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  recipe for the unleavened bread or crackers

  by astridkittie in

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  2. friends

  i was just wondering if anyone has the recipe for the unleavened bread/crackers, or if this has been asked before, if someone could point me in the direction of the thread that gives the answer.

  thanks :)

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  Argh!!!! An observation...

  by astridkittie in

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  i was trying to find an article on the wbts website about jesus' death that would give some history references about the stake issue... after a while i got rather frustrated when i was coming up empty handed.

  then the realization dawned upon me that it seems that the publications for the public never seem to have any research article references... just scriptural ones, and then when an interested one "progresses", they start gaining access to the "deeper" publications with research references... of course, you're only supposed to refer to the references they give you most of the time, lol.

  i may be wrong since i grew up in the organization and didn't get to experience coming in on my own, but it feels uncannily true, and it makes sense for them, toss them a scripture to make them feel like they've discovered a wonderful new point of view and then throw in some "worldly" references to hammer it in that it's the truth!

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  Anyone see Passion of the Christ yet?

  by astridkittie in

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  i went to see it thursday... and i must say... this movie had me sobbing from grief and shock.

  it really opened my eyes to what jc went through.

  you know, you always hear about him being beat 68 times with a cat of nine tails but then you look at the picture of a man with some criss crosses on his back and it just doesn't click with you that 68 times should be alot worse than that picture... when i came home after that, it was all i could do to restrain myself from burning every picture of him like that in every publication in my house, and i wouldn't have restrained myself if those publications were mine, but they're all my dub grandmother's, and i'm sure i would've been accused of having a demon in me if i had, lol.

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  Stumbling...

  by astridkittie in

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  2. medical

  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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  Should I be over it by now?

  by astridkittie in

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  i was 16 when i disassociated myself from the jws after growing up in it, and i'm 20 now and still having issues with breaking the thought process i was brought up with.

  i long ago realized the doctrine was wrong in the jws, but somehow i still find myself having issues with guilt whenever i stop to feel or act or think a way that's my own and not what someone else tells me i should feel/act/think.

  other times i feel completely lost because i don't know how i'm supposed to feel or act or think at the moment and i know that's not the way i should be thinking, that there isn't a particular way i'm supposed to be inside, but... i still have the paranoia and the gut feeling that i'm doing wrong by being myself, so to speak.

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