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  How did you feel when you first celebrated Halloween or Christmas

  by trujw in

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  with the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?

  the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.

  how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..

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  Emma

  One of my first traditions was to buy each of my children an ornament as a Christmas present. My daughter will have her first Christmas with her new husband and I'll give her the ornaments that have been collected for her over the years for their tree.

  Our first tree was decorated with those inexpensive, colored glass balls and I still have a few left, along with felt ornaments the kids made for that first tree. We didn't have a tree-topper so my daughter used a cookie cutter to trace a star out of yellow felt and I've been using it ever since. I would not replace it for any fancy tree topper!
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  How did you feel when you first celebrated Halloween or Christmas

  by trujw in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  with the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?

  the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.

  how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..

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  I really loved them both! We were shunned when first simply missing meetings and becoming inactive. (My family are uber-righteous). Since we were already completely shunned, we weren't worried about being found out. The kids loved it; me too.

  This is where shunning backfires for the borg. If my mom would have been in contact with us, it would have been harder to leave.
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  JW molester, Barry Snow, UK, not reported by elders, molested again, court statement

  by blondie in

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  2. child-abuse

  campaigners make call for changes in the laws.

  thursday, 27 september 2012. .

  special report: child abuse and the churches.

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  Thanks for posting, Blondie. Good to see the issue still in the public eye.
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  Update on roommate situation, I moved out found my own place:)

  by andys in

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  2. friends

  hi awhile back i posted about my asian roommate that is from thailand, i made a decision to move out of the house and now am in my own apartment:) i feel that i will be able to much more better control the situation if jw's come to the door, that one time seeing the watchtower and awakes laying out on the coffee table was enough to cause me too much anxiety and now am happy to be on my own and since then the anxiety has gone down and am more relaxed, also something else i learned having a roommate was not the most biggest cost savings, i might even be able to save more money being on my own, it got frustrating at times when i go and buy food and half the food i buy was eaten now i don't have to worry about anyone in the frig in my food:) and another plus am closer to work, work is only 1.5 miles away:).

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  Living on your own can be a really good thing!
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  Your LAST door

  by RAYZORBLADE in

  1. jw
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  just curious.

  would anyone like to share, if they feel like it, their memory of the last door they ever knocked on?

  i was with about 3 or 4 other people, all sisters.

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  Emma

  I don't remember my last door but remember the last two times "out in service" and thinking I couldn't keep going. I'd talked to several really nice people who weren't interested at all but were kind, didn't want to be mean. I realized I just couldn't accept that they'd be destroyed just because they didn't want to listen. There were other things going on in my brain, but this was one of the last nails, so to speak.

  So glad I'm out as are all my kids!
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  September 11, 2001- Where were you?

  by SophieG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i work at a major airline in the in-flight training department.

  i was sitting at the desk on the computer, i kid you not... writing the security (hijacking) curriculum for 2002, when someone came in and told me a plane flew into the wtc.

  we all thought it was one of our planes.

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  I was in the middle of a staff meeting at the study-abroad office at the University of Michigan. Our assistant director got a phone call from his wife saying she'd heard the first tower was hit. Most didn't believe it. After the meeting, I went to the ground floor of the student union where big TVs were showing everything live. Surreal. We dealt with panicked parents and offered to bring home their kids from programs if they wanted. Only one had their student come back.

  My ex husbands wife calle me wanting to know what to do for him. Though we'd been out of the borg for several years, he thought the big A had begun and was not able to function. He shook for weeks (literally trembled) before he got over it.

  My daughter and spouse were visiting from Europe and wondered when they'd get back home. We watched TV together.
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  Has anyone Gone off WHEAT (I am thinking of it , too)

  by dreamgolfer in

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  let me know how you get your fiber?.

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  It is easy to get too many refined carbs on a wheat-free, gluten-free diet. I make a good oatmeal muffin with oats and sorghum flour. While I do use 1/4 cup of sugar, it could be replaced with agave or stevia.
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  Has anyone Gone off WHEAT (I am thinking of it , too)

  by dreamgolfer in

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  let me know how you get your fiber?.

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  Bulgur and spelt are both wheat.

  I'm off wheat because I have Celiac Disese. In baking I use lots of sorghum flour and quinoa flour, both high in fiber and protien.

  Eat lots of fruit and veggies!
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  "No Other Magazine Comes Close" - Watchtower's new slogan...

  by cedars in

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  2. friends

  ...and they're clearly in the mood for pushing it on youtube.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerx3gkthxk.

  what is it with all these random youtube channels, each showing polished and highly-produced videos.

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  Which version, public or secret?
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  to date JWism has defined my life and i hate that TRUTH

  by oompa in

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  and i am finding the adjustment to the real world far more difficult than i ever imagined...i f...it has been about five years since i totally woke up to the fraudulant nwt and then all my other doubts i had carried for years were proved true as well.

  but almost all of my few friends are exjw or slack jw's and i feel so isolated...my sons friends are mostly exjw too but not their gf's and they have way more normal friends .

  how have you done at replacing lifelong friends and family?

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  Emma

  After having "automatic" friends, making real friends takes a bit of work. It's worth the effort because they will be real friends. I'm trying to remember when I left 20 years ago. (Yikes! That long?!) I did join a church (Unitarian Universalist) and have a couple of close friends from that. I like to sing, joined an informal group. Struck up conversations with neighbors, invited them over for coffee. I made friends with coworkers. I realized that what I used to count as friends were high in number and short on committment.

  It takes time Oompa but you'll get there one friend at a time!