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  Birthday!

  by Ravyn in

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  well, actually my birthday is sunday, may 18th.

  but i was born on a friday night at 9:57 pm eastern time us and it was a full moon...so i guess technically my birthday was last night's full moon.

  my new friends at the local sca group(re-enactors)are having a barbecue on sunday and i am going to bake a cake and we will all celebrate.

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  Goshawk

  Happy Birthday

  RAVYN
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  What Did You "Become" After Leaving The Watchtower?

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  born again, liberal christian, agnostic, atheist, or "other"?.

  spanner

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  Goshawk

  Healthier, and Free.
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  How has the org changed you emotionally?

  by obiwan in

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  2. experiences

  i'm just wondering how everyone was changed by the wts emotionally.

  i find that after going through being df'd and the shunning, the general loss of everything that i'm much harder, i give people less sympathy than i used to, things that are seriuos such as deaths and the like just don't move me much.

  i feel desensitized, sorta detached i let so much just roll off my back than i used to.

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  Obiwan,
  
  Be careful not to confuse the process of maturing (ie the wisdom that comes with experience) that allow you to mellow your reactions, and pick your battles. It may not all be emotional hardness but a combination of lessions learned and resilliance to changing situations.
  
  Goshawk
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  I can't find the damn thing!!!!!

  by Thunder Rider in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  please forgive the following rantings.

  several months ago i lost my watch.

  it is somewhere in the house.

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  Goshawk

  One thought struck me as I read this thread thunder
  
  If you have central AC/Heating and the watch has fallen into a vent then the alarm
  will sound almost equally in every room connected to that duct.
  
  Goshawk of the devils advocate class
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  Rogue_Protecter

  by unique1 in

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  2. experiences

  hi, saw that you live in denton.

  i grew up in the area and hung out with alot of people in denton.

  how long have you been in denton?

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  Goshawk

  unique1
  
  Friendly suggestion,
  
  This might be safer and more appropriate using the private message system on this board.
  
  Just a suggestion.
  
  Goshawk
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  'You cant blame God for the mistakes his Org. makes!'

  by Hamas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had a discussion with an 'associate' i used to know back in my meeting days last night.

  he really did show what it means to be a brainwashed victim of the watchtower.

  i told him about false prophecies, and how the wt claims to be a true prophet of god.

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  Goshawk

  One question might be:
  
  Then why does "his" organization blame its members for mistakes that
  "his" organization made?
  
  Might be a bit over the top.
  
  Goshawk
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  question regarding the size of the group

  by Ron1968 in

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  2. friends

  ok...i have to admit that i am no stranger to posting on ex-jw forums.

  but i feel like i have went from smallsville to chicago here.

  the forum i post on and still do has one administrator and less than a dozen moderators.

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  Goshawk

  Welcome to the board Ron.
  
  Fair warning though. There seems to be a temporal disturbance on this board.
  After reading the new posts one will look up and see that what seems like only a
  few minutes has warped into several hours.
  
  Goshawk
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  Preview of my new novel

  by SYN in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  this is only the first few paragraphs of it, as a sort of a teaser .

  <schnip>.

  nobody realizes who russell truly is until they've spent a night in his company.

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  Goshawk

  SYN!!
  
  Great style and flow. I can hardly wait for more samples.
  
  Just one thing that tripped me up a bit.
  
  "One day they'll make a movie about us two, you know," I hear from behind me later that afternoon. Russell's sparse frame stretches ahead of me like a Japanese devil, all shadow and no substance, powered by the falling sun.
  
  When walking from NY to the west coast in the afternoon, a person behind you would not cast a shadow ahead of you because the sun would be in front of you heading toward sunset in the west.
  
  Great visuals though.
  
  Regards,
  
  Goshawk
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  yada yada

  by Brummie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  changed my mind, didnt want to discuss this after all..... *thinks of a real exciting subject to take its place*.

  hmmm....so what colour eyes do you have?

  brumm

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  hazel-gray
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  What aspect of freedom from the borg do you love the most??????????

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  we all had personal reasons for becoming jws and we have all left for just as many different reasons.. but i'm really interested in what types of freedom people have found and are enjoying since fleeing from the wts cult.. for me the greatest sense of freedom has been in the way i live my life with my family.

  now we are able to 'be free' (in reality we were always free, we just didn't know it because we empowered men and they controlled us) with our time and energy.

  we associate with a variety of different people, we sleep in, we garden, we just do nothing, we read books that have nothing to do with the wts, we relax on tues. and thurs.

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  Not feeling guilty for having independant thoughts.