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  My worst friend

  by fade_away in

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  i need to vent a bit here.

  my wife is a social person who finds it very easy to find people she can connect with and have tons in common.

  i am the complete opposite.

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  zeb

  "everyone needs at least three hobbies and they must be real".. Churchill.
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  Cataloging the damage of the Watchower in my life

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1. jehovah's witnesses interferance in my parents marriage leading to mother rejecting father who could not come at the teachings.. 2. my mother taking us 500km away from father to start a new life with a much older jw man just after armageddon didnt come in 75...for teaching us that he was evil and deserved to be killed by god.. 3. bullying at school for being a jw, resulting in only one friend all through school and learning little social interaction.

  leading to leaving early with no education beyond year 10.. 4. marrying way to young for love?....

  5. making me feel like a demon for being human.. 6. rejection by all friends and wife because i couldn't stick it.. 7. not going back to wife because of rejection, nervous breakdown by freeing wife and believing i was now doomed to die.. 8. almost leaving my childrens lives by both suicide and disapearing.. 9. wifes support by wt to force me out of their lives and for coaching her to do this.

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  zeb

  you poor sod.

  See your doctor to get a referral to a mental health expert. I mean a Psychiatrist.! Dont be afraid to take some medication if prescribed.

  gather your kids around for BBQ and do it often. Give lots of love and be a warm part of their lives.

  when you arte together make a point of not talking about your selfish deranged mother or all things WT. Dont get into arguments with jw or relatives as this is tearing at the wounds. They will heal suffice that you can move through life well and be a loving productive person in your own right.Unlike your mother and so many in the 'truth' who have never developed as people are immature, and it goes with hardly need to say ill or nil educated.

  Tragically what is done is done.. be the new you and reach out to others in your sphere, do random acts of kindness.

  Imagine a blue light ( this is not wierd stuff) around you that only lets in the positive. Any neg stuff comes into the light imagine it burning up like a meteorite.

  Imagine an old fella giving you a big hug.. thats me.
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  Court Proposes Reducing Puntives to $8,610,000, Condition on Candace's Accepting Amount - Otherwise, New Trial Re Punitives

  by DNCall in

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  zeb

  1. Candace take the money.
  2. You nothing else to prove.
  3. If they get another trial you never know what they will come up with.
  4. The first trial must have been hell dont put yourself through it and all your loved ones and supporters any more.
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  Feel the Goddamned Love

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mil of 38 years - who has not spoken to me for the 9 years since i left her cult - died on sunday.. today, as a favor to my sil who has spoken to me very rarely, for the same reasons, over the same period of time, i was moving some personal items to her home from the nursing home.

  in this instance i guess it is ok to speak with me - if i have a strong back and a conveyance that aids her needs at the moment.. anyway, in the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lives, while we are moving in those items, guess who shows up?

  five or six of my old 'best friends'.

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  zeb

  their loss not yours.

  Its funny that you were doing the hauling of MIL effects not the bros ?
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  What are your views? Why beautiful women are attracted to ugly men?

  by Scott77 in

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  zeb

  well I bombed out !
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  How to Shit in the Woods

  by Wonderment in

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  "how to shit in the woods" ... this is actually a book title sold by the thousands, no, by the millions.

  yep, over 2.5 million copies of the book have been sold, and the author is a woman (kathleen meyer).. now, if you are a man, do you feel comfortable with a woman telling you "how to shit in the woods"?

  this book is in its third edition, in 8 languages to boot.

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  zeb

  and beware if it is the blow fly season. If blow flies home in on your anus they will deposit maggots there! Have a spray can of flyspray handy and sit (s***) in a cloud of fly spray.
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  By What Authority?

  by Orthodox1 in

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  the jws, catholics, mormons, and a handful of others say they are the "true church" or what jesus originally intended.

  i know jws call themselves the "true christians".

  by what authority - outside of the bible, since 41,000 denominations use the bible to back up their individual beliefs - can jws make this claim?

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  speaking of authority I just come across a frightening thing called the MJTF (Google it ) a supposed world police force that is being put in place to do very nasty things to everyone that some power group dont like. Utterly chilling stuff.

  Hey Jesus are you watching this?
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  DEATH and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  zeb

  I nearly died once. I over exerted my heart. the ambulance was called and I could hear the paramedics talking to me as if way off in a distance. I didnt see no tunnel there wasnt any life before the eyes.

  BUT,... the sense of peace with no guilt from any wrong doing to any one, the sense of peace no dying according 'what the society said' ( thats seems to be quoted by JW when they talk about anything) not dying as a male, as a dad, a husband, or as any role in this life i have done just as me. Blessed Peace.

  The, the Oxygen kicked in and the paramedics bought me back...................... damn.!
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  "Jehovah, I want you to be my Master in every aspect of my life"

  by stillin9 in

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  ....i am your servant.

  i want you to determine how i should spend my time, what my priorities should be, and how i should use my resources and talents.".

  this was in this week's watchtower, first paragraph.

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  zeb

  and keep in mind the couple who pioneered for life in a less than developed country until a health tragedy overcame them. Every couple i read about who did thelifetime pioneer thing fell prey to major illness and had to be repatriated home to an easier position.

  Why this severe illness thing. Diet? over work?
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  Are JCs a Nice Form of a "Breaking Session"?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in doing some research a few years back, i came across the use of "breaking session" as something used to control cult members by leadership.

  initially, i dismissed this a something smaller, more extreme cults use - and dismissed it as a technique used by the jw org.

  here are a few descriptions of the process from http://changingminds.org/techniques/conversion/breaking_sessions.htm.

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  zeb

  OOdad you have a personal email.

  and I liked your commentary on JC interrogations it is explanatory, balnaced, and open-honest while being informative.

  as regards elders who were 'gettingoff', well hand me my Smith & Wesson! because:

  a/ any one knows in a tense situatuion when you are going too far.

  b/probing for the 'details' has to be severely questioned it self. This becomes an utterly unnecessaryit is therefore form of voyeurism.

  what do they learn at elders schools?