LongHairGal
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Had a very pleasant meeting with another EX-JW friend
by LongHairGal inhe was up in my area visiting relatives.
it was so nice to see each other in person after well over a decade.
we have been communicating by e-mail and phone after connecting on facebook a few years ago.. we went to a local restaurant and talked for almost two hours.
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The difference between "Respect" and "Servile"
by LongHairGal ini always felt that many people don't quite know exactly what these words mean and how there is a difference between the two of them.
looking in the dictionary: the word "respect" means to consider worthy of high regard and to esteem.
it does not imply that the person doing the respecting doesn't have any respect or esteem for himself/herself.
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Making restitution to People
by LongHairGal inthe recent thread about being ripped off by untrustworthy jws made me think:.
since many here are ex-jws, i wonder how many are guilty and have made an effort to make restitution to that brother who you owe money to - especially if you find out that the brother is no longer a jw and maybe even is posting here??
this can also apply to other wrongs we committed, not just about money.
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I am happy to report an old exJW friend looked me up..
by LongHairGal ini am so happy that this old friend contacted me!.
in one of my earliest posts i reported that jws had done strange things to me.
well, this experience was one of them.
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What happened to story about Ft. Dix terror plot?
by LongHairGal injust the other day the headlines told about a home-grown terror net that got busted for trying to attack u.s. bases.
they were not known to be connected with al-quaeda.
i guess the press or somebody just "made it go away".
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My sister sent me a copy of J. Castro's article in NY Times
by LongHairGal inmy sis just sent me a copy of the article which appeared in the ny times magazine about this ex-witness.
she was shocked because it spells out all the things i told her about.
i am sure they are not happy about publicity like this - especially when it makes its way into a paper with so wide a distribution as this!
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Schoolgirl upset over her photo - parents want yearbbook recalled!
by LongHairGal inthere is a headline about a schoolgirl crying because her school published an unflattering picture of her in the yearbook.
the parents want all the yearbooks recalled and a new one published with a new picture, etc.
this story reminded me of when i was in high school many moons ago.
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Did they tell you to tolerate things as a "test"?
by LongHairGal ini encountered this attitude and got in a few heated discussions about things that happened to me and what i would and would not tolerate from people there.
i agree that we all sometimes do things to offend somebody but what i noticed was that some there would arrogantly assume you were there to take their guff and they behaved accordingly - like they were getting their rocks off playing out some dominant role at somebody else's expense!
i felt that if anybody had the audacity to think they were there to "test" me i would make all the trouble for them they could possibly want!
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Legacy of Hard Feelings to non-JW relatives!
by LongHairGal ini am a long-time fader with 1-2 friends left.
i was trying to find the whereabouts of a certain sister (known to us all) who moved out of the area.
so, i did some digging.... i finally tracked down one of her children on facebook.
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Is God hooked on human sacrifices?
by LongHairGal ini am not necessarily referring to the kind in the old testament when something or someone is burned on altar.
what i am referring to is our life in general.
is he only pleased with us when there is a dead body involved (namely ours)?