Posts by Zoos

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Hello from the other side

by Theburstbubble in

well it's been 18 months since i left the witnesses.

my goodness what can i say?

well let's start from the beginning.... 1) i am happy, yes i am (i know im not meant to be as the jw's would like to believe).

I went through the entire range of emotions; rage-as I was leaving, calm-after I read CoC, curiosity-as I explored my new life, resentment-as I contemplated what WT stole from me, depression, elation, contentment... in no particular order.

I guess we call that a roller coaster.

Now, 5 years out (wow, I guess almost 6 now) I feel at peace with things but still find myself surprised as layers of old beliefs, patterns of thought, fall away, lightening my load, making life more and more pleasant every day.

Great to hear you're doing well. Just don't be surprised or disheartened if you hit a few more snags along the way.

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Canada RC Baptism Numbers

by berrygerry in

from a redditor.

abbotsford bc.

forgot to post this from last weekend!.

Zoos

The harvest is speeding up.

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Yoga. Evil practice?

by Darkknight757 in

as our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.

i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!

not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?

Zoos

I just said that.

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Yoga. Evil practice?

by Darkknight757 in

as our fade continues, the wife and i have decided to take up "the forbidden practice of.......yoga"!!!!😱.

i was quite skeptical at first but so far it has really de-stressed our life in quite a spectacular way!!

not to mention the physical benefits.. anyone else try yoga or a similar discipline?

Zoos

Yoga causes homosexuality.

"Ohmmm!"

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My daughter graduated Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours yesterday.

by Xanthippe in

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Zoos

Proud of BOTH of you.

22

Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!

by Prometheus in

it was rather quick one.

in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!

(what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .

Zoos

Prometheus, you sound like you got disfellowshipped / reinstated about the same time I did.

Turns out I got caught having sex with someone I wasn't supposed to, spent 20+ years exploring the details of that crime, and 5 years years convincing the powers-that-be... I was pure enough to be reinstated.

I was baptized in 1983, disfellowshipped in 1986, reinstated in 2009. It never occurred to me to examine the religion in the meantime. I was reinstated with the full belief that I was being acceptable to Jehovah. Boy was I wrong. I even had a testicular problem last year that caused me a long term problem and I had to have surgery on my scrotum in order to put aside a testicle problem that made me me stop for an entire season.

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Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

by cofty in

crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

Zoos

I don't think a news item has ever caught me so off guard and made me so upset. After the string of upsetting news items that have pummeled the U.S lately, I didn't realize I was in such an emotional state. This news really upsets me.

I'm tired.

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Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

by cofty in

crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

Zoos

I hate to come off as the RUSH LIMBAUGH spokesman (devil's advocate) here, but......

... tomorrow he will be spitting and spewing how France, with all their gun control laws, were unable to stop this rampage.....

...and all the conservative southern, CHRISTIAN bubbas in the U.S. will be nodding their heads in agreement, with spit running off their chins...

How would you respond? (Or does this question belong in it's own thread?)

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Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

by cofty in

crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

Zoos

How does this stop?

With Armageddon?

Seriously. How does this stop? With the attackers being (seemingly) individual radicals, how can an organized government/army/anti-terrorist organization... isolate individuals in a community of millions and make it all stop?

IT CAN'T BE DONE! These lone actors cannot possibly be identified and stopped.

Without wiping out the INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION IN THEIR ENTIRETY, how can civilized society ever hope to be free of this nonsense?

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i'm leaving this site forever

by stan livedeath in

as the title says--i'm out of here for good.. the site is full of atheists, communists, 7th day adventists, creationists, believers, deceivers, receivers, football supporters,.

dodgy types, cantleave---and assorted wankers.. so no place for me--because i'm none of the above so dont fit in.

so--this is goodbye forever my friends--its been almost average knowing you.

Zoos

Wait jut a damn minute....... I DON'T SUPPORT FOOTBALL.