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  I Just Had A Big Fat Bomb Drop On My Head and It Leaves Alot Of Questions

  by TotallyADD in

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  when i got home from work this afternoon my wife was standing near the door looking at me and said you need to sit down i have some hard news to tell you.

  so i sat down and she began saying my brother called and i imminently ask if my mom had died.

  she said no but my mother told my brother a deep family secrect that no one knows about.

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  Wow, what a bombshell!

  I would do a google search and try to track him and the mother down. I wouldn't initiate contact until you have some idea of what their family life is like and what their life circumstances are. There could be great resentment on both of their parts for your father not supporting them.

  Or, the mom may have remarried/hooked up with someone else and said that the son was that guys child. This would rock their world to find out that you and your family are the half-siblings. You need to really think this through.

  Do you know the Mom's full name? Perhaps look for death notices to start. Work backward. Ask your brother as much info as you can to try to determine what he really knows. And your Mother. What did/does she know? Why now after all these years is this being brought up? Did someone contact her?

  Try not to make an emotional decision or go to quickly. I can only imagine the emotions you are experiencing.
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  Was Alias written by former JWs?

  by Londo111 in

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  spoiler alert!.

  i finally got through all five seasons on netflix.

  this series really floundered toward the end...sometimes the plot devices made characters like sloan do some wacky things...hes evil, hes good, hes evil, hes good.

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  Interesting. I watched every episode and often thought that the similarities between the WT and the Alliance were weird. It was too bad the way the show ended.
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  Hate Speech Youtube concerning Apostates

  by flipper in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x3bkdeu4w.

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  She needed a TelePrompTer. It took a little long to get to the point.
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  My Letter to Brooklyn about the Parousia that got me disfellowshipped

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the letter i wrote back in '96 about the parousia.

  following the '95 watchtower that disconnected the "generation" from 1914 i began to look carefully at end-time prophecy and soon discovered what i knew were basic errors in what i had been taught.. i was a loyal jw at the time and was still serving as an elder.

  i used only watchtower publications in my research.

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  That is incredible the way you documented your thoughts and ffindings! I'm marking this for family, thanks crofty!
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  NSA PRISM program spied on Americans' emails, searches

  by Nathan Natas in

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  2. current

  for the last several years, the national security agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of americans using a program called prismwhich tapped directly into the servers used by apple, google, microsoft, and others.. the program was revealed thursday in separate stories from the washington post and the guardian, which earlier revealed that the nsa had worked with verizon to monitor the metadata of millions of phone calls made by americans.. read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040991/report-nsa-prism-program-spied-on-americans-emails-searches.html.

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  Sad that no one seems to mind.

  Perhaps now that the "War on Terror" is over they will stop.

  BTW, I'm not holding my breath.
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  .....It is painful to watch...

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  VIII

  Very sorry to hear this OTWO. You are a great brother to be helping your sister so much.

  My sister was in a very similar situation with her POS husband as she was dying last year. Her situation closely parallels your sisters. BIL refusing to work, asking MIL to pay the bills etc. Sis got a restraining order against him a few years ago. Then when she knew she was terminal she allowed him to be power-of-attorney. That sealed her fate. At least, right now, your Sister is letting you help her. That's good.

  Hang in there. Try to remember any positive memories of your sister. You'll cherish those later.
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  A Rant By A Householder Upset By the JW's Constant Visiting

  by Bangalore in

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  a rant by a householder upset by the jw's constant visiting.. http://britpoptarts.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/those-darn-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  bangalore.

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  This blog write up, which I read in full, was one of the best! It was funny and on point to all the crazy stuff JWs do and believe. Pretty impressive. He must have been bothered to the boiling point and blew.

  Good stuff to perhaps pass along.
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  Ok. I'm confused and slightly stunned.

  by Left in the Cold in

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  2. bible

  on pages 54 & 55 of the "what has religion done for mankind" book the following quotes can be found.

  considering adams decision to eat the fruit with eve it is written, "the woman was not to consult her husband first on the matter of eating, although god had made him first and had used him to construct the woman concerning the forbidden tree.

  no, but she was to exercise woman's rights and show him she had better judgement.".

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  Wy isn't this crap mailed to a media outlet? Ask someone in the Press to go to the WTS and ask them their current beliefs on rape and how a woman should react. I get the feeling they would have an interesting reaction.

  Perhaps Brian Ross, ABC News.
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  Wack Job MIL Thinking Sandy is Another Sign of "THE END"

  by LostGeneration in

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  i live nowhere near the east coast, nor does my jw mother in law.

  but according to my wife, mommy dearest thinks "sandy" is the latest sign that gawd almighty is about to bring about the end.. so i ask my lovely jw wife what she thinks, amazingly she says its probably just another storm, though it does look bad.

  i tell her yes, i agree, and if there is anything we can do to help out, i am willing to help.

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  I've had three calls this AM from my JW mom about the storm. And how bad, etc. And last week I got an email that "they" declared Peace and Security at the UN so it really is the GT!!

  This just proves it. A hurricane hitting NY! A JW dream come true!
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  Please read

  by JeffT in

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  my father passed around 9 this morning.

  he'd been in poor health for some time, but it still comes as a shock to have him gone.

  we are going to miss him terribly.

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  My condolences Jeff. Your father was an incredible man! He saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Likely more. What a man to have as a father.