This will be my first convention/ assembly that I will miss. I think it feels wonderful and I'm currently not feeling any guilt. I guess it just depends on why you wont be attending. I dont feel its different from any other meeting.
Dazeds Better Half
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Feeling Guilty
by naazira ini am feeling gulity because i will not be going to the summer convention.
i just can not sit through the talks they are sooo boring.
im cutting off all contact with the witnesses.
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What problem did being a JW leave with your personality?
by frogonmytoe inand i don't (necessarily) mean a religious or spiritual one.. for example, i think the traces of guilt and paranoia i often fight with come from being a born-in, but my biggest issue by far is not being able to live in the moment.. i have listened to the power of now audiobook (and eckhart tolle's voice put me to sleep) so i read it instead.
i have read other self-help books, most of them buddhist in leaning, but i still find it hard to stop thinking only in the future (thanks to the great trib, armageddon), or in the past (jesus, flood, 1914 being responsible for that).
and whilst i no longer believe the big a is looming, and barely give anything else a second thought, my behaviour has projected itself, and i still find it difficult just to 'be' in the moment, enjoying and savouring what i'm doing, and doing it to the best of my ability, i'm forever thinking what is coming up, and what i did badly last time.. my sister said the last time i visited her that she felt like she was waiting for something to happen "but not like armageddon, something else".
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Dazeds Better Half
I realized while at work I had a difficult time thinking outside of the box, coming up creative new ideas. I tend to lean towards being told what to do and using others creativity. But now that I've recognized this I'm working on changing it. I question why we do things and why things arent done in a different way... And guess what, I'm praised when I do such things. Change is good and betters us.
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GB (Splane) says JW parent should "force" their children
by Gayle into go in "service," "baptism," etc.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqmosgj710
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Dazeds Better Half
Im sorry but how old was Jesus when he was baptised?? And he was raised from infancy to worship god and was his son, not to mention a perfect human being. Ridiculous!! Its all so ignorant.... Ludacris...
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I'm New... and I'm running...
by running_away init's some kind of funny... i was the perfect little ass, even that i never believe it all.. there was something that doesn't sound right... but, i was little, i was with my family, i never believe that my family will make me adopt a cult.
well i get batized in my mid teen years, i was the exemplar, ms at 19, even serve my time at bethel.
get married to a pioneer, start a spiritual family, get my 2 kids.
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Dazeds Better Half
M son is 4, my daughter just turned 1. I couldn't imagine raising them the same way I was. I went to my last meeting in the beginning of April, stopped service in December. Its amazing freedom to have finally ripped off the bandaid. Good luck! Get the kid out, I doubt you'll regret. It took a few weeks, but he doesn't ask about meetings or the other children that are there.
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Suspicious
by Suspicious ini guess i'm new here.
born in and an ms. things just hasn't been making sense the more i think about it.
i'm starting to get suspicious.
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Dazeds Better Half
Hey Suspicous. You remind me of myself :) good luck on your journey. I hope you make it out alive and intact.
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Symposium: Beware of Apostates! - 'God's Word is Truth!' District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses 2013 - not on JW.ORG
by mindnumbed insymposium: beware of apostates!.
satanhuman apostates also of interest ..... the truth brings "not peace, but a sword" .
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Dazeds Better Half
I'm so glad I won't be at this convention or any in the future. It disgusts me the things spewed from the stage. And I'm happy to say my children wont be sitting in the audience learning this dribble as I once did.
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Anyone use chia seeds?
by poppers ini just recently heard about chia seeds and what a good source of energy they are.
has anyone here ever used them, and if so how have you used them?.
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Dazeds Better Half
Hmmm why not just try, whats the worst that could happen? Take an extra serving today just in case
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Anyone use chia seeds?
by poppers ini just recently heard about chia seeds and what a good source of energy they are.
has anyone here ever used them, and if so how have you used them?.
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Dazeds Better Half
Yeah I think thats why I would put it in water. I dont recall it turning to muck.
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Anyone use chia seeds?
by poppers ini just recently heard about chia seeds and what a good source of energy they are.
has anyone here ever used them, and if so how have you used them?.
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Dazeds Better Half
Yep. I would buy it in bulk. Stay away from Mila, its an expensive pyramid scheme. But chia made eveything in the body feel great. I could focus better, less headaches. Physically felt so good. But I would mix it into yogurt, oatmeal, smoothies and it obsorbs everthing becoming a gelatinous muck. So, gross texture but doesn't really have a flavor. Sometimes it was just easier to down it in a cup of water...
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16 years ago today I got baptized
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i just looked at the calendar and realized its the 16 year anniversary of my baptism into the cult.. .
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