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  Bye-Bye Brooklyn....were OUTTA there! Real Estate news.

  by oompa in

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  i was told today by a heavyweight elders wife, both of whom were at bethel for many years and are very well connected to the brooklyn brass, that all brooklyn bethel operations will be moved to wallkill and patterson.

  in fact, there is a very exclusive walk-through next week for some of the top real estate investors/developers who will see all the properties, starting with the sands, and its lobby has now been remodeled to look just like a high-end hotel..................just fyi.................................oompa

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  Wow!

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  The Miracle Wake up!

  by Hope4Others in

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  memorial day we received a call from and elder in the local congregation.

  his mother is a partaker, he mentions he could not get over with the invitation so was calling.

  to invite us.

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  Yes I'm sure this little "experience" will be relayed at assemblies for years to come! What a miracle...

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  What have you done to heal yourselves from the borg & lead a content life?

  by cognac in

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  or, at least made progress in healing yourselves.... right now i feel like i have made a lot of progress.. i did the following that helped tremendously:.

  joined this forum!

  faced my husband regarding how i felt and feel that we have met eachother 1/2 way on this - even researched and prepared how to talk to him in a better way (i have a blunt, tactless way of bringing things up - in case you guys didn't notice, lol.

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  mind my own

  Well ever since I left, I have tried to surround myself with positive people who are real friends. They like me b/c we get along or have something in common, not b/c we are of the same faith and have to be friends.

  I have also been in a lot of therapy trying to deal with things. I have been going on and off for years. It has really helped.

  This site and those on it have been wonderfully supportive, and I visit almost daily. At this point I don't think I could be without it.

  Thanks to all of you!

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  How did you find this site?

  by truthseeker in

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  it seems as though an age has passed from discovering this site seven years ago to where i am now.

  just before we started studying the daniel's prophecy book, i went online to see if anyone had made a study bookmark with the dates and paragraphs on.

  i "stumbled" across this site, way back in 2000. of course, like a good christian i pretty much determined that this site had gone apostate from the other jw sites, such.

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  mind my own

  Actually a distant friend of mine had sent me an email with a link to this site. I didn't look at the site for several years but I kept the email b/c I wanted it just in case. Last year I finally decided to explore it and here I am!

  Thank goodness for friends, distant or not!

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  How do you leave?

  by helenhall in

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  when every single person you know is a witness, how do you leave?

  has anybody here left, and had nobody on the outside.

  because that's where i would be.

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  I just faded away. I didn't have any "worldly" friends at all so it was tough! I made a few friends at work and then it just went from there. It was pretty lonely for a while there, the only friendships I had ever cultivated were with other JW's.

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  JW spanking their kids

  by asilentone in

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  what do you think about jw spanking their kids at the kingdom hall?

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  mind my own

  I think it is barbaric and totally wrong!! I had the living daylights beat out of me, as did my siblings and I simply cannot get over it. I hated the meetings b/c any little thing would call for a spanking. Every meeting meant a spanking in the bathroom as well as an even worse one at home. It is expected, demanded, and preached at the meetings to beat your kids. Half the time I didn't know why I was being punished, it was just an automatic reaction from my parents b/c that is what they were taught.

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  Amazing abuse of privacy...

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  my sister and her husband live in another city/state from me, so i don't get to see them that often.

  he's a ministerial servant, they have two young children.

  i heard a story that happened to them recently.... he was taken aside by an elder, who wanted to inspect his bag to see how many toys they were bringing to the meeting for their daughter to play with.. apparently, someone complained!.

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  mind my own

  It never fails to amaze me what people will put up with...there is NO way in the world I would have had this convo with some nosey elder. I would have told him to mind his own business and get a life. Perhaps that is why I am no longer in the religeon?? I have a mind of my own. I mean seriously, aren't there more pressing issues to attend to?

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  Trouble connecting to JWD - am I the only one?

  by Dagney in

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  just curious, in the last week or so i can only connect maybe 3 out of 10 attempts.

  and when i'm in, it will lose the page after checking a few threads.

  it doesn't matter if i'm home on my wireless or at work with the giant t1 connection.. i was wondering if it's just me.. tia..

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  mind my own

  I have been having trouble as well...

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  I want to let you know you are all great!!

  by Quirky1 in

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  since i have been coming to this site everybody has been very supportive in many issues that i have been faced with.. thank you!.

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  mind my own

  Aww thanks! I feel the same way about this site. There have been moments when I felt like I had no-one, and you are always here for me. I love and appreciate that I have this site to go to. Whether it be to post something, or just to read.

  Love you guys!

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  They Push You In,,,,Then Punish You If You Go!

  by new boy in

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  2. beliefs

  they brag about the fact that they the don' t baptize their babies because "how can a baby 'know' what religion it wants to believe in the rest of it's life!".

  but a 14 year old does?.....they put so much presure on their children to get dunked, that if your not baptize by 18 years old there is something really "wrong" with you.. so the poor kid does it, just to get everyone off their backs.

  legally a minor can't be held to a contract if they are under 18 years old and why?

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  mind my own

  I know exactly what you are talking about!! I was 13. There is NO way out of this religeon. I have lost my family that is still in, and there is nothing I can do about it!

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