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The least likely of people are the ones who shun you...
by dh inas anyone who might remember will remember, i posted some time ago that my mother finally stopped going to jw meetings a couple of months back, after 30 years of being an anchor of her congregation... now, ever since leaving there have been no elder visits (my dad is still an elder), and the c/o came around and my mom talked to him one on one, and that all seemed sorted.
'sisters' from the congregation still come around and see my mom (but only 'ones' that we here 'friends'), and there were about 150 'we miss you' 'please come back' cards... but as much as most of the people in my mom's congregation are 'cut up' and 'sad at the loss of sister _ _ _ _ ', they still call around for a coffee, or meet my mom for a coffee and are ok about it... this in itself might seem strange, but not so, considering the congregation i grew up in, everyone would still talk to me since i am not df'd and they always ask how my brother and i are doing.... anyway, to cut a long story short, i asked my mom how her oldest friend was, a woman who was her friend when she first became a jw in the mid 70's... now this is a person who always lived over 100 miles away from us, but would come and stay at our house every now and then, for assemblies etc, a person my mom had a very special friendship with... a very open minded and spiritual woman by all appearances, somewhat eccentric and a big fan of dr. seusse (which is where i get my love of dr. seusse from)... well, it turns out this one person who you would never in a million years expect to pass a sweeping judgement, when my mom told her she would no longer be going to meetings, she said 'then i don't want to speak to you again' the end!
can you believe that garbage?
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If you could bring back one thing from the past, what would it be?
by dh in.
anything, be it an object, a species of animal, a piece of forgotten information, translation of an unknown language, type of culture, anything.
any takers?
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Proposed Changes in UK Charity Law & JW's (BOE Letter)
by dh in.
just thought i would share this, it's good for a laugh, we all know how much charitable work the jw's do, here it is in their own words.
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What would your special powers be?
by dh inif you had a choice of any special power what would it be...?
(only allowed one)
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What have you discovered on the journey?
by dh in.
the journey being life, what have you discovered that you never expected to... could be a musician, actor, a movie, a type of food, a thought, a realisation, a religion, a thing about your personality or an emotion, a particular song... it could be anything really.... what have you discovered?
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An interesting JW Topic on a Mountain Climbing forum!
by dh inby - mick's daughter @ work on - 10:12 tuein reply to newboyodano: .
" by - mick's daughter @ work on - 10:43 tuein reply to newboyodano: .
by - newboyodano on - 10:59 tuein reply to mick's daughter @ work: .
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What is it all about? This life.
by dh indo you ever have those days, weeks, months, or even years where you just feel like your entire existence is completely pointless, when time has shot by and you feel like you have done none of the things that you set out to do so many years prior.
when you feel like you have been standing still forever.. you work your routine and live your life, maybe have some friends, but when you go to sleep at night you still feel like there is nothing, no point or reason or meaning for any of it, like life is a void, and all your actions, feelings and everything about you is simply designed to distract you from the fact that there is nothing, and if you're lucky you're so distracted that you never notice it at all.
it's like some insane cylce and you can never break it, no matter what you do or how you try.
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my mom stopped going to meetings today
by dh in.
i don't talk about my family very much on here, but today i feel i have to, because today after all the years of pushing, finally there is a result.. thanks to life & the universe and everyone on jwd, who by simply existing have helped in a way that i don't know how to write.. today is the day my mom stopped going to meetings.. i won't go into loads of detail at this point because it's very involved, but it's done.
my dad is an elder and is still going, but my mom is out now.. thanks
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Which poster would you like to see a picture of?
by dh in.
seems there are a lot of picture topics flying around lately, so here's another which i often think about when trying to imagine the people behind the posts i read.
is there anyone in particular whose posts you read and would like to see a picture of?