It's okay Rooster. You'll find one eventually, try being less stroppy in the mornings.
Posts by Odrade
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16my family that are not even jws get annoyed about me coming on jwd
by looloo indo any of you have this problem ?
my hub is disfellowshipped and not in the least bit interested in this site , which i find amazing considering everything that has happened , its not even a case of him being to scared to mix with apostates because he doesnt like jws and does not believe they have the truth , when i try to tell him anything , he tells me hes not interested, end of conversation .
there is so much i want to discuss with him (regarding the child abuse thing that has affected our lives ) do any of you identify with this ?
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Grammy's-The Most Horrible Ever!
by lonelysheep inis it me, or does this awards show purely stink this year?
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Odrade
Loved the Rhapsody performance. LOVED!
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Grammy's-The Most Horrible Ever!
by lonelysheep inis it me, or does this awards show purely stink this year?
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Odrade
Does Ringo ever look any older? Aretha rocked it too, and that Keely Smith lady? Impressive. She won the Grammy 49 years ago and is still touring.
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Grammy's-The Most Horrible Ever!
by lonelysheep inis it me, or does this awards show purely stink this year?
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Odrade
Mulan, ya missed it. It was good, but a shadow of the real show.
foo fighters' performance was pretty good.
Kanye West, what a stupid egomaniac.
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If you had a Time Machine would you stop yourself being a Witness???
by Witness 007 inwhat if you wen't back in time and stopped your mother from opening the door to the witnesses...and your family never came into the truth!!
what if you risked changing everything else in your life...not having kid's or the same marriage partner...would it be worth it.
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Odrade
Yeah, I think so. If for no other reason than to stop my mother from turning into the JW woman she became.
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UN LIBRARY CARD: What it really means
by tula inwould you like to take a peek inside that infamous library?.
there is a link embedded within this thread that will show you the interior and some amazing things.
it is like no library you have ever seen.
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Odrade
How much koolaid did you drink this morning, tula?
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In Memory of Puternut
by Nosferatu inafter reading the news about puternut, i decided to compile some of his posts into one, so we can all share in his memory.
there are many ups and downs listed below, but i ended it off with a post he made to all of us who helped him during his difficult times.
puternut is starting his life over, because i had nothing left, and needed to move on.
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Odrade
You're not forgotten, Ary.
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Apart from "My Book Of Bible Stories" and the "Paradise" book?
by Crumpet incall it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
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Odrade
No Name is a very good book. Wilke Collins was one of my favs. Not really children's stories though.
what else: Gwen Bristow, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Stewart, Dickens...
Childrens' books were not usually author related for me (other than the Oz books, Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, etc) mostly I read subjects-- tons of biographies, histories, science "stories", etc. I was limited by a small town library, but it was a GOOD library... one of the Carnegie libraries, so it was established well.
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Apart from "My Book Of Bible Stories" and the "Paradise" book?
by Crumpet incall it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
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Odrade
Frank L Baum's Oz books. I loved them, bought a couple for the kids I used to nanny, two Xmas ago. They now have quite a collection and read them before bed at night with their dad. Sadly, I had to read most of them behind my parent's back, at the school library.
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Even active witnesses think this is way over the top.....
by yourmomma inthere were gasps after watching this.
i heard the anti college talks at the dc this year, and while many people i know didnt agree with them, this following video stunned many of them.
there are many people on this forum, many have gotten to where they are many different ways.
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Odrade
Kasee, I've been out for more than 5 years, and still can't make sense of the lies, misdirections, coercion and control. It has helped to read about other organizations who use the same methods. ("Under the Banner of Heaven" about the fundamentalist LDS, and "Seductive Poison" about Jonestown.) Reading about them makes me realize that the JWs are NOT unique in any way, they are just another high-control group that believes in its own exclusivity and godly privilege.
I am also "uneducated." At 32 I went to a trade school. Although academically disadvantaged, I have access to nearly unlimited information that helps me to see the JWs with a more realistic view, both here, at the library, online... there are many resources. Knowledge is power.
This video was particularly tragic to me because my dad believes now that he did the wrong thing by preventing me from getting additional education. He believes that he took a "too strict" interpretation of the Society's comments regarding college, and that the mistake was his only, not the WTS. The really sad thing is that he knows Loesch personally, yet would probably still not be convinced that the WTS is really the one that made the decision and he was just "obeying orders."