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  New here...

  by tribalgirl in

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  i joined this forum a couple of days ago and didn't want to just keep lurking, so here goes!.

  my family have been jw's since before i was born, i was baptized at 12.i have six sisters, only one who still attends meetings.

  my mom and stepdad no longer attend either.. i met and married my so in the congregation that i attended.

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  Vernon Williams

  Hey!

  Here is how very lazy I am:

  I just posted this to "Diana" as she is new and all I did was copy her post to give to you!

  This is for you, too:

  Welcome to the Board!

  Your question could go like this:

  "Is there air ABOVE the surface of the water?"

  YES!!

  We are closing down our site, however, there is some ideas there: take a look:

  http://www.jwmidwest.com/

  If you would like to write me at my personal email:

  [email protected].

  If you want to talk by phone, email me and we can make arrangements.

  Well, that is the best I can do on "assistance and encuragement....."

  Yours in this Journey,

  Vernon Williams

  Monett, MO (SW MO about forty miles W and a bit S of Springfield

  ps: Keep posting!!
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  My first post

  by Dianna in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me i decide to do it.

  i grew up in a jehovah witness house hold.

  it all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when i started to have my own opinion on things.

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  Vernon Williams

  Second Bush-ism: should have been "I accomplishED...."

  OK, I will stop, now.......

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  Wife vented tonight!

  by 5thGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my babe (wife's approved nickname) finally vented today because it was her birthday, which we couldn't acknowledge, and she feels really emotional that she never had a chance at a real career, may have wasted her life, etc.... she may be coming around a bit but now this is really uncharted territory!.

  ironically i'm getting through to her but it's scaring the bajeebers out of me now!

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  Vernon Williams

  OK....exciting times....

  This is the hard part, in my opinion. You want to say SO MUCH, however, in this hillbilly's opinion: now is the time to listen and just be cool. "It" is comming together in her time and her time does NOT need to be rushed. The crack is in the dam.....let that little stream start flowing.....it will widen and widen till the whole damn dam splits in two.

  Best wishes,

  Stay calm...it is happening...

  V PS: I want to see the other posts on this.....
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  My first post

  by Dianna in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me i decide to do it.

  i grew up in a jehovah witness house hold.

  it all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when i started to have my own opinion on things.

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  Vernon Williams

  I accomplish a "Bush-ism:"

  I meant ....."there ARE...."

  Ha!

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  My first post

  by Dianna in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me i decide to do it.

  i grew up in a jehovah witness house hold.

  it all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when i started to have my own opinion on things.

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  Vernon Williams

  Diana,

  Welcome to the Board!

  Your question could go like this:

  "Is there air ABOVE the surface of the water?"

  YES!!

  We are closing down our site, however, there is some ideas there: take a look:

  http://www.jwmidwest.com/

  If you would like to write me at my personal email:

  [email protected].

  If you want to talk by phone, email me and we can make arrangements.

  Well, that is the best I can do on "assistance and encuragement....."

  Yours in this Journey,

  Vernon Williams

  Monett, MO (SW MO about forty miles W and a bit S of Springfield)
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  Today, 32 years and counting

  by Vernon Williams in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just a side note..... thirty two years ago, today, terra lee mackey and i married in verona, mo.

  it has been quite a journey.

  she is a wonderful, loving, forgiving woman: far better than i ever deserved.

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  Vernon Williams

  Hey guys,

  Thank for the congrads....

  Isn't it great to have and form relationships outside the mind numbing, heart scaring, judgemental arrangement of the WT?

  I appreciate everyone here.....

  With you in Journey,

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  IS YOUR FEAR LESSENING?

  by Dansk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many here are afraid to come out into the open with their identity because they still have friends and family in.

  however, it is noticeable that there are many newbies here and more and more exposes on watchtower.

  do you, therefore, feel less intimidated or afraid now?.

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  Vernon Williams

  Dansk,

  I can not imagine lurking in the shawdows as many do: I understand the "whys" of this situation, however, would hate to be in that set of circumstances....

  With those that must,

  Happy I am not,

  Rejoicing with those fully in the light of freedom of movement and thought,

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  New Watchtower Jan,15 2008

  by Batty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/1543592646_fecb073ad7.jpg

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  Vernon Williams

  I talked to a former Peace Corps worker that was assigned to Africa. He said that you, always, must remember that your drinking water is someone else's sewer, upstream.

  Same thing with the WT: if you consider the "sourrce" you realize what is true with the water in Africa is, also, true of the source of the "spriritual stream" issueing from New York.....

  Dipping into a different source, now, and much happier and healthier as a result,

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  Today, 32 years and counting

  by Vernon Williams in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just a side note..... thirty two years ago, today, terra lee mackey and i married in verona, mo.

  it has been quite a journey.

  she is a wonderful, loving, forgiving woman: far better than i ever deserved.

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  Vernon Williams

  Just a side note....

  Thirty two years ago, today, Terra Lee Mackey and I married in Verona, MO.

  It has been quite a Journey. She is a wonderful, loving, forgiving woman: far better than I ever deserved.

  In regard to this Board: I am glad we exited together.

  Just wanted to share.....

  Thankfully,

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  new qfr on non-witness weddings

  by karvel in

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  Vernon Williams

  I, now, go to non-Witness weddings, I toast the couple, throw rice, watch the catching of the flowers, and am far more spiritual blessed than all the JW meetings combined....

  Go figure,

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