barbershop harmony singing groups!
i've enjoyed that type of music since i first heard it as a kid.
just today ran onto a local group that welcomes visitors.
Thank you Laverite!!!
It's like you say, a huge blessing is being mentally free. I first became free of the WT physically, by not attending FS and then the meetings. But it has taken many months to begin to break free mentally.
I'm so lucky to be aware of the need to de-program. This forum is so helpful in that endeavor!
i am so thankful that i was able to learn the truth about the truthtm (ttatt).
i owe everything in my life to having left watchtower corp: my education, my position as a college professor, being able to write and publish, travel, family life, my beautiful children, being able to be openly gay -- and happy.
unlike those closeted homosexuals in the truthtm, i do not have to be afraid to be who i am.
Laverite you are absolutely 100% right on - I am so grateful and thankful to have been brought to my senses and getting happier every day♥ Also congrats to you for working hard and achieving a wonderful life.
i feel as though i'm losing it.. firstly, my mom isn't baptized but has been around witnesses for a long time.
when i was in, she would have problems with the religion.
we were always at ends with eachother.
you know what, this sounds familiar to me. I call it resistance - like whatever i say, certain people say the opposite. Feels like they are being passive aggressive towards me.
*first* - a clarification that needs to be made.
this is not about all women.
i am not against cosmetic surgery.
the one thing that needs to be bigger - the BRAIN - cannot be enhanced surgically. Too bad!
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"Maybe you could have handled it better" - BLAME THE VICTIM, BLAME THE VICTIM - what in hell is the matter with people? "Jehovah doesn't approve of hitting, BUT"
that is one huge but
I say call the cops and swear out a warrant.
i know that a lynch mob forms whenever there's a hint of anybody being a pedophile, but the truth is that not all are the slavering, predatorial animals that they are painted to be.
each circumstance has its' own specifics.
in defense of the wts, they do keep track of confirmed pedophiles now.
It's really good to continue these discussions. If people don't talk there's no change, no awareness. And when people are writing, they are listening to themselves and getting feedback.
*first* - a clarification that needs to be made.
this is not about all women.
i am not against cosmetic surgery.
Totally agree! Sometimes though when they have the reconstructive surgery after mastectomies they choose to go bigger, that goes on a lot!
autobiography.
forever began at the day of my birth, but, it turns out that it was a lie,.
i am who i am when nobody's watching, then nothing is there to deny.. .
Beautiful, moving and wonderful, you all!
bradford pedophile massimo capazzo was disfellowshipped for grooming and abusing two young boys, but the elders never told the police.. he was only prosecuted after turning himself in.. not surprisingly, both victims now need professional help and wrestle with "feelings of worthlessness and guilt.".
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/10575701.bradford_paedophile_jailed_for_abuse_of_boys/.
cedars.
Looks like he went to the police and told on himself in order to get a lighter sentence, AFTER the now grown-up boys he abused, filed complaints about him.
autobiography.
forever began at the day of my birth, but, it turns out that it was a lie,.
i am who i am when nobody's watching, then nothing is there to deny.. .
This is fun - hope a lot more get posted!
