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  Hi all sharing my book

  by Sunnyflowernz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello friends,.

  i am an ex jw been out of the organisation since 2000, just written my memoirs which contains the story of my life in the organisation and the circumstances surrrounding my exit, also contains the story of sexual abuse in the org.

  so if anyone is interested they can look at my website.

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  Well, weren't you cute as a button at age 2!

  Welcome to JWN.
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  Crazy Sounding Story

  by piztjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last sunday after sitting through the ca an eldurr whom i know related this story about the warwick compound construction, as related to him by someone who had just returned from their tour of duty.. "the property is over-run with rattlesnakes.

  so there are assigned brothers who catch and release them off property.

  they won't kill them.

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  Timber rattlesnakes exist in New York state, mostly in the southeast, but are listed as "Threatened" by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
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  Have you ever read the review of Steven Hassan's books on Cult news.com?

  by Enzo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi, to everyone my username is enzo, .

  recently a saw a video presented by john cedar presenting steve hassan as a cult expert.. .

  but read this reviews presented on cult news about steve hassan's books, and it's up to you make your own opinion about the video.

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  He already has his mind made up and then pretends he wants to have a discussion.

  Well, since you've already made your mind up, then surely nothing I could say would matter.
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  Found my old baptism photo!

  by nicolaou in

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  At my son's school, black socks and sandals worn with shorts are all the rage! I didn't believe him and made him change several times until I went to visit the school one day and all the teenage boys were wearing them! I mean they looked just like the picture above, except they wore slide in sandals with no backs. (And their legs weren't quite as hairy! )

  They must do it deliberately to irritate their elders. Just like that multicolored bowling shoe craze about ten years ago. Just pick the things your parents think are the ugliest and make them cool. We didn't do that, did we?
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  Female Perspective about WTS, marital relationship & control

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  despite my user name, am female.

  i was not born-in, began studying when i was around 20, am 50 damn years old now and have spent almost the last 30 years in that stupid religion.

  but here are some observations, make of them what you will.

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  Thanks, Muddy. That gives me some insight into the 'loss of control' type of behaviors I have seen in my parents' relationship.

  If you were drawn to the religion to gain a feeling of control over your life, that must feel terrifying.
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  Reverse Shunning

  by exwhyzee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someting happened yesterday that i thought might be noteworty enough to relate to you here.. mrs. eyz and i were invited to my new boss's home for his annual end of summer party.

  it's a pretty big deal....his is a name known locally (i'll call him j.r.) a really nice interesting guy who's held a number of high level and politically connected jobs.

  there was to be music, dancing, wine and reprotedly lots of well dressed, well educated, well to do and influential people (oh yes...and us) in attendance.. anyway we thought we'd make an occasion out of it and got ourselves spiffed up which involved new outfits and extra mirror time before we left home.

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  I wonder what the conversation was in their car on the way home...

  Loved. Every. Word.
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  Which flag will fly?

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  which flag will fly in the morning?

  this was the question asked by a young man as he was held prisoner on a british ship during the battle of baltimore 200 years ago last night.. the british were aiming to take the city of baltimore, but were receiving heavy fire from fort mchenry 6 miles down the bay from baltimore harbor.

  that young man, named francis scott key, looked desperately through "the rockets red glare" to see whether "the flag was still there.

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  Which flag will fly in the morning? This was the question asked by a young man as he was held prisoner on a British ship during the battle of Baltimore 200 years ago last night.

  The British were aiming to take the city of Baltimore, but were receiving heavy fire from Fort McHenry 6 miles down the bay from Baltimore Harbor.

  That young man, named Francis Scott Key, looked desperately through "the rockets red glare" to see whether "the flag was still there."

  "Does that star spangled banner yet wave?" he wanted to know. And "by the dawn's early light" it was clear that the stars and stripes still flew over Fort McHenry, not the union jack as he and the other Baltimoreans had feared.

  Francis Scott Key penned a poem to express his emotions from that night on this day 200 years ago. This poem was set to music and has become the United States' national anthem.

  Last night in Baltimore we saw the Star Spangled Spectacular celebration during which fireworks were exploded from Baltimore's Inner Harbor all the way to Fort McHenry. It was deafening, and it likely sounded exactly like it did on the same night 200 years previous when there were "bombs bursting in air" and when the question was, 'Which flag will be flying in the morning?'

  I wonder the same about Edinburgh this week. Which flag will be flying on Friday morning?
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  How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.

  as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?

  surely education should come first.

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  I'm furious and sad about the old aptitude test from elementary school I found in my mother's hope chest this weekend.

  I was testing 2 grade levels ahead and was in the 99th percentile.

  Obviously my mother was proud enough to keep it, but there was NO encouragement to go to college. What a waste of all the 19 years after high school it took me before i finally got my degree.
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  THE ULTIMATE statement which addresses the cult of death: Armageddon obsession

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this, in my opinion, is one of christopher hitchens' most concise statements about obsession with armageddon.. i'd love to have a transcript of this and just sit and memorize it:).

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2lehsa1dk.

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  This seems to be the same phenomenon as hoarders who live in filthy conditions. A thing piles up here and there, soon you can't clean because of all of the junk, and a musty smell turns into a rank smell until they don't even notice the smell of decomposing rodents.

  Little by little, the eye gets "blind" to the hoard and the nose becomes "blind" to the smell.

  Would a JW even be disturbed by a pile of rotting bodies?
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  JW daughter, sent me a check yesterday...

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the daughter that told me she will never shunn me.. this is the daughter that told me dad, i pray one day you.

  will be sitting with us (her family) in the assembly, that one.

  day i will come back.. it was a $100.00 check with big bold letters "love you"... i'm going to frame it, she knows i don't need it..she is.

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  That is both sad and wonderful at the same time.