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  For those of you still in going to the meeting on Sunday, anyone wearing green?

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  i am curious what the reaction would be, would anyone notice, like if you had some green on, either it be a green tie, or green shirt, do you think anyone would say anything?

  to everyone on here happy st patricks day!!

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  Moment of silence for Oompa

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  i can be very emotional about certain things and when i heard about oompa, even though i don't know him i was sometimes in tears about it, i will miss his posts, what i want to do for oompa is to have a moment of silence for him, i know i don't post on here much am more of a lurker but also i want everyone else to have a moment of silence also for our friend and also for all the others who have committed suicide because of the watchtowers policys..

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  Update on roommate situation, I moved out found my own place:)

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  hi awhile back i posted about my asian roommate that is from thailand, i made a decision to move out of the house and now am in my own apartment:) i feel that i will be able to much more better control the situation if jw's come to the door, that one time seeing the watchtower and awakes laying out on the coffee table was enough to cause me too much anxiety and now am happy to be on my own and since then the anxiety has gone down and am more relaxed, also something else i learned having a roommate was not the most biggest cost savings, i might even be able to save more money being on my own, it got frustrating at times when i go and buy food and half the food i buy was eaten now i don't have to worry about anyone in the frig in my food:) and another plus am closer to work, work is only 1.5 miles away:).

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  When I got home my roommate had Watchtower/Awake/Tracts on coffee table(lol)

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  today when i got home from doing some volunteer work, the hospital i work for has adobted a section of highway to cleanup, i made a very useful use of my time on a saturday morning, when i get home my roommate has watchtower/awakes and a few tracts laying on the coffee table so i knew the jehovah's witness were here today(lol).

  my roommate is from thailand, she is asian and is learning the english language, if she mentions anything about the jw's i am trying to figure out what to tell her, how to approach it if she says something, also just by seeing all that liteature laying there, i have done so well with my anxiety but that just ruined my day, it brought that anger/anxiety back.

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  I visited relatives who are non JW and they see I have made a positive change since leaving the Borg:)

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  i am over here in south dakota on vacation, the last time i saw all my relatives was during my grandmothers funeral which was about 2 years ago, during that time i was still in the borg, yesterday i was visiting all my non jw relatives and they were all shocked that i have changed in a positive way and they all know that i have left the borg, my aunt told me i am alot more happier and have alot more self confidence, i still have family members in the borg my 2 brothers and sister and parents who all shun me on a certain level and also i told all my relatives what i have gone through after leaving, i told them about the shunning, during christmas i called my dad and i was told that i am not allowed over at their house and my dad hung up the phone and didn't even say goodbye also at the time my roommate was listening to the conversation since i had my speakerphone on and she was very shocked about the shunning.. i want to say thankyou to all the people who have helped me mentally out of the borg, all the youtube videos that people have made, plus jwn, if it was not for the internet i would have still been in the borg, i have to say the internet is one of the most greatest thats how i did all my research and totally clearing out my mind, also now i have some new skills, i have learned how to do critical thinking, plus also have learned so much more about the world around me, because i slightly suffer from a form of autism i have been able to work at that more and now understand so much more about people around me and also have made alot of new friends:).

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  Special Day talk on Youtube

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  special day talk.

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  Experience I had with a JW that called my phone the other day...........................

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  the other day i had an experience over the phone with a jw that knows me and also she knows i am apostate, it was a coincindence on how this all happened, i had a talk with my roommate and told her that i want to move out of the house and find my own place so i be out on my own again, my roommate told me to put an add on craigslist to rent out the room in the house also i put my phone number out there on craigslist for anyone to call on the room, i all of a sudden get a call from this jw that i knew, she was looking for a room for her newhew(he is not in the jw religion) but right away she recognized who i was, this is how the phone conversation went:.

  me: answer the phone, yes i have room for rent on craiglist (right away i recognize her and she recognizes me).

  she: asking me about the room but also i can hear rudeness in her voice and at the same time i can hear in her tone of voice she is like uh-oh i am talking to an apostate so she is talking in a very careful way like i want to run away or get off this phone.

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  Coroner urges Jehovah's Witnesses to review blood transfusion ban

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  click on the news article below:.

  news article about blood transfusions.

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  Youtube video documentry of Bethal waiter crew

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  i found this video on youtube, looks like a extremely busy schedule and on top of that meetings, service, etc................. click on link: bethal waiter crew documentry.

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  I am trying to figure out my future if I should go to college or just keep working a regular job...............................

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  i am faced with a dilema right now and need some advice on what i should do with my future, i realize that eventually i'll grow old and will need to somehow work my way up so i have something to fall back on, like someone told me once i don't really have a support structure to fall back on, if something happened where i could not work i would probably wind up homeless, moving back in with my parents house would be out of the question because i would never go back to the borg.. this is my situation right now, everything is going good, i love my job, i am single no kids, i work at a hosptal making $10/hour doing janitorial work, also my rent is very cheap about $350 a month for rent on a duplex, i live less then a mile from work, right now i have the most ideal situation to save alot of money even on $10/hr job, but also i realize that everything can go all at once, if i ever lost my job since i don't have no support structure and could not find work i would be sol.. now to some of the things i like doing, i like to drive, one of the things i have always wanted to do is learn truck driving, since i don't have no extra responsibilites, i am still having a hard time though making a decision, on one hand i like my current job, but on the other hand i realize that i do have to plan for the future, if anyone can give me some advice i am at a loss of what to do, also because of the way the econommy is here in the us right now sometimes i think its best to stick with the job that i have but still don't know whats best..

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