Anything that keeps our "economy" off the agenda is good for the government!! I bought a frozen pizza the other day and the ingredients came from four different countries and the item was actually made on Germany!! This pizza had never seen the sunny hills of Italy! and guess what? it tasted like rubbish too...Pizza recipe pleez.
franticfran
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Horse Meat found In hamburgers in UK and Ireland
by Pterist inlondon (cnn) -- uk food safety officials have ordered the testing of all beef products following the discovery of horsemeat in beef lasagna sold by uk firm findus, only weeks after many meat lovers were dismayed to learn horse and pig dna had been found in burgers.. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/world/europe/uk-horsemeat-probe/index.html.
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After fading for over a year...I finally cut my ties by posting on my Facebook page
by eyesropen323 ini was 8 when my mom brought us into the jw's.
i am in my late 30's now.
many knew me from school.
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franticfran
Well what a brave girl you have been eyesropen, theres nothing worse than not knowing where you are, you cant move forward and you cant go back either,because you now recognise just what this "society" stands for. I simply cannot believe that a loving God wants us to walk past our children in the street just because they do not wish to share our beliefs,no,no, that cant be right! Stick with the bible. They are fond of saying "leave it with Jehovah" which I always felt was a cop out for not dealing with things,but now when they do speak to me I always say to them, "well we are content to leave it with Jehovah" that usually ends the coversation. Good luck.
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Hello??
by franticfran ini have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there.
i am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" i feel as though my husband and i have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to god someone will come up and speak to us.
scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now???
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Oh thank you everyone,why didnt I do this years ago!! You honestly have no idea how much better you have made feel in the last 24 hours. Still admit to feeling a wee bit scared that I will get "found out" but I reason to myself, "why on earth would you want to be part of ANY organisation that makes you feel like that?" I will take on board all of your advice and,yes I do believe we will get there.
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Shunned!
by zeb inyay i have been shunned!
i have not been to the kh for more than a year and a posse of sisters have shunned me!.
i was out having a coffee and they were there as well.. maybe they just didint see me to busy gossing on about someone else....
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Ignorant people! Simple good manners would have made me say good morning,actualy do you think that perhaps that people who behave in the this fashion are actualy the bad association. Dont get upset they are just small minded bullies.
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The Borg "our mother"? Good Grief!
by Roberta804 ini have heard it all now, or at least up to now, the borg never ceases to surprise me.
so when jesus was talking to his deciple from the cross (opps stake), "this is your mother" or something like that, was he talking about the borg?
lol.
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franticfran
This whole organisation is becoming unrecognisable to us older ones and its realy quite sinister,the more I hear and read the more I become convinced that to walk away was the safest thing to do to preserve any relationship I had left with Jehovah. Depressing,very depressing.
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Hello??
by franticfran ini have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there.
i am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" i feel as though my husband and i have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to god someone will come up and speak to us.
scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now???
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Oh thank you all so much for taking the time to answer my post its been quite overwhelming realy!! It seems rude not to reply to all of you individualy but I will try to do this private message thing to as many as I can, but please dont feel that you have to respond I dont want to press anyone,but thank you again.
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Hello??
by franticfran ini have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there.
i am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" i feel as though my husband and i have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to god someone will come up and speak to us.
scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now???
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Someone said"let us know a bit about yourselves" but I am afraid its all rather unexciting and I suspect predictable, and money on it you have heard it all before too. Were an older couple with three lovely children, we were baptised in 1975 and life was for the most fine for years allthough there was a lot we were unhappy about but we wanted to be obedient and so we carried on,but toward the end some of these "new truths" just didnt seem to come from the bible but seemed to spring from private interpretation,but God forgive us we stayed silent. The elders were slowly becoming more and more hard line and many in the congregation became afraid to express their opinions on even the most minor of matters,the word "apostacy" was used frequently to silence any unwelcome discussion,and it did. Im afraid the catalyst for us leaving was more mundane..I had a row with an elders wife,and that was it,the group was removed from our home after thirty years and it just went downhill from there on until I needed medication just to walk into the hall,we became like pariahs,if the elders disapproved us then it follwed we must be a bad association. We were devasted by our treatment,I felt as though the flesh had been stripped from my bones. The children stopped coming and finally we gave up ourselves and so for the last year we have sat here not talking about what we were all thinking about,but I hope thats coming to an end. So people,thank you for reading this at last I have got it out,I think I am starting to breathe again.
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Hello??
by franticfran ini have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there.
i am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" i feel as though my husband and i have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to god someone will come up and speak to us.
scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now???
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Thank you everyone,this will be the first time in over a year when I feel that I can just "talk" at last!! We walked away from the congregation over a year ago now and it has been a tremendously difficult time,after over three decades in the congregation we have felt as though we have been walking in total darkness and thats a fearful place to be. We are just surfacing into this strange new world and it is difficult on so many levels,so many emotions...anger.mistrust.disappointment.bewilderment and fear,do we have enough time left to salvage our lives and realy enjoy things again. We dont want to rebel or say unkind things but I realy do feel that we were controlled and manipulated for decades and to raise a voice in dissent was to bring the might of the elders crashing down on you,and believe me it did! I just want to say thank you for your hello,s you have no idea how normal that makes me feel. :)
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Hello??
by franticfran ini have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there.
i am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" i feel as though my husband and i have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to god someone will come up and speak to us.
scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now???
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franticfran
Hello anybody? I have just joined this website and just wanted to say hello to anyone out there. I am so nervous,after thirty odd years in the "truth" I feel as though my husband and I have just walked into a room full of smiling strangers and we are just standing here hoping to God someone will come up and speak to us. Scared and excited and hoping to wake up one morning and not wonder what we do now??? Sorry starting to talk too much.
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How Long has it Been since you Last Attended Meetings and What Caused...
by flipper in..... you to stop attending ?
injustices ?
disagree with the teachings ?
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franticfran
Ah thank you people, not sure how to do that, not terribly computer literate,but I will go off and investigate. You have no idea how good this feels to speak to others at last,I must be careful I dont just talk and talk!! I feel as though suddenly the floodgates have been opened. Thank you all so much again,now I shall go off and do this post thing.