Posts by Uzzah

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Oh well another cult uses it....

by mouthy in

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/523105.html?nav=5021.

Uzzah

oh contrare mes amis. (On the contrary my friends.)

Due to various circumstances I recently took a demit (aka quit) from my Lodge. It took a letter and it was done. No pressure, no grief, no repercussons. They did want to know why but accepted my decision.

I will likely be joining another Lodge in the very near future (my old lodge didn't/doesn't know that) but this crap about not being able to leave is just that ...crap.

The Masons are pseudo religious but can't really be called a cult. No high control, no demand for common belief except in a creator/designer.

Back to the point of the article however, the Mason's will do more for the community than the JW's ever have and certainly won't be harassing the neighbours at 9:30 Saturday/Sunday morning.

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Raise an alarm or hope for the best?

by Uzzah in

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i am in an unique position.

do i make a difference by sounding an alarm or encouraging balance and hope for the best??

thoughts?

Uzzah

Thanks all.

purple: The WHO phases are simply a gauge of the spread of a possible pandemic not the severity in each country. But no there isn't any current talk of going to 6.

This recent H1N1 outbreak has been the best possible "first pandemic' since the alert was raised about a potential avian flu 5 years ago. Limited mortality but very easily spread. It has exposed a lot of holes in planning.

This thing will in all likelihood be back this fall with a higher mortality rate and people and organizations are not ready. For example most school boards do not have any kind of pandemic plan or protocol.

I think I am just a little gun shy after years of claiming the world is going to end 'real soon' so am very wary of being a 'chicken little'

Uzzah

Speaking of Chicken Little, one day a teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class. She got to the part where Chicken Little ran up to the Farmer and announced "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" The teacher paused and asked her class, "How do you think the Farmer reacted to such a dire warning?

One little girl put up her hand. The teacher asked again, "Okay Susie, how do you think the farmer racted?"

Little Susie responded "He probably said, holy sh1t a talking chicken!!"

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How do you replace a family?

by YoursChelbie in

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as a result of wanting to have a normal life, away from the dogma of the jw religion,.

many have lost contact with parents, children and in many cases, their spouse.. my divorce was uncontested and i was fortunate enough to get out of from watchtower control with my children.

my parents were never involved with the religion,.

Uzzah

Rather than trying to replace I have come to a point where I have accepted the loss. I have however allowed others to become like family.

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Raise an alarm or hope for the best?

by Uzzah in

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i am in an unique position.

do i make a difference by sounding an alarm or encouraging balance and hope for the best??

thoughts?

Uzzah

I am in an unique position. Do I make a difference by sounding an alarm or encouraging balance and hope for the best?? H1N1 related.

Thoughts??

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The View talks about JWs and Armageddon

by Lady Lee in

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whoopie specifically asked sherry about jws and their prediction of the end of the world.

she said that the jws were having public meetings to tell people how to survive the end.. sherry answered that the predictions came from the bible and that the jws predicted the end in 1975 and they were still waiting.. the others chimed in with a lot of jokes so not much more was said but i was glad sherry got to say something and that the end was predicted in 1975..

Uzzah

I'd love to spend some time with Sherry and feed her some lines that can be used for future discussion. Oh to be a voice in her headset during those topics. LOL

Who knows maybe she reads here already.

She did get in the 1975 comment tho so good on her for that

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ARE YOU BEING MONITORED BY BETHEL? (not really!!)

by AllTimeJeff in

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this is for anyone who cares... just my thoughts and opinions, which have slightly changed since i have left the cult.

a poster named melita said some really inappropriate things on barbara andersons thread on jaracz's stroke, which got me to finally post this, just to put it out there...... when i first left, i was scared s*itless that i was being monitored and watched by bethel for reading and posting here.

and i bet i am.

Uzzah

Paranoia is huge when you first start thinking for yourself

I remember being in a bookstore looking for "apostate' literature being absolutely convinced an elder was going to jump me as I walked out of the Christian bookstore. Never happened.

I was tracked for a while due to involvement with some of the legal cases but that was diffused quickly. But if you are simply fading there is a very slim liklihood of you being tracked here especially if you do not post personal information.

If you are involved in legal cases or other activities against the JW's then you should limit posting anything personal that would identify you. Otherwise brooklyn just doesn't care/

Uzzah

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Life After JWs

by Uzzah in

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i wanted to share some very cool (in my opinion) news.

in two months i will have been gone from bethel for 14 years and attended my last meeting 11 years ago.

i spent 11 years at bethel sacrificing all of my 20's to the borg and finding myself at age 32 with no resume or real work experience.. it has been a tough haul with the majority of my energy going into building a career.

Uzzah

Shameless bump

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Life After JWs

by Uzzah in

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i wanted to share some very cool (in my opinion) news.

in two months i will have been gone from bethel for 14 years and attended my last meeting 11 years ago.

i spent 11 years at bethel sacrificing all of my 20's to the borg and finding myself at age 32 with no resume or real work experience.. it has been a tough haul with the majority of my energy going into building a career.

Uzzah

If Jesus was in fact at one time a perfect human male, he would be high fiving me!! Not judging me.

:)

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Life After JWs

by Uzzah in

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i wanted to share some very cool (in my opinion) news.

in two months i will have been gone from bethel for 14 years and attended my last meeting 11 years ago.

i spent 11 years at bethel sacrificing all of my 20's to the borg and finding myself at age 32 with no resume or real work experience.. it has been a tough haul with the majority of my energy going into building a career.

Uzzah

Johnny. Yep I do!

"Hey Jesus/God Dude. I put my life against any of the religiously pious for good works and humanitarian treatment of other people. Only I did it because I wanted to, not out of fear of fiery torment or bribing some unseen God.

Go ahead and judge me!"

PS .... and please forgive me for the unclean acts with the really hot chick...... but DAYYYUM I am only human

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Life After JWs

by Uzzah in

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friends

i wanted to share some very cool (in my opinion) news.

in two months i will have been gone from bethel for 14 years and attended my last meeting 11 years ago.

i spent 11 years at bethel sacrificing all of my 20's to the borg and finding myself at age 32 with no resume or real work experience.. it has been a tough haul with the majority of my energy going into building a career.

Uzzah

Well the election is over ....

81% of the voters ...

ELECTED ME AS VICE PRESIDENT of the Association - Canada Region.

70% of the eligible people voted. It was the largest election victory of all the five positions that were part of the election.

Add to that the fact that I just started dating an intelligent and beautiful former TV personality who is now a French teacher.... who actually seems to like me even!!

There is in fact a career, nay a life after the JW's!!!

ROCK ON EXJW's!!!! The best revenge to the WTBS is to lead a happy and full life!

Uzzah