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  What did these angels do that was bad?

  by shotgun in

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  take a look at the angels having a little conversation...incase you don't recognize them their names are zeus, adonnis, rico and newton .

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  Do true Christian women wear "Boyshorts"?

  If they do, then Kate Bosworth is a Saint!
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  Twisted Life

  by Mysterygirl in

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  i just thought that i would share my life as a jw.

  i was born into this cult in 1973. i was born as a hermaphodite (both sexes) this was of great shock to my parents, apparently the confided in one of the elders asking him what thay should do?

  his respones was that i should be made male (the doctors at the time said i should be female) my parent took the avice of the elder and i was the made to be a male.. as i was growing up i beged my parents to allow me to be the person that god had wanted me to be but the elders kept reasuring me and my parent that god wanted me to be a male so that i could one day be a elder or s/overser.. in my teen years it became very apparent that my parents had made a mistake as i would act in a very female way.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Your story without a doubt tops anything that I have ever read here.

  Elders playing doctor...

  I'm glad that you are now moving on with your life.

  Welcome
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  Do you have a story with a great moral or lesson to it?

  by Love_Truth in

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  do you have a story with a great moral or lesson to it?

  if so, post it here.

  a man and his dog were walking along a road.

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  The moral of this story is: Always keep your condoms in your car.

  ROFLMFAO!!!
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  God,,, angry,,, so clearifies His ,,,,don't Kill Rule!

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html

  new york?responding to recent events on earth, god, the omniscient creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified his longtime stance against humans killing each other monday.. "look, i don't know, maybe i haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again," said the lord, his divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen twin towers.

  "somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that i want them to kill their neighbor.

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  Gotta love The Onion. One of my fav sites!
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  Stumbling...

  by astridkittie in

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  in another post, someone made a reference to e-watchman's sudden call to duty.

  i went to the link provided and when reading the sample letter decided to check out the 11-22-98 issue of the awake mentioned as being "un propaganda".

  now... the first time i read this, i was shocked that i had read it before without blinking an eye as a jw.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Girl, I read your entire post.

  You poor thing, I remember that period only less than a year ago.

  Darkuncle is right, you gotta get back to square one.

  And that means that you have to know only one truth, which is this:

  You are not evil.

  Yes, it?s true.

  And deep down, you know it too.

  You are an inherently good person.

  An evil person does not beat herself up as you do over such matters.

  The very fact that these issues are racing through your mind in a scattered fashion ?like butterflies? is a testament to the fact that you are indeed a good person.

  Once you are FULLY CONVINCED in this FACT, you then will be able to rebuild what the WTS has stolen from you.

  You see, once you know that you are good, and not evil, you will learn to listen to your OWN developed conscience and trust it to guide you throughout life.

  You will also start to surround yourself with people who go through life based on the same guidance, and therefore, will be an asset to you and you to them as well.

  These people will be walls for you to bounce ideas off of, to protect you during the storms, for you to lean against when you are tired, and to open doors of opportunity to you in the future. And you will do the same for them.

  For me, I really started to heal once I started to converse with others here on the board by spilling my guts out as you just did.

  And another help was to be able to actually talk to them on the phone. I finally realized that I wasn?t alone, and that there were others out there just like me.

  You may want to PM someone here and see if they want to talk. I haven?t talked to as many as I would like to, but one person I have talked to, that I am presumptuously presuming would help you as well, would be cruzanheart. I talked to her husband Big Tex and he was very kind to me as well.

  I hope to get to an apostafest in the future to put faces to the names in the future.

  BTW, a qualified therapist who is experienced in dealing with X-JW?s I would think to be helpful as well.

  FWIW RE: God.

  I am in the process of rethinking all of my beliefs.

  And one thing I like to hold on to is that if we are all children of God as his creation, then God will understand me if I need to question and rethink everything, even the Bible. If he is anywhere near as loving as a good earthly parent would be, then this would be acceptable to Him, even encouraged by Him.

  A good parent is proudest when a child makes a good decision when they are away from the parent, not just because the parent is in front of them telling them what to do.

  And right now, I am away from God in the sense that, I too am lost and searching. I?m trying to do the right thing, and if God is as loving as a good parent is, then I hope that he is proud of what I am doing with what I have been given in life. A divorced family, partially raised in a cult, and right now I feel that I am doing pretty well.

  I know I am not an evil person, that I am good. And I am doing the best I can.

  FWIW, it sounds like you are doing the same thing. I think that a loving God would understand that and would not hold it against you, but rather, he would be proud that you are trying so hard to do right even if you aren?t making perfect decisions.

  You are young and have your whole life ahead of you. Even Jesus didn?t get baptized until he was 30, so don?t feel that you need to have all of life?s answers now.

  The world isn?t B&W, and it?s the grey areas that give humans that best chance to shine out from the crowd.

  Sincerely,

  Paul [Winston.]
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  Another great picture posting Thread.

  by Stefanie in

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  here is mine and my hubby's.

  i might take it down latter so my crazy ex dont find it.

  feel free to post pics of you, your kids, your pets plants anything will be grrreat!

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  file:///C:/My%20Documents/stefandbc2.JPG

  Yep, you'll have to upload it from your hard drive.

  I'd post mine up, but then shotgun would leave his wife and move to WI to be with me.

  You can see my kitty Gab in my avatar
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  Do you have a story with a great moral or lesson to it?

  by Love_Truth in

  1. jw
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  do you have a story with a great moral or lesson to it?

  if so, post it here.

  a man and his dog were walking along a road.

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  An 80-year old man was having his annual check-up and the doctor asked him how he was feeling.

  "I've never been better!" he boasted.

  "I've got an eighteen year old bride who's pregnant and having my child! What do you think about that?"

  The doctor considered this for a moment, then said,

  "Let me tell you a story.

  I knew a guy who was an avid hunter. He never missed a season. But one day, he went out in a bit of a hurry, and he accidentally grabbed his umbrella instead of his gun." The doctor continued, "So he was in the woods, and suddenly a grizzly bear appeared in front of him! He raised up his umbrella, pointed it at the bear and squeezed the handle. And do you know what happened?" the doctor queried.

  Dumbfounded, the old man replied, "No."

  The doctor continued, "The bear dropped dead in front of him!"

  "That's impossible!" exclaimed the old man. "Someone else must have shot that bear."

  "That's kind of what I'm getting at," replied the doctor.
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  My wonderful Valentine's Day.............

  by Tatiana in

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  i was off work.

  i bought my "friend" a pair of expensive jeans.

  a "starter" red shirt.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  He sends them to me all the time and frankly I'm tired of him sending me close-ups of his boobs, even if he does have a pet name for each one.Don't get me wrong I like 38C's as much as the next guy...It's the extra nipple which turns me off.

  shotgun

  Well, that's fine, I can take a hint.

  But you can keep sending me those titillating pics of that honey you are claiming is your woman.

  BTW, have I ever told you she is a 'dead-ringer' for Chloe Jones
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  Please Say Something Nice to NIKITA!

  by Funchback in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i received this e-mail from my sister (known here as 'nikita') on february 12th:

  hi guys, just to fyi we had a fire that started in our dryer on tuesday night-fortunately, i was home (with ann's baby) and caught it at the early stages and was able to call the fire dept (another fortunate thing was our firemen just happened to be having a meeting and responded before the whistle sounded from the 911 center.

  ) but, even so, by the time they got here it was only minutes away from blowing as at the top of our basement stairs the temp.

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  Winston Smith :>D

  Wow, when it rains it pours?

  At least you are physically ok.

  Hopefully this is the bottom and now things can only get better for you!

  I got a vivid mental picture from this sentence:

  The cats had to be given oxygen

  I can see my cats with little oxygen masks on thier faces and blinking their eyes open

  as they awaken in the arms of some smokey fireman.

  It just seems soooo cute & precious.

  Yaaaa, I'm a wuss sometimes.
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  Newbie here

  by bakedmonkeepie in

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  hi i am new here.

  obviously.

  :^) this is such a large messaging forum, does anyone have any suggestions on where to start?

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  Winston Smith :>D

  nice to have you here bakedmonkeepie!

  wow, I am already feeling more welcome here then I ever did at the Hall

  Well, as long as you keep up on the monthly contributions and participate at least once per meeting,

  well get along jusssssttt finnnne

  Man, I am starting to feel like an old codger around here with all of the n00bs posting here of late.

  How cool is that?!

  Are the elders starting to physically flog people at meetings now which is contributing to this exodus out of the bOrg or something?