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  Any new light on windows in the KH

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  remodeling is being done on the kh in my area.. friends have come to me inquiring about the remodeling.. it,s been two months.

  first they ask , why no windows.. i told them some kh have windows.

  soon after windows.

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  Our KHs always had windows. Granted that was in the 60s - 70s. Haven't been in a KH since then.
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  A little update on my family

  by sooner7nc in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few of you may remember that my wife had a kidney transplant early last year.

  since then the kidney has been incredible, giving her a new lease on life.

  it's really been good to see the light in her eyes that i had missed for quite a long time.. the counterpoint to this good news is the problems we have had with our son coltin.

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  Sorry to hear about your son. Hope everything goes well. My thoughts are with you and your family and "good vibes" are on the way.
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  So when will I stop hating the organization?

  by loosie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have tried to stop hating the organization and all it stands for, but in 7 years i've had to luck in doing so.

  i am going to therapy to work this out, but i still hate the wt borg.

  i have heard it is bad for you to hate something for so long.

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  I used to tell the JWs that came to my door about my lifelong experience as a JW and engage them in debate about their beliefs. One day, about 20 years after leaving the borg, I just stopped because I no longer cared about what they believed. I still don't like the borg and I never let a chance go by to tell people I know, who are not JWs, how bad that org, is. Like EL said, it's different for everyone.
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  The Natural Beauty of Your Neighborhood

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear friends,.

  one of my greatest enjoyments is a daily walk.

  i see things in far greater detail than when i am driving by.

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  Open mind and Berengaria,thanks for the pictures. Isn't nature just beautiful. Makes you glad to be alive to enjoy it.
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  The Natural Beauty of Your Neighborhood

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear friends,.

  one of my greatest enjoyments is a daily walk.

  i see things in far greater detail than when i am driving by.

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  panhandlegirl

  I live in a log cabin, although I have many windows, my wood walls don't reflect any light, therefore my house is dark inside. The first thing I do on awaking is open the blinds. This morning, when I opened the blinds above the sink, I spied some birds in my neighbors front yard, which is behind my cabin. I don't know what kind of birds they were, but they looked like geese; two large and two small birds. I watched them for awhile, just enjoying them. My cabin is surrounded by pine trees; there must be 50 of them. The ground is covered with pine cones and pine straw. Last week, while walking my dogs, I saw a rabbit, that had been hiding in some weeds, run across the lawn. I want to put some weed killer on the lawn, but when I see all the wildlife in my yard, I hesitate to do it. Squirrels are everywhere, jumping from tree to tree and stealing food from the bird feeders.I see cardinals, woodpeckers,and robins quite frequently, especially in the early Spring. I can't help but feel responsible for these creatures. We all share this piece of land and I don't want to do anything to harm them. I guess I feel that it was their home before it was mine. Oh, yes. I forgot the vultures, they are always around to see what's happening. Deer are also both a joy to see and a danger to watch out for while driving.
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  When you were active, did you feel you would survive Armageddon?

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am curious about this issue.

  personally, i never felt i would be good enough for a split second.

  one would think that knowing you can not be good enough to survive would it make it easier to leave the witnesses and live for the present.

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  I both laughed and felt sad reading all these posts. What the WTS has done, and continues, to do to children, and adult's minds/life is atrocious. They refuse to let anyone enjoy life and develop normally. They are "HELL BENT" on making your life as miserable as possible, alway keeping the threat of "death" at Armageddon before it's members.
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  When you were active, did you feel you would survive Armageddon?

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am curious about this issue.

  personally, i never felt i would be good enough for a split second.

  one would think that knowing you can not be good enough to survive would it make it easier to leave the witnesses and live for the present.

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  I always thought I would survive basically for the same reasons mentioned by Cedar. When I started to feel that I could no longer comply with all of the regulations imposed on me by the organization, I decided it was time to get out. I started to fade, them I found that I no longer believed anything they said. I decided to take my chances with God by myself. I decided I would survive or die but I would be the one making the rules for me.
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  Let Me Be

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  let me be your reason for greeting a dawn .

  that would, otherwise, be cause for despair.. life has been unfair to one like you, you who.

  have hated the start, the middle, the end of.

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  How can one be a witness of events unseen and unheard?

  by kepler in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  back in the 13th century, the rumors coming to western europe of things happening in central asia could have been much worse.

  events then were about as apocalyptic as anything we have experienced in our own day.

  much of the world was coming under new management, that of the descendants of genghis khan.

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  You have all done a good job of reasoning and answering the question of how you cannot be a witness to these unseen and unheard events and how you must contort the words used in the Bible accounts to make them fit a certain belief. As a born-in, you don't question what your parents teach you about what you should believe. Although there were some born-ins who recognized it was false reasoning before others. When everyone in your family believes this unreasonable belief, you just never question it; until you begin to think for yourself. Even then, you are asked how you dare question the FDS when they are the ones who taught you the "truth" in the first place. Most people would think you were crazy to believe someone when they told you an event happened but it was invisible.
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  RIP Nora Ephron

  by Farkel in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  thank you for your remarkable contributions, awesome humor, wit and sensitivity in the cinema.

  you were a ground-breaking female director, and intuitively knew as a writer how to entertain people, make people laugh, make people cry and give people joy.

  no one but you could make guys love "chick movies" when they really aren't wired to do that!.

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  panhandlegirl

  One of my favorite directors. I always listened to the parts in the DVDs where she told us why and how they had decided to film the scenes in the movies. She will certainly be missed.

  Poopsiecakes, although I had heard of "When Harry Met Sally" I had not watched it until last month. I really liked it. I added it to my DVD library.