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  Christianity gives you.........umm.......uh.............................................?

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  that's right, nothing.. you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. your pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum and force a smile and forgive.. abused?

  forgive and forget.. need help desperately?

  when nothing happens, chalk it up to your unworthiness and lack of faith.. .

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  Christianity gives you.........umm.......uh.............................................?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  that's right, nothing.. you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. your pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum and force a smile and forgive.. abused?

  forgive and forget.. need help desperately?

  when nothing happens, chalk it up to your unworthiness and lack of faith.. .

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  chickpea

  So does this mean you won't be the guest speaker at this Sunday's service

  THAT would be one sermon i would enjoy!!
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  Doomsday thinking impacts health

  by chickpea in

  1. social
  2. current

  this could explain a lot about the jw maladies...... .

  from an article on "7 thoughts that are bad for you".

  http://www.livescience.com/health/090911-7-bad-thoughts-1.html.

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  chickpea

  this could explain a LOT about the JW maladies.....

  from an article on "7 thoughts that are bad for you"
  http://www.livescience.com/health/090911-7-bad-thoughts-1.html

  Gloom and Doom

  The gloomy, inhibited person is not just at a disadvantage socially, but also physically.

  A preliminary study of more than 180 patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (plaque buildup in the arteries) showed participants with so-called type D, or distressed, personality, had an increased odds of dying sooner than other people. Type-D people are more likely to experience negative emotions while at the same time hold in their feelings.

  The researchers, who detail their work in the August issue of the journal Archives of Surgery, suggest the personality type is linked with the body's immune system as well as stress response system.
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  will jehovahs witnesses make me a permanant "do not call "

  by looloo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2 nice ladys called on me the other day , as one started her "speach" the other one looked embarresed , i interupted and said to the embarresed one "you know why im not interested in your religion ,dont you " she replied "yes im sorry i couldnt rember which one you lived in " (i had met her at my door some months ago , and explained that my daughter was raped as a child by a man i had met at the kingdom hall , and some jws support him despite him abusing other jws etc , i had told of the paedpphile problem in the religion and my jw inlaws dont visit my little girl because her daddy is a disfellowshipped man , which i think is very unchristian) the other lady then started admiring my dress , then my little girl appeared and she said how pretty she was etc, i said goodbye and closed the door , i wish i had heard what the 2nd lady had said to her friend in explanation for why i was not interested !

  the annoying thing is my little girl then wanted to know who they are and what did they want to talk about , so i explained they were in "that religion that grandma is in "that stops her coming to see daddy , which upset her , then hubby came back from work later in a good mood untill i told him of the visit that had upset our little girl and then he was moody with me and said "dont talk to them again , next time tell them to be made a "do not call " for ever and never ever review it !is it possible to do that in our situation ?

  i dont want my family life upset .

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  chickpea

  if i am not mistaken someone in the BoE,
  likely the service overlord, is supposed to
  annually reassess the DNCs, to cover the
  possibility that some might have moved.....

  the elduhs at the KH i attended made it
  absolutely understood to steer clear of DNCs
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  New Apostate here

  by skitt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i did not know where to start, but figured the personal experience section was a good place to begin.

  won't bore you with all the particulars today....but i was raised in "it" (wont call it the truth, cause it ain't) from about 1968. baptized in 1985, faded about 2001.....woke up from the insanity after reading ray franz forbidden book a few years ago(crisis).

  only sorry i did not read it earlier....but there was that fear factor instilled in me.

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  doesnt matter how long it took

  you made it out!

  welcome!
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  Which do you prefer?

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when it comes to weather, would you rather have a wind chill below zero, or a heat index over 100?

  it's the hottest week of the summer here.

  i have to confess, i handle the cold much better than the heat.

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  i was a heat casualty twice in the military
  so i am extremely vulnerable to heat injury..

  guess it is freezing as opposed to dying... ;-)
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  another one escapes the b0rg UPDATE

  by chickpea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had posted this bit of news several weeks back.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/196300/1/another-one-escapes-the-b0rg.

  now i will happify you with an update!.

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  chickpea

  i had posted this bit of news several weeks back

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/196300/1/another-one-escapes-the-b0rg

  now i will happify you with an update!

  i ran into the young woman in question at....

  THE grocery store/bank window where she
  was changing her account name as she
  officially changed her name in court today
  since she is in the middle of an amicable
  divorce

  we had a 20 minute chat up standing in the
  bakery of the store, and exchanged contact
  info because i told her i didnt want to lose
  track of her now that she, in her words is
  "finally awake!".... she is still dealing with
  a lot of baggage but mostly has her head
  on straight and is very engaged in her real
  life!

  we made a pledge "between thee and me"
  that the next time we got together no one
  would mention the cult.....

  YAY for you JC (her real initials!)
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  Atheists - Do you ever talk to God?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i scream out sometimes.

  am i angry at a 'being' that i don't think exists?

  or the embedded concept?.

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  chickpea

  the furthest i go sometimes
  when deeply frustrated is to
  say aloud "sometimes i WISH
  there was a f'ing god!!!"

  (i also say that about "hell"
  about superior asshats)

  it took me a few years of consciously
  resisting those impromptu prayers
  that were habitual. like when a kid drove
  out the end of thedriveway on a long trip,
  a whispered "bring him home safely"
  to..... to...... whomever/whatever

  there was something reassuring
  about a sky daddy who was
  gonna make it all better.... it IS
  hard to always have to hitch up
  your big girl panties and deal with
  what real life throws at you....
  does it really hurt less to have a
  hope/delusion of "life hereafter?"

  dunno about anyone else but
  i feel SO much more at peace
  and hopeful about my own life
  and the role i have assumed
  since no longer believing in
  gods

  whatever the hell it was that
  prompted human consciousness
  to invent deity, i hope it has
  had its heyday and all that is left
  is to survive the residue until it
  disappears entirely......
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  R.I.P Daniel

  by Mattieu in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  every time i hear the following song by elton john, i have to pull over and shed a tear or two or twenty and think of all the other people like me who lost a brother whose name was daniel.... my brother daniel would have turned 40 today august 6 (southern hemisphere time).. i sadly lost daniel when i was 5 and he was 4 .... i still have vivid memories and photographs, yet sadly due to the religion that is called the jehovahs witnesses have not yet fully grieved or coped with my younger brothers death in a road accident.

  i have never spoken to anyone outside my family about daniels death as i was raised up with the view that as a young person i would witness any day now the resurrection of my dear little brother.

  not a week goes by when i do not visit his gravesite at fawkner cemetary looking for closure or the fact that i may never see him in the new system.

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  truly a tribute to the life lost
  and a life saved, mattieu

  i know the feeling of losing
  both a brother and a son
  because it was that one
  calendar year that brought
  the "truth" into my life and
  my family's... truly the lowest
  of low hanging fruit, a grieving
  mother ....

  i reconciled with the losses
  and others that have come
  by thinking THIS is what it
  is to be human... finite and
  faced with opportunity to
  develop character traits that
  reveal our truest aspects....

  courage
  humility
  valour
  dignity
  honour
  generosity
  and all the other attributes that
  could NEVER develop in a perfect
  world that never offered a challenge

  you carry daniel into the future
  by the loving care you have for
  his memory... sadly the one aspect
  of future history we have with our
  beloved departed... how human we are!
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  For your viewing pleasure: I Have No Secrets

  by dssynergy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skvrcnehw6k.

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  i couldn't agree more!.

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  chickpea

  even without a private income
  i can sure get behind that last
  statement... or in front of it