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  i could never understand what was "good " about the "good news "

  by looloo in

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  2. friends

  as someone recruited in my 20s and spent about 6 years "interested " though never baptised , i just felt depressed after the lovebombing i received at first , i felt trapped by knowing "the truth" and wished i hadnt heard about it .

  i couldnt understand what was good news about billions of innocents dying including poor children who have suffered enough in countries where there is famine etc... and all my relatives were doomed along with them !

  i was a much happier person before i met jws believing you go to heaven after your death and live with god jesus and your loved ones .

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  My Apostate wife is out on service

  by fade_away in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as i write this, my wife who left the borg along with me is out on service with an old jw friend.

  her friend is visiting town and she didn't know we stopped going to the meetings when she called my wife and asked her out on a door to door service.

  my wife explained to her our current situation, but still decided to go out with her just this one time.

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  Went to the DC today...

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  2. friends

  i caught the entire session today, and strangely, it was the first time i was able to stay completely alert for an entire dc program.

  i'm guessing the reason for that is that i was looking at the program with a critical eye for the first time in my life and was not being hypnotised by mind-numbing repitition (see steve hassen's combatting cult mind control).

  the program wasn't that bad.

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  My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  have you watched this show?

  as an ex-cultist i find it interesting.

  i had never heard of these groups, so i have no idea if the show is accurate.. .

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  Beyound Belief show

  by dogisgod in

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  2. friends

  anybody watch that bs show showing exorsisms..

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  "Drugs are demonic, mmmmkay?"

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope everyone is having a wonderful summer filled with district conventions and auxillary pioneering.

  just kidding, let's talk drugs.. as a kid growing up in the mid-80's and through the 90's, we had all kinds of lame, pointless anti-drug programs at school.

  the most common one was the d.a.r.e.

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  I'm new here..... Studying with the Witnesses

  by PenelopePaige in

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  2. friends

  hi- i just wanted to say that i have been checking the website out for a few weeks and have read some horror stories and some sad ones.

  but i have been studying with witnessess for about six months and can't help but feel that they're completely sincere and maybe even, the true religion.

  i love the watchtower and awake and to me, none of that seems crazy.

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  I need help! i am in social limbo!

  by Free!! in

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  2. friends

  i was wondering if some of you can give me some advice in how to get over the fact that i feel so inadequate when trying to make new friends!!

  since i left the borg i have only made about 2-3 close friends... the wts ruined my social skills and i am so depressed because i am afraid of the real world... i know i am ready to move on... but i dont know how.. i feel like i dont belong in there but i dont belong out here either... i am in social limbo.. and it sucks to have no friends.. .

  when i was in i hated the weekends because i was basically forced to go to service, now i hate the weekends because if the few friends i have are busy w their families or partners i am stuck all by myself... :( please give me some pointers i feel super lonely!

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  New ex-JW memoir coming out...

  by brizzzy in

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  2. friends

  i don't post a ton here because i'm kinda shy.

  http://www.amazon.com/dp/0373892357?tag=thegirsguitoh-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkcode=as1&creativeasin=0373892357&adid=038ez4bjpam7bcsze5mq&.

  that's the amazon link (which is currently the most affordable, i believe, but it's also available for preorder at b&n, borders, indiebound, and indigo-chapters if you're in canada, if you prefer one of those retailers).. .

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  Prince: How the rock legend turned his life around

  by Dogpatch in

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  2. friends

  what is your opinion of prince nowadays?.

  one of the worlds raunchiest rock stars, prince is in his stacked heels and flamboyant suit strutting from house to house around an ordinary suburban estate.. from: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/07/06/prince-how-the-rock-legend-turned-his-life-around-115875-22384807/.

  flanked by minders, he goes up a garden path, knocks on a door and politely asks the householder: would you like to talk about god?.

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