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How do you deal with shunning ?
by man in black inmy wife and i da'ed ourselves two years ago.
she left because she felt there was no forward momentum in the congregation.. me: because i really started to notice the lack of love and concern amoungst "true christians".
we have gotten to the point now where we will say hello to any jw's we run into, but the total avoidance thing is starting to get somewhat creepy to me.. example : my wife was in target several weeks ago, put her items on the belt and was getting ready to checkout.
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Therapist Visit / part 2
by man in black infor the past several weeks i have been seeing a wonderful therapist who ran a grief support group that i attended 1 1/2 years ago when my mom died.. at the time i was just absolutley shocked that after 30 years of being a wt slave only 5 people bothered to send a card regarding her passing.. i brought up to her in detail how the jw religion does not look favorably on anyone who doesn't agree 100% with their way of thinking, and moving forward that still affects me to a certain extent, esp.
the shunning.. well, she brought up several times how the witness "mindset" of collective thinking (i kept thinking of the borg in star trek ) discourages individuality.
this thinking has carried over in other aspects of my life, tendrils she said that work against other normal human behavior feelings.. the key is how a person deals positivley with the new way of dealing with unknown, or repressed emotions.
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would you buy this ?
by man in black inthere is a jw lady i knew who lives out west who sells these things.. it reminds me of hellboy's companion,, that fish - eyed guy voiced by niles crane.. .
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Saw a Therapist yesterday,,,,, interesting
by man in black ini da'ed myself two years ago, one of the main reasons was because my mother died and the congregation was more interested in"meeting attendance, and service" than anything else.
for the first time in 30 years the very conditional friendship offered by the jehovahs witnesses came to the fore, and i was literally blindsided by it.. several months later i attended a grief support group at our local hospital, and boy it was a real godsend for me, i realised that the so called "worldly people' could actually be nice, supportive, and lend a real listening ear.
the hospital had one of their grief support counselors lead the meeting, and she was really good at what she does.
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JW's and divorce
by man in black inback in the early 80's i was dating a sister from the southern part of illinois, and i remember how many ladies were divorced.. fast forward to the current day,,,,,,,,.
i was trolling on facebook last night, and i hit the mother lode, one old friend (divorced) of mine has a son who still keeps in contact with most of these ladies that he grew up with.. and guess what ?.
most of them got married, had kids, and are now single.
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creation museum
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i stumbled onto this site earlier today,, do witnesses give this place a thumbs up ?.
http://creationmuseum.org/.
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Honor Flight
by man in black insince i left the jw religion, i have tried to make an effort to experience things that i respected in secret during those years, but could never act upon.. one of the things i discovered and really respect is a program called honor flight.
they fly ww 2 veterans to washington dc for the day to visit the ww 2 memorial.
they figure that all of these guys will be gone in 7 -8 years so there is a real push to help them all.. look them up for your area, they are always looking for help in many different ways.. this is from the chicago area :.
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Being Comfortable with the Presence of Mystery
by man in black ini was reading an article about this subject, and the author was explaining how so many new discoveries in space right now are hard to explain.. these comments were also made:.
livio (the author) also picks up on an intriguing theme left dangling in my lovely easter conversation with vatican astronomers guy consolmagno and george coyne the enduring question of whether mathematical truths, laws of nature, are discovered or invented.
he unapologetically offers his conclusion that there is no either/or answer possible here that mathematics is both invented and discovered.
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Moving On after being a JW
by man in black inafter leaving this religion has there been anything that you have done that is completely separate, or negative from their belief/control system.
yet from a worldy viewpoint you make a difference,,, a positive stamp in some aspect of everyday life ?.
for an example to get things started, one thing that i have done is trained my dog to help people in the hospital.
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audio CO talk
by man in black inthis was sent to me this morning,.
thanks jake !.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tovqh0mlolq.