Welcome! I used to envy, and at the same time, distain elders kids because they were often the ones that were out of control yet could get away with it. Now I feel so sympathetic to their plight. Growing up under that pressure, under the lense of everyone's watching eyes and expectations has got to be brutal. It seems everything balances out in the end though, because we are all on here as victims with war stories to tell.
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Intro and Thoughts
by ThinkerBelle ini've been lurking on the board for almost a year now and i think i'm ready to come out of hiding (although, i'm so nervous as i type this).
i'm not ready to share everything about my story, but the basics are that i'm a born-in, elder's kid, baptized as a teenager because i was tired of hearing people ask me "all your friends are baptized, when are you going to get baptized?
", married an unbeliever (was df, but came back shortly after) and we have two kids.
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Gettin' my garden on - looking for inspiration! !
by Mary J Blige ingardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
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This group of rocks symbolizes a waterfall where the water flows from the corner on downward into the riverbed, emptying into the area around the water basin. It's called "karetaki" or dry waterfall cascade. The stones hopefully give depth and visual appeal to the garden. I installed the bamboo fence behind it to cover the ordinary walls and give the garden an Asian feel to it.
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Gettin' my garden on - looking for inspiration! !
by Mary J Blige ingardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
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This is a stone water basin (tsukubai) that I put in at the end of the dry river bed. It was traditionally used for rinsing ones hands before engaging in the tea ceremony. No tea garden is complete without it and a stone lantern hiding shyly in the ferns.
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Gettin' my garden on - looking for inspiration! !
by Mary J Blige ingardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
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This is the Kyoto style inner courtyard garden I made at the back of the house. It is surrounded by four walls and is about 10 meters by 5 meters. before it was nothing but a space with pea stone laid down. Bringing in the plants, trees, river stones and stone water basin was hard work! I planted in a cherry blossom (sakura) tree as well as a bay leaf, Japanese maple and camphor tree. Getting the moss to take took time and patience as well. The rocks glisten beautifully on a rainy day.
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Hello
by Munster Abu innew here but looking forward to joining in some of the discussions with you all.. a small bit about me: i'm shane.
was raised as a jw in the uk by my mum (single parent family) from about 2 years of age.
got baptised at 15 for all the wrong reasons.
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A True Story: PORTRAIT OF A GIRL and her dog
by Terry inportrait of a girl and her dog.
(a true story by terry edwin walstrom).
her name was cheryl ann draper and she was about 11 years old the day she begged her daddy, who worked at a gas station, to let her go with him to work.
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Your writing style is similar to that of my favorite author, Stephen King. Although it was a horrible event, you skillfully and honorably find the good in it - in this case honoring her memory. The older I get the more I realize that life is unfair. No girl should ever have to die that young.
Somewhere, in some other universe or parellel dimension (even if it's only in our minds), she is running around in a field, playing with her dog and laughing forever.
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Helen Keller is not a hero
by StopTheTears infew realize just how wicked some of the most revered people in history were.
helen keeler (1880 to 1968) was a wolf in sheep's clothing, no hero.
keller was a communist.
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Helen Keller has made many positive contributions to society. Perhaps you, stopthetears, could share with us what contributions you have made to society so far? Please avoid character assassination. It's something we Ex JWs (who have had it done to us) really really hate. -
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Ask not what the Organization can do for you, but what You can do for the Organization! -
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Imitate the Filthful and Discrepant Slave.
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Let’s Speculate!!!
by John Aquila inyou know the organization is slowly going down.
not as fast as we would wish, but nevertheless it is crumbling.
five (5) year old child baptisms, smaller magazines, child sexual abuse exposed, smaller annual growth, no one wants to reach out, young ones leaving.
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I think they'll start to include spiritually mature sisters in JCs involving women. They'll stop dfing minors and they'll reduce pioneer hours to 50. They will require all JWs to put a JW(b)org sign on the front of their house saying it is necessary to imitate the Isrealites who splashed blood on their door posts to spare their firstborn from slaughter.
