Spiders! Especially the quarter sized ones that come out at night and run 50 miles an hour across the floor. I know that I am first on their hit list when they take over the world.
Posts by Tara
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How much of a man are you? Problems with rats, I just can't do it
by needproof inlast summer, i noticed a rat living underneath my shed in the back garden.
i tried my hardest to convince my female counterpart that we had a rat living with us, but as usual was met with a wall of silence.
so time passed and i didn't see rodney the rat again, so i just figured that he had gone away some place else.
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Is this petty? An argument with the neighbours
by needproof ini'd like to ask you all whether or not you think that we are being petty here.
the house next door to us has been empty for a while now.
the last person to use it was a chinese doctor who used to house illegal immigrants which looked after his little cannabis factory.
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Tara
No, it is not petty. It is the principle of the thing. They obviously know they took something that was not theirs. I agree with whoever said to have a polite conversation about it. If they don't return it, report them to the police. They stole something of yours. I would also keep a written record of everything they do. I was unfortunate enough to live next door to a very disturbed person who loved to creat havoc with her neighbors. Little, small, " petty" things escalated into her trying to run down a neighbor with her car.
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Wife finally sees truth about "the truth"
by jakes inwell it has finally happened.my wife is not going back to the meetings again.as you would probably read in my previous posts, i have written a book about my experience in the watchtower organisation which is on the verge of being published.she still tried to cling to what little belief she had in the borg and did not want to read my manuscript.we discussed many of the issues and concerns i had about the watchtower but most of the times it ended in a heated argument.. i was quite surprised when she approached me about two weeks ago and asked to read my manuscript.after reading it she handed it back to me and said she fully supports me in publishing this book.her eyes have been opened to the deception and lies.i think she and a friend had a bad experience calling on one of her so-called jw friends.furthermore, she did not attend this past weekends circuit assembly..
hooray!!!.
all i have to do now is to introduce her to all you wonderful people here on jwd.. jakes.
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Why We Can Hope for the End of the Watchtower
by metatron inforgive me for starting a new thread - apart from the emerging news about child abuse settlements .
but i simply feel that, for all of us who have suffered persecution from the watchtower society, their.
end may now be in sight.
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I am so angry and frustrated right now
by elinor ini cannot be very specific with this because i do not know who is patrolling these boards to try to catch faders (like me).
my mother has been very ill for a long time due to multiple health issues, all of them stemming back to a very low blood cell count.
before i even began to have doubts, as well as my father asking me about the 1975 debacle, i kept wondering why god (i can't call him jehovah now that i know the truth) would allow such a wonderful and selfless person to suffer if all they needed was something that was produced naturally in our bodies.
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Tara
I am sorry for you and your family dealing with your mom's illness. It is very difficult and painful to just sit by and not be able to help. I know exactly how you feel. I was the only witness in my family. When I was still in my mother developed acute myelogenous leukemia which is treated with multiple blood transfusions, which she naturally had along with 6 mos of monthly chemotherapy. She went into remission. 6 months later the symptoms returned and they tried to treat it again, but were unsuccessful, and she died. Ultimately, the blood treatment bought her a year, in which for half of it, she was sick as a dog. As painful as it is for you, so long as your mom makes her choice knowing all the options, you have to respect her choice, however much you may disagree with it. The JW blood policy is wrong. They are blood guilty.
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At what point have you crossed the "cheating" line?
by free2beme ini have been married for awhile, and in my 14 years of marriage i have seen many other marriages of friends and relatives, come and go.
most, if not all, were caused by cheating.
at work i work with a lot of people of different faiths, to no faiths.
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Tara
My two cents worth:
Friends of the opposite sex is not cheating. Lunch in a restaurant with a co-worker is not cheating. Lunch with a co-worker in a motel room is cheating. A hello kiss on the cheek is not cheating. Sucking somebody's face/tongue is cheating. If you can't/won't tell your partner about it, or do it in front of him, it is cheating. Oral sex is definitely cheating. Anyone who says it is not is just deluding himself. Denial is the ultimate lie.
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You Never Did Enough As A Witness!
by minimus inone thing that i will never miss is how you were made to feel inferior----that nothing you did was ever really good enough to satisfy the organization and of course by extension, jehovah god.
i know of sooooooo many witnesses that are truly depressed because they can never seem to satisfy god or the elders.. people even start getting mysterious illnesses and believe the "demons" are always trying to get at them.
the mentality is that "everyone hates us because we're jehovah's witnesses".
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Tara
One thing that I will never miss is how you were made to feel inferior----that nothing you did was ever really good enough to satisfy the Organization and of course by extension, Jehovah God. I know of sooooooo many Witnesses that are truly depressed because they can never seem to satisfy God or the elders.
That is exactly why I left 11 years ago. No matter how hard I tried, what I had to endure, was never going to be enough for them. I spent the first 10 1/2 years feeling worthless, hating Jehovah, and just waiting for the big "A" to come and wipe us all out. Then 6 mos or so ago, I found a wonderful online support group for ex-JW women (called Women-Awake (yahoo group---Hello, JA JAs). There I found out the Truth was just a Big Fat Lie, they are false prophets, their God is not the God of the bible, their positions child sexual abuse (I was very well aware of their tolerating spousal abuse, having had an abusive husband), etc., etc..
I am now beginning to re-build my relationship with the God of the bible, and have come to really appreciate Jesus' sacrifice for us. (Sorry if I offend anyone...don't mean to sound preachy).
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If someone is going to buy you a birthday or christmas gift.....
by bagpuss inwould you prefer them to ask what you would like or to surprise you, and if they did ask for ideas would you be offended?
the reason i ask is that my mother in law has just told my husband that we may as well go back to how we were when we were witnesses and stop buying them presents as we don't put any thought into it and ask them what they want.
he is really upset by this comment while i am just plain bloody angry!.
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Tara
The reason I ask is that my mother in law has just told my husband that we may as well go back to how we were when we were witnesses and stop buying them presents as we don't put any thought into it and ask them what they want.
I don't know what I would do. What a cruel, ungrateful woman. Personally, I would be crushed. I am also sure I would, at least, entertain the thought of never giving her another thing. I agree with misanthropic. I am always touched and surprised when someone gives me something...even if I don't necesarily like it. It's the thought that counts.
Besides, what if they asked for something you couldn't possibly afford? That would make me feel bad, too.
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So many newbies lately. What drove you to finally post?
by OnTheWayOut inthere are so many newbies in the last month or so.
it's like spring cleaning.
at the old wts, time to push out the doubters and apostates.
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Tara
I already knew the WTS was not the truth. The latest thing was Bethel Layoffs. I was infuriated that
they would treat their loyal drones with such disregard. Cast away the likes of me, I understand that,
but these were their followers, churning out their literature, cleaning GB members' drool off their bibs,
shining the brass in the lobby at HQ. How could I have even given so much of my life to them if they
treat their hardest workers this way?I haven't heard of this? Who did they lay off? All the old ones who worked for nothing their whole lives and now have nothing?
Unbelievable!
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