesting.
by Tralfamadorian indoes anyone else see the implied jesus reference in this video?
[metallica, the unforgiven].
2:20 minutes in, up to about 3:00 minutes.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myumpkfyd6g.
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The imagery yes, but I can't understand the lyrics.
btt
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Hmmmm....interesting.
by Tralfamadorian indoes anyone else see the implied jesus reference in this video?
[metallica, the unforgiven].
2:20 minutes in, up to about 3:00 minutes.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myumpkfyd6g.
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Living in fear
by darthfader inmy wife and i have been trying to put a finger on our personal motivations.
what drives us to do what we do?.
it comes down to this basic fact: we are afraid.
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jamiebowers
Soe fear is normal. It's what keeps people going to work and paying their ills instead of being a beach bum or something. But fear of expressing your thoughts or having your own views at the expense of keeping family and friends is abnormal. People who care about you are suppsed to stick with you, not abandon you at the first sign of "trouble".
Although I've lost my mother, (probably forever, since she's shunned me for almost 24 years), and my brother, (who shunned me for 20 years until he left the borg), being df'd was the best thing that ever happened to me. It freed me to develop real friendshps, re-establish relationships with "worldly" relatives, obtain a college degree, and have a loving, normal family. I wish the best for you as you pursue freeom from fear.
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Thinking about loosing my friends ....
by Dudu ini think the harddest part of all this process of fading is losing friends .... ive been jw all my life and my all my close friends are jw ... im sad.
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jamiebowers
You're not losing much. Once you develop real friendships, you will see that they're not as conditional as jw friendships. For example, my best friend is a born again Christian; I am not. She's a Republican; I am a Democrat. We have huge fundamental differences, but we are still friends. She has made major life decisions with which I disagreed, but I stood by her when it all went to hell. When my husband went into cardiac arrest, she was the first person I called after 911 and his kids. I was in shock while getting ready to follow the ambulance to the hospital and couldn't even function enough to put on my shoes. She did it for me and led me by the hand like a child, got me in the van and drove me to the hospital. She spent part of Thanksgiving Day in the hospital with us and had a plate waiting for me when I got home. Good or bad, right or wrong, we've always been there for each other, and I've only known this woman for eight years.
Recently she was dagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. It is terminal, and my heart broke when I learned how dire her situation is. But she's requested no tears being shed for her. So despite the fact that I come apart at the seams on the inside, when I see her or talk to her on the phone, I put on a brave face and never let her know just how frightened and anguished I am. Like I said, good or bad, right or wrong, she deserves as much, because she truly is my friend.
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Are they really that weak willed?
by jean-luc picard inmr falcons thread on jw partys made me think about my new family's get togethers.. once or twice a year, we have a get together/picnic ( around 40 or 50 mostly family ).. we drink quite a bit of wine/ pernod ( our wives or 'sometimes husbands) drive home ).
i have never heard crude talk.
people sware a bit, but in an amusing kind of way.
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jamiebowers
The rank and file are driven by fear of reproach and a false sense of superiority when it comes to "bad association". The Watchtower's motivation, however, is to isolate and dominate the rank and file.
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Do more you slacker from July KM
by life is to short inthey still give my husband km for me.
i truly do not know why so i was flipping through the july one and it made me so mad, another example of us not doing enough.. "nelena, who is 19 years old and lives in bulgaria, had two desires-to be baptized and to auxiliary pioneer.
however, she suffers from hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, which for the moment is incurable.
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jamiebowers
LITS, I absolutely love you!