Wow. Now I can't wait to watch this movie again. Last time I was at WT headquartes I had four Chamborgkazis at a side walk bar. It was very surreal for me but my 2 non affected worldly people friends didn't get the whole deal.
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Alien Craft Sighted Over Bethel
by compound complex inplease do not panic!
the following was only a dramatization [i think!]:.
today - a typical sunday - is a vege-do-not-leave-the-house sort of day.
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Songs that reflect the tower
by jacethespace inwhat is everyones favourite song that best describes there experience in the tower and their exit form it?.
this is mine http://http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3744443266557702508&q=pink+floyd+brick+in+the+wall&total=2005&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0.
when i heard the lyrics to this i thought it resembled my experience then when veiwing the vid i thought it definatly did.warning some of the vid might be a bit overthetop.. this is the sort of song i would love to turn up loud in the car and walk out of a meeting with the elders to.
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dogisgod
FDLOL!!!!!! That is soooooo TRUE!!!!!!
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JW's Raised In - Did you get bullied during you Grade School Years?
by BBOARD indue to the way i was raised a jw i constantly felt guilt for trying to act like the other guys and it made me stand out even worse.
to this day, due to this, i nowdays become somewhat physically ill whenever i hear a brother give a talk where he says (many here have heard it in different forms) "if jehovah was looking at you youths in the congregation during school could he tell the difference between you and a worldy person.
" myself and most of the other jw guys during middle school and high school did not have the confidence or the "rough and ready to fight" type of body language so we tended to get picked on.
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dogisgod
Welcome....what great comments. Me? Not too badly. Did have to kick butt a couple of times in Jr High but I didn't start it. I was just excluded. I am very funny which deflected a lot of crap. People don't think of more ways to be mean or mad when you have them laughing. Bullies and Child Molesters are giant red flags for me. I think I could actually kill a child molester and not loose any sleep. Very sad the org. protects them. Elders make great bullies.
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dogisgod
My dad died some years back and it was sudden. He was my buddy. He was in a dream the other night and his voice was so vivid that when I woke up I actually thought I had heard him. You forget things like their voice.My mom is fading now but still clinging to "the truth". I tried to reconnect with real family after a lifetime of no celebrations but the only one who had an open door was my Aunt in California and she just had a stroke. Part of you dies with them but part of them lives on in you in many ways.
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Reveal something you hate about your town
by JH inhere, they decided to pick up the trash only once every 2 weeks from now on in the winter time......gee, years ago, they picked it up twice a week... .
just the rats will enjoy this....
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dogisgod
Okay, I live close to the airport. Sea-Tac Airport. The Port of Seattle are Nazis. When they want your house, neighborhood, businesses, schools, history, they TAKE it. My neighborhood is now crowded with immigrants. They want the jobs around and at the airport. My renter was forced out of her job at the airport because the employees from.............forced her out so they could get another relative hired. The bottom line is...who will work for the least amount of money. The Union is completely bought by the companies. This used to be a neighborhood of large lots and generational families attending the same schools. Now schools are being closed because of the "appropriation" of lands. Low income and apartments have been built creating a "transient" population with no interest in the culture or future of this area. The Safeway Store that I have shopped at for 30 years has completely changed it's stock due to demograpics in the area. Okay, I can deal with that. The more the merrier....HOWEVER...the majority of these folks are on welfare and food stamps. Welfare and foodstamps are wonderful provisions when you hit a down patch, but when you immigrate to a country, use these lifelines as a base of operation and then expand on it by having many children and bringing your relatives here it taxes (literally and figuratively) the community and it's resources. My great-grandparents were immigrants and NEVER asked for welfare. My Grandmother was a mother of 10 (catholic) and widowed at the age of 46. She raised and educated her kids. Next door to me was 3/4 acres of land. It was sold and 4 $600,000.00 homes were built. All bought by Asians and East Indians. The East Indians cut down 10 of by trees when I was not at home. The husband asked me why I didn't move to India because on my salary I could live like a queen. I have been in the same industry for 32 yrs and he is a cab driver. I was so shocked by the whole situation that I said, "Why don't YOU move to India?" I live on an acre in a Mobile home. The property is shared with my oldest brother in a small house in front of me.
I really don't care if people move here from other places. What I do care about is that it is being done at my expense. Immigrants (and I don't blame them) get 1% 5 yr business loans and when that loan is at an end they sell the business to their relative and it starts all over again.
As my JW mother says, "Honey, this system has to be destroyed!" Well, could it please happen YESTERDAY?????????
Where my house was where I grew up and the Port of Seattle took, cargo planes now park. The road around this area had two lakes that were just filled in. Thousands of mostly Boeing taxpaying workers were pink slipped, retired, later replaced by same level , lower paying jobs. How do you feel when your company "downsizes due to the economy (post 9-11) and then less than one year later is rehiring at abysmal wages and benefits. Schools were closed. Histories obliverated.
I love my town but I hate what this US Government has done to our communities, businesses, and future. I do NOT hold this agains immigrants. I would go for it as well. Thank you Republicans. I am not so sure the Clintons aren't part of this "New World Order" as well.
All I know is...from being raised a JW I did not have children and when I get slower and sicker I am so out of luck. It will be pills or a gun.
Maybe everybody who was a JW from birth should get a financial retirement based on those hours/mo they served and all the hours of meetings and assemblies/conventions.
My biggest rant ever. Sorry. Thanks for listening. I luv y'all
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So... is everyone here an x JW? Or currently??
by Elyse867 ini'm a fader myself.... mentally exhausted from thinking of all the reasons why i've given up the "truth" and then the whole "what if" bs... anyway, welcome me, i'm new.
:)
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dogisgod
Just stopped cold turkey after 36 yrs. Not dfd but probably marked.
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What's The Best Country or Area To Live In???
by minimus inif you could live anywhere-----what would your choice be?
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dogisgod
I love the pacific northwest but I think I would love New Zealand...but they don't want women my age down there.
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Is Your Personality Quite Different In "Real" Life Than It Is Here?
by minimus inare you pretty much the same here as you are in real life??
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dogisgod
I'm outgoing when I need to be but then I sometimes just lock the gate out front (witness protection program) and hang with my animals. I'm a lot funnier and swear when I'm mad .
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vacuum and hopelessness
by spiritboi inwonder how u guys and gals felt when you found out that the "truth" isn't the truth.
were u happy?.
you know, last nite i couldn't sleep.
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dogisgod
What you said resonates with me. What IS "truth?"???I left the society on my own two decadeds ago and only now am having the balls to address the belief system. I have felt alone and afloat for many years and have only discovered this website recently. I wish this had been there for me. Just keep reading and posting. I am barely 2 steps above where you are. Just keep going. You will find life.
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Why do we have to talk about what happened to us?
by wanderlustguy ini just watched reign over me.
adam sandler has come a long way as an actor, and i thought he did very well portraying the feelings someone has who keeps the pain of emotional tragedy inside.
i'll never feel ok about all the damage caused by me when i was at my worst.. the movie also made me think about me and my relationships and us as a group of people affected by something so tragic in some cases.
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dogisgod
It is a fact that the"first person's story" is premier for the teller and can be moving to the lister. Having said that, I don't know who would be the person to talk to. "Worldly people" really cant get it. I don't think anyone can "get it" unless they've been there. (As an interesting aside, Having been raised in "the Truth" I don't have a really good concept of time because I don't have event markers (like holidays). I have to ask my "worldly friends' "okay now what is it that you earthly people do and when?" I feel like an alien. ) I am living in a "witness protection program". I now live where I don't have a history or connection but trying to live as if I do. (Right in the midst of the JWs I grew up with and see around town quite often. I do love them as if they were my family...but the feeling is not mutual). I've been to a lot of counseling but the counselor never caught the importance of this. So now, at 55, I'm sick of therapy, self help books, and whining. Now I feel that just so what...just live. I am very lucky to have a pretty good long term job where I don't work with the same people every day. I love my animals. I do take anti-depressants and some days are better than others. I didn't have kids because of the truth (or my own choice while there) so it might be tough when I'm in the State Home. What can you do? Really nothing. Just try to be happy daily. I just feel like I am damaged goods and that's just the way it is. So get on with it as best you can.