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  Beckyboop's story

  by beckyboop in

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  well, i guess i work bass-ackwards sometimes.

  i started posting on here about a year ago when i was moved by some threads.

  i even helped to organize a local apostafest last may through the forum, but have never formally introduced myself.

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  SloBoy

  Thank-you Becky for sharing a part of your journey, very encouraging............though the specifics of each of our experiences vary, the dynamics of guilt, shame, frustration, discouragement, anger, hurt, and at times despair are pretty much the same as we negotiate life in/thru/out of the WBTS. Yet pain is a great motivator and yes, problems are usually messages. I was the poster child for the "Witness that just couldn't get it right". My wife (just celebrated 26 yrs.) on the other hand, was doing all she could possibly do. You know the type, "elderette", pioneer, parts at assemblies.......but here we are today,like you, regaling in this strangely cathartic metamorphosis. It takes a lot of courage and FAITH to live life not "knowing" how it's all suppose to work-out. But it can also be profoundly amazing. Experiences like yours make my day. Sometimes my wife and I entertain ourselves by guessing who will be the next person to knock on our door, tells us they too have seen the "light", at which time we will all embrace, perhaps go our seperate ways and let this wild ride continue. Peace to you.

  SloBoy
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  good books?

  by free will in

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  2. friends

  what are some of your favorite books?

  especially those that help you with your spirituality?

  (but not limited to that genre).

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  SloBoy

  SloBoy's Spouse Checking In:

  Don't miss it, "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver

  "Snow Falling on Cedars" (forgot the author)

  "Cold Mountain" (Maybe David Gufstafson)

  "All the Little Live Things" by Wallace Stegner

  "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

  Just some of my favorites. Spirtual enuf for me.

  With true concern.

  Dragonfly5
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  Canadian Mike Weir Wins Major Golf Tournament

  by Guest 77 in

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  to all you canadians, mike weir brings home a major golf tournament, the masters!.

  guest 77

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  SloBoy

  Congrats to Mike Weir........a stirring testimony how superb execution and gritty determination gets the "Green Jacket" for a demure 155lb. lefty.
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  Iraqis mad as hell at Al-Jazeera

  by dolphman in

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  2. friends

  i've heard reports of al-jazeera reporters being chased through baghdad due to their support of saddam hussein during the war.

  here is a little excerpt from arab news.comif not, there will be scorn and derision from the outside world, even from those who were opposed to this war in the first place.

  iraqis too will not thank fellow arabs.

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  SloBoy

  Personally, I wouldn't be sending out all the " WE'VE WON !! " party invitations just yet.
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  did you go to college? before/during/after wts? what is your profession?

  by nowisee in

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  SloBoy

  Dragonfly5 checking in.

  I looked at the highschool counselor 29 years ago as he was saying, "You are such a bright girl, we'd like to get you enrolled in some College prepatory classes". I thought, "Armageddon's coming you moron," and said out loud, "I'm not going to college". Like a good widdle witnit should!

  29 years later, I am working 40 hrs a week, pursuing an Associate of Science degree on my lunch hours, at night and through distance education courses. I am 2 0r 3 semesters away from the degree with a 3.88 gpa and I was just awarded a scholarship to split over the next two semesters.

  I grew up 15 minutes from a University and 40 minutes from a college. But as we all know, if you go to college you will become a promiscuous, acid-dropping, abortion-having, evolutionist.

  Don't go to the Kingdom Small anymore. This Spring, first Memorial I will not attend in 39 years. Still, as I walk to my car on my breathtaking college campus I thank a God of Love that I get to keep learning and as long as I am drawing breath I will continue to do so.

  Kinda Intense I know, but getting better.

  SloBoy's Spouse,

  With Love,

  Dragonfly5
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  This is just sad

  by Elsewhere in

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  doesn't this guy know that history will remember him for his pathetic attempts at lying?.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2924129.stmtext: 'victory over america'.

  iraq's information minister, mohammed saeed sahaf, has denied us troops are in baghdad.

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  Sounds like a good candiate for a WBTS PR man.
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  U.S. Say It May Have Found Iraqi WMD Storage Site

  by Yizuman in

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  from: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030407/ts_nm/iraq_usa_cache_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473.

  near baghdad (reuters) - u.s. biological and chemical weapons experts believe they may have found an iraqi storage site for chemical weapons, a u.s. officer told reuters on monday.

  a military source who declined to be identified said there were unconfirmed reports there could be sarin -- a highly lethal nerve agent that causes death by suffocation -- at the site.

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  "U.S. tyranny is just better organized and manipulated..."....well said foreward.
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  Vicki Boer v. Watchtower Child abuse Civil Trial - No News Yet but Update

  by hawkaw in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  victoria a. boer v. watch tower bible and tract society of canada et.al.

  involves vicki suing the watchtower and some of its elders.

  the organization treated her paedophile father in high regard even after vicki came forward.

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  "They pray for Vicki to lose the case"...........this is the mindset one develops after years of regular feeding at their banquet of "spiritual goodies".
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  What Was The Final Straw That Made You Leave The Organisation?

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  as a faithful and zealous witness, nothing can question your faith.

  but one day, something does!

  you begin to have doubts.

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  SloBoy

  Dragonfly5 Here:

  After 4 decades of association, 3 of them baptized, what was verbotten is now embraced:

  Getting Married and planning to do something other than pioneer. Such as; buying houses, planning babies, sending the babies to college.

  Looking back, it is hard to believe all the lies we took: 1975, no blood, some blood, ok most blood that other people donate, but not us???????

  Neutrality. Well, in some countries.

  No voting. Well only if your unbelieving spouse says you have to.

  No X-Mas, well only if

  What a bunch of hooeey!!

  Final STRAW: Being accused of a death threat against an elder and a pedophile publisher.

  Thanx for the thread. Reaffirms that we are not leaving the light, we are moving toward it.
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  Your most powerful spiritual saying is?????

  by anti-absolutist in

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  we all go through times of stress and sad times.

  what is a simple, yet profound saying that you have reminded yourself of to make these troubling times easier?

  you don't have to believe in a literal god, just that there are higher thoughts within us that we all are able to draw from.. the one that has worked the best for me is: .

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  Thanks for this thread, I love it.

  Here are two that have really helped me:

  "I've given up any hope . . . . . . of having a better past."

  "Knowledge is not information, it's Transformation"

  Oh, and I have always heard, "If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you've always got. Nothing changes if nothing changes."

  All passed on to me.

  Love to all

  SloBoy's Spouse

  Dragonfly5