Amelia Ashton

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  Non JW Related Survey Help. How to start one and preferably free. Any advise would be great. Tia

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  hope this is ok simon.

  i am hoping you wonderful people can help as this group is the best for most things in life not just our shared jw experience.. as many of you know since leaving jwdom i have become totally involved in exotic hedgehogs and now run my own rescue for them.

  there is a horrible hereditary disease called wobbly hedgehog syndrome that has appeared in the uk.

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  Thank you. :)
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  Non JW Related Survey Help. How to start one and preferably free. Any advise would be great. Tia

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  hope this is ok simon.

  i am hoping you wonderful people can help as this group is the best for most things in life not just our shared jw experience.. as many of you know since leaving jwdom i have become totally involved in exotic hedgehogs and now run my own rescue for them.

  there is a horrible hereditary disease called wobbly hedgehog syndrome that has appeared in the uk.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Hi

  Hope this is ok Simon. <3

  I am hoping you wonderful people can help as this group is the best for most things in life not just our shared JW experience.
  

  As many of you know since leaving JWdom I have become totally involved in exotic hedgehogs and now run my own rescue for them. There is a horrible hereditary disease called Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome that has appeared in the UK. It was known in other countries but this disease is only diagnosed Post Mortem as it is a neurological problem and manifests itself by leaving lesions on the affected hedgehogs brain. Symptoms are similar to muscular dystrophy in humans. We have isolated the lineage of the suspected carrier of this gene but we now need to find out if any from that line have died from WHS in the past or if they are still alive with or without symptoms or if hedgehogs prior to this one died from suspected WHS but no-one was notified. If we can stop it now we can eliminate this awful disease from future UK hedgehogs.

  This is where I need your help. How do I start/make a survey, preferably free and get it out to hedgehog owners? Many are on social media so those are not a problem but how do I reach others? Is a pdf the way to go or a website. There are thousands that need to be contacted.

  I know this is going to be a mammoth task but there are several of us have volunteered so I don't have to do it alone but I don't even really know where to start and as yet have no funding but if the cost is not too much we can pay for it ourselves.

  I really hope someone can point me in the direction I need to go. Thank you

  Amelia xxx
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  Are Magicians Spawns of Satan the Devil?

  by Cold Steel in

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  i was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.

  it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.

  his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?

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  It was an illusionist who helped set me free from fear of demons.

  Science of Scams with Derren Brown exposes the tricks of those making money from gullible people and shows how a ouija board works but back in the 80s our hall believed David Copperfield used demons to make a plane disappear. No mention of illusion at all, it wuz demunz!
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Convert. 1st contact and study 1984

  Baptised 1998 after 3rd study

  Out 2009
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  Paradise sharks will eat seaweed and lions will eat pineapples...What ?? Dinosaurs ate patatoes!!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  yes my friends if you went to "witness college" you would know dinosaurs before "eden" ate tomatoes.

  and in paradise snakes will give tender kisses to your ankles!!

  what would david attenborough animal expert think of this nonsense.

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  I was told that before the flood the water canopy kept the earth like a giant greenhouse and dinosaurs were needed to keep the grass and vegetation from becoming too overgrown.
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  What were Satan and his demons "doing" up in heaven, before being "cast down" in 1914?

  by Dunedain in

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  i was just thinking about how the wts has been spouting off for years that satan and his demons were cast down to the vicinity of the earth in 1914, but really, when you think about it, what was the difference before 1914 or after 1914?.

  its not like satan and his demons did not have access to the earth.

  satan and his demons always were messing with earth.

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  They must have been so boooooored all those millions of years with nothing to do except worship Jehovah and tell him how wonderful he is.

  Humans to play with was probably just too much temptation to resist. Like a new toy perhaps. Lol
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  I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.

  our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.

  he hung himself.

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  Amelia Ashton

  So sorry for your loss.

  You came here because you know we will understand and support you. It was probably instinct or your sub-conscious took over as you are in too much pain to think straight right now. Many of us on this site have lost some-one close through suicide and the range of emotions and pain you will go through will be the same those here also experienced. We are here for you. (((hugs)))
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  heart troubles

  by zeb in

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  dear all,.

  my health took a beating over the years with stress from various sources, not a little from the wt; and dangerous areas of work involving fumes and so on.

  the arc also took its toll and i have had recently a heart attack.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Good Luck with your surgery Zeb xxx
  
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  Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?

  by Wonderment in

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  i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.

  could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?

  perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Not lonely at all even tho I live alone but with 16 hedgehogs, 2 axolotls, 3 budgies and a chihuahua.

  I want to know the latest Watchtower craziness. I want to see signs of their demise. I also like to see new ones discovering this site and follow their journey, willing them to get discover they can fly free never to return to the mental trap or cage that is the Jehovah's Witness religion.

  Edited to add: the loneliest place for me was always at the KH or an assembly.
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  Revelation - it's grand climax is at hand

  by Listener in

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  some people point out the subliminal pictures in the wtbts publications but sometimes things are just so obvious, such as the title of the book above.. the person who came up with the title for this book must have had a good old laugh.. interestingly, this book first came out in 1988 and has not been included in the online library but nothing has replaced it.

  the org is really going backwards when they ditch old light and cannot come up with anything new.

  they are real wankers ;)..

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  Amelia Ashton

  Divergent you had the same experience as me. Only the reader and conductor had the new books. I had been ill and hospitalised due to severe depression so had not been to a meeting or read any littertrash for a few months. I had not marked the changes and was only vaguely aware of the "corrections"

  None of it made sense as the "new light" was spoken out loud but I was reading what I always believed was "the truth". How does " truth" change. 2008 was a pivotal year for me and a year later I was out. Have not been "hospitalised" against my will again since either.