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  From 'Everlasting Life' to just a few more years. How did you handle the realisation that you WOULD die?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. beliefs

  the thing is, a lot of us thought we'd never die.

  do you comprehend what a truly massive mind-fuck that is?

  when i was embroiled in doubts and knew i was heading 'out of the truth' i remember waves of nausea hitting me.

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  Nicolau, I'm like some of the others who've posted: I was a born-in who was supposed to see the "new world" before I finished high school. I firmly believed that I had a chance of never dying. After getting out a few years ago--at around age 40--I finally had to face my mortality, and it was a shock to me. I haven't replaced my former beliefs with any other afterlife hope, so sometimes I do get scared of dying, thinking about what I might miss out on (grandkids, further learning, etc.).

  However, when I'm feeling ill with a bad flu or something, and I just want to lie in bed and go to sleep so my body will stop aching, then I understand how so many old people accept death and are ready for it. So now, while I do fear dying 'before my time,' I think I'll be ready for it when I've lived a full life and my broken down body wants relief.
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  OOPS!! ELDER Resigns From His Job After Manager Is DF'd!

  by african GB Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  an elder from a nearby cong allegedly rendered a resignation letter to company director ("with immidiate effect")after his departmental manager(a former jw) was df'd..... apparently this "brother" didn't even think twice about giving up his job, even though we are in a recession...... he decided to put "kingdom interests" first, ( matthew 6:33).. is this really what jehovah wants his "people" to go through?.

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  This is me, waiting for the next entertaining
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  Any behavior you regret due to JW teaching

  by happpyexjw in

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  2. friends

  does anyone wish they could make amends for mistakes made as a jw?

  i tried very hard to follow the teachings very closely, right down to shunning some of my relatives who were df'd.

  i also think i was very judgemental and hard on others..

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  I was in since birth, left at age 39. I regret feeling so judgemental and superior, and for shunning my Mom while she was df'd. I didn't even invite her to my own (JW) wedding. Perhaps karma is true, because now my Mom's back in, I'm out, and I'm on the receiving end of the shunning.
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  He made the front cover of the Orlando Sentinel

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've written before about my grandson and his efforts to help homeless children.

  he is on the front cover of the orlando sentinel today.

  http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-asecstepbystep01040109apr01,0,5295957.story.

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  What an inspiring young man your grandson is! I hope his story is passed along through schools, to encourage other young people to make a difference.

  His mother is to be commended also--a single, working mom who's taking time off work to support her son. Bravo to the entire family!
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  old riddles

  by John Doe in

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  2. friends

  as i was going to st. ives,.

  i met a man with seven wives.. each wife had seven bags,.

  each bag had seven cats,.

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  When a salesman of mine went to New Orleans on a business trip, a little boy came up with a shoeshine box at the airport and asked if he could shine the salesman's shoes. The guy said no. The boy said, "I don't know you or where you are from (we were from San Diego), but I'll bet you five dollars I can tell you where you got your shoes. I'll even bet you I can tell you the city and the state where you got your shoes."

  My salesman took the bet. And lost. How did the kid do it?

  A guy in New Orleans did this same trick to my sister-in-law. She took the bet ($20), and the guy proclaimed, "You got your shoes.....on your feet! N'awleans, Louisiana. Now give me my $20!"

  She said the guy's amusing demeanor was worth the $20 just for the laugh.
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  illuminati game cards from 1995

  by ninja in

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  Of course the most disturbing thing is that the artwork is in a similar style to the WT!

  No kidding! When I saw the "Combined Disasters" card, I got a flashback to my childhood and the scary illustrations in the pink Paradise Lost book. **shudder**

  The cards are explained at http://www.speakeasy.org/~sbrinich/INWO_Illuminati.html. For example, the image on the "Terroist Nuke" card refers to the 1993 WTC bombing.
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  My first Social Security check

  by HappyDad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well folks,.

  i guess i'm officially old.

  got my first social security check in the mail and can deposit it tomorrow.

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  Congratulations HappyDad!

  As a born-in JW, I wasn't even supposed to finish high school in "this system." When I finally got out a few years ago, I actually started thinking about my retirement. I was relieved that, since age 16, I had worked jobs that paid into SS. However, I'm 46 now, and I keep hearing stories that the program will be broke before I'll be able to collect. Sigh...
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  Take the Beliefnet test... and post your results!

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  an atheist friend (never a jw) sent me a link to this fun test:.

  http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx.

  turns out i am 100% secular humanist, but unfortunately i am still 5% jw!.

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  1.	Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2.	Secular Humanism (94%)
  3.	Liberal Quakers (90%)
  4.	Neo-Pagan (85%)
  5.	Reform Judaism (77%)
  6.	Theravada Buddhism (71%)
  7.	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
  8.	Mahayana Buddhism (65%)
  9.	New Age (65%)
  10.	Nontheist (65%)
  11.	Jainism (64%)
  12.	Sikhism (64%)
  13.	Baha'i Faith (60%)
  14.	Taoism (57%)
  15.	Hinduism (50%)
  16.	Scientology (50%)
  17.	New Thought (48%)
  18.	Islam (46%)
  19.	Orthodox Judaism (46%)
  20.	Orthodox Quaker (44%)
  21.	Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (35%)
  22.	Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (24%)
  23.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (23%)
  24.	Seventh Day Adventist (21%)
  25.	Eastern Orthodox (15%)
  26.	Roman Catholic (15%)
  27.	Jehovah's Witness (11%)
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  Google Ocean

  by betterdaze in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  getting your feet wet with google ocean: first look in images.

  google takes a deep-sea plunge with google earth 5 beta, which adds a new feature called google ocean.

  with this introduction to the mapping software, .

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  Go to South Sentinel Island, India
  Look one mile south.

  Wow, that's cool. They look surprisingly graceful.

  Here's one I like. Copy/paste following coordinates in the Google Earth Fly To Search to see a satellite view of The Great Blue Hole: 17° 19' N 87° 32' W
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  PDF documentation regarding 1975 prediction in WT publications

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had a request for documentation of the watchtower societys statements regarding the year 1975. so, ive put these files up for downloading from a filesharing service.

  the first file contains the complete text of 3 issues of awake!

  26-35 (file is 12 mb):.

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  Sorry for my tech ignorance, but I can't get the files to download from File Send. Every time I click the yellow "Download" button, the same page reappears, and nothing has been downloaded to my pc. What am I doing wrong?