Posts by BFD

if you had your chance who would you want to meet face to face, talk to them, spend some time picking their brain, have a dinner with, get to know better?.

i have many but want to hold off for now!!!.

abr.

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I think I would like to meet Mouthy, Confession, Auld Soul, Terry and Nvr.

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I have some very good news...

by Abandoned in

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...but i can't say anything more right now.

still, it's amazingly, wonderfully, ain't the sky a gorgeous shade of blue today kind of news.

wish me luck... .

BFD

Whatever your good news is, good luck!

You're not running off with Juction Guy, are you?

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Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?

by gumby in

many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.

for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.

for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.

BFD

Hi Gumby,

I know exactly what you are saying there. I have not been a JW for over 30 years but I always thought they had the truth. I just could not live up to the standard. Now that I know the truth about the truth I can't say I am happier. It's nice not looking over my shoulder for the big A to come and kill me but there are many other real dangers in this world. So, I am still kinda paranoid. I am still angry at the org. for the shunning policy. My mom shuns the family. Am I any happier?

No, not really, I don't get 30 years of my life back for a re-do, but I am a wee bit relieved that I am not spiritually dead.

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Those raised as JWs-Do you recall the path of doubts that led you to leave?

by ithinkisee in

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i posted a similar topic a year and a half ago.

i thought with all the new people it would be interesting to ask it again.

so i began to research ... and here i am.

BFD

The short and sweet of it is that I just couldn't believe god was going to kill everyone that was not a JW. I saw self rightousness and judgemental "brothers and sisters" all around me and I knew that I did not want to live for eterntiy with these people so I just started smokoing and I didn't hide it. I was 16 when I was disfellowshipped in 1976. Raised JW from the age of 5. It sucks beacuse I still smoke. UGH!

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I dropped the BOMB, but it missed???????!!!!!!!

by Schism in

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hello my dearest friends.

so sorry that i have not been online much.

i have been quite busy lately!.

BFD

I would love to read the e-mail. It is amazing how things get lost in the reading comprehension with most JWs. Sorry you're going through this. My mom has shunned the family for 5 years now. I stopped trying to reach her about 3 years ago but last night I wrote a letter to her. I don't know if I'll send it. I posted it here on another thread if you'd like to take a look.

Again, sorry for your pain.

BFD

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superstition sparks toilet cleaning craze

by BlackSwan of Memphis in

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyenoughnews&storyid=2007-03-01t193300z_01_t271092_rtrukoc_0_us-japan-luck.xml&src=rss.

tokyo (reuters) - cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.. "cleaning the toilet to attract luck" published this month is the latest in a series of books advising readers on how to attract good fortune using a brush and an array of cleaning fluids.. "don't just wipe the floor, polish it," the book instructs.

"it's important to maintain a positive mood while cleaning.".

BFD

That explains why I never win the lottery! I will clean my toilet as soon as I get home from work today, then run to the store and buy a handful of lottery tickets. Does 2000 flushes count?

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