It's so wonderful your immediate family is still intact.
"Happy Birthday!"
LoverOfTruth
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My birthday and 1 year anniversary on JWD
by Paralipomenon ina two for one special!.
today is my birthday and this thursday marks a full year posting on the forums here.. it's been on my mind recently, thinking over the past year that i thought i'd do a year in review.
last year, around this time, things were starting to bother me.
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So, who has a MySpace??
by Elyse867 ini have one, and was wondering who else does... if you want my url, pm me.
(can't let the lurking elders find out who i am... until i da myself... muhhahaha)
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Hi guys i'm a newbie
by The Dark Side inhello i've been disfellowshipped for about three years, and no plans to go back to the matrix ( if u know what i mean ).
but my mother, and brothers are still inside.
any word of advice on how can i tell them the truth without them getting dissapointed?.
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LoverOfTruth
Welcome. It took you awhile to get her but later is better than never.
I suggest you try not to force any information on your JW family or they may cut you completely out of their lives.
You might try talking about the positive aspects of being in the world. For example, If you see acts of kindness, share these experiences. Don't share any of your difficulties as they will say "This is what happens when you leave the Organization"
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LoverOfTruth
I'm much like Mouthy, I cried through the entire film. My speakers on this particular computer aren't working but the video says it all.
Makes me think of the Song "What the World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love"
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Watchtower website
by cooler inmy dad was looking and the official watchtower website and he said it has such a truthfull and genine look about it and how i should'nt read the forums because people's opinions on there are misguided and they dont know what their talking about.
has anyone said anything similar to you?
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LoverOfTruth
In my Opinion, the Watchtower Website is what it appears to be; a slick Marketing Tool.
These tools are always prettier than the actual Product.
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Babies get shunned
by Crooked Lumpy Vessel inmy sister was recently disfellowshipped and she told me that she was eating in a restaurant yesterday when the elder that disfellowshipped her was seated at the table next to her.
of course they would not breathe a word to her.
but her son (4 years old) had kept saying hello over and over to the elder and his wife and they both refused to acknowledge him, smile of even say hello back.
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LoverOfTruth
I don't know how anyone could pretend to ignore a child. It's rather hateful.
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Heard the phrase "Are you in the truth or is the truth in you?"
by truthseeker inthis was said to me by a brother who went on to leave the truth and resume his alternative lifestyle.. so, how many of you here were just "in the truth?
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LoverOfTruth
I guess it depends on what you define as "Truth"
The desire for "Truth" was in me but it didn't sit well with what the Watchtowers Definition of truth is.
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growing up native american
by BIG D infor those of you that dont know, iam half choctaw indian, my mom told me an sad, but interesting story the other day, she is jw, and my dad elder, she had her indian boarding school reunion, in oklahoma, and did not want to go, the first i have ever heard of her reunion, in all my life,.
she told me this story, similar stories i have heard from indian relatives, when she was a little girl, about 7 , she had 11 brothers and sisters, she lived on tribal lands in oklahoma, her great grandmother signed the 5 civilized scrolls act in 1907 that said indians would give up there ansterial lands and be relocated to indian territory, oklahoma.our tribe was from louisana.. her older family traveled from louisana, to oklahoma, in the dead of winter, on foot and hungry the whole way, over half the tribe died, sickness and malnourishment set in on the journey, and the military escort was berating them the whole way, the exodus, known to history books tday as the trail of tears.
the soldiers learned the words tish-pa, which means hurry up.. for some time after they made it to indian territory, they were given dispersments of money, they did not use money, and had no real use for it, it stopped shortly thereafter, the site named skully, to this day, which means money, a new word made up for it.. .
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LoverOfTruth
I have a special place in my heart for Native American People in the U.S. They were so taken advantage of by the Government.
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LoverOfTruth
Time does fly. It gets easier but if you're like me, you still think about your parent almost every day.
My mom has been gone for almost seven years now and I still miss her.
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Are We Kind Because It's the Right thing to Do/Or Because "God"Tells Us To?
by flipper inin seeing the " debates " the last couple days of religionists debating with atheists i couldn't help but start a thread on what i have noticed since leaving the jehovah's witnesses religion.
personally just to set the record straight on my views personally i consider myself a strong agnostic, perhaps a weak and learning atheist, if that makes any sense .
while in the witnesses, i was always annoyed ( for 44 years i might add) by some who considered themselves very " spiritual " being kind to others in a facade kind of manner.
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LoverOfTruth
I've never needed any Religion to tell me how to treat others. The reminders are ok I suppose.