Posts by Brummie

I didnt get any emails asking about the dates etc...then again I closed my hotmail account a while ago so it could have been that you posted to that one?

Drat it would have been brilliant to have you here. There isnt a Convention next year but BB will be joining the march outside London HQ in March so we are focusing in on promoting that instead, conventions will begin again in 2004 around about March or April

Dang! We missed out.

Brummie

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OK, wish me luck, i have a job intetview today

by mamashel in

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just wanted some of my new friends to send out the good vibes for me.

its about 2:15 and i have an interview at 3:00. i am soooooooooo nervous.

been looking for about 7 months now.

Brummie

We are rootin fer ya mamshel, let us know how you get on.

Brummie

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another sign of the end

by comforter in

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sniper shootings.

these people sick.

but it shows the end is near.

Brummie

OK Rev, I retract my post. it just sounded a little too much like a JW threat. Then again I guess that is the only language JWs like comforter would understand so you were on the ball.

Brummie

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another sign of the end

by comforter in

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sniper shootings.

these people sick.

but it shows the end is near.

Brummie

You mean like you and I right? I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Brummie

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WT. Pollution - ( Foil ) Pictures taken 10/31/2000

by JWrobot in

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=16334&site=3 .

( thanks deb for the link ).

farm's shale pit.

Brummie

rubbing eyes...is it the image of a little red cross? Cus thats all I can see

Brummie (bifocal unfriendly)

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Hey, New To The Board

by ColdRedRain in

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i'm a former jw that faded out this year.

i'm 21 years old and i live in a certian midwestern state.

the reason why i left was because of many things.

Brummie

Heeelllllllloooooooooooooooooooooo

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Bash pomegranate here...

by pomegranate in

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go ahead, have some fun!!

edited by - pomegranate on 8 october 2002 7:32:46.

Brummie

Clenches fist, draws it back two blocks and sails it forward...

Thwack!

I'm not as polite as the others

Brummie (who is definately only joking)

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Should I "ex JW" SHUN my JW family??

by curiouschristy in

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i haven't posted in a while... been very busy lately.

i am glad to be back though, i started reading the posts right away, and immediately felt comfort for how you guys are feeling, knowing i feel the same way.

not many of you know my story.... but for a quick run down... i'm a disf'd jw, for about 11 yrs now, i'm 28, disf'd at the tender age of 17... my mother and sister are still in the org... they only talk to me when they want to, it doesn't have to be an important event, life or death or anything.

Brummie

Hello CC

This is only my opinion and since the subject is complex you will have a variety of better opinions in due time.

I certainly would NOT shun my JW family (but my situation is different as I have never had to because they have comfortably shunned me since the day I left) even if they decided to come along now I would still embrace them since they are following the WTowers conditions on family visits and not their own, this does not free them of any responsibilty for shunning you at such a young age but I am sure your family visit you because it is painful for them to totally cut you off.

If they really want to see you then YOU lay down the grounds of compliance, I.e that they NEVER try to influence your children etc. That you can visit them as and when you please just as they visit you. I have heard so many exJWs who once shunned their daughters say that they were so thankful for the grandkids because it allowed them a loophole to visit their own kids who were d'fd.

In a different thread HC made this point which I thought may be appropriate for this situation:

you see JW's are underneath it all are just people! Heavily conditioned beyond natural inclinations, bent out of shape by a practiced and ritualized arrogance, but people just the same.

Any parent who can shun one of their children are heavily conditioned beyond natural inclinations, its not natural to shun a loved one so another power is at play in your mother and sisters minds.

Whatever you decide to do you will be the right thing for you, but all our decisions have consequences, would you be happy with the long term consequences of shunning your family now? You may never see them again. Then again your shunning them would be a consequence to their actions towards you at such an early age, so dont feel guilty if you decide to shun them.

Sorry that you are in this predicament because of the destructive WT!

Thinkin of ya

Brummie

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Newbie alert!

by pharisee in

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i'm new here, and would just like to thank simon and people like him (franz for one) who have helped others, through various forms of media, to make thier own educated descisions on how to deal with all the jw issues in their lives.

when i was growing up in a jw family, we never had the opportunity to get "second opinions" on any doubts we had from any source.. luckly, with resources such as this website, and others like it, i have been able to make one of the most important discisions in my life, and that is how to bring up my kids spiritually and mentally?

i had to be 100% sure, in my mind, that i was doing the right thing.. i hope others who we all know that are searching for thier "answers" will be as fortunate as many of us here.

Brummie

Hello Pharisee (or ex pharisee), looking forward to getting to know you, I'm relatively new here to but it doesnt take long to realise your amongst friends.

Brummie