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  Would you like to have an other "User Name"?

  by JH in

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  i love my avatar...and i would like to be called "rat" instead of "jh".. could all the mods and simon unite in the second school and discuss this please?

  how about you guys, would you rather another user name?.

  rat.

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  Quentin

  It's my real name, I kinda like it..
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  A newbie's impression on this board, pros and cons

  by smelly onions in

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  cons.

  i don't know who is scarier, the jw's or some people on this board.

  man, r u guys bitter?

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  Quentin

  Yawn,,,ho hum,,,,sigh...another drive by...must be a boring summer for the kiddies.
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  What are your priorities in life?

  by JH in

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  the witnesses say that they put the kingdom first in their lives, and that the rest of the world puts pleasures and money and sex first.. a kind of black and white picture of them and the world.. so, you evil people .

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  Quentin

  Find money first, then sex comes automatically...

  Oh..okay..money first...then sex...money first...then sex....I give it a try...
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  What are your priorities in life?

  by JH in

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  the witnesses say that they put the kingdom first in their lives, and that the rest of the world puts pleasures and money and sex first.. a kind of black and white picture of them and the world.. so, you evil people .

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  Quentin

  1. Family

  2. My friends

  3. Job

  Money and sex. Where do you find it?
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  How much whiskey do you consume in a given day?

  by IronGland in

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  would you consider 1 flask+1 bottle red wine per day too much?

  assuming no obvious ill effects..

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  Quentin

  Twenty-frive years ago I'd get well oiled, two, three times a week. Whisky, beer, gin didn't matter, if you could drink it, I drank it. Somewhere along the line I stopped. Nowdays I might have a half pint of Early Times once a year. When we moved last year I found a fifth of Rum in the rear of a bottom cabinet. About 1/4 had been used. It had been there at least ten years. Funny thing is smokings going to kill me. I guess we can all get addicted to something.
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  Totally screwed up.

  by betrayedbyall in

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  hi, its been a few months since i last visited the forum and to be honest in that time my life has just continued to go downhill, does it ever get any easier guys, i have been so close to ending it all a few times and dont know how much longer i can take the anquish and pain which i feel every day !!!!!!!!.

  i now have no job, no friends, and no desire to fight anymore, i sit here day after day just wanting to sleep so that the mental pain will go away and yet i want peace so much.. my old mum who turns 80 next month, and who has been a witness for 50 years, has been so hurt by the events that led to my dissasociation she has now stopped going to the kingdoom hall, but i can see how sad and confused she is and i feel i have caused her great hurt in her later years, she has a bad heart and looks so worn down, i am worried sick she may pass away in this condition and this is tearing me apart also.

  you might remember i lost my job after 28 years after being bullied and putting in a claim of harrasment, i then started up my own business and 10 witnesses worked for me, the lies and deceit was beyond words and in the end i had to close most of the business down, after that it was only myself and a non witness friend who were working together.

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  Quentin

  Please, please do what everyone has advised. Make the call, you wont regret it. Intervention is what you need now, everything else can be sorted later.
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  Downunder the news we'd all been waiting for!

  by ozziepost in

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  for those of us who've worked in dangerous places, we can only say "thank goodness that's over!

  " wood thought his captors would kill him09:24 aest mon jun 20 2005aap.

  freed australian hostage douglas wood has branded his captors "a***holes" and has apologised for his plea for australia to pull its troops out of iraq.. the 63-year-old engineer touched down in melbourne less than a week after his 47-day hostage ordeal ended when iraqi and us forces rescued him from a house in baghdad.. mr wood, who arrived with his wife yvonne given on a flight from dubai, was reunited with family at melbourne airport before revealing details about his time in captivity.. he told reporters he did not know what group his captors were associated with, and admitted there were times he thought he would be killed.. "i didn't know whether it was al-qaeda or who it was.

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  Quentin

  Wonderful. Haven't seen it on the news around here yet.
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  Were you an elitist?

  by DevonMcBride in

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  how many of you felt superior as jw's because you had an elite level of knowledge that only the society could give you?

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  Quentin

  You betcha, worldy godless people gonna die, Jw's gonna live.

  One day I woke up and realized I'd been living a loony-toon life. Things haven't been the same since.
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  Do you "now" look for more reasons to dislike or hate the JW's?

  by free2beme in

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  i have noticed from reading over this site and from having contact with former witnesses in my personal life, that a lot of time is consumed in the beginning of your exit from the witnesses, with finding further reasons to hate or dislike the jehovah's witnesses.

  with this i was wondering, is this done to give yourself more reason not to return or is it an expression of your freedom to find out what you want without borders.

  from a pure psychological stand-point, i am prone to wonder if it is a means of feeding an inner anger to bring one a faults sense of security, when they are challenged from within to decide if what they are really dealing with is correct thinking or a path that is truly wrong.

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  Quentin

  I was raised in the truth too, been gone for thirty years. It took a long time and the love of my wife to release me from any doubts that I had made the right decision. However, here's the but. The experience of being a Jehovah's Witness you will carry to your grave. It's like an oily residue you can't wash away. That residue is resentment. That resentment is from having been betrayed. Read anyone's story on this board and one common thread runs through them all. Good people, many of whom only wanted simple answers to simple questions, hurting people, confused people, people who had been abused and molested turned to Gods loving organization for help. That's when the betrayal came, there was no help, no loving brothers, no loving sisters, just a room full of cold hearted men whose only desire was to make you submit, or get you gone.

  In the end you are alone; no one stands with you. There are those on this board who are fresh from that experience, others who are living it now and those such as myself who have been long gone from it. None of us will forget, some will never forgive, the malignant evil thing called The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Gods loving organization that breaks people and shatters lives. What a cruel joke. You don't have to hate rats, all you need to know is they gotta go.
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  Happy Fathers day!

  by notperfectyet in

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  happy fathers day to every father out there.. i hope you are fishing or riding bikes etc.

  without fathers there would be no mothers.. .

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  Quentin

  No biking, fishing or anything for me I'm taking the day off.

  I wonder, does being a father ever end, or is it: once a father always a father?

  Anyway as notperfectyet said: Happy Fathers Day, one and all.