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Remembering Halloween As A JW Kid . . .
by Corvin ini remember my mom and my aunt making us kids open the door to the trick-or-treators and instead of giving them candy, we had to put wt and awake!
magazines (back issues) in their bags.
how embarrassing.. anyone else have the same experience?.
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What's the first worldly thing you did when you left?
by Nosferatu inafter you left the jws, what was the first worldly thing you did?
the day after my last meeting, i got really really drunk.
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What's with 16 year old girls and male singers?
by gumby inbeing the old bastard that i am, i like the oldies as far as music goes.
yesterday, i was working and singing out loud like i do alot and i was singing "16 candles.
" as i was singing it, i remembered something i've thought about before...........why are many songs from the oldies about 16 year old girls?
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Jacques Derrida is dead
by Narkissos infrench philosopher jacques derrida died yesterday in paris, at the age of 74. .
he was a very original and profound thinker, widely known for his "deconstruction" theory which brought about some pretty fresh outlooks on philosophy, language and literature.
i unfortunately discovered his works much too late, but he was very helpful to me in my post-religious ramblings in the past few years.
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What are the long term effects of having your life turn out to be a lie?
by sleepy inwhat do you believe are the long term effects of having your life turn out to be a lie?.
can a person really be brough up a jehovahs witness and live that life for 20,30,40 or more years and walk away unaffected?.
are the effects similair to say a person who doesn't know they have been adopted and finds out only as an adult their "parents" are not their real ones?.
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Do JW's disfellowship or reprove JW's for celebrating Holidays and birthday
by booker-t ini remember when i was growing up in the 70's and 80's the thought of even looking at a birthday card was thought to be satanic.
now i hear that jw's are alittle lax on celebrating holidays.
my niece who is not a jw but lives with my mom who is a devout jw had christmas lights in her room and the elders came over to my mom's house and did not raise cain and abel.
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Timelessness
by Markfromcali infor those who have seen the star trek: insurrection movie, remember that line where picard was talking to that woman (anij?
) about this time stopping thing, sort of being in the moment special effect portrayed as everything being really slow?
and she said "it took us hundreds of years to learn that it doesn't take hundred of years to learn.
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ANYONE KNOW A GOOD THERAPIST?
by tresbella ino.k, so i have major issues people.
issues with my low-self esteem, issues with my previous abusive relationship that i once blamed on the fact that i deserved for sinning,while dating a non wiittness.
issues with the control the society has had on me and the control they instilled onto my parents to have on me way before i even knew better and i was wondering if anyone knew of any sites or possible online therapists that specialize in helping former jw's or people like me who are still young and live at home and so therefore have no choice but to live that "double life.
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Just curious
by under74 ini'm new to the site and i was wondering if there were any people here who attended the fauntleroy, west seattle, or maybe the white center congregations in seattle during the 80s?
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Welcome Under 74 !!!!!!
by kls ini saw your first answer in a post and thought i would welcome you .,,,,hello