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  I can't help but feel bad about it all.

  by MisfitMeL in

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  ok so i travelled home last weekend to break the news to my mum about my engagement to a 'wordly' man.. to be honest, i chickened out and instead of confronting her face to face, i decided to write a long letter to her about it.. we have never really got on and she has a knack for getting on my nerves.

  she was very emotionally abusive throughout my childhood (and can still be).

  i guess she had her reasons although it doesn't excuse the behaviour.. anyway i tried to be as diplomatic as possible.

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  DO SOMETHING

  by ArtfulDodger in

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  2. beliefs

  i see this site gets thousands of postings every day .. from literally thousands of members, mostly ex-dubs, from all over the world.. rather than simply go on moaning and whinging about the big nasty org why don't you all put your efforts into something positive ... do something.. ok - the org is evil .. but it exists ... and simply whining on about it doesn't change that.

  with your efforts directed at something positive, you could do wonders for .

  .for anything you choose.. hundreds of real charities could do with your support - to help the really needy .

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  All This Baptism Talk.......

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  sorry - i know there's been a few postings on it lately.

  i personally was shocked to read of baptisms at such tender ages, and when i mentioned this to a jw, they maintained i was talking rubbish......... anyway.

  we've already discussed annulment (a brilliant idea as it has to be null and void due to there being no valid contract with minors (unless in case of necessity), duress and undue influence etc), and they do treat it as a contract as there are penalties if the baptised person breaches it.. so - if a 7 - 16 year old (whose parent(s) were not dubs) wanted to get baptised, i think they'd have a bit of an obstacle.

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  Campaign - with credit to Schne_Belly

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  2. friends

  i did post this on schne-belly's thread - but thought more may read it as a new topic.

  apologies if idea has already been posted.. i think a good campaign would be for us to compose a 'standard' letter (maybe bullet points regarding certain issues, ngo - which the average jw is unaware of - child abuse, hypocricy of mexico / malawi stuff etc.

  with quotes from watchtowers if need be, as they seem to carry more weight than the bible does) and each of us to print off several copies and send to selected members of the local congregation - the ones we know / remember as the intelligent thinkers.

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  Hmmm...or maybe 'Campaign Strategy'.....

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  2. entertainment

  reading andersonsinfo's thread yesterday made me think.

  the best way to make the public aware of any issue is by educating them through entertainment.

  i'd never even heard of schindler (shame on me) until the film was made - and that's what people want.

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  Could You Stay Friends With Someone Who Visited Prostitutes?

  by Englishman in

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  a while back, an aquaintance of mine told me that he liked to visit prostitutes.

  although we weren't that close, i'd worked on and off with him over the years.

  i knew his wife too and would often see her around town.. he'd told me that when he had something to celebrate, like his birthday or maybe a commercial win, he and a pal of his would do the pubs and clubs first and then go kerb crawling until they found a pair of street girls who would play the swopsy's scene.

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  NOAH'S ARK WAS A SUBMARINE

  by VM44 in

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  2. beliefs

  aliens helped build noah's ark

  file: ufo224

  ancient tests reveal that noah's ark was built with the help of space aliens and that it was actually a submarine especially made to help him survive the great flood, say experts.

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  General Quotes we like.

  by Rayvin in

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  the proverb warns that 'you should not bite the hand that feeds you.

  ' but maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.. .

  -thomas szasz

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  Periodic Conspiracy ?

  by ArtfulDodger in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it would appear that even the world of chemistry has been tainted by the hands of the jw's .

  did you know that element 104 is rutherfordium .

  and that number 105 is dubnium ?

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  Dreams Reveal Alot!

  by anewme in

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  my dreams have always been pretty transparent.

  most of my dreams in my lifetime have been awful scary ones of being chased in the night and jumping over backyard fences and then flying off to safety.

  my childhood was awful and scary and lonely.

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