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  This One's For The Girls

  by sandy in

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  this one's for the girls.

  this is for all you girls about twenty-five.

  this ones for the girls.

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  berylblue

  Sweet, Thanks for posting.
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  In Search of Christian Freedom

  by berylblue in

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  franz stated something in this mind-blowing book which was definitely true for me.. he stated (this is a poor paraphrase) that very early on during a "study", witnesses can easily show what's in the bible regarding god's name, the condition of the dead, living on paradise earth, etc.

  once these are proven to a person's satisfaction, when the study moves on to more complicated matters, it is just easier to accept what isn't understood on the basis that so far, everything has seemed true.

  by now, there is an emotional investment -and everything up until now seemed fine, so.....................................let's swallow it all, and what is too difficult to swallow comfortably (blood?

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  berylblue

  Wow, such wonderful posts!!!! I will read them all properly later. Thanks.

  And no, I wasn't raised a JW. Got baptized when I was 29. So................I guess this first birthday I'm really celebrating on Aug. 12, I'm going to be 30!!!! (not 48)

  Rosemarie
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  The only thing I "want" for my birthday

  by berylblue in

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  is to hear from my daughters again.

  it is not going to happen.

  i just thought you'd like to know.

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  berylblue

  Thanks so much everyone! Love you all so much!! Wish I could meet you all....aren't ANY of you near Philadelphia? Can't believe I'm alone up here.

  Rosemarie
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  looking for consolation

  by leslane in

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  hi everyone, i'm new here as of today!

  well, having some issues and thought that you all might be gracious enough to offer some insight.

  i am a lesbian, have come out to a few friends.

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  berylblue

  Leslane, I don't have any advice for you, but I want you to know I truly admire your courage. Welcome!!! You will meet many wonderful people here.

  Rosemarie
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  "We are all in the gutter.....but some of us are looking at the stars"

  by berylblue in

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  someone, in a thread a while back, mentioned that he thought oscar wilde was merely remembered because of his homosexuality, his conviction and jail sentence.

  on line, there are many sites which feature quotes from this genius.

  oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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  berylblue

  Hamas, love your style....
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  "We are all in the gutter.....but some of us are looking at the stars"

  by berylblue in

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  someone, in a thread a while back, mentioned that he thought oscar wilde was merely remembered because of his homosexuality, his conviction and jail sentence.

  on line, there are many sites which feature quotes from this genius.

  oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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  berylblue

  Someone, in a thread a while back, mentioned that he thought Oscar Wilde was merely remembered because of his homosexuality, his conviction and jail sentence. On line, there are many sites which feature quotes from this genius. Following are some. Enjoy!

  Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde, In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson

  
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  One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi, 1882

  I can resist anything but temptation.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

  Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

  
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  Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

  
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  Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

  
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  We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

  What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

  
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  Only the shallow know themselves.

  Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  Oscar Wilde

  The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  
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  The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  
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  To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Why was I born with such contemporaries?

  Oscar Wilde

  When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893

  Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I

  Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

  We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

  
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  But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
  ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

  
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  It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

  The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

  
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  A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

  
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  One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

  The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

  
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  To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

  Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

  It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912

  
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  A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  
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  When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

  Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray,
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  Welcome: MOONBEAM

  by RAYZORBLADE in

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  2. friends

  just in case...because someone i know...moonbeam...hasn't made her presence made officially, but i thought: 'what the heck'.

  i wanted to kickstart it for her.. she's a darling, and when she gets all this stuff figured out, we'll see her on here soon.. she resides in the new england part of the u.s.a. .

  but in the meantime, and if you don't mind.

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  berylblue

  Welcome, moonbeam
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  The only thing I "want" for my birthday

  by berylblue in

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  is to hear from my daughters again.

  it is not going to happen.

  i just thought you'd like to know.

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  berylblue

  Thanks, Ob. Thanks, teejay. Thanks, everyone.

  It's all kind of silly, isn't it? Birthdays? And wishing my daughters would call? They won't. I never celebrated it until this year anyway. They are not going to call or write, ever.

  You know, it's my fault in more ways than one. I never said anything to them when they hurt me badly (and they have, believe me), not once, ever. I took some verbal abuse from them which other mothers would not have. Had I told them at the time they hurt me, instead of keeping it inside, all the years of being called names and being lied about wouldn't have come out in one semi-drunken argument.

  Oh well.
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  Hi! I just got here...

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  yup...just got here and already jumped in for a few posts....hope yall're all okay...my life's been a little sucky lately, but things are perkin' up....getting the detritus out of my life and takin' a new path where work is concerned....is everyone here an active jw or what?.

  frannie b

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  berylblue

  WELCOME
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  In Search of Christian Freedom

  by berylblue in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  franz stated something in this mind-blowing book which was definitely true for me.. he stated (this is a poor paraphrase) that very early on during a "study", witnesses can easily show what's in the bible regarding god's name, the condition of the dead, living on paradise earth, etc.

  once these are proven to a person's satisfaction, when the study moves on to more complicated matters, it is just easier to accept what isn't understood on the basis that so far, everything has seemed true.

  by now, there is an emotional investment -and everything up until now seemed fine, so.....................................let's swallow it all, and what is too difficult to swallow comfortably (blood?

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  Gumby,

  Traumatizing because the books are destroying all my long held beliefs about the WTS .

  Although I have been researching since January, nothing I have read has so far has been as powerful. I can rationalize away much of the stuff I've read here (as well as other places), but what Franz writes cannot easily be pushed aside.

  It means that I have to seriously rethink most everything I believed in since I first started studying with the Witnesses.

  It's actually physically painful. My stomach is in knots, I'm near tears.

  I do believe all Franz has written, but I can't believe it. Do you understand what I mean?

  Rosemarie