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  ROLL CALL!!!!! How many people are on this forum?

  by NaruNaruChan in

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  i'm so curious!

  if you see this, sign your name and your location if you want, cuz i wanna know how many people actively view this!

  ^_^

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  goofy

  Goofy here, undercover in the USA!
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  Time for me 2 say goodbye

  by Iron Eagle in

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  yeah i've decided to say goodbye folks.. i've had some interesting discussions on this forum, yet i will cease to operate as an active member as of now.

  i came to this conclusion via a number of reasons; .

  (a) many people on this board have had such a bad experience as a witness that they have decided to deviate so much from the bible and what it tells us.

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  goofy

  Sometimes the slow fade is best in all cased of life, including this forum should a person decide to leave, why hurt others feelings? Everyone here seems a little lost but a lot nice, why hurtful parting comments? Best to fade away. Maybe in the future you will see this when leaving a group or person. But best wishes to you.
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  Women raised as JWs: Did the WTS views on women negatively impact you?

  by berylblue in

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  i'd really like to know.. my experience was that women who were raised in the "truth" and married to a good jw brother did not know how to make decisions.

  from reading this board, this would, however, appear to be the least of their problems.. what specifically, if any, were the problems associated with always being told you were a second class person and not capable of making decisions?.

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  I attracted to the bossy ego maniacs. I know this is horrible. If a guy treats me nice I just don't have sexual feelings for him. I am working on this mentally though because I know it is stupid on my part. I am always most comfortable with a man who takes care of me so to speak and takes the lead. But most of these men aren't great catches because when it comes down to it they don't respect women. I think this mentallity comes from my raising as a JW. Always looking up to the men, the Elders to take care of problems and our family has some males with very strong JW male mentality which I grew up with. It is sad that I cannot respect a nice flexilbe mentality in a man, somehow it seems weak to me but I know it is actually the strong man who can be that way. My mind knows but my feelings and attractions have a hard time following. Anybody else have this dilema?
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  Your most powerful spiritual saying is?????

  by anti-absolutist in

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  we all go through times of stress and sad times.

  what is a simple, yet profound saying that you have reminded yourself of to make these troubling times easier?

  you don't have to believe in a literal god, just that there are higher thoughts within us that we all are able to draw from.. the one that has worked the best for me is: .

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  goofy

  Life goes on

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  tomorrow's another day
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  Cabbage soup diet and such

  by goofy in

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  just a quick question, have any of you tried the cabbage soup diet?

  did you loose weight on it?

  i need to loose a quick ten pounds and i heard you can drop fast on this diet.

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  goofy

  How does a tablet work with this diet? Supplement do you mean, or it takes the place of the soup? interesting
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  Cabbage soup diet and such

  by goofy in

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  just a quick question, have any of you tried the cabbage soup diet?

  did you loose weight on it?

  i need to loose a quick ten pounds and i heard you can drop fast on this diet.

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  Thanks for posting. CJane, I would appreciate any tip you have. I am not sure how to personal message though. I guess I should learn this system bettter.
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  Cabbage soup diet and such

  by goofy in

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  just a quick question, have any of you tried the cabbage soup diet?

  did you loose weight on it?

  i need to loose a quick ten pounds and i heard you can drop fast on this diet.

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  goofy

  Just a quick question, have any of you tried the cabbage soup diet? Did you loose weight on it? I need to loose a quick ten pounds and I heard you can drop fast on this diet. Thanks.
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  What Was The Final Straw That Made You Leave The Organisation?

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  as a faithful and zealous witness, nothing can question your faith.

  but one day, something does!

  you begin to have doubts.

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  Thinking, thinking and thinking. I had stopped attending meetings due to personal depression and lonliness. I was already all but out of the truth, but then 9/11 happenned and I thought, I cannot hardly deal with the emotions of watching these two trade center buildings be destroyed and 6000 people involved ( I guess now the death toll for 9/11 is between 3 and 4 thousand people) I had nightmares and was uneasy and crying over songs, reports etc. for months. Then I thought about the fact that this is what I was working for, praying for, that not just two buildings collapse but that every building and billions of people be destroyed. Whatever God does in the future or allows to happen is not my place to decide, but I cannot look forward to that and I know I would not be smiling and laughing and rejoicing the day after. Not after what we all went through, it became a reality then not just a picture in a book. I had decided to stop attending meetings and was inactive long before but that was the straw that made me decide that my inactivity would be permanent. Then having active Witnesses tell me that I was weird for dwelling so much on the event and basically that I should move on, after all they will be resurrected if in Jehovah's memory. Tell that to the little six year old whose Daddy didn't come home that day. That was really the nail in the coffin for me. The whold 1914 generation new light thing didn't exactly strengthen my faith in the org. either.
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  The WatchTower and Higher Education

  by Maverick in

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  runningman's post on the fallacies of the watchtower reasonings started me thinking on the gb's stand on higher education.

  i am impressed with the superb thinking ability of many who post here.

  unclebruce, stephanus, victor_e, gamaliel, blondie, undisfellowshipped, and machislopp to name just a few.

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  oh, I could go on and on about this one. I am mid thirties and should have gone to college. Yes, I can go back now, but I cannot afford it, and keep my full time job. It was just assumed all through my growing up years that I would not go and it was wrong. My counselor wanted me to go so bad. I had 4.0 averages through High School. My Mom actually received a hard time at times about letting me go to a Tech School. To this day I am so mad and even more so when I read a slight change in the Tower's attitude toward this subject a few years back.
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  Lessons of the FOOL

  by manon in

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  things are not always as they appear!

  usually when we think "fool" we imagine a simpleton, someone who is out of touch with reality or an object of social ridicule.

  the common celebration of april fools day is a reflection of this attitude--we pull pranks and try to make our friends look silly--just for fun.

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  goofy

  I think we all need to be fools then. To much thinking and condemnation these days.