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My new avatar

by MsMcDucket in

it fits me perfectly!

Somebody hurt my baby! :S

by Elsewhere in

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once again someone hurt nancy, my little mini cooper.

this time they popped the front driver side window, broke it all out, stole my tomtom gps, ripped apart the center console and tore up the 12 volt plug while ripping the gps power cable out.

the police came out and did the whole fingerprint thing and got a few bits and pieces of some prints, but we won't know if anything will come of it.

somebody

Hi Elsewhere,

I'll have you know that it wasn't me. I really wasn't!!!

I do understand when that happens to one when another one hurts your baby though and what you are feeling. It's a personal invasion of privacy. It most certainly is.

So sorry to hear what happened to your baby and you .

I hope the damage is minimum to you, after having your drink. Or at least after a month or so passes by!

peace,

somebody

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Time again for........ Congregation roll call

by Jourles in

it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??

somebody

1969-1979- Pawtucket, Rhode Island congregation

1979-present- FREE

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Flipper is in heaven/history channell is doing a show on Bigfoot

by dawg in

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are you watching this flipper?

.

somebody

doh! I was all excited to watch the Big Foot story and it ain't on! I hate when that happens! Guess I'll just call it a night.

night.

peace,

somebody

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RAISED IN ONLY MOSTLY...WHAT AGE DID U LEAVE HOME?

by oompa in

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thats pretty much it....my at home son seems so much younger than he should be...he is now 20 but hangs with much youger dubs...and has no girlfriend to date.

i had like ten by then and had done everything but impregnate a girl................................what the hey is going on here?....................................oompa..

plus he is a ministerial servant and reg.

I was raised a JW and left home and JWdum when I was of legal age (18), and never returned. My son is 26 and my daughter is 23. Both kind of lived in and out of home through their college years, because things were tough for them finacially ( because they both worked and went to school), but they wanted to live on their own at the same time.

They now both live on their own and both have good jobs.

And I miss the old days when they were here, believe it or not!!!!

peace,

somebody/gwen

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I'm not all that bad.

by Farkel in

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at least three years ago i wasn't.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/74026/1.ashx/3.ashx.

these people all lie.

i really am that bad!.

somebody

Hi Farkel

It's great to "see" ya!!!

How's things?

peace,

somebody/gwen

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I dont understand the hate...

by JamesWind in

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i grew up as a jehovah's witness.

my mother was uneducated and so we moved every 2-4 years as she tried to find stable enough work to support a child so ive attended many kingdom halls and have known many witnesses and many elders.

i've never gone back to the witness organization and never will.

somebody

JamesWind: >>>"No one would be disfellowshiped for a blood transfusion. The primary ingredient required in all disfellowships is a lack of remorse or extreme severity. Blood transfusion does not fall into the extreme severity category (in terms of breaking the rule) and simply acknowledging that you were scared and gave in to a transfusion would qualify you as remorseful".

I am one who HATES the organization and for as long as it exists, that hate will continue.

Accepting a blood transfusion is NOT A CONSCIENCE decsion if one has to REPENT for making a conscience decsion to accept a blood transfusion. If a JW accepts a blood transfusion, FIRST OF ALL they will be called up to meet with those who hold the title of elders in their congregation. And states," no, I was not scared and am not remorseful, then he or she WILL BE DISFELLOWHIOPPED. Is it normal to have to proove to elders that one is repentent for something there conscience tell them is not a sin and therefore does not need to be repented for? So quit trying to lie here. Most of have been there and NO that you can play with words all you want to, but it doesn't change teh FACTS. Nor does it change the FACT of what the organization is.

I won't even bother to read your excuses in the rest of this thread. For I can see what you are doing already. And no matter what you say to yourself, you are obviously NOT out of the org, mentally. And it shows.

peace,

somebody

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How long did you blame yourself before you realised.......

by jambon1 in

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.....that it simply wasn't the truth?.

i never really felt spiritual as a jw.

i knew that i should feel like a spiritual person, but couldn't work out why i never did.. .

somebody

Left alone, people will come to know that their spirituality comes from inside, not a works related religion

SO TRUE!!!! How is a JW supposed to even know they are a spiritual being when they feel like a pharisee when they "feel" what the "the Society" instructs them to feel and act how "the Society" instructed them to act? It really is an ACT!

As you said and I agree 100%. Left alone, people will know what spirituality is and where it comes from. And they no longer have to hide empathy either!

peace,

somebody/gwen

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Some kind of nervous breakdown?

by freedomfighter in

hi guys and gals.

i have been disfellowshipped for 2 months now and i feel so alone.i took the red pill and reality has hit me smack in the mouth.

i go through all types of emotions - stronger than i've ever felt before e.g anger,sadness,elation,freedom,feeling super strong,feeling super weak etc.

somebody

(((((((freedomfighter)))))

I don't know what the little red pill is. But it sounds to me like an anxiety attack. Trying to cope with reality can cause that and it can last for a long time, some days worse than others. You are thinking and asking yourself questions and JWs are trained to turn off those thoughts and questions immediately when they enter the mind, by other thoughts such as " What? You think you know more than the Society? You are dounbting? Satan is trying to steer you away from God's organization!!! Don't let him!!!"

What you are experienceing is normal for those being involved in the JW sect, for both who have left on their own accord, and who have been df'd from and by those who are members of the JW organization/sect/group.

If you go to a doctor, and be totaly honest as you have been here about what you are feeling and what's going through your mind, he or she can give you better advice than I can. I know it's very hard to be honest to another person standing right in front of you, becasue we've been taught to think such thoughts is a sign of weakness, but the fact is is that it takes STRENGTH to do such a thing.

I personally think it's an anxiety attack. If you should happen to feel as if you are struggling to breath or that you may pass out, then FOR SURE it is anxiety/panic. And that CAN be helped and treated. Even for those who do not wish to take meds, there is still treatment and help.

I would not worry to much, because your thoughts, and all the feelings changing back and forth from frustration, anger, sadness, and even fear, are completely normal with the thougths and questions you've been asking yourself. It just shows that you are slowly but surely facing reality, rather than living in a fantasy land. And it gets easier as time passes, from my experience.

I'll keep you in my thougths!!!

peace,

gwen

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Seattle radio discusses JW blood policy deaths

by Nathan Natas in

this week a 14 year old jw named dennis lindberg died because he refused blood transfusions which were part of his treatment for leukemia.. this has garnered some unwanted attention on jws from the seattle news media.. there are two of these programs available for download:.

kvi radio thursday, 11/29/07 - http://www.badongo.com/file/5384064.

kiro radio friday, 11/30/07 - http://www.badongo.com/file/5384118.

somebody

Nathan Natas,

Thanks again. I just listened to Fridays and I'm SO upset I can't even think straight right now.

Before I head to bed and for now, I will say this. If a JW who is 14 years old sets a bulding on fire, I'd be willing to bet that his JW gardian or parents whould say " well, he's ONLY A 14 YEAR OLD CHILD! He's immature!

One other thing is that it would be nice if JWs would state which is true....accepting a blood transufusion is against thier faith, or that accepting a blood transfusion is not going against ther faith, but is a conscience decision. Seems the JWs who phoned in are not in "unity" as JWs calim to be.

Either way, I don't think the judge made the right decision in letting a 14 year old child make that life or death decsion for himself. Had he truly been raised that accepting a blood transfusion is a conscience decision, he probably would have treated that as he had other "conscience decsions" the GB allow it's adherents/JWs to make. He would have not treated accepting a blood transfusion as a sin in which he would have needed to prove to those who hold the title of elder in his congregation that he was repentent for.

I'm tired and realize I'm getting carried away, so I'll say goodnight and see what others here have to say. It's a SAD situation! I hope that aunt can someday forgive herself for teaching the teachings of the GB to her nephew.

peace and goodnight,

somebody/gwen