So sorry to hear of Megan's accident and send all my best wishes for her speedy recovery
Maddie
Posts by Maddie
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40Megan is in Hospital...
by KW13 inin a sense its my fault, i made her take a look in the loft to see what she wanted me to take down.
anyway while she was perched on top of the ladder, she slipped back and banged her head/neck/back.
she is ok, up, smiling and joking compared to before when things looked quite serious.
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I'm new!
by Renegade inhi, i'm poppyr's son.
i was brought up a jehovah's witness and have only very recently lots most of my faith in it.
for years i was in that religion and could never quite make sense of it.
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Maddie
Hello renegade and welcome to JWD.
Maddie
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+++ VIGIL - TUESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER +++
by Sad emo inplease join in sending your prayers, good thoughts, reiki, healing vibes, lighting a candle or just taking a moment to think of all those named and unnamed who are fighting cancer or in any other need.
also their loved ones and caregivers.. - has been fighting mantle cell lymphoma for three years.
he received an allogeneic cell transplant and his latest blood and bone marrow results have shown no trace of cancer!!
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Maddie
All my love and best wishes are with you all
Maddie
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Be honest, Do you really Enjoy Christmas?
by BluesBrother indansk's christmas tree thread got me to thinking .. in this house we do not celebrate since my wife is still a die hard dub.
i have no complaints about that, it was our joint choice for decades and i an the one that changed .but as witnesses we were always given the negative view of the holiday time :-.
"people feel that they just have to do it although they do not really want to".
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Maddie
When I was a child I loved Christmas. I got so excited waiting for Santa to come and it was a nice family affair. Now I think it is far too commercialised and the pressure for many people to spend lots of money they haven't got is terrible. I still love the decorations and christmas tree with all the pretty lights, giving out cards and presents though.
Maddie
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List of childhood simple pleasures...
by avishai ini'll start.
rubbing the stubble on the nape of your neck all day the day you get a haircut...
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Maddie
Playing knock down ginger, jacks, conkers, rounders, swimming in the river, Saturday morning cinema, Dutch skipping. Great memories!!
Maddie
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My birthday and 1 year anniversary on JWD
by Paralipomenon ina two for one special!.
today is my birthday and this thursday marks a full year posting on the forums here.. it's been on my mind recently, thinking over the past year that i thought i'd do a year in review.
last year, around this time, things were starting to bother me.
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Maddie
Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary
Maddie
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Who on this Board would love to get rid of Organized Religion?
by restrangled inimho....it all needs to go.
its influencing everything in this world every and anywhere.
from the saudies, to the people in irag, iran and anywhere else our sons will need to be sent.. our current president claims he is influenced along with the former prime minister of england by religious beliefs.. there is the huge evangelical influence that got bush and the mess he made who put them in to begin with.. we have the jw's causing absolute havic in anyone's lives connected with this stupidity.. it goes on and on and on.
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Maddie
Religious organizations are not important for having a faith and/or personal relationship with God. It is good to be with people who have the same belief and to encourage one another but that is all IMO.
Maddie
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Are you a happy ex-JW?
by Burger Time ini was thinking it might be a good idea to come up with a website like happyexjws.com where we record a short video of ourselves saying we are now happy and briefly explaining why.
kind of like the atheist group who's members blaspheme against the holy spirit.
thoughts?.
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Maddie
I am happy that I'm not under the WT mind control now and all the deceit, fear, guilt and exploitation that goes with being a JW. I still have family that are "in" and that makes me very sad but I live in hope that they will leave one day. I guess at this time I am still adjusting to life after the borg so it's not always easy. My attitude to life is changing and I feel a freedom now and not so bogged down and repressed, which is good.
Maddie
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Are There Similarities With JWs & ExJWs?
by minimus indo you think believe that once a person leaves the organization that they are all that much different from what they were as witnesses?
is there still a "cult mentality" in the exjw community?
are there some that still want to feel "special"?
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Maddie
Someone said to me "You can take a person out of the JW's but you can't take the JW out of the person".
I don't believe that to be necessarily true, but I do think that it is important for exJW's to have some help to recover. Some may choose Counsellors or therapy of some kind. JWD is very helpful and healing for many of us in aiding the recovery process. It is very important to interact with people that are going through the same experiences and emotions.
Maddie
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New Evidence in Jehovahs Witness's Allegations....
by fifi40 ini think this is related to the other threads about msnbc news.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917798/.
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Maddie
This is quite a revealing article, so thank you for posting it. I will print it off and keep it to show my JW family.
Maddie