So glad things are going your way. What jerks to tell you you have to remain single until the "new order"/ sheer stupidity! So wise to get a University education; wish you all the best and keep us updated.
PHG
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Update & Moving on with life
by Coffee House Girl inhello all, just wanted to update you all on my further steps in the exiting process (a process that may never end in some respects).
to set up a context for my update: my story in a nutshel-.
did a quick fade in the fall of 2009 to start going to university and escape a very unhappy living situation.
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Has anyone Gone off WHEAT (I am thinking of it , too)
by dreamgolfer inlet me know how you get your fiber?.
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panhandlegirl
jgnat, thanks for the infor.I have gone off wheat for weight loss, haven't lost any yet after 2 months. I have bought rice flour to try an make some biscuits and have tried quinoa. I eat chickpeas from a can. I will try the others you have mentioned.
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University/Informing Elders/Elders Reactions/No longer pioneer
by MsGrowingGirl20 inuniversity is going really good!
i'm meeting alot of different people.
friends are so much easier to make here with 'worldly ' people.
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panhandlegirl
MsGrowingGirl, I am so happy for you. Enjoy yourself and as Billy said "don't get distracted and fall behind. Good to hear you joined a club and are making friends.
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Are YOU a Thinker?
by alamb inthe recovering thinker.
hi, my name is bob, and i am a recovering thinker..... it started out innocently enough: i began thinking at meetings now and then to loosen up.
inevitably though, one thought led to another and soon i was more than just a theocratic thinker.
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I think you have some thinking to do. Right now I think I'm going to bed. I think I need to get up early and continue reading my book, "The Anatomy of Thought."
Goodnight, PHG
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TTATT acronym
by RayPublisher ini think it's about time this get updated so more folks know the other meaning of t.t.a.t.t.
ttatt is an acronym for "the thing around the thing.".
this term, first known to be used by neal thomison around 1998, refers to the meta issues which surround the topic in question.. in designing software, creating art or negotiating contracts often the context and implications of the topic on the history and interrelationships at play is often as significant, if not more significant, that the content of the topic itself.. .
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Christ Alone, Good Job!
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Do you ever just start CRYING for apparently no reason?
by Terry ini spoke to a friend of mine about this not too long ago.. we are "of a certain age".. the subject came up somehow.. .
i'll be watching a tv commercial or i'll see some people in a park or a simple passing thought will suddenly induce a profound.
sense of---well, how to describe it?
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panhandlegirl
Terry, crying releases tension. You have been through quite an ordeal. Infection is hard on the body.
It takes time for the body to regain its equilibrium after being as sick as you were.
Sometimes we are unconsciously worried about something or contemplating something and the
emotion expresses itself in a physical manner. I think it’s a common phenomenon. For the last few
months, I have found myself feeling profoundly sad when I return to work every week.
It has nothing to do with going to work as I love my work. I am at a loss to explain the feeling.
I hope you get to feeling better.
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new here, my story
by doingwell ini'm not sure why i felt a need to find this site and write my story about my experiences with the jw religion.
it's been pretty far in my past, but it still had an impact, and maybe i'm just being a bit reflective, having past 40 years of age and expecting my 2nd child next year.
maybe also being reflective having just attended a catholic babtism for my wife's cousin's daughter and seeing organized religion in action again.. my mom became a jw long before i was born - she's in her 80's now.
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Wekcome to the Board, I wish I had been as smart as you, I was baptized at 11 years, a life long jw. Congrats on your second child. Enjoyed your story.. look forward to more of your posts.
PHG.
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Not Religon...not Belief....Not Inerrancy: INTERPRETATION is christianity
by Terry inwhat the bible "says" isn't religion or doctrine or belief.. interpretation is.. proved how?.
there is not just one christian church.. ask yourself "why?".
here is a logic puzzle easily solved!.
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panhandlegirl
Terry wrote:
But, throw in the black and white thinking, finger pointing, demons and threats and it unsettles even the nicest people and creates anger, fear and murder.
When something.....anything...makes you look at most of mankind as "other" than what you are....in fact, Evil or Enemy....that is just plain SICK.
There is a fine line between decent people meeting together to praise what is beautiful and a cult of world haters who insist only they themselves are RIGHT.
You are so correct. I just had a conversation with the only female cousin who was not a jw, she has since decided to become one at the age of 69. The rest of her family have been jws since childhood. She informed me that I would not be welcomed at her home any longer unless I returned to the "truth" which she said I knew was the "truth." She told me that I knew that everything written in the WT was correct information directly from Jehovah because those in Bethel were not smart enough to know all that was printed in the wt. She actually did not know about the FDS and who the borg claims they are or about the GB or the teaching about who has a mediator and who doesn't. Yet, she asserted that they had the "truth" and were the only ones who did. I gave her my reasons for having left and left her with information to look up (conti case + other things). She is recovering from a heart attack so I did not want to agitate her any more than she already was agitating herself. Another one bites the dust! So I am now left with only four brothers, one male cousin (her brother) and one nephew, who do not shun me. I am sad about it, but OH Well, I will survive, with a little help from my friends!
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JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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OMG. I hope you are alright. Can you not get a protective order against him. I hope he doesn't know where you live or where either of you work. There is a danger of him confronting you when you are not aware. Please be
careful and contact the police. You can not trust this type of person. You need to do more than fade. I am worried about you.
PHG.
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Not Religon...not Belief....Not Inerrancy: INTERPRETATION is christianity
by Terry inwhat the bible "says" isn't religion or doctrine or belief.. interpretation is.. proved how?.
there is not just one christian church.. ask yourself "why?".
here is a logic puzzle easily solved!.
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panhandlegirl
I agree that different interrpretations of the Bible divide people. No religion/cult is more divisive that JWs. Other, more mainstream religions, are not quite as bad as JWs in denigrating others. When we see each other as people first,
and how we intrerpret the Bible, or don't believe it is even God's word, as only an element/quality of another individual's life, we can see that we have much in common with them. We all need the same things to live a healthful and
productive life. We need self-esteem and a feeling of security to maintain mental health. Although, Jesus did say, in Luke 12:51-53 (NWT) 51. "Do you imagine I came to give peace on the earth? No, indeed, I tell you, but rather
division." I don't think he wanted division among his followers but that's interpretation, so what can I say?