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  THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE

  by peggy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  because you all inform with logic.

  i have been reading for several months now.

  not even sure how i found this site.

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  pepheuga

  peggy, i guess i mean that, at least for someone who has grow up in that religion, leaving it is not just a matter of believing in jehovah one day and then not doing so the next. suddenly everything i ever based a decision on had disappeared, and all my judgement faculties were newly biddable. it was elating, embarrasing, upsetting, confusing and a whole set of other things besides. suddenly, being gay is ok. well, what about being a liar or a thief then? sure, those things feel wrong but where do i turn for instruction or guidance? the law? universities? the media? all of these things, i was told, were evil and corrupting. now i'm told to believe they're repositories of wisdom! anyway, a mindset goes deeper than just morality, it extends as far as perception too (of course!) and finding words to correspond with those perceptions. and when something very pertinant and pungent such as this site comes into the life of joe or jill dub, and in that dub's mind slips it off the hill called "apostacy", it doesn't find anywhere to sit happily, as it challenges every assumption the dub had been coerced for twenty years into making. it's when a thing falls in between the cracks that a mindset can easily reveal itself. one gropes for the "right" description, which one would wish to be a thing agreeing with the bald truth of matters, but which causes the searcher often to fall back on the well worn, easily available tramlines of dub morality. a thing that one knows not to be mad or bad can still be thought dangerous. yes, i know, you were wearing a uniform called irony, but isn't the case with irony that when it bites, it bites because it's true; and that the strength of its bite is greatly increased the deeper it goes in order to sink its teeth in. i just thought that you had chosen that word ("dangerous") because the fresh memory of your earlier encounters with this site still conjoured up some sentiment of residual resonance of discomfort or guilt. that is the mindset i was talking about. it is the one i had, and if i "mapped" it onto your brain in error, i apologise. pepheuga
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  THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE

  by peggy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  because you all inform with logic.

  i have been reading for several months now.

  not even sure how i found this site.

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  pepheuga

  oh indeed i did, and as you say, you are clearly thinking very freely, no doubt at all about that. it's just that it takes a while for many of us (myself included) to reset the moral compass, and the old disposition reveals itself from cavernous depths from time to time.

  pepheuga
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  THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE

  by peggy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  because you all inform with logic.

  i have been reading for several months now.

  not even sure how i found this site.

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  pepheuga

  that you call it dangerous is indicative of your mindset. there is nothing at all dangerous about jwd! there is much to queery about what goes on in the minds of jehovahs witnesses during their indoctrination sessions though. the kingdom hall is more close to being dangerous than jwd.

  pepheuga
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  Try saying this quickly

  by katiekitten in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i chased a bug.

  around a tree.

  i'll get his blood.

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  pepheuga

  don't try, as, ahem, a friend of mine once did, quoting ts eliot's "the waste land" line when you're drunk;

  "the chair she sat in like a burnished throne"

  that's ugly.

  pepheuga
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  What do I tell my mother?

  by Confession in

  1. social
  2. family

  the facts.... -3rd generation of a 4-generation witness family.

  30 members of my family are in--including my mother, father, 3 siblings and their mates and children.

  (other relatives too.

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  pepheuga

  give it time and break the news slowly. you don't want your family to cut you off just because you had scruples about being up front

  pepheuga
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  reg & dub try to talk faith

  by pepheuga in

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  2. beliefs
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  need to speak to expatbrit

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is he still here?

  he did a great post about smoking and i need to speak to him about that post.. .

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  pepheuga

  cheers!
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  need to speak to expatbrit

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is he still here?

  he did a great post about smoking and i need to speak to him about that post.. .

  pepheuga

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  pepheuga

  LittleToe,

  it might have been good netiquette for me to have given you an email address that expatbrit/yourself/whomever could use to get hold of me, to wit: [email protected]

  hope that helps.

  pepheuga
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  need to speak to expatbrit

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is he still here?

  he did a great post about smoking and i need to speak to him about that post.. .

  pepheuga

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  pepheuga

  LittleToe,

  that would be kind of you.
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  Pictures from SAD

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with a theme like "pay attention to how you listen", today's sad was anything but good.. due to low batteries, i only got the real "money shots".

  none of me (although i looked damn good!

  ) so condolences to damselfly.. .

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  pepheuga

  : funny story.
  indeed. lol
  pepheuga