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alotlikemay
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Matt 24:14 NOT fulfilled
by Zico ini had my special assembly day today.
(yay!
) i actually missed most of it because i went for some long walks :) but i was present during the last talk, which was given by a speaker from bethel.
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alotlikemay
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I cant continue to live like this i really need help
by Tryin2FindAnewMe inok im trying desperatley just to be done with everything.
i'm so depressed because it feels as though i'm living my life wrong.
why cant i get from under the dark cloud, that keeps me down.
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alotlikemay
some great advice here, I can't add to it. Junction and geevee made good points, too....
thing is, while ever you're thinking you left God, you will torment yourself! if you really believe that, then actually I'd advise you to go back to it... under no circumstances do I think anyone should ever leave God....
but in fact, you didn't leave God - like Junction said, you left an organisation. In so doing you may actually find God!
I 'wasted' 22 years (ages 15-37) in the organisation. Lost a lot of opportunities - but got most of them back, it's been incredible. The one thing I lost and will not get back is (as I've posted elsewhere) the ability to have children - didn't get married and have kids 'cos i pioneered and thought that was the right thing to do. Now it's too late, can't have kids 'cos I'm going through the menopause, and it's a real cause of grief in many ways because I'm a woman and it's built into me to bear children. I won't ever hold my own baby in my arms or have the challenge of bringing a child up.
Life can be full of regrets. The thing is to overcome the regret and sadness and get on with the future, take the new opportunities life brings us - because it surely does.
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They finally found me...
by P&C inknock on the door this morning.... a nice little witnoid lady is at my door... hands me a tract (i think it was a memorial invite)...and says.... "i'd like to give you an invitation to an "event"...that the whole community is talking about".... how sad... they resort to lying and misrepresentation... on the simplest of matters.. i handed it back and said no thanks... she turned and left.. that is the first contact the borg has had with me in almost 5 years... hope it's another 5 before i see one again.... p&c.
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alotlikemay
don't see much of JWs around here either. Last time was about three years ago and I think they'd been sent by an old 'friend' .... hmmmm.... anyway they regretted it - I'd been in the truth way before they'd come into it so I could talk with first-hand experience about 1975 mania and various things the WT has said about prophecy and so on. They hadn't any argument back because I'd been there!
I think I'm a DNC but I don't see them around here at anyone else's door either. Maybe they're tiring out? lol
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Matt 24:14 NOT fulfilled
by Zico ini had my special assembly day today.
(yay!
) i actually missed most of it because i went for some long walks :) but i was present during the last talk, which was given by a speaker from bethel.
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alotlikemay
thanks for pm, Zico
and I so understand the going for a walk during the assembly - the times I had to do that! or sit there rigid with amazement while someone said yet another contradictory thing...
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Ever want to just name, names?
by darth frosty inany of you ever get to thinking about old friends (and the possibilty there posting or lurking here) and just want to give them a shout out?
just be like hey i was your star trek buddy we saw all the movies together.
or remember we used to hang out at the comic book store?.
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alotlikemay
geevee, I have stories like that too
one brother uses my parents' place as somewhere where he can just go and complain about congregation stuff and not get into trouble.
then he'll get all righteous and start witnessing at my parents or me if I'm there... but when we tell him the real truth back, he looks shocked and offended!
i want to know why it's OK for JWs to be rude about us - tell us we'll die at Armageddon, that we should be doing this and that - but when we tell them the actual truth of things it's a terrible thing and they say we've been offensive! you can't get more offensive than tell someone they're going to be killed by God....
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Those Three Words "I love you"
by Thinking of Leaving inhi everyone, happy friday.
i have a question for the guys and girls on this board.
do you think that the man or the woman should say "i love you" first in a relationship?.
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alotlikemay
I think you just have to go by instinct
difficult business though - it's the horror stories that put you off, like someone I know was asking us all only a few weeks ago the same question cos she really really loves this guy
don't know if she ever did but within two days of her saying she really wanted to tell him she loves him, he'd emailed to say it was all over...
the fear is fear of loss of pride isn't it... if you can say it and not mind if it's not returned then go for it, I guess
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If you could have over 3 people over for Dinner.
by new boy inliving or dead who would they be?.
1. jeaus.
2. egar cayce.
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alotlikemay
hey PEC, if you have those guys over, make sure it's a padded cell and don't give them knives or anything they could use as weapons -
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Ever want to just name, names?
by darth frosty inany of you ever get to thinking about old friends (and the possibilty there posting or lurking here) and just want to give them a shout out?
just be like hey i was your star trek buddy we saw all the movies together.
or remember we used to hang out at the comic book store?.
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alotlikemay
oh so you mean like people who you'd like to 'expose' as well as just those you lost as friends?
oh i'd love to name some of those names
fact is, really bad things happened to nearly all of the people who caused me and my family such pain - I don't want you to read anything into that but that's the fact of it, just about all of them went on to have tragedies and sadness in their lives
we, on the other hand, have been happy since we left
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Matt 24:14 NOT fulfilled
by Zico ini had my special assembly day today.
(yay!
) i actually missed most of it because i went for some long walks :) but i was present during the last talk, which was given by a speaker from bethel.
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alotlikemay
may I ask a naive question... why do you still go to the assemblies? I don't know you, but it seems to me that if you had to take off for long walks (I used to do that too) and then find things they say objectionable (so did I, every time) you shouldn't really be there? wouldn't you be doing yourself a favour by not going at all?
sorry, not being confrontational and it's none of my business - I just really don't understand ...
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Ever want to just name, names?
by darth frosty inany of you ever get to thinking about old friends (and the possibilty there posting or lurking here) and just want to give them a shout out?
just be like hey i was your star trek buddy we saw all the movies together.
or remember we used to hang out at the comic book store?.
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alotlikemay
someone said to me once - 'we really loved our brothers and sisters, but they didn't love us...' and that's true in the case of those of us who left or who were d/f'd - their love for us was conditional
so yeah, I miss the old bond with them and I did love them but I don't get in touch - they only think there's a chance of getting me back in the org
on a general level, when I left the org I got in touch with some real old friends - a school friend and a uni friend... after a 20 year gap! - and they were really pleased, they were loyal to me even though I'd abandoned them because of the 'truth'