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  Ray Franz has had a stroke

  by coffee_black in

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  just setting the record straight.

  there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.

  he is still alive.

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  VIII

  Very sad.

  RIP Ray.
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  cancer.....wanted to warn you....

  by peaches in

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  my aunt is self supportive...runs a self employed catering service...healthy and active...went to bed one night,,,,woke up with a sore chest....she thought she had pulled a muscle...so...gave it a few days to heal.....no improvement.... went to the doctor,,,,,they ran some tests,,,,and found out she is full of cancer...it is in her breast,,,lungs,,,liver....they told her she has about 4 to 6 months to live...nothing they can do for her..... she is just a wonderful person,,,,and i love her alot...i told her god loves her,,,and that heaven was a wonderful place...i said nothing about "earth"...i told her death is only hard on the living...and sent her big hugs...... this is really disturbing because she had no symptoms....none...she felt fine...i did not want this to happen to any of you...so,,,guys and gals,,,check for lumps and bumps...get the yearly physicals,,,mamo-grams,,,pap smears...prostrate..etc etc.... we always think it would never happen to us or a loved one...but...it so easily could....peaches .

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  VIII

  Very sorry about your aunt peaches. I hope you can spend some time with her.

  Hugs.
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  Brazilian Wax ... is it JW approved?

  by sacolton in

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  what is the current "light" on this hairy subject?

  is it okay for a jw to have a brazilian wax?.

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  Are they checking on this for Baptisims now? If they are, get it on tape and sue. For sexual harrassement.

  If not, then, as noted above, "Don't ask, don't tell".
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  Do you think you are forever damaged by the Watchtower??

  by noni1974 in

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  i've been out since 1998 so i've had time to learn how to be normal.

  i've had time to get over the pain and hurt of shunning by those who claimed to love me.

  i really can't blame them because my mom was born in too.

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  VIII

  What a wonderful, well written thread.
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  who had a child molester in their congregation ?

  by looloo in

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  2. child-abuse

  i have done this thread a long time ago , but a few newbies have joined recently and may have had some experiances to share , there was 2 in the congregation i was involved with (i was a "study" ) one was from bethel in america and got deported after his prison sentence and the other was reprooved for abuse then carried on abusing in the congregation , years later he abused my daughter and after i found out i reported him to the police , but he had got off "scot free" for 20 years untill i reported him .

  i believe the one from bethel was reported to the police simply because elders kids were affected ..

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  VIII

  I can quickly think of 3 right off the top of my head:

  Brother *F* who was a MS and was molesting both daughters.

  Brother *Q* who was the father of at least 6 and was a serial molestor in the neighorhood who went to jail and was also a Peeping Tom and Flasher.

  Brother *K* who was molesting his stepdaughter, natural born daughter and son. The daughter and son were both *slow* and he took advantage of that and told them never to tell anyone when daddy touched them. The older stepdaughter he threatened with throwing out of the house. Ends up the mother knew all along it was going on.

  There are more. Our cong was a seeming hotbed of sexual predators.
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  Your Grandparents

  by snowbird in

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  what are their first names?.

  mine are henry and daisy, thomas and katherine.. sylvia.

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  Fred & Wilma

  Barney & Betty
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  My Dad Died Today

  by cantleave in

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  he has been ill for some time, but it was still unexpected.

  he was never a jw and i didn't really have a close relationship with him, since he remarried after my parents divorced.

  i reunited with him in the mid 90's after over 10 years of not seeing him.. .

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  Very sorry for your loss!
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  RANDY WATTER'S DAD JUST DIED

  by Mary in

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  randy watters, owner of freeminds.org father just died a couple of hours ago from pneumonia and alzheimers.

  he was 86 years old.

  as randy has been tireless in his efforts to help countless people come out of the wts, i would like to express my sincere condolences to him at this time.. .

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  My sincere condolences to Randy and his family on their loss.
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  I just want to say how much I hate the f***ing cult

  by Confuzzled in

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  i posted here a few times some months back about my jw bf, and i'm glad i did because i was on the fence about the whole thing.

  i had to stop because the nature of his profession might have brought him here, and the details i had given it wouldn't have taken much to figure out who i was talking about.

  i still lurk though, daily.. i hate this.

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  VIII

  Being female, being treated as a second class entity is pretty crappy. My Mom, being a fighter, was always fighting with the Elders. As a result, my sis and I were pariahs in the cong. So was my Mom. (Dad was DFd and they got divorced when I was a young teen).

  Going door-to-door every Saturday and most Sunday afternoons, when you just need to clean your house, go to the mall, get your errands done, etc., starts to take it's toll. Also, when your husband starts to diss your opinions because he is programmed to do that because you are a woman and not to be listened to, well, it starts to get on your nerves.

  Since you have been out in the world and understand that women are equal to men and shouldn't wear Burquas, get ready to basically put one on. It goes beyond wearing a dress three times a week to meetings and out in service.

  Read about women *Being in Subjection*. Those are key words. For any woman who has gained equality in the work force or education and you walk into a KH and realize that a window washer or janitor is trying to tell you that you are basically dirt with the brain of a Cow (Watchtower from the 1960's) and not as smart, well, you realize that they are a bunch of misogynistic assholes.

  And in a major Cult. That is key. Cults are hard to get out of.
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  Me and my Wife like to Swing if anyone wants to join us.....

  by Witness 007 in

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  ...........at the kid's playground swings.

  i hate the monkey bars since my feet drag on the ground!.

  april fools!!!!!!!!!

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  VIII

  I wonder how many will open the thread because they're interested.