Hi LucidChimp, welcome aboard. I like your style
Bruja-del-Sol
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Hi
by LucidChimp ini've been lurking here for a year or two now (since i stumbled across ttatt and was stumbled by it), i even started an account some while back and asked a couple of questions.. but i never actually stood up and said hi... so hi, my name's jon and i'm a dubaholic.. .
i was "born in" in the 80s - and grew up on a liquid diet of cheap suits and revelation book pictures (i mean really, group after group just staring at the pictures while not listening, i must have spent more time staring at those pictures than i have any work of art in my life, literally hours at each lurid picture).
i "left" in my teens, but apparently lacking any kind of actual sense, returned to studying with a childhood friend from the congregation in my twenties (although i was never baptised, my entire small family were dubs, so i saw more witnesses than "worldly people" on a regular basis.. they love bombed my arse for years!)..
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Celebrate my first post of many :)
by Mellow inhi everyone, my name is mellow (some names have been changed) lol.
as no doubt many of you were, i was born in.
i am now in my mid 20s living in a jehovah's witness household.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Welcome Mellow, nice to have you here, this is a very comforting place with people who understand what you're dealing with.
Sunny greetings from Southern Spain
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How many have read 'Crisis of Conscience'?
by tornapart infor me it was the book!
it opened my eyes.
i started it thinking it would just enlighten me about how the organisation works.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Yep, read it too. At that time I was learning about TTATT, about a year after I was DF'd. This book was what took away the last doubts and set my mind free of all the guilt I always felt because of the JW-beliefs. At first I felt like I had wasted 33 years of my life, but soon I was grateful that I was young enough to start a new life.
What I liked about his way of writing is that he sticked to the facts, no hatred, no judgement, just his experience. Wonderful man, so sad he's no longer amongst us...
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Latest WT lesson typical example of why meetings are such downers
by JimmyPage inhere's what i gathered from the most recent wt study: 1. all your problems are your own fault, or 2. the ones that aren't your fault are satan's fault.
3. don't blame jehovah for anything, and 4. more importantly, never criticize the ones who claim to represent jehovah.. this is a typical meeting nowadays.
there are all kinds of possibilities to emphasize positive qualities and experiences.
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Haven't been to a meeting in 10 years, and I don't think I've missed out on anything. What a crap they're preaching...
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Why I can never escape abuse...part 2
by KariOtt inshe came home for a long weekend.
since i was working 2 jobs and going to school mom wanted to keep my son all weekend so my sister could spend as much time with my son as possiable.
durring the weekend my 2 year threw a temper tantrum.
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Bruja-del-Sol
What a story... don't know what to say... except that you're an incredibly strong woman! Thanks for sharing your story
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Proof of a Kingdom Hall being sold to a church!
by Sittingstraight1212 init cracks me up if you bring this subject up to a witness , they always try to convince themselves that i'm reading into this!!!.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqwknq31ie&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
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Bruja-del-Sol
The building we used about 25 years ago in my last congregation was no longer safe to be used as a KH... so they said. So plans were made to build a new hall... and then they sold the old hall... to a Baptist Church!!!
Up until today it's still used as a church, so the whole 'it's not safe anymore' was a scheme to get us to approve and pay for a new hall.
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just when you think you've made friends with a "normal" person
by Hortensia inrode over to the farmer's market with a couple of neighbors, nice women, seem sensible.
the driver stopped in the middle of a block and stared at the coca-cola truck that was parked there.
she said, "do you see the round tower?
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Bruja-del-Sol
Just live and let live... luckily we're not all the same and we can decide for ourselves what we want to believe and what not.
I soooo love my freedom of thought!
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My granny died.
by LouBelle inlast week friday i was delayed in going to work, for which i am glad.
it was an opportunity for me to help my gran one last time.
she thanked me, told me she loved me and that i would be very blessed.
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Bruja-del-Sol
So sorry for your loss Loubelle, but what a wonderful goodbye you gave to her. To me this sounds like the best way to leave life, surrounded by your loved ones... Enjoy that champagne and celebrate the life you had with your gran!
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NEWBIES are leaving like crazy! Be very afraid WT
by clarity in# 3 newbie post.
first of all, the newbies have set a record here!.
have you ever seen a 4pg post where 21 new members reply!
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Bruja-del-Sol
Thank you Iown Mylife... it's nice to feel so welcome ♥
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NEWBIES are leaving like crazy! Be very afraid WT
by clarity in# 3 newbie post.
first of all, the newbies have set a record here!.
have you ever seen a 4pg post where 21 new members reply!
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Bruja-del-Sol
Aaaah, thank you so much Clarity, this really made my day... together with that beautiful orange/salmon/purple sunset half an hour ago, which completed my gratitude mood ! And such on Thanksgiving day... haha.