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A life over limitations
by happehanna in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8zukf3dxcy.

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inspiring.
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Sung at Albert hall live on BBC (anti witness)
by happehanna in
1. social
2. entertainment
this song excellent!.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/shows/series31/episode03/chriswood/.

it was sung by martin simpson check it out if you can.
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Hello im new here
by happehanna in
1. jw
2. friends
very offensive needs removing moderators
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Has anyone come across this centre?
by happehanna in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.dialogcentre.org.uk/.

they offer help to members and ex members leaving extreme groups (including jw's).

i met christian szurko at a post cult workshop just as i was leaving jw .. he helped me beyond measure .
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How can twelve years olds get baptized? it is crazy!
by happehanna in
1. jw
2. friends
my daughter's step child is getting baptized at the ripe old age of 12.. my sil is angry and i feel he should try and stop it through the courts, but they feel that would make his ex more determined for baptism to go ahead.. this child has no idea of the mistake they are making .

would she get married at 12?.

it is so sad and irresponsible for a child to take this step.. .
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made me smile try it
by happehanna in
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2. humour
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Do they still charge interest??
by happehanna in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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a few years ago i know that the wtbts charged 1% above base rate when a local congregation needed funds from the kingdom hall build fund which all had donated to.. does anyone know if this is still the case?.

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when that gut feeling turns out to be right.............
by happehanna in
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2. relationships
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i was concerned about my friend and worried as they hadn't returned my calls or emails, so i thought i would travel to see him, and find out if my bad feeling was nothing to worry about.. he had died and i will miss him, i knew, my insides knew and it hurts.. he was my secret and it seems to hurt more as i have no-one to share the grief with.
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If God did have a new system..would you want to be there?
by happehanna in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was a witness for over forty years and for most of that time the "new world" "paradise" was not a place i ever wanted to live in.. there are many aspects of life in the 21st century that are great and i wouldn't want to give up.

tv, internet, blues/jazz clubs etc etc.. i may be shallow.

but there were other better reasons millions of people would have gone, wiped out by god: this never sat easy with me.. i told my elder father that i wouldn't want to live five minutes in god's new system, knowing that people i loved, had been killed by god because they didn't love him in the way he wanted.. just telling my father that has made me really wake up to how i really feel about my ex religion.. does a paradise earth as jw's depict appeal to you?
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Should I respond ....................
by happehanna in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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i was sent a scan of parts of last sundays watchtower from my father yesterday and he hadn't really made any effort to talk to me of anything wts in the last year or so.. the watchtower is about spiritually weak ones blondie did a great synopsis on it.. not sure how to respond, in the past when he sent emails about returning i normally ignore them these days and only respond to the family and normal topics.. however i don't want to rock the boat too much with my parents as they are old and really lovely people just very misled, they have been jws for nearly 50 years.. but it hurts me when they say that they pray every day for me to return to jehovah as i am the only one in a very large family who is no longer a jw................ i know that they are genuine and i have hurt them by becoming inactive.