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  How long has this been going on!?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  ok, i've suddenly got heaps of time for stuff, i can cuddle with my husband on weekend mornings, and i don't have to spend money on meeting clothes!

  i've got all these great clothes i hardly wear!

  we can make pancakes on saturday mornings!

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  Enjoy Julia.

  Its been 15 years for me and I still feel the same.

  "I wanna live before I die
  Don't want the world to pass me by
  I wanna live, I wanna live before I die"
  
  
  TESLA - I WANNA LIVE LYRICS
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  How do you react when you happen upon the name jehovah

  by jean-luc picard in

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  whenever i here that name, maybe in conversation with someone who doesnt know my past, i feel anger welling up instantly inside me.. if there were a jw in sight, i think i could give him a jolly good shaking.. just hearing that name does things to me.. jesus = love.

  jehovah = hate, selfishness, divisiveness, and domineering manipulation.. so much for jdubs "honoring " his name.

  he's sure got a bad reputation based on how they live their lives..

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  Hi, Loubelle, hope youre feeling better.

  mP: I take your point . Its ( love that is ) just the first idea that comes to mind when we think of Jesus, like the game whats the first word that

  comes into your head?

  Giordano: I know what you mean.

  It seems like most of us dont consider it to be the illustrious name that we once used to: the days when we used to pronounce it Jehooooovah
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  How do you react when you happen upon the name jehovah

  by jean-luc picard in

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  whenever i here that name, maybe in conversation with someone who doesnt know my past, i feel anger welling up instantly inside me.. if there were a jw in sight, i think i could give him a jolly good shaking.. just hearing that name does things to me.. jesus = love.

  jehovah = hate, selfishness, divisiveness, and domineering manipulation.. so much for jdubs "honoring " his name.

  he's sure got a bad reputation based on how they live their lives..

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  Whenever I here that name, maybe in conversation with someone who doesnt know my past, I feel anger welling up instantly inside me.

  If there were a jw in sight, I think I could give him a jolly good shaking.

  Just hearing THAT name does things to me.

  Jesus = love

  Jehovah = hate, selfishness, divisiveness, and domineering manipulation.

  So much for jdubs "honoring " his name. He's sure got a bad reputation based on how they live their lives.
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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

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  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  Very difficult for you and your family.

  This was the phrase that struck me

  You know we've talked to you about this before, but I guess you don't care what we think.

  I guess she doesnt care about what you think either.

  On a positive side, my mother didnt speak to me for 5 years, then she got in touch with me through my sister , though half the while she is still trying to get me to go back.
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  So tired of life

  by LouBelle in

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  i am so tired of waking up without hope.

  so tired of fighting one more day...i just want it to end as painless as possible.

  i truly don't have the willpower or strength anymore..

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  loubelle.

  youve had a very tough year. I've been reading up your posts. Keep believing in yourself. You're trying hard and that WILL pay off in the end. Good luck. I'm watching out for some good news soon from you.

  In the meantime, heres a big cyberhug..
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  BRITAIN - 23 April 2013 - Criminal Damage to Jehovah's Witness building in Felpham

  by jwleaks in

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  criminal damage to jehovah's witness building in felpham .

  23 april 2013. .

  police are appealing for witnesses after the jehovah's witness kingdom hall, flansham lane in felpham was subjected to religiously aggravated criminal damage overnight between thursday 11 april and friday 12 april.

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  Why doesnt anybody seem sad about this?
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  Bethel Speaker- get rid of Facebook!

  by Kensho in

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  special assembly day (sad) bethel speaker ( a very good speaker i might add) in his talk " follow your spirit-directed conscience gave example of and elder and his family.

  he noticed his wife and daughter spending a lot of time morning noon and night on facebook, it almost seemed like that is all they did, so as a spiritual head decided to see what they were constantly looking at, "let me see what you are spending so much time looking at on facebook said the elder".

  the wife explained this is how we keep in contact with the "friends", elder started to look at her page and she was correct, there he found friends in the cong.

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  i once through an album away after a talk on unscriptural music.

  later, i regreted it and went out and brought another one.
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  The Truth Changes: Watchtower of July 15, 2013

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

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  i like the reasonning. thank you
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  Do You Ever Give Thought To A "Great Tribulation"?

  by minimus in

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  my mother asked me if i was thinking about it and how bad it will be in the near future.

  i said i didn't give it a thought.. is it something you ever think about, now?.

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  jean-luc picard

  at first i used to think about it, but that has been such a long time ago now.
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  Platonic "Lunch"

  by freeflyingfaerie in

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  age-old question.

  complicated x1,000 if one or both of the persons is married/in a serious relationship.. i am skeptical.

  very skeptical.

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  jean-luc picard

  personally, i can not imagine me inviting another woman to a platonic lunch. I guess that given certain exceptional circumstances, I may invite someone to have an unplanned lunch with me. but fixing a rendez vous is just another word for a date imho.