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  Cantleave went to the meeting last night

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  i have attended just a handful of meetings over the 2 months.

  i went yesterday, because i had an assignment and i really wanted to see my mate talk about masturbation from the platform, knowing he would be very uncomfortable about it!!!!.

  anyway after the meeting i was approached by the cobe.

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  Cantleave's latest update

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  ok, i couldn't let it lie.

  i showed my wife some of the scientific inaccuracies made by the wts over the years .

  my wife was concerned that i have been reading apostate literature.

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  Small Steps

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  just to let you all know how my extremely gradual fade is going.

  you have to remember that i have spent all my life right in the centre of the congregation, i never missed meetings, except when necessary.

  my service average has been between 10 -15 hrs per month and i would spend vacations auxillary pioneering.

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  A Question for any Ex Elders

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  have you apologised to those who you df / da for apostacy or other rule breaking?

  if so how?.

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  Confessed my Doubts to my Wife

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  well - i today i had the opportunity to tell my wife i no longer believe in the things that i have spent my life immersed in and that i didn't want my life run by 9 geriatrics in brooklyn.. her reaction was understandable her first questions was "what have you been reading"?.

  i didn't mention this site but told her i was shocked by something i heard regarding the wts's ngo status with the un, dissapointed by the new light on the generation and disturbed by the flip flopping on blood fractions.

  i explained how these things were at best hypocritical and at worst have meant some people have lost their lives unnecessarily because of the societies previous position.

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  Smurfs????????

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  every now and then i come across comical references to smurfs in posts on this site, i have been in the org all my life and never heard of any demonisation of father abraham's little blue imaginary friends, even when they they hit the uk top ten singles chart.

  can someone enlighten me of what was said, where and when?

  maybe i missed it because i was more concerned about kiss using an ouija board in plane or axel rose being anagram of oral sex!!!

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  The Grieving Process after Leaving the Cult

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  i really want my wife to see that we have spent our wholes lives in a lie, a lie promoted by mind controlling cult, but i have a problem and this is it........ my wife was extremely close to her grandmother, she lived with her in her teens and loved her to bits.

  when her grandmother died, 5 years ago, my wife was devestated, the only thing that allowed her to combat the grief was the hope of the ressurection, being able to see her grandmother again in the new system.. it is in my opinion, this hope that keeps her going in the "truth".

  if the she leaves the truth i am sure, that like me she will not fall back on any other religion, she will probably become more humanist and agnostic if not atheist.. this realisation will mean that she will never see her grandmother again.

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  What the Family Worship Evening Arrangement Really Entails

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  as most people here know the combined book study allows an evening for "family worship".. the co visits march - august 2009 is really focussing on this.

  if a jdub family head doesn't do a full evening of family worship and uses this time to do recreational activities he is as guilty as isrealite who didn't use the sabbath for worship.

  the result, will of course be same as the unfaithful isrealite, death!!!!!!!!!

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  KH Games

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  even though my attandance at meetings is lessening, i still have to attend so as not to lose my income, friends and family.

  i've started playing games to make the meetings go faster, for example, i have started annoying the hall servant by making silly requests such as asking him to turn the aircon on, then 10minutes later saying things like , "thanks for that but it looks like sister elderly is getting cold - she has just put her jumper on".

  i also look for brothers and sisters who haven't got one or the books or the okm and make a real meal at getting one to them (its amazing how much noise you can make fumbling around the literature cupboard).. i am running out of ideas, can anyone else suggest something to to take the dullness out of the meetings.

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  Hi I hope i am welcome

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  hi guys and gals,.

  i am a hypocryte.

  brought up in the "truth" but know its not.

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