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  Graduation and Pinning

  by sooner7nc in

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  giving my speech.

  being pinned by my son.. .

  the best day ever.. .

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  laverite

  Well done! Congrats!
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  Want to hear something funny ?

  by troubled mind in

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  my husband just won the city wide holiday light display for christmas i am so proud .

  just a few short years ago i was the one that put a strand of white lights around the porch railing ,and a couple of lighted deer in the yard ....that brought the elders around real quick (after three years of silence ) at that time my husband was still holding onto the notion his faith was not bond to a cult .

  it didn't take long after the 'loving sheparding call' for him to see things in another light.

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  laverite

  This looks gorgeous! Congrats!!
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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite, B.S. Engineering: Thank you!

  by laverite in

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  this post is dedicated to billy the ex and to all engineers out there.

  thank you for being the special breed you are.. have you thanked an engineer today?.

  http://www.sciencedump.com/content/engineer-be-human.

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  laverite

  This post is dedicated to Billy the Ex and to all engineers out there. Thank you for being the special breed you are.

  Have you thanked an engineer today?

  http://www.sciencedump.com/content/engineer-be-human
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  I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody

  by Terry in

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  i'm at starbucks .

  just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.

  my hands are shaking.. wow!.

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  laverite

  I really wish you had been around when I was 18. Seriously.
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  I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody

  by Terry in

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  i'm at starbucks .

  just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.

  my hands are shaking.. wow!.

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  laverite

  Terry, I don't chime in much. But I've been keeping up with this thread. What a powerful experience. I look forward to reading any updates about Jordan that you may have in the future. It sure sounds like you will continue to hear from him. I feel for him.
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  Ever notice how JW's can attend a talk or Convention and remember nothing?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  how many times have you asked a jw who has attended a public talk how the talk was, only to be told it was so great!

  yet they cannot remember the title nor any one single point except that the brother was "funny" or was good with illustratiions or some other vauge point?

  and conventions weren't far off either.

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  laverite

  "The talk was so uplifting! So ecouraging. What a find provision from JEEEhOvah."
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  JW window cleaner dies in accident

  by Magnum in

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  i just happened to hear about this through a long chain of communication.

  i didn't know whether to believe it so i googled it and found the obituary notice.. philip blaylock.

  posted yesterday november 21st, 2014. it is a sad day for all.

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  laverite

  I'm so sorry to hear this. How very sad. Life just isn't fair.
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  Feeling sad over a wasted life in watchtower

  by wannaexit in

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  it's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.

  by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.

  but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.

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  laverite

  I had a lot of pressure put on me to quit school at 16 and get a GED instead of continuing with high school. Somehow I resisted enough so that I finished high school on schedule. I wound up going to college through much sacrifice and without any support from family whatsoever. It was a mighty struggle, but I constantly had to pinch myself. I couldn't believe I was getting to do what I dreamed of doing. Even though I was alone in the world and effectively without family. I was somehow following my dream against the odds.

  There were so many times when I felt cheated out of the first 18 years of my life. Raised in a nutty religion, going door to door, being in a zealous family, so many ridiculous rules, not having normal interactions with peers, etc. I was pretty angry, and felt some bitterness in my 20s and even into my early 30s. I felt angry that I didn't have the family support other kids had. I really felt cheated.

  Over time, I came to terms with what I had been through and thankful for the path I chose. I would do it all over again. It sucks that I didn't have the kind of childhood I wished I had. But I had food and shelter. I had some interesting experiences to say the least. And there are many people in the world born into far worse circumstances.

  In my experience, it's hard not to feel screwed over by Watchtower Inc. That can bring up all kinds of emtions, including sadness and anger. BUT, thank goodness I am where I am. I look back and see so many who did not make it out. I no longer "feel" any of those negative things like sadness and anger. What I do feel now is fortuante. Profoundly so.
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  Religious nuttery alerts

  by Simon in

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  it seems like every couple of months i notice we've acquired a new religious nut and they have been posting away, annoying everyone and filling the forum with crap.

  it's disheartening to see people (even moderators!

  ) have been having conversations with them and there are pages and pages of insults and crap - we're going to try and avoid this in future.

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  laverite

  There will always be a new supply of them, but stamping them out helps to keep the amount of disruption down.

  I remember one guy who I think is a non-native speaker of English in the Washington DC area (if I am not mistaken) who used to post tons of stuff on Bible chronology and his predictions for the end times. He would comment on what the Watchtower got right (in his opinion), what Harold Camping got right (again, in his opinion) as well as where they were going astray -- and he would fill in with his own LONG commentaries. His posts would go on and on and on and on. And he just kept popping up. I think he was eventually banned. Ah, the memories.
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  REPUTATION and disfellowshipping.....stories

  by problemaddict 2 in

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  2. beliefs

  a friend of mine is getting disfellowshipped.

  someone with a kind heart, and good rep. he knows how i feel, remains my firend, and we have respectful conversation.

  without revealing too much, lets just say the reason he is being disfellowshipped is for family problems.

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  laverite

  In my experience (unless there were rumors to the contrary) any time anyone was disfellowshipped, the assumption was that it was because of sexual "immorality." I was aware of this from a relatively young age because of the Kingdom Hall "chatter." I remember a few times sitting in the general vicinity of a DF'd person at the Hall and feeling extremely dirty, as if their (perceived) sexual "immorality" could rub off on me. I was also really freaked out by any DF'd person in the Hall as I knew they were associated with "wickedness" and I was terrified of Satan using them to get to me, just by being close by in the same hall.