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  VERY depressed

  by youngbro in

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  i have severe clinical depression and right now, for whatever reason it is really acting up....

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  Youngbro---shrug off what visitor said. It's a lie, it's destructive, and you don't need that kind of guilt to aggravate your condition.

  I need to ask---are you safe? Please let me know.

  Have you read the book by David Burns called Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy? I rarely recommend self-help books. Most are very gimmicky. But this one really did help me. It helped me with cognitive thinking---taking some control over my emotions. I read it years ago and still benefit today. It was one of those ACTIVE things that I could do for myself.

  Try to remember that what you FEEL is not usually the reality. For instance, just because a person feels guilty it doesn't mean they did anything wrong. Or just because a person feels unloved doesn't mean that's true either.

  I know it's hard to pinpoint--but what's on your mind?

  Edit to say: I assume because you said you are on the right meds, you are getting treatment. We are NO substitute for doctors---but we can listen. As long as you are safe.

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  My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 5

  by Simon in

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  my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 4. i swear, i thought it was only a couple of years at most since i wrote part 4 of "my life and how jwd came to be".

  i re-read it after someone posted to it and brought it back on active topics and it was kind of prophetic in a way ... well, i had the 5 years part right if nothing else:.

  it would be nice to visit the site (or whatever one is around then) in 5 years time to let people know how we're doing and find only a few of the same people still around.

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  Simon,

  You have seriously made yourself a thorn in their side! I don't think it is possible to overestimate the power of this site. Besides the steady stream of new members, there is an unquantifiable crowd of lurkers. What you have accomplished here may not affect them fully for years to come, but they can't erase the knowledge. Just like you couldn't erase the knowledge your co-worker showed you that day. (In San Diego?---Witnesses in lounge chairs). Another thing you'll never be able to count is how many people you saved from baptism.

  I know some people set out to do major damage to the WTS--and overstate their success. You never intended such a thing---and yet---that old truth will set you free thingy.

  Thank you Simon. Thank you soooooo very much!

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  On my way to Cleveland for the 2011 "Let God's Kingdom Come" District Convention!

  by MrFreeze in

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  well, i would be... if i were still going to meetings.

  i live in pittsburgh, pa. for as long as i can remember we've always had our conventions in cleveland.

  i think the year i was born was when we started going there.

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  INTERESTING!
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  On my way to Cleveland for the 2011 "Let God's Kingdom Come" District Convention!

  by MrFreeze in

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  well, i would be... if i were still going to meetings.

  i live in pittsburgh, pa. for as long as i can remember we've always had our conventions in cleveland.

  i think the year i was born was when we started going there.

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  NewChapter

  LOL this thread has made me realize there are probably enough of us in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and surrounding areas to fill the Wolstein center.

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  My friend and mentor has published his first novel ... at 84 years young!

  by compound complex in

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  dear fellow bibliophiles:.

  today i received my own copy of who's killing all the lawyers?

  from a.g. hayes, that in payment for trimming the grevillea.

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  NewChapter

  Outstanding! I'm gonna put it in my amazon basket if it's there. Tell him congratulations!

  My number one writing partner/critiquer lives in London. She's Welsh and lived here in the states and has moved to London. Her input is so valuable because she views language a bit differently.

  Which reminds me, I still have to read her latest and rip it apart and hand it back with her bleeding heart! Thanks for the reminder. I got work to do.

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  FDS says - "No need to check our work. Besides, it will only make God angry."

  by Crisis of Conscience in

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  though i no longer believe the fds is indeed appointed by god, i guess because of what has been taught to me all these years through the wtbts, i still make an effort to try and look at both sides.

  and then i come across this number below, which is how i arrived at my title for this thread.

  ***w81 2/15 p.19 do we need help to understand the bible?***.

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  You know on an intellectual level, I KNOW I was in a cult. But the reality of that still sinks in one thin layer at a time. I never saw that WT. I am just stunned. I mean the culture dictated that we take the GB at their word, but I've never seen it written out so clearly---with absolutely no veil.

  "scuze me. I think I have to vomit now. I'm not a stupid person! HOW did I let this happen to me?

  NC
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  Apostate jokes:

  by SixofNine in

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  an ex-jw walks into a bar and orders three mugs of bud.

  he sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.

  when he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.. the bartender approaches and tells the ex-jw, "you know, a mug goes flat after i draw it.

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  So what do ya'll think about the recent new light?

  by stillin9 in

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  you know, the thing they were talking about in the 2011 dc.

  it was about how the "toes" of daniel's image no longer represent all the individual governments that have come around in human history.

  and that the anglo-american world power is the last world power we'll see before the end of the system of things.

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  NewChapter

  Ah designs, so he actually DID sign. We never held it up though. I know congress did not want to put themselves in subjection to the LON---that along with a incredibly hostile political climate at home made it impossible to ratify. Yes that makes sense. Thanks.

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  the global Noahic flood is truth

  by undercover in

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  that's not my assertion... that quote belongs to "godrulz" who said it on a thread introducing a newbie.

  instead of hijacking that one, i thought i'd repeat here.. now, mr. godrulz... are you prepared to back that statement up with some proof?.

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  redhare, the answer is surely complex. There is no one answer. We could say fear, cognitive dissonance, ignorance, habit--whatever. But we can't say intelligence. Plenty of bible believers are quite intelligent. So there seems to be an emotional aspect. And yet a bible believer may say that other's lack faith.

  It's a toughy.

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  the global Noahic flood is truth

  by undercover in

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  that's not my assertion... that quote belongs to "godrulz" who said it on a thread introducing a newbie.

  instead of hijacking that one, i thought i'd repeat here.. now, mr. godrulz... are you prepared to back that statement up with some proof?.

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  Deep research on the flood led to me leaving the org. I researched it as a full believer and I wanted more details. That's where the devil was! In those pesky details! I've written about this, but my AHA moment happened in the natural history museum while looking at a Mastadon. My entire world crumbled and was immediately rebuilt with this exciting new knowledge.

  Been smooth sailing ever since.

  NC