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  Question for Christians only

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ok, i got save in 1984 (left the wbts 1979).

  i have always felt at a loss when it has come to the emotional impact aspect of jesus' sacrifice.

  what i mean to say is, that i have seen other christians openly weep about jesus and his death on the cross, while i have felt nothing.

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  Dead loved one calls home

  by Steve Lowry in

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  today, while at doctors appointment i met a lady in the waiting room and i just wanted to relay her story.

  she was eighty-two years old and sharp as a tack.

  we were exchanging pleasantries while waiting our turn to get in when she told about her four children.

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  Well, I think my apartment is haunted.

  by Steve Lowry in

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  yep, thats right, haunted.

  i have never had a dwelling place with so many unexplained noise and goings on.

  lights that have been turned off, magically turn back on and visa versa.

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  If you had a chance, what would you have done differrently (JW experience)?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ya know whatamean?

  if you could go back in time, back to those days as a jw and react then as you would now knowing what you now know, what would you do differently?

  it could be a particular day, or an event or something you went through.

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  Insensitive talk assignments

  by Steve Lowry in

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  i once was assigned a talk on masturbation when i was about fifteen or so.

  the theme of the talk was to discourage masturbating (actually to forbid the practice), as it was considered by the society a no no.

  looking back on it, it offends me to this day that they would give a kid such a sensitive and embarrassing talk assignment like that.

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  Fluff warning! Anyone got any cool smoothie recipes?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  sorry for this silly thread if it offends, but i finally purchased a blender and i'm looking for some really cool smoothie recipes.

  there's a bunch on the internet ,but i wanted to ask y'all if ya had any ideas?

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  The last tug of trained fear.

  by Steve Lowry in

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  i was wondering if anyone here could remember their last tug of fear in their stomach after they left the watchtower society, concerning armageddon coming where you may have had a moments regret or fear of not being a jw, and so you wouldnt be "saved".

  you know, the stupid conditioning we as jw children received growing up as jw kids.

  i realize this may seem like kind of a weird question, but i remember my moment, and going through that experience it was very a freeing feeling once i came through it on the other end.. i was visiting a church in about the 1984 time frame.

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  A sense of an overall feeling of impending doom.

  by Steve Lowry in

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  do y'all (former jw's i'm referring to here), ever get a sense of an overall feeling of impending doom?

  i have had this strange sensation come over me almost as long as i can remember.

  i'm not sure if its watchtower conditioning or just something in my personal make-up that creates this feeling.

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  To razorjim

  by Steve Lowry in

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  it seems you have sent me a private message, and i cannot access it.

  just send the message to my email address and i will respond that way.

  my new email address is:.

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  Well I'm off the sauce as of tomorrow

  by Steve Lowry in

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  yep, been drinkin' twenty years now and i've finally had enough.

  i would apprecieate any words on encouragement, and if anyone has also had this problem and beat it, i'd like to hear your experience.. steve

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