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  . Report Card = Report Farce

  by KnowlegeSeeker_UK in

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  17 years ago

  if im honest, i was a good boy, a pioneer, a bethelite.

  still i guessed at my hours based on a last minute tot up in the hall, and of course... i never rounded down.

  i cant be the only one that did this, infact i know i wasnt.

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  sometimes i faked sometimes didn't but over a year? - probably more faked than not, definitly not accurate!

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  Well i finally did it.........i got my nose pierced, and it felt soooo good

  by free2think in

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  17 years ago

  and im really really happy with it.

  i also got my ears pierced again, so now i have three on one side and four on the other.. i just wanted to share that with you all..

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  looks great! (missed post first time round)

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  Neat thing happened last nite...

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  17 years ago

  my wife and i celebrated our anniversary last nite.

  we were gonna go out to dinner, just the two of us, and leave our sons home with a pizza.

  they are both in band at school, and my oldest just joined the school's jazz band last week (he plays clarinet and tenor saxophone.

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  That's great! sounds like your kids loved it as much as you did too.

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  I am sooo stupid...we taught evolution?? What else don't I know?

  by oompa in

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  2. beliefs

  17 years ago

  i asked my dad not too long ago.."just how many things do we have to be wrong about before you start to wonder if we really have the truth?

  " he said he had kind of thought about that and we talked about whether being wrong about so many things in the past meant we were teaching falsehoods...just like we condemn every other religion of.

  so i have really made him think about the sept km about only using wt literature (he had this part).

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  Wow I didn't know that about Russell either

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  A desperate time for JW as realisation inevitable dawns .....

  by Gill in

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  2. bible

  17 years ago

  in time, slowly and inevitably, a lot of jws will realise that they have been conned.

  they may deny it at first but eventually a substantial amount will discover that they have lost their lives, their talents and their potential to of all things, a book publishing company!.

  so, what will their reactions be?

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  I too can't see any change coming soon - as has been pointed out people have invested thier lives in this and don't want to throw that all away. You all know how hard it was to do and the shear dread of thinking that all these "friends" you had made over the years would no longer have anything to do with you and how were you going to go about making friends with people in the "world" whan you have nothing in common with them...

  I remember the fear and know it was all worth it but many are just not strong enough to take that step they have invested too much.

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  Intro

  by Veganmama in

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  17 years ago

  i wasn't sure where to post my introduction but here i am!

  my name is melissa, i'm 29, a mother of 2 boys ages 9(10 in dec) and 14 months, i've been married to my dh for 10 years.. i was raised as a jw from the age of 4 and fell out of the religion around 18...almost went back at 19(went to a couple meetings).

  i was just looking for other ex jw's that can relate to me.

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  Welcome! I was a jw until i was in my 20's my hubby doesn't really get it either - unless you were in it or married to a dub it is hard to understand how a religion could have such effects on people who don't even believe any of it anymore!

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  Dove Chocolate Does NOT Write for Watchtower!

  by oompa in

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  17 years ago

  flirting is mandatory!

  love without rules.

  yes oompa is a dark chocoholic.

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  I love chocolate, i like green & blacks maya gold, they sold out but so far the taste and ethics don't seem to have changed

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  Governing Body on Higher Education Gerrit Lösch Talk

  by Magick in

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  17 years ago

  "if you are currently going to college, why don't you currently meditate in prayer on the possibility of dropping out and doing something better?".

  "what decisions will you make?

  will you refuse or not?

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  when was that talk given?

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  Comprehensive list of misquotes

  by JG in

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  23 years ago

  does anyone have or know of a "full and complete list of misquotations of the watchtower" if not would anyone like to help compile this list.

  i'm sure that we could find someone who would host an article or paper on this subject.

  i was thinking of a list or paper without any inflamatory wording or language that we could just hand to a jw and they would read without dismissing it as "full of hate" or appostate etc.

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  another good thought would be their own misquotes within their own literature - making out that they foretold the START of trouble in 1914 whereas they actually foretold the END

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  Were you ever afraid of demons?

  by Regretful_J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  17 years ago

  hello everyone, my story is a unique one i suppose but here it goes.,, ever since i was a little boy whenever i would voice my objections about this religion my parents would tell me im making satan happy and that i'm inviting demons into are house by saying and thinking things like this.

  my parents are such religious fanatics that it seems like nothing i do can ever be good enough for them.

  to this day they always claim that they come down hard on me like this because "they're trying to protect me".

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  bluebell 17 years ago

  Once I realized the whole thing was a sham, I've had no "experiences" or heard any weird "noises" since, even though I do nothing "theocratic" anymore. Funny how that works, huh.

  how true!

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