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  Please Share one of your Favourite Quotations

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever come across words that resonate with you?

  it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .

  "fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".

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  Barn's burned down, now I can see the moon~ Masahide
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  Please Share one of your Favourite Quotations

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever come across words that resonate with you?

  it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .

  "fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy~ Einstein

  Not all who wander are lost~ Tolkien

  The earth laughs in flowers~ R. W. Emerson

  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you~ C Jung

  I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened~ Twain

  Dance is the poetry of the body~ FFF

  Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue?~ Tolkien
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  My daughter got her A Levels yesterday and is off to university in September

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  she took english, maths and physics and acheived a* a* and a. .

  it is the best thing possible for me, even better than seeing her opening birthday presents or the day she won the halloween fancy dress prize at school.. her dad died five years ago but she has coped and done so well at school.

  it has shown me that despite what happens in life you can still do well and reach your goals, especially if you take a cult upbringing out of the equation!

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  That's so great! Happy for you both
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  Religioulous

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure how many here have watched this... but make a coffee and make the time to do so.... its edutainment ;) .

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  http://youtu.be/e2zhldbmfdg.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  the part at the Jesus Theme Park in Orlando where he interviews a man playing Jesus - priceless!!

  Ha! I forgot about that!

  I definitely recommend seeing it!
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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

  does anyone else out there experience this ?.

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  I'll check it out, thanks for the links~
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  Why are the moms so attached to religion?

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please don't take this the wrong way, i would love it for women to comment on this thread because i just can't understand something!!.

  here's the pattern i see:.

  mostly guys in here.. if the guys are married, their wives usually stay a jw, or it takes 3 times as much time to convince a woman to leave than a man.. if the guys have a jw father, the father is open-minded and can be more easily persuaded to leave.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  ILoveTTATT~

  I am a women, an INFP, and a mother.

  My emotions are what initially caused me to leave!

  Feelings of visceral, heavy stress to do with the constant theocratic schedule and expectations and social tedium left me emotionally drained.

  I asked my self why I felt this burdened, if this was necessary....

  Then I began thinking critically about the organization itself, stopped just swallowing everything that was spoonfed me. Instead, I took a good look around, stopped studying, commenting, going in field service, associating so much...and noticed that I felt much better! i found answers about doctrine, jw history, all the lies after the fact

  And this cycle of feeling discomfort > thinking about how to ease it > following that > and feeling better continued and eventually brought me to feeling totally convinced and relieved to walk away for good..

  My love for my children also contributed to me leaving! I didn't want them to grow up losing themselves in the mind-control. I choose that over the superficial comfort of social 'support'. I couldn't care less what 'other moms' do

  Maybe UBMs could encourage their (usually) wives to relax, see how it feels to focus on the moment, simple pleasures in life. That relief for them may leave a much greater impact initially on some...then, in time, maybe they will ask themselves why they are chasing their own tails

  (Narcissistic Supply, I hope you are joking.)

  By the way, my three brothers are all still 'in'...I'm the black ewe of the family ...hardy har har

  It's been hard as hell at times, lots and lots and lots of tears, lost relationships... but here I am living free
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  Great Balls of Fire-- Tonight and Tomorrow!!

  by rip van winkle in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  will you be watching the perseid meteor shower??.

  http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/26jul_perseids/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo83kp54yxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  It's been cloudy here the last several days! Drove a little out of the city, but didn't see anything with the naked eye

  Woke up before dawn this morning and went outside... clearer skies, but too much light pollution
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  Don't park like a Jerk

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. social
  2. humour

  if you haven't seen this video making the rounds, well... here you go.

  kinda long, but worth watching him try to get into his car.... video description:.

  published on jul 31, 2013. sick of a coworker parking his jaguar like a jerk and taking up two spots every day, youtube user crisp330 teaches him a lesson by parking in the space next to him.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  People have no business parking like jerks until they've at least acquired basic contortion skills...leave it to the pros
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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

  does anyone else out there experience this ?.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Good one, Glander lol!
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  Religious beards of Ministry

  by Terry in

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  spurgeon remains highly influential among christians of different denominations, among whom he is known as the "prince of preachers"..

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Ha! That's awesome