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  A warm and fuzzy call from my brother..

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  ...as a newly appointed elder.

  it was our first real conversation in 3 1/2 years.. coincidence?

  i don't think so.. it was a 'sheparding call' on his very own sister.

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  untitled

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  2. experiences

  after this last conversation with my father, i had almost decided to completely just not have any contact at all.

  but then realized i still need to go through my parents to ever talk with my little sister.

  if i'm feeling up to any discussion at all with them, it's going to be short.

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  ~Moving forward..searching for a good therapist~

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  alright, that's it!

  after writing this, i am on a serious search for a good therapist~.

  i've been coming here on and off for a little over a year now(wish i had found it sooner) ...for validation and clarity in my feelings about how hurtful the religion is...so i don't feel so alone about it, and so i don't feel like i am losing my mind~.

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  Secular vs. Biblical Morality

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  this is an interesting video~.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwavimmo4w&feature=player_detailpage.

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  ~Close to Others..Close to My Self~

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  2. friends

  i am using this as my very own personal therapy session to express some of what has been swimming around in my head~.

  it may not take much shape, i'll be letting it flow.... there is nothing like feeling understood and accepted and loved for who you are.

  but that's a difficult thing to really feel when there is little or no history with a person.

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  I love gays :)

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  some of my favorite people are~.

  after leaving the religion, my lesbian couple friends were the most compassionate people, and i will always love them!.

  i am heterosexual, but find gays to be absolutely fabulous!!.

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  ~~ A friendly Hello ~~

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  2. beliefs

  it seems now it's longer and longer between times that i come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion.

  this even a few years after leaving it all.. sometimes when it is quiet, i reflect on how it used to be..how i now live such a different life.

  walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed.

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  Las Vegas ?

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  it would be fantastic to meet up w other las vegas ex -dubbys, so i'm putting it out there....

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  Do you remember the moment that you stopped believing that it was "The Truth"?

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  was there one incident or epiphany that struck you hard?

  or was it a slow...gradual awakening (no pun)?.

  my coming out of the jw coma (as i like to call it) began at a family rendezvous in the beautiful florida gulf coast.

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  The 'you don't look happy' theory, the anorexic masturbator, and other crazy cunundrums(?)

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  2. beliefs

  so it was that we were having another emotionally charged conversation, my parents and i. in the course of it, they condescendingly told me i wasnt happy, because i just dont look like it to them (they don't even know me anymore, as we have no real relationship-- the never-ending assumptions they make of others infuriates me to no end!!).

  my theory~~~ of course df'd family and ex-friends don't look happy to them!

  what they see (if they ever encounter us) is someone who is dead to them, has been publicly flogged emotionally and mentally~~~why would we fake a smile and pretend everything is normal and ok when we see them?

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