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  A Short Introduction............

  by Night Owl in

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  2. experiences

  i am a former ms and have been active and inactive since i stepped down about 20 years ago.

  i am currently inactive.

  i may attend a meeting or two a month, sometimes none.. i have no feelings of animosity towards the organization, or anyone in it.

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  The pieces finally come together

  by man in black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this afternoon i got a letter stating that i was accepted to accompany a ww 2 veteran on a flight to washington dc to visit the ww2 memorial in september.. www.honorflight.org.

  i also was called to check up on the health of several horses that some friends of my wife adopted, they are very underweight belgians, and these.

  new owners want to make sure that they are taken care of.

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  At the end of my rope :(

  by tec in

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  2. friends

  but i guess this is my first big rant.. this last year has been the hardest year of my life.

  my son tried to kill himself ( he did something pretty bad, got caught, and i guess that's the only way he thought to deal) i am also very close to actually hating my husband, and i do not hate people.

  and every decision that i make lately seems to be the wrong one.

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  What is your reaction when you see dubs with name badges? Here was mine:

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  2. friends

  one of the things i really like about being out of the cult is that i no longer have to go to those long, boring district conventions.

  instead, i can do other things with my new family (fiancee and soon to be step son).

  we were out and about sunday, i had taken the day off from work, no point in bothering people with collections on a sunday and a holiday.. we had planned to go to a suburb of st. louis, mo (st. charles) and see some of the vendors on the riverfront in the afternoon and then wait for the fireworks in the evening .

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  Have become seriously angry ...all of a sudden...

  by Lozhasleft in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  another thread has set me off ...the one about anniversaries ...and i read an extract that blondie posted on there....suddenly i am soooo bl**dy furious...so indignant!!!!.

  why did we allow a bunch of men to dictate to us not only what we believed, but even how we parented our kids,and then even how we spent our free time?????

  how could we allow this stuff?????.

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  Gratitude from a long time lurker!

  by Thetis in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i cannot begin to tell you how grateful i am to you!

  you reassured me while i was one of the walking wounded.

  you know that line from the movie "shadowlands", when the student says to c.s.

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  Saw a Therapist yesterday,,,,, interesting

  by man in black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i da'ed myself two years ago, one of the main reasons was because my mother died and the congregation was more interested in"meeting attendance, and service" than anything else.

  for the first time in 30 years the very conditional friendship offered by the jehovahs witnesses came to the fore, and i was literally blindsided by it.. several months later i attended a grief support group at our local hospital, and boy it was a real godsend for me, i realised that the so called "worldly people' could actually be nice, supportive, and lend a real listening ear.

  the hospital had one of their grief support counselors lead the meeting, and she was really good at what she does.

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  Ray Franz Tribute

  by besty in

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  2. friends

  over at freeminds we didn't want this day to pass without some recognition of the life and death of ray franz.

  in view of his stated wishes not to have a memorial or service we hoped for something that he would have liked for all of us to take a moment over.. .

  we owe a note of thanks to v for his graphics work and atjeff for the obituary writing - i know neither of them need mentioned by me.. .

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  Songs that make you cry

  by sooner7nc in

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  2. friends

  there have been several threads about music the last few days, so i decided to start another.. this song absolutely makes me tear up every time i hear it.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq_3byxasmm.

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  Which 5 Books Would You Recommend?

  by leavingwt in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  which 5 books would you recommend?.

  there is a wealth of information, just waiting to be shared with persons who have an open mind and a desire to know the truth about the watchtower society.

  please list five books (more or less) that you would recommend to new ones.. i hope to discover something new from your lists.

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