Posts by franticfran

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August 2013 Kingdom Ministry

by Simplicity in

has the aug 2013 okm come out already?

it normally is available for dl around the 10th of the month but i haven't seen it posted.

can anybody please pm it to me if available?

i hope and think to inform and educate, to save lifes and be a refuge to those lost and confused.. i like las58 his crazy and sometimes makes deep points, so i like the diverse expression of members and freedom of voice.... but i hate the internet and how it takes your identity away...facebook and path for example i think exist only to extract every bit of information of who i am and then i am turned in a target for advertisers...worse they want all the details of my friends...now i think the world would be better with out advertising but i am wearing a shirt advertising a bank and a toyota cars and now i am selling toyota cars with this post.. damn you advertisers, you destroy all that is sacred ...even this site has advertising.....if we could abort advertising would the world be a better place?.

franticfran

Most of us are too intent on reading the posts to even look at the advertising,SEE, now you have made me look up

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Newbie: Well I've been lurking enough and thought I should say hello.

by Adventurousone in

i really like this site and some of the comments i've read.

i was in the organization for 31 years and now i'm free!.

recently left the organization and am trying to rebuild my life.

franticfran

Welcome to you,I found this forum after 32 years in the "truth" and within months I began to recover my equalibrium again,and I made contact with a lovely lady in America who has become a firm friend,so dive in and enjoy speaking freely for the first time in years.

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Since Great Crowd has no mediator

by sosoconfused in

i am thinking that maybe i missed this discussion or something.

now for years in the org i never ever paid attention to the article that says jesus is the mediator for the 144000 alone.

yesterday talking to my 70+ year old dad he got violently angry with me and threw his cane at me because he said i was a liar.. .

franticfran

I never realised this "truth" either,until I read it here on this forum! proof if any were needed that the majority of us just sit there in the hall and swallow what is fed to us! but not anymore people!

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How to End the Silent Treatment ~ Wha?

by enigma1863 in

the irony is so thick you can cut a knife with it.

the watchtower must have some real cognitive dissonance.

read it for your self:.

franticfran

Yes I read that article and thought "are you people entirely stupid"!! Delighted that they avoid me in the street,sometimes I pretend I dont see them because I cant stand the pathetic "we miss you at the meetings" I always feel like saying "and tell me,what is it exactly that you miss about me"? So boring!

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Since you've left, are you still good friends with your bestest JW buddies?

by Julia Orwell in

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is it possible that someone has a jw friend who's very active in the congregation, knows you don't believe it anymore, and is still your friend?

i'm at the point where word is getting out that i'm not going to meetings anymore, and friends ask me if they'll be seeing me at the ca and i tell them i'm not going.

they want to know why, and what they can do to encourage me.

franticfran

We had realy close friends in the congregation for almost 25 years we would holiday together and when I look at family photos of weddings etc they are everywhere,we were closer than family but now I never see them and if I do they pretend they dont see me! So much for "brothers" but now I have made new friends here and locally who seem to like me "unconditionaly" so thats fine. Glad to be away from those shallow people.

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How I Feel Today

by LouBelle in

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friends

sick to my stomach!

agitated!

angry!

franticfran

Oh Loubelle,what a shitty thing for you, dont these people feell what its like to be hard up!! Come on girl.chin up,whatever you do dont smash the coffee up!! If I was there I would take you for tea and spoil you. Lovely girl. :)

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What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!

by megaflower in

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"we should be mindful".

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

franticfran

I agree with "emptyinside" "the society says" in that stupid little sing song voice,always wanted to say "yes dear but what do you say"? answer would have been "whatever the society says" morons!

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I celebrated my daughters birthday for the first time...

by cognac in

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friends

it was so nerve racking!

it wasn't anything big, but its all she ever talks about in front of all my family!!!

i mean, she talks about it almost every single frigging day.

franticfran

Go Cognac!! have a great time,my husband will be celebrating his first birthday next month and he is 70!! How mad is that,we are going to have a lovely time but for children this is such a special celebration,their just bullies these people,you stand between them and your child thats your job.

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DF ones can now choose where to sit...New WT Policy

by Quarterback in

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aug wt q and a has now stated that any df'd person can sit with anyone, anywhere at a congregation meeting.. before, they had to sit at the back of the hall.

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franticfran

Its a "public meeting" get stuffed! WBTS! I will sit where ever I like...live with it! Sorry everyone,had a bit of a rant there ..