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  The Key To Happiness is...........

  by ISP in

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  ........good health and a bad memory.

  i heard that recently and it made think of the many of us who have suffered in our years of association with the wts.

  trying to cope with a traumatic past is very difficult.

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  Exactly so, OUTLAW.

  PS I'm not there, but WOW! you sure are!
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  The Key To Happiness is...........

  by ISP in

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  ........good health and a bad memory.

  i heard that recently and it made think of the many of us who have suffered in our years of association with the wts.

  trying to cope with a traumatic past is very difficult.

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  OUTLAW took my answer. So I will have to say there is no happiness without sadness. No good without bad. If you were happy all the time, there would be no happy or sad.
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  Your favorite and least liked society publication?

  by Celtic in

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  did you have a favourite publication?

  what was your least liked publication?

  creation book for the shady wt take on science.. unseen spirits, do they help us or do they harm us?

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  OMG! GinnyTosken! I forgot that publication even existed. I am getting scarry flashbacks. I was born in 1969 and I remember looking at that book!
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  Your favorite and least liked society publication?

  by Celtic in

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  did you have a favourite publication?

  what was your least liked publication?

  creation book for the shady wt take on science.. unseen spirits, do they help us or do they harm us?

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  My favorite: the James book. I loved it even before I knew it was written by an apostate.

  Least Favorite: The Watchtower. So much nonsense taking up so much of my time!
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  2/3 of all JW's are women and what it implies

  by Mindchild in

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  a few weeks back, kinsman posted a link about a recent survey of religion in america which showed that 68% of all jehovah's witnesses were female, which is the highest ratio of women to men in any religion in the usa.. i believe the reason for this unbalance in adherents in favor of women comes down to two fundamental reasons.

  the first is shunning and the second is the appeal of the "family type atmosphere" that the witnesses pretend to offer.. we all know the power of shunning keeps a lot of people trapped inside the collective, and just due to the fact that women are enculturated more with having emotional bonds with others, makes it a bit tougher to leave family and friends behind.

  this doesn't mean that men don't suffer emotionally, but the general trend is more for men to suppress their feelings and damn the emotional torpedoes and go full speed ahead out of the bad dream.. this suggests to me, that if there is a major modification of the shunning policy, the largest exodus will be in the female ranks.

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  I don't think it really matters why there are more women then men. Perhaps there are that many more domineering men trying to force them into submission. This statistic means absolutely nothing by me.
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  Why I think JW's NEED to BAN all Assemblies now!

  by Mindchild in

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  this post is not going to make you feel good.

  i'm rather sick myself for even telling you about this.. im also not trying to be alarmist and add to the ubiquitous stress and terror that we already see in the usa but there is something that is bothering me really bad and i wanted to put it out there to get some honest feedback on.. the recent biological warfare attacks in the usa have of course altered everyone about the real potential danger of terrorism and how we collectively are vulnerable.

  when you take the time to really study biological warfare though, you can see that the current anthrax attacks are far more bark than bite and only a small number of people have actually died from these attacks.

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  If you think you are at risk of bio-terrorism just say "Jehovah! Jehovah!" That will make the germs afraid and they will run away.
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  Poetry JW style. Yuk!

  by NikL in

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  here is an example of what passes for thought provoking poetry among the dubs.

  (try not to hurl).... of all my years as a witness, the times were not always good.. too many mistakes were being made, the brothers not doing what they should.. as i look back now there are times, i can recall, when i did not even look forward to going to the kingdom hall.. the brothers showed no love.. they didn't seem to care.. the elders were unyielding, demanding and unfair.. meetings were dull and boring; field service was a chore.. there wasn't much of a "pioneer spirit,".

  while going from door to door.. it would not get any better, as i hoped it would.. i knew the day was coming when i would leave jehovah's house for good.. but happily, it's so different now, jehovah has been so kind.. he has allowed me a wonderful congregation to find.. the spirit is so strong here.. the brothers really care.. i couldn't be more happy if i were anywhere!.

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  Pioneer Spirit!!!!!

  I've got spirit
  Yes I do!
  I've got spirit
  How 'bout YOU!
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  Child Sacrifices

  by XAPITI in

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  where do i begin?

  i have a problem here.

  because of the teachings i had from a very young age, i refused to take a shot with blood in it.

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  To put religious devotion first above even the well being of one's children is Biblical. Genesis chapter 22 tells the story of Abraham being instructed by God to offer up his son as a sacrifice. Then it all turns out to be a hoax as God stops Abraham at the last second and says basically 'Just kidding! But you actually fell for it eh? You really ARE whipped!'

  No, God apparently had plans for Isaac and spared him. But it must have been great fun to watch His faithful servant Abraham squirm! Of course it does not require extraordinary intelligence to discern that if God were really all knowing it would have been completely unnecessary to stage such a sadistic, gangster-style test of Abraham's loyalty. In fact, verse 12 reveals that God apparently just wanted to see how scared Abraham was of Him.

  My brother died at age 8 months of heart defects. My parents tried to deny him the blood he needed to live. The courts overruled Mom and Dad’s wishes and forced the blood. He died anyway but at least not at the hands of the Watchtower Society. You are not alone.
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  Do I Have a ProblemWith. . . You Know What?

  by drahcir yarrum in

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  last night i awoke from a restless sleep.

  it was probably around three in the morning.

  i heard the patio furniture moving around and thought we might be having some wind gusts.

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  It was that time that a Smurf doll got up and ran out of a Kingdom Hall and drove a car away that got some brothers and sisters scared.
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  Education idiot!

  by FrightMare in

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  if most of you were jw's at one time, am i right in assuming that most of you are uneducated?

  anyone here actually have a degree of some sort?

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  professor

  My Education: Six degrees in all, including a B.A. from USC, a B.S. from UCLA, an M.A. from SMU, and a Ph.D. from TCU (all achieved in 25 years)
  Areas of Expertise: medicine; dentistry; biology; agriculture; astronomy; marine biology; botany; psychology; physics; law; zoology; chess. Occupation(s): Professor and high school science teacher; noted Boy Scout leader (I was the youngest Eagle Scout in Cleveland) and writer.