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  Chapter a Day (I will post) from my Sci-Fi novel

  by Terry in

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  chapter one.

  the monorails of mars (1905) ____.

  like watchful eyes—the twin moons of mars voyeured above the chaos.

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  Curiouser and curiouser!
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  Update:The Unbelievable Just Happened!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  i will try to keep it as short as possible.

  so if it seems abrupt sorry, or if any questions do ask n i will fill you in.. update to the news of 5 people leaving(2 couples n a single sis).. they have been in touch with my pimi friends( the ones who shared their news with me).

  in conversation my name came up.. one couple who have been very involved in spiritual activities .they are a nice couple from what little i know about them.they had moved around quite a bit in need greater too so they have come in contact with lots of boe's, co's, r n f; n experience with them which goes without saying.. long story short while moving about to different places, they heard about the csa lawsuits.

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  Thanks Zing, it's amazing to think that people they meet in the ministry can help them see the facts.

  A couple of people tried to help me. One was a psychologist who said she had many JW patients. Another was a university lecturer in philosophy who tried to show my husband and myself that people have wondered about the big questions in life for millennia. I wish we'd listened but it shows there's good people out there.
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  Chapter a Day (I will post) from my Sci-Fi novel

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chapter one.

  the monorails of mars (1905) ____.

  like watchful eyes—the twin moons of mars voyeured above the chaos.

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  Wow Terry! Looking forward to chapter 2.
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  I Am Now Officially an O.B.E member

  by smiddy3 in

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  hi friends ,.

  i just thought i should share with you my entry into the o.b.e.

  club on this 5th of july.not everybody makes it and to tell you the truth ,i never thought i would.

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  Out of body experience?
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  Are Witnesses advised not to get into discussion’s about evolution with HH?

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just before the last memorial, i finally had a witness call with an invite ( i say finally because i haven’t seen anyone in the d 2 d preaching work for going on 5 years!)..

  i wasn’t particularly prepared ( it being early and me still in my nightie!

  ) but i managed to collect myself and said i didn’t think i wanted to go since i discovered the scandal around the un.....and i outlined the facts.. jw: oh no i don’t think so, where on earth did you read that?.

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  Onager
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  Are Witnesses advised not to get into discussion’s about evolution with HH?

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just before the last memorial, i finally had a witness call with an invite ( i say finally because i haven’t seen anyone in the d 2 d preaching work for going on 5 years!)..

  i wasn’t particularly prepared ( it being early and me still in my nightie!

  ) but i managed to collect myself and said i didn’t think i wanted to go since i discovered the scandal around the un.....and i outlined the facts.. jw: oh no i don’t think so, where on earth did you read that?.

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  Diog I think neat blue dog is right you really rattled her and she was looking for an excuse to run away.

  Whatever happened to talking about Darwin eh? What happened to asking how life evolved when we've only managed to create amino acids (Miller experiment). I know now we were confusing evolution with abiogenesis but we had a go didn't we? We didn't just walk away.
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  Boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. current

  now i think i may have seen everything.. "boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates".

  i'm all for people being entitled to wear what they want and live as they please as long as they're not harming anyone but - a male prom queen?

  maybe there wasn't much competition in his school?.

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  When I went to school that kid would have had his ass kicked every day all day long. - rockemsockem

  Look how far we've come. Especially if he is mentally ill.
  

  I just wonder, why the people who care, care? WTF difference does it make in your life? - iwantoutnow

  I wonder that too.
  
  
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  Tonights mid week meeting study 7 " Accurate and convincing"

  by benny in

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  2. bible

  the video at he mid week meeting tonight shows a video on how teaching must be based on hard researched fact and that we are encouraged to look at watchtower literature to get up to speed on a subject.. here is the link to it https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/reading-teaching-videos/accurate-and-convincing-video/.

  i find this quite disturbing when you look at the feb 2017 watchtower which explains the governing body errs in their understanding of subjects yet they claim to be god's channel of communication to his people.. what are the thoughts on this?.

  i know there are other topics on new light etc...

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  '12 The Governing Body is neither inspired nor infallible. Therefore, it can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction. '

  But they have the audacity to claim in that article to be guided by holy spirit and helped by angels.

  What an arrogant claim for anyone! Can't they get it right with all that help ?!

  How can they talk about hard facts unless they get the holy spirit-guided words every time. Is the creator of the universe incapable of getting the facts accross to them?
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  Is there anything that can open a JWs whos dyed in the wools mind

  by rockemsockem in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know that jw who would still believe if tony morris killed a baby on the roof of wallkill and put it on the internet.

  for those people will there come a time when they will see or do you think someone so deep in a cult will never come to realize its all a lie.

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  For dyed in the wool read mentally lazy. There's too much information around to not know what this religion is really about.

  If you or I want to know about anything we Google it straight away. You can do it on the phone in your pocket. Nobody will know or be stumbled! No excuses left.

  Cowards that's what those are who don't leave after decades in this cult.
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  Losing a loyal friend of 14 years

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  this last tuesday was one of the most stressful and sad days of our life when we had our lab morgan put to sleep.

  she was so sick and out of it we just had to do it.

  when i called the spca on monday to make a appointment to have her put to sleep i felt like i betrayed her.

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  I'm so sorry, your beautiful dog brought you so much comfort. I understand, I had a little cat that we got after leavingthe cult, she used to sleep on my pillow as a kitten.

  She got me through, I owe her so much. She died at eleven from liver disease, no age for a cat.