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  ~Close to Others..Close to My Self~

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  2. friends

  i am using this as my very own personal therapy session to express some of what has been swimming around in my head~.

  it may not take much shape, i'll be letting it flow.... there is nothing like feeling understood and accepted and loved for who you are.

  but that's a difficult thing to really feel when there is little or no history with a person.

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  The Worldwide Recession

  by JamesS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we read everyday in every paper and website, and hear in every tv programme, we are in a recession.

  now, i understand that house prices have dived, stock prices have fallen, production has gone down, various financial crisis have occured, and currencies have devalued slightly due to inflation etc, but, here is a question i'd like to ask all you members:.

  if there is the same amount of money* in the world now as there was before everything suddenly went to the wall, who the hell has got it?.

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  May 2011 Awake quotes a moron! Not that it surprises...

  by Pika_Chu in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  your amazing brain.

  how does your brain feel, hear, see, and.

  smell?

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  Reasons for disbelief: The top ten reasons I am an atheist

  by whereami in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many people ask why someone like me, who came from a christian home, went to a christian high school and then went on to spend five years in seminary and become a pastor, a missionary, and an evangelist, would turn his back on the god he spent a lifetime worshiping and serving and give up all faith in the supernatural.

  the answer is very simple, and im about to give it.

  first, however, let me tell you what the reason is not.. most people, upon hearing my story, all unanimously decide regardless of their own spiritual beliefs or religious affiliations that i must be mad at god.

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  THE ANALOGY OF LEAVING THE ORGANIZATION OF JWs

  by PublishingCult in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  can you give an analogy of what it was like (for you personally) leaving the organization of jehovahs witnesses?.

  for me, it was very much like the story of mountain climber aron ralston.

  the canyon wall of the narrow passage was the watchtower bible & tract society.

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  How far are you on your journey away from the JW Org?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mentally left the org in march 2010. i stepped down as an elder after my lad got into trouble.

  i researched the publications to make myself 'spiritually strong' but it backfired.. i was in mental and emotional turmoil, still on fs, the platform and meetings etc.

  i had to force myself to conform to ever failing jw doctrine.. i announced to my family that i was not going back to meetings in august 2010 after the 'overlapping' joke of 'new light'.. i told the elders not to call.

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  Do You Feel Somewhat Liberated When You Talk About Your JW Past?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i do.. when i tell people that i was a witness, nobody can believe it!

  i enjoy telling them why i left the religion, the harm they cause, and the benefits of being out of it.. do you express yourself in this way too or is it only me?.

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  Hello to everyone.... and could I ask a really basic question here please...

  by JamesS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm james i'm new to this forum as of today and i'm a ex-jw who was "born into the truth" and then left it officially at the age of twenty after "drifting out" of it for some time.

  i'm now 34 and whilst i'm not exactly happy with the world i'm living in, i'm largely happy with my own life.. one question i've got about this forum - i didn't join for a long time because i thought it was for active jw's (based on the web-site url), not ex jw's, but then looking at the threads, it seems it is more for ex-jw's!

  what is the demographic for the membership?

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  Jan. 15th WT- Go to Meetings to Fight the Blues- Eliminate other Activities

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  our jw contact sent us the " witness only " wt's again and i just had to make a thread on this mind numbing article.

  starting on pg.22 in the jan.15th it deals with " coping with discouragement ".

  it seems lots of jw's are under intense stress these days ( can you blame them ?

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