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  Bethel Photos and more!!

  by teenyuck in

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  i stumbled upon this web site...it may bring back memories for those who spent time at bethel and it is very revealing to those of us who never visited or lived there.

  http://members.shaw.ca/theotrip/index.htm.

  the link above is the main site.. the link below is the bethel visit...lots of pics.

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  SloBoy

  A magnificent testimony to what this religion and it's more ardent supporters have become................ MAINSTREAM, MATERIALISTIC, BLOATED, CAPITALISTS!!!!!...... not that I have anything against such a life-style, but let's call it as we "see" it.
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  The Scarlet Letter Final part

  by Joyzabel in

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  2. experiences

  sure, my ride home from the kingdom hall.

  the decision, .finally

  another two months passed with nothing.

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  SloBoy

  Yo just2laws,

  Success and peace for both of you. When I met you at Princess's party in Seattle last August, you came out and looked at my bike, and there you are on yours, ready for some real "spirituality". Thanks for sharing your journey. I have been wondering what you two would do. I guess you don't have to black-out your faces in group pictures anymore.

  SloBoy
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  spoken to my sister at long last

  by nightwarrior in

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  mrs nightwarrior here,.

  well i have spoken to a couple of close friends about us leaving the borg, and now after quite awhile, i have told my sister... thankfully it came as a natural progression in a telephone conversation we were having..... i told her about the facts that we have found out over the last few months, and all the research that we had done, and she was not interested, in that she said, the same old thing, that we all seem to hear, well it is a perfect organisation run by imperfect man, oh that really annoys me..and that jehovah would deal with those bros that had been wrong in the way that we have been treat, and that i should stil go to the kh, and sit at the back and listen, and then leave, it was unbelievable.. then i mentioned about the un... she knew nothing of this, and where did i find all the information from...here goes, by researching on the web... well that was a red rag to a bull....she suddenly had to go and do her husbands dinner, after telling me initially that she had time to talk to me.... sadly me sister is a person that unless she has found the information, she does not want to know....and everyone else is wrong.... and yes you guessed right, she is not interested in what i had to say... i mentioned ray franz, and the reasons as to why he was disf.

  her answer... well he must have been apostate!!.

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  SloBoy

  Nightwarrior,

  When I first read the scripture in 2 Thess.2:11,12, about certain ones wanting to believe the LIE, and taking pleasure in it, I had a pretty distorted picture of those that were being discussed. Experiences like yours help me get a clearer idea of who that scripture applies to, and why they do it.
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  Have You Ever Considered Suicide? Have You Ever Thought Of Just Not Living

  by minimus in

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  i know of a few people that have expressed themselves over the years regarding suicide and their loss of joy in living.

  after reading some of the horrendous things some have gone through on this board, it is more than concievable to believe that you might have considered such options.

  i, personally have never had these thoughts, but some close to me have expressed that if they "could just sleep" in death, they would feel better.

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  Gumby,

  "hanging on until you get your thoughts and perspectives straight.....", boy!!, how important is that. Been out for almost a year and am only now getting a sense of the stress, anxiety, and some depression that comes from exiting a religion that I'd been apart of for nearly thirty years.
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  On TV tonight! (Thursday)UPDATE

  by Golden Girl in

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  my daughter just told me that on our channel 5 news tonight they are telling about another religion that is covering up child abuse!..

  it is on at 10 pm central here.

  nbc news.

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  Gumby....I'm not sure if your remark was tongue-in-cheek, but.......

  I think the degree of it getting "worse" is in relation to how they are treating those that speak up about 1) the damaging policies still in place, and 2) the incongruity of the flip-flop of former "truths" of which you speak. They have become maniacally desperate and will stoop to any dishonest means in "dealing with" such "apostates". Perhaps,as pointed out before, these are the indications of last stage extinction.
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  help please

  by Scooby in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to see if anyone out there could help with my situation.

  my husband and i are inactive witnesses very very recently.

  we separated as we are both very unhappy with our lives.. my husband was raised a jw and has gotten flack his whole life by elders.

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  Scooby,

  Welcome to this site. There are many here that can relate to your feelings of anxiety and despair. Being under the influence of WBTS dogma can be so emotionally, spiritually,and mentally incapacitating. This is a good place to start on the road to "recovery". Leaving the WBTS will not guarantee a problem free existence, but it seems that you are now putting yourself in a position to be helped by other people, groups, and agencies that can lay some wonderful tools at your feet for getting on with life. Above all, DON'T PANIC. Keep doing what you have started and don't give-up before the miracle.
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  On TV tonight! (Thursday)UPDATE

  by Golden Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my daughter just told me that on our channel 5 news tonight they are telling about another religion that is covering up child abuse!..

  it is on at 10 pm central here.

  nbc news.

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  SloBoy

  RIGHT-ON PISTOFF!!!........or "he's not wearing a tie", "his hair's a little long", or "she's got a tatto"; I use to be caught-up in that same dynamic, always looking for a reason to invalidate the real "truth".
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  The Cry for Peace & Security WHEN?????????...

  by JT in

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  2. friends

  *** w81 11/15 11 "peace and security!

  "-then "sudden destruction" ***.

  whenever it is that they are saying: peace and security!

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  SloBoy

  Yesirrreee!.........whatever goes down, the "true channel of divine light" has it covered. My wife and I refer to it as "Win/Win" dogma. It's a great tranquilizer/anti-depressant. Little wonder it's such a struggle for some to "get-out".
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  Elder Lou Anguiano Ordered to Stand Trial

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20030208/localnews/944157.html .

  saturday, february 8, 2003 .

  trial ordered for jehovah's elder.

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  Billygoat,

  The villification and discrediting of my pioneer wife ( very pretty), begun shortly after she told the Presiding Overseer that his full body, rocking hugs were inappropriate when given to those who had no interest in participating in such "hugs". He was a bit hurt, because afterall, as he put it, he would write talks "just for her"....... CREEPY!!!
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  I'm astounded by the UNDER-PATRIOTISM Displayed

  by Yerusalyim in

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  2. beliefs

  yep,.

  it boggles my mind, so many here would rather believe saddam hussein than their own government.

  so many here seem certain the bush administration is lying, but trust hussein to tell the truth.

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  dubla,

  It must be a locale specific thing. She lives back east, I'm on the west coast. The joke was originally e-mailed to us by someone else, and it was also sent back to us from her locale. I could be over reacting, but it sure got my attention.