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Dead Grandma helps me find Dads siblings

by QCA1 in

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i meant to post this awhile ago but have been very busy of late,so here goes.. i have over the years always wondered about who my paternal grandma was and what she was like.

my dad was handed over to a childs home when he was about 3yrs old and never saw his mother again, it was 1929 when he was born in a workhouse on northumberland street in london and times must have been hard.

my dad was brought up at st josephs catholic home for children until he was transfered to blaisdon hall when almost a teenager.as a child myself i never stopped thinking about who his mother was i had the notion that i looked like her.anyway these feelings persisted with me long into my adult years,i tried to question dad about his life and what he remembered,he was always a bit short with me and i got the feeling he resented the fact of what happened to him and that he thought his mother didn't love him.

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Dead Grandma helps me find Dads family

by QCA1 in

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I feel so angry!

by Ellie in

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not really much point to this except i want to vent some anger but yesterday my little brother came round to my house for lunch, he is studying and living at the house of my jw sister, i myself have never been baptized so am not disfellowshipped but they all (with the exception of my little brother) treat me as though i where.. anyway, my little brother came round for lunch and the next thing my jw mum phones my house, asks to speak to my brother and gives him a telling off for being at my house because i'm bad association, and tells him that he has to spend more time with the members of the congregation.. he tries to explain to her that the members of the congregation don't want to know him, that he is sick of making an effort to be friendly with them when they just ignore him.. anyway, it finished with her telling him he is to go straight back to my sisters house and not see me again.. he is 24 years of age, surely its up to him if he wants to come to my house!.

sorry, i know there is no point to this, but i just wanted to let off some steam!

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You are the World and the World is You :)

by frankiespeakin in

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i've read over and over again in mystic writings this basic idea about "oneness" is that "you" are the world, you are making the sun shine,, you are everything and hence the world is you.

everything in space time is an illusion of the mind and thought,,, and that there is this nonfragmentary consciousness of it all, that is nothing like the the fragmentary nature of human thought.

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Spiritualism

by diamondblue1974 in

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i have a friend who has just started seeing a boyfriend who is also a spiritualist; they have talked about his beliefs as such but she seems quite interested in it all.. i dont know enough to dismiss it or otherwise but has anyone else on the board had any experiences of the spiritualist church.. what are they about, what do they believe and how are they organised.. hope you can help.. db74

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An Update: Love your True Self, love people, and love life.

by Winston Smith :>D in

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when i wrote my ?swan song?

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/69435/1.ashx

?i promised updates, and at this point in my life, i?d like to share a few.

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disfellowshipping children

by QCA1 in

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awhiile back i posted telling you about my grandson whos mother hit him for not saying grace before a meal ( he is 15yrs old ) he has been hit on many occasions,he hates being a witness and is forced to go to the hall by his mother.

my grandson phoned us on the day his mother had hit him,he was sobbing down the phone to us and said he wanted to come and stay with us, i said yes and that i would fetch him, anyway his mum and dad have had nothing to do with me since despite me writing to them expressing how much i love my grandchildren and that i wish to see them,i have had no reply.. the other day my grandson phoned and said to my younger son that he is leaving home when he is 16 and can he come and stay with us,of course i said yes.

what i need to know is will he be disfellowshipped for living with his grandma ( i am not a jw ) of course i know what this will mean for him,his brothers and parents will shun him.. as for me what else can i do to see my grandchildren.