Sheesh jnom, no one is telling anyone to shut up.
It's all about presentation. Didn't you learn anything about PR from the meetings?
Posts by Prisca
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94No More Anonymity
by Francois ini have posted at this site for over two years.
i have posted nearly 6,000 posts here, and for the most part i've posted as francois, or i've not identified myself with a screen name at all.
i've never directly identified myself.
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Our own personal growth and leaving
by Mr Lebowski infirst, the tee-up: many on this board are former jws.
former jws fall into two categories:.
1) those who consciously chose out, perhaps as an intellectual position, perhaps as an emotional reaction to some event, maybe while in the throes of some existential crisis.. 2) those who blew it, and got busted for (cue music) breakin the law, breakin' the law, breakin' the law.
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Prisca
Excellent post.
So, those of you in group number one...what need were you filling while you were in the Witness Protection Program? Inclusion, acceptance, praise for good performance? And what finally got you off of the crack pipe? What changed for you? Not the story, but the back-story - what went on for you inside?
I thought I had "the Truth". I thought I was in the true religion. I thought God was on my side. I thought Armageddon was only a year or two away at the most.
What changed for me was that alot of little things didn't add up. The lack of real love in the congregation. The emphasis on obedience to the Borg and less to God. How the Scriptures talked about heavenly hope for all that believed. Worldly people who seemed nicer and kinder than people in the Borg. Realisation that spirituality was not all about giving talks and placing literature.
I eventually faded away to become a #1 group person. I walked away on intellectual and spiritual grounds.
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No More Anonymity
by Francois ini have posted at this site for over two years.
i have posted nearly 6,000 posts here, and for the most part i've posted as francois, or i've not identified myself with a screen name at all.
i've never directly identified myself.
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Prisca
Logansrun and TJ - Well Said!!
It's the foaming-at-the-mouth type antics that give the rest of us "apostates" a bad name. I don't think all JWs are horrible and wicked. Many of them are sincerely trying to be what they think a true Christian should be.
And I have been hurt by JWs, even my own father. But that doesn't mean that I tar all JWs with the same brush, just as I don't tar all fathers with the same brush.
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No More Anonymity
by Francois ini have posted at this site for over two years.
i have posted nearly 6,000 posts here, and for the most part i've posted as francois, or i've not identified myself with a screen name at all.
i've never directly identified myself.
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Prisca
Just like Berylblue, I keep my anonymity because of family reasons. If members of my family wish to post their names/pics here, then that's their choice, but to keep the family peace, I don't reveal more than is necessary.
And I think it is particularly important as a female on the internet to not reveal too much personal information. Too many weirdos are out there.
Prisca/Priscilla (surname withheld)
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"Clear light broke forth"
by ozziepost inat my mothers knee, i was taught the troof.
in my young days she studied the book the truth shall make you free with me.
yes, even the children studied this turgid tome and in those impressionable years i learned much about the special role that the wts played in knowing all truth.
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Prisca
I'm still trying to visualise Ozziepost as a youngster sitting on/at his mother's knee.
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Toronto museum explores the inventive history of contraceptives
by Xandria inmany thought preventing pregnancy was a modern-day desire after the pill's introduction in the 1960s, but a museum here explores how crocodile dung, lemons and weasel testicles were once among the contraceptives used thousands of years ago.
afp/file photo .
some of the more than 600 condoms, sponges, cervical caps and other devices on display at the history of contraception museum here -- the world's biggest collection of contraceptive devices -- were completely ineffective, while others were simply dangerous or lethal.
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Prisca
Hmmm.... I think I'll stick to the Pill, thanks!
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OFF TO GERMANY
by Yerusalyim inthe us army is sending me to germany today...yea!
anyone in the heidelberg region?.
sorry i haven't been posting much, work and the knights of columbus have kept me quite busy.. back from germany around the 19th, off to indiana to see my daughter after that.
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Prisca
Have a safe trip!!
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Are cats for true Christians?
by tonyend inis it my imagination or do some witnesses overthink things a bit too much?
although this is most likely meant as a joke, it well illustrates jw thinking on a lot of matters.
http://dbhome.dk/carlo/cat.htm
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Prisca
I can't believe (most of) you guys fell for this. It's a parody of the QFR articles that are in the WTs.
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Link To Meetups With 2,590 Ex-Jehovah's Witness http://exjw.meetup.com/memb
by jnomdeplume@yahoo in.
http://exjw.meetup.com/members/
friends to see
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Prisca
I attended my first Meet-Up two months ago and I had a great time: click here for my experience
It's natural to be cautious about who may be there so if you have any concerns you might want to think about how much you are willing to reveal about yourself to strangers. But the people I've met so far have been lovely, and I'm looking forward to attending more Meet-Ups in the future.
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I am a little worried....
by Ravyn inmy mother had ovarian cancer, her mother died of breast cancer, one of my father's sisters had colon cancer.
i had bleeding every two weeks for about a year myself, and now i have abdominal swelling and kidney pain, difficulty urinating(been blaming the lupus--but none of the tests are showing anything wrong!
) i look like i am pregnant the swelling is so bad.. i am having this test done next thursday.
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Prisca
((((((Ravyn)))))) I'm worried for you too.
All the best with the upcoming tests and their results.