Last January, my co-worker and I went on a vegetarian diet. I never felt better. But I live with a bunch of carnivores so if I tried to make a vegetarian meal, I caught so much grief that I finally gave in to the carnivore lifestyle again. However, I am thinking about giving it another go. Meanwhile, I read a really good book called, "Mastering Leptin" and have lost 20 pounds (what I needed to lose) just by changing when I eat as opposed to what I eat. My goal for February is to give up red meat and coffee.
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Changing your diet - meat, dairy, sugar
by Pleasuredome ini have just finished reading 'confessions of a kamikaze cowboy' by dirk benedict.
in the book he talks about how 'macrobiotics' (exclusion of meat, sugar, dairy among others) helped improve his health and fight cancer.
a lot of what he says about food resonates with me, so im curious.
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2 questions!
by TweetieBird infirst, does anyone have the date of the memorial for this year?
second, can someone post the district convention date for san diego.
thanks in advance...i know i am going to get asked (especially when our district convention is) and i don't have a clue for either one of these questions.
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TweetieBird
First, does anyone have the date of the memorial for this year? Second, can someone post the district convention date for San Diego. Thanks in advance...I know I am going to get asked (especially when our district convention is) and I don't have a clue for either one of these questions.
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Personal Truths
by searching4truth ini have been doing alot of soul searching lately.
having been raised as a dub and my entire world focused on that existence i seem to be a bit lost as to who i am.
everything my life was based on was a lie, so that being the case i find myself having to toss all my former philosophies aside and start from scratch.
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It is difficult at first but it does get easier and easier with each passing day. I love to read so for me reading different (previously forbidden) books, i.e. "Crisis of Conscience", "In Search of Christian Freedom" was a tremendous help. Someone else on this board recently recommended "The Four Agreements" and I am really enjoying that one right now. I still have a lot of family members in the Cult so I have to pretend when I am around them or talking to them on the phone that I still believe the lies but I am to the point right now that if they find out my true feelings, so be it.
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Yet another brochure campaign !
by 5go ini hear tell that there will be yet another brochure campaign.
it will be in an upcoming km !
that is all i know.. i bet i just fell into some sorta trap but what the hell..
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I think they come up with these tract campaigns to give the dubs a break from the (ab)normal routine of trying to start doorstep bible studies. The dubs get some relief by just going up to the door and handing the person a tract, no conversing with them.
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Told my JW mom
by Mrs Smith injust wanted to let you all know about my phone call to my mom.
she was telling me how upset she is that all three of her kids no longer are active jw's.
i could no longer keep quite and i told her how upset am that she still is an active jw.
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Thats good news. Keep us posted.
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The serious conversation with the wife about the cult
by OnTheWayOut inif you needed my background, this thread will tell it-.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/121888/1.ashx.
my wife recently asked me about not commenting at a wt study.. our discussion was the topic of this thread-.
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Hi OnTheWayOut, You are going through with what my husband went through for a few years. It took me longer to come around but I had the same feelings as your wife. The WTS demonizes anyone that is not a JW, convinces you that if you leave "the truth" you will immediately go out and lead a wicked life. Your approach with her is excellent, keep dropping tidbits along the way. For me, the final nail in the coffin was the UN thing, I felt like if they lied about that, what else did they lie about.
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Leaving Florida and Moving to Ontario!
by Saoirse init's official, we will be moving to the toronto area within the next month or so.
my husband was offered an incredible job in canada so we flew up here to check it out.
we totally fell in love with the place.
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Glad to hear you are moving on. We did the same thing and it was honestly the best thing we ever did. You can really start your life over again with no religious baggage. Don't worry about the KH. They will probably only work your area once or twice a year. You could just flat out tell them that you use to be witnesses but saw the light, they will probably mark you down as a "do not call." I have a friend that moved from Florida to Montreal and he loves it there. Good luck to you.
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Confessing to the elders...
by tan inhas anyone ever had to confess their sins to the elders...left out some of the details or "other gross" sins...but wondered if you were truly forgiven of your sins?
or was reproved and given back your priviledges but knew that you didn't tell everything.
how did you feel afterward?
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I have a male relative that was recently reproved after getting caught with a married sister. He went into the back room and fessed up to that wrongdoing, leaving out the dozens of other women he's banged over the last few years. He feels that Jehovah has forgiven him for all of the wrongs even though he only confessed to one of them. He felt that if Jehovah wanted them to know about it, it would have come out, hence, his conscience is clean and now he is trying to stay on the straight and narrow. I give it 6 months.
What I really find disturbing is that he genuinely believes that JW's have the truth. How he can justify committing fornication is beyond me.
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Judical Committee/ Plea for Reinstatement help
by livingalie inhello to all it has been awhile since my last post but i have been lurking .i just wanted to be careful since i have been trying to be reinstated.
to give you a little background in short after i left bethel (1993-1999) in 1999 i got married to a local sister from new york city ( brooklyn).i worked at different jobs but the last job i had was with the city of ny after 9/11 i lost the job .i told my wife about a job down south ,i told her that i would go down try the job out and if it looks like a good fit and it would work out she should move down in a few months .the job was going great things were looking up i told her to moved down but she hated the town said it was to small nothing to do but the great thing about it was that her job was in the town also all she would have to do was just transfer no job hunting at all .
my wife would not move this went on for the next 2 years she said she was coming down then she said she need to finish up something at work .
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My heart goes out to you. Its obvious that you want to get reinstated so that you can have a relationship with your mom and dad and siblings. Do you want to get back with your wife? Like others have said, you have to play their game, unfortunately. Someone else suggested that you write your wife letters, make every attempt to reconcile. Either she will agree or she will tell you it's completely over. At that point, you can tell the elders that you've tried everything possible to make it right, but that she can't and won't forgive you. For your sake, you should hope that she doesn't forgive you because if you do end up getting back together, she will probably never let you forget it. I will tell you this, the family thing is over-rated. I have siblings that are still in but it wouldn't really bother me to be disfellowshipped at this point. But, that's just me. My parents (dead now) would have never disowned me, no matter what. My inlaws would but I don't live near them anyway. The freedom I feel right now is far superior to the relationship I have with my believing JW family. I'm a fader and the family doesn't know but I'm sure the day will come when they find out. I'm ready for it. I have a loving husband and children (only 1 a JW but quit going to meetings recently) That is the only family I need. I hope you find some happiness. I hope you find someone that will love you unconditionally because most JW's can only give you love that is conditional.
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Please rescue me! I just got hit with a JW Mac Truck!
by truthsearcher inoh my, i just had a visit from a jw who proceeded to, for an hour and half, try and cover every doctrine in the book, jump from scripture to scripture, half the time i was so confused about what was being said.
the other witness barely got a word in edgewise.
i quickly realized that there was going to be no discussion--it was sit and listen and try and look intelligent.
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TweetieBird
Jourles...that was too funny! I have got to get me one of those.