i wanted to share some very cool (in my opinion) news.
in two months i will have been gone from bethel for 14 years and attended my last meeting 11 years ago.
i spent 11 years at bethel sacrificing all of my 20's to the borg and finding myself at age 32 with no resume or real work experience.. it has been a tough haul with the majority of my energy going into building a career.
congrats Uzzah...
Bethel's lost is the rest of the world's (us included) gain. WT = LOSERS Let's just hope they keep losing talent such as yourself.
I am curious to what (more specifically) you are doing now but that is something for a PM....
good luck with the election...
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here is an update to the topic posted here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/173229/1/wt-to-entirely-shut-down-brooklyn-soon-new-developments.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20090326/news03/903260466.
ramapo views jehovah's witnesses development plan.
"monastery" ... it is a zoning thing.... and think about it...isnt that what Bethel residential housing is? A bunch of monks Bethel drones going to do their daily prayers and worship pointless work in their printeries, etc?
Walkill, Patterson, and Ramapo, NY = The Bermuda Triangle of the Watchtower
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i recently posted that my wife has had mental/depression problems since she hurt her back at work 12 months ago....and since after years of picking on the witnesses by me, she finally lost her faith in them and became in-active....victory i thought!
slowly her stress levels began to rise...she quit work and rehab....then the sleeplessness, wierd behavior..wild agression....bizzar stuff.
we split for two months after much stress...she called me back home crying and i relent...she lost many kilo's {pounds} in weight, and isn't doing well i want to help, i was heartbroken to see this.
w007
The ultimate sacrifice.....
We do what we have to do for the ones we love.
If I had gotten married in 07 I would have stuck it out with the JW wife instead of walking away from the cult. Turns out I didnt have to..she broke off the engagement due to her bipolar issues. Saved us both a lot of long-term pain. I would have stuck with her though.
Cannot imagine how you are dealing with it, but Matrix comparison is very apt indeed. Hang in there..and be glad the net is out there for your support.
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i luvs you.. especially the newbies and chalam.. tee hee hee.. sylvia.
hiya snowbird........i just knew you had to be messin with us...
My JW momma is trying to get me to make a trip down to see her in 'Bama.... no time no money....
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has anyone felt uncomfortable telling others that they were once jws?
i have shared this info with very few people in the 19 years since i left.
i don't want to have to explain to someone who wouldn't understand anyway.
when I finally move away from this area, I have no intention on revealing my JW past to new people. I do not want to be pidgeon-holed into that crazy corner.... Fresh start and all.
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i have been reading this site for a while now but have never posted.
i am an ex-pioneer, who left the organization 15 years ago.
i served as a need-greater in a foreign country and when i came back i walked away.
welcome RaraAvis
My mom is also a 40 year JW...wasting her whole life in it... I just got out a couple years ago..after years of doubts.
I got rid of a lot of my WT literature here (the old JWD) ..I just requested people cover cost of postage and trusted people. No one stiffed me, most gave a bit more for me to go out to dinner... only one person only gave the postage cost..... and I figure if someone is helped by seeing the truth about the Truth™, well then it is good. I still have some WT lit...I keep meaning to burn it or at least send it to the recycle bin... time time...
Funny why we kept so much literature over the years..most dubs have not read any of it unless it was "studied" at a meeting. I was an exception. Probably why I had doubt...
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from what i've read on here, i understand many of you have a certain amount of anger over the way the society controlled every aspect of your lives.
thats understandable.
i still have a bit, even though my fade is complete.. that being said, i think everyone on here has a goal to help those that are still trapped inside the mind controlling cult.
jackie:
If someone really wants to research the other side of their religion a few unsavory phrases are not going to turn them away. And if someone is not ready to research the other side of their religion this site will turn them away with or without those same unsavory phrases.
exactly. I have mentioned this on occasion but the more I thought about it, the more I came to a similar realization.
I do occasionally use the term "Borg", but if it is on a more serious topic, such as experiences of people leaving the religion or other major issues where kindness should be excersised, I try to avoid the derogatory terms some of us have adopted since leaving.
WTWizard has some of the most colorful terms for JWs.... and I usually laugh..but sometimes I cringe because I think of what doubting/lurking JWs (aka "dubs") might think...("crazy apostates").... if they are ready to search...it wont put them off..it didnt scare me away, and I was a deeply ingrained elder when I first started lurking...
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just a shout out to poster georgiegirl (or anyone who can do this).... is it possible to downgrade an .ai file (i believe this is in adobe illustrator v. 10) down to an adobe illustrator version 7 file?
or convert to coreldraw 12?
the shop that we took it to locally is using cd12...and only has adobe 7. personally i wouldnt have used that particular shop for printing or anything... for one particular use, we are piggybacking on another organization and they made the decision to use that vendor.
just getting back online...school kicking my tail... and thank you all for the input. What I dont understand is that I have multiple flavors of the file thanks to gg. Included in that is an eps file. When I gave the person at the print shop (seems to be more of a tshirt shop but also does banners, etc), my flash drive had .ai (v10), eps, pdf, jpg, and gif.
I dont think this guy who owns this place knows his butt from a hole in the ground. However, I did not choose the place. The college campus club that I am part of is teaming up with another club on a joint use poster for events that we co-sponsor. We need to add our very professional looking logo to their very amateur logo on the poster. When we do our own we will be using a different shop.
mastadon:
Any print shop using Illustrator 7 or ANY version of Corel should, as an act of mercy, be burned to the ground
I wish you could see this dump. I live in a town that has died but someone forgot to tell it and shut off the lights. These print shops are all either very amateur or outrageously expensive, or both. I have to go to St. Louis if I want a real print shop.
I will forward the info above to the print shop.
gg:
If your illustrator file has text, make sure you convert text to curves before saving it and bringing it into corel (make it vector art).
i am not exactly certain what you just said...I presume the name of the club in the logo is text and not some sort of graphic but I dont know.. you made it all pretty... and you saved it as multiple files...I dont know why the print shop doesnt know this...
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i have some great neighbors...spanish on both sides of me, and down the street.
their homes are very nice and the yards are kept up....but there is the strangest thing.
they love to put big wooden posts in the middle of their beautiful lawns with the most hideous kmart type night lighting fixtures you have ever scene.
If that was all my neighbor was doing I would not have had to put up a $700 6 foot high, 120 ft long stockade fence between us (and I rent..I had to pay $500 of that)...just to keep him from driving through my yard and coming over and attacking me....
he did come over again a week or so back banging on my door wondering why I called the cops on him (apparently he has a scanner..the cops hadnt even arrived yet)... LOUD BASS in a car he wasnt even sitting in..he just went outside to turn it on to piss me off. But at least he had to go around to the street side before he could get to my house.
I told him (through the locked door) to go the hell away I wasnt bothering him.
I have waited the bastard out and lately havent heard or seen much of him... I have to pick and choose my battles with that thug.
give me 10 foot high ugly ass lights any day. (I doubt its a nationality thing...probably all got a deal over at Big Lots or Hood's or something)
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http://www.lohud.com/article/20090326/news03/903260466/-1/rss01?loc=interstitialskip.
that is kind of weird the way they are placing properties... Walkill on the NW.... Patterson on the NE...and Ramapo on the SW.. all out in the country but not too far from major interstates. Ramapo is right off of I-87.... Wallkill is 6 miles off of I-87...Patterson 4 miles off of I-84...and all within 30 miles of each other as the crow flies... Yeah, they don't want everyone too close to each other....but out of the city....
....kind of a Bermuda Triangle where Old Light goes to hide....
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