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  Facebook surprise: looks like most of my childhood friends got out!

  by Awakened07 in

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  i only recently joined facebook (yes, a little late to the party).

  and today i found one person there that i still consider somewhat of a friend, that i know is disfellowshipped.

  this person turns out to be a 'hub', in that this person has a lot of facebook 'friends'.

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  WOW! I hope they are all out and that you'll be able to reconnect with all of them. That would be fantastic.
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  Thank You All

  by BFD in

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  i think it's time for me to go.

  jwd has been such a life line for me these past months.

  i have met so many decent and caring people here and i really apprcieate the acceptance that was shown to me here.. i thank each and every one of you for helping me on the road to healing from the abuses i suffered due to the wts and it's lies.

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  Tara

  Oh, dear sweet BFD

  I am very sor-ry

  to see that you go.

  I will miss you so.

  Good luck on your jour-ney.
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  WILL YOU kindly help me?

  by Terry in

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  i've finished writing my novel (50 thousand words) about my years spent in federal correctional prison when i was an obedient little jw.. the editing and rewriting stage now commences.. i need your help!.

  here is how you can help me.. i can't know what an outside mind wants to find out concerning this experience.

  i can only conjure up what seems interesting to me.. tell me what you want to know about such a personal experience.. that will give me a checklist to compare to what i've written already.. i may have missed many little details which are very important to a reader.. i may have neglected essential questions which must be answered in order to satisfy the mind.. please offer me your curiousity.. thanking you in advance; i appreciate your taking the time to advance my novel to the finish line.. (i wrote it as a fictional work because i could not honestly write about myself without the distance of this device.. so, i made myself into a character with a different name.. the identity of everyone else is non-fiction.

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  My questions have already been raised by previos posters. I agree that writing it as your personal, true story would be more effective than as fiction, but I certainly understand why you can't do so. Perhaps you could address that in a foreward to the story so the reader knows. I also agree with whoever suggested seeing a lawyer in regards to using real names. CYA!

  I look forward to reading your finished book as well, and I would also like to volunteer to read the unfinished work and offer comments.

  My boyfriend is an author so I know what goes into getting a book published. Good luck.
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  Dumped On.

  by RollerDave in

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  tis the season, so to speak.. this is the time of year the darkness descends like a proclamation of doom, and the light retreats like a rank and filer encountering an actual, thinking, reasoning person during the failed misery.. i don't exactly operate at a hundred percent in the dark and cold, ironic considering where i live.. so one day, we have a relatively clear parking pad, and the next we get a ton of white shit dumped on us.. such lovely fun, shoveling all the global warming from the drive.. got to take the truck out and let it strut it's stuff, that bad ol' aposta-truck was in it's element and unstoppable.

  like the unfailing assault of reason on the last tendrils of mind control left in my wetware.. see, i've been thinking again, in spite of all the trouble it's gotten me in before it's a hard habit to break.

  i drive around and everybody is getting their christmas on, and i have always felt so smug that i 'knew better'.. see, here is the witless take; you gotta get all vestiges of pagan influence out of your life, no saturnalia, no lupercalia, no all hallows eve, no 'bless you' to a sneeze, no 'pot lucks', bleh blah yadda.. yet, every day of the week and month of the year is named for a pagan deity, the planets are too.

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  Hi, RD. I get depressed in the winter, too, and also have a sun lamp. It helps me a lot.

  Have you been to the doctor? Maybe you need an anti-depressant just to get you thru the winter.

  Or if you're already on one maybe the dose needs to be increased just for the winter. Hope you feel better soon.
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  Why Men Cannot Love

  by freydi in

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  so let's say we do everything that's expected.

  what's the payoff?

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  Females are expecting males to impress them and not looking for qualities in males which they claim to - these qualities are in abundance in virtually all males!!

  I beg to differ with that statement. What impresses me in a man is being thought of and treated as an intelligent, interesting human being with ideas, needs and feelings.

  Not all men see women as such.
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  Post a picture of your Christmas tree here's mine

  by noni1974 in

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  Tara

  LOL, Noni. Too funny!.

  I am feeling stupid. I did not know I could shut the flash off the camera. I will have to try and figure that out.
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  Post a picture of your Christmas tree here's mine

  by noni1974 in

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  Tara

  Nice pictures, everybody. Mine is going up this weekend.

  Noni, How did you take that picture? What is the trick?

  Last year I tried to take pictures of mine in the dark, but the flash made the room look like it was daylight.
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  I have some good news I'm going to share with you at JWD

  by noni1974 in

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  some of you may know i'm a cab driver and i have been one for 3 years.the company i've been working for doesn't require a hack license.a hack license is a thing in my line of work needed to work in most big citys as a cab driver.you have to take a test to prove you know the city and if you pass you get your hack license.not many people can pass the test.. i've been working for a suburban cab company so i never needed one before.well a few weeks ago i looked into changing cab companys.so i called one and talked to the general manager about coming to that company.he was excited about it and set me up to take this test.i took the test a few weeks ago.i failed the first time but i had a feeling when i left that i was going to fail.not because i don't know my city but because the test asks for exact address of major attractions businesses and hotels through out not only the city but the county as well.. so the following week i took the test again.i had a good feeling this time.i tried to call the guy back and get my results on the day i was supposed to.i couldn't get him on the phone.i started to think i had failed again so i thought i would let a few weeks go by and call him again to take the test again.. well he called me yesterday and said i had passed.i am so excited.so my good news is i am changing cab companys.i can now work in the city of cleveland with out worrying about getting a ticket.now all i have to do is pass the drug test which is not a problem for me because i don't do any kind of drugs at all and a dot phyical.. the reason for the change is i'm not making enough money at my currant company.we are only allowed to pick people up in the burbs and that makes it hard to make money.this company has many school trips paid for by the school boards and county.i will be able to have the cab 24/7 if i want.i can drive when ever i want without having to go and pick up a cab.. i know 2 guys who went to this cab company this year.the first went this summer and he told me he's making between 1400.00 a week and 900.00 a week take home.i'm making between 400.00 and 500.00 a week now.so i'll be making way more money..

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  Tara

  Noni, woo hoo! Congratulations!
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  My wife FINALLY quits Witnessing and Meetings admits I was right!!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  for afew years a have been fading and telling my wife how i feel about such false doctrines as blood transfusions, 607 b.c.e date etc.

  at first she would say "don't talk to me about discouraging things!!

  " since i haven't been attending meetings or field service for over 2 years she has slowly quit 1. witnessing, then 2. theocratic school which she hated anyway but was forced to do.

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  Congratulations! I was out 10 1/2 years before I read Crisis of Conscience bt Ray Franz. That book took away all the fear and guilt I had for walking away. I can't recommend it enough. Please read it, you and your wife, if you haven't already.
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  List of childhood simple pleasures...

  by avishai in

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  i'll start.

  rubbing the stubble on the nape of your neck all day the day you get a haircut...

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  Getting your brothers to dig up some worms and then going fishing, catching grasshoppers and dragon flys (sewing needles), taking care of injured birds.