Hi Linda...enjoy your weekend at home. My thoughts and best wishes go out to you at this time and hope all goes well with your treatment plan. You are often in my thoughts.
(I'm more of a lurker and not much of a poster.)
Rose
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Hi, it's me again
by fullofdoubtnow init's really great to be back on here, i've missed you all so much.
i'm home for the weekend, and feeling a lot better than i was earlier in the week.
i picked up an infection and felt really awful for a day or two, but it's ok now.
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For those who were raised in "the truth"
by Hangin_on inhow many of you always felt like you would be killed at armageddon no matter what you did... it was never enough and your parents put a guilt trip on you?
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Me...
Absolutely.
Even though my dad was scary sometimes, this was a bigger fear in my world.
When I was being sexually abused by an elder, I honestly thought it was my fault. Something I was wearing. Something I was doing. I reasoned that I was like Potifer's (sp?) wife trying to seduce the righteous ones - even though I didn't know what I was doing...I just must be Satan's agent to lure Jehovah's elders into wrongdoing.
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Whats the "rule" on shepherding calls?
by ButtLight ini dont remember that much, but arent they suppose to stop by at least once a year to df'd ones?
or did that change?.
its coming up to two years now since i was df'd, and not one elder has stopped by...........not that i want them to!.
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I've been df'd since 2002. Not one person has stopped by since, not even to talk to my 6 kids. ( now 9, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19)
Yup...the love!
Rose
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Name the favorite thing your pet does
by looking_glass ini have two cats.
one is a fat female cat.
i have one of those soaker tubs and when i soak in it, she will sit on the back ledge and bury her head in my hair and just purr up a storm.
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Our budgie bird has to be my favourite...it mimmicks the sound of the burglar alarm, sneezes, laughs, wolf-whistles, etc. But the thing that cracks me up the most is it does such a great mimmick of the guinea pig I have a hard time figuring out which is actually making the sound...the bird or the pig!
Rose
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Starting my story...very long
by Synergy in[the watchtower, july 15, 1961 issue, page 420: .
[the watchtower, july 1, 1963 issue, page 413: .
[the watchtower, july 15, 1974 issue, page 442: .
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bttt....
...for a long, but very profound and well-written story.
Can't wait for the next part!
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Macleans Magazine Article Sextuplets
by Poztate inhas anyone seen the new mclean's article (canadian news magazine) about the sextuplets and the role of the wtbts?.
i heard it is quite revealing and hard hitting against the wtbts.
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Was It Easy For You To Leave "The Truth"?
by minimus inwas your life totally disrupted?
did you lose a lot of family and friends?
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No, it was very difficult for me to leave. But the pain is definately worth the gain.
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AWESOME! New Article on Blood and Canadian Sextuplets
by V inethicist says b.c.
blood feud may save children and jehovah's witness parents.
published: thursday, february 1, 2007 | 8:46 pm et.
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Would I ever "let" someone take my kids away? If I was doing something so stupid that it was going to result in their death, I certainly hope that someone with more sense would step in and protect my kids from my stupidity. I may not appreciate it at the time, and I may rail against it and claim that I have "rights" that are being violated, but I wouldn't want a child of mine to die or be injured because I was too stupid or brainwashed to realize the danger I was putting them in,
Ditto for me. There would have been a time, not that long ago, that I would have let my babies die if the government wouldn't have stepped in and gave them the medically needed treatment. Now I know how misguided this would have been.
Can you imagine the thought processes going on for the devout jw going through this? I'm imagining what it would be like for me. You're taught that you will be "blessed" for putting "kingdom interests" first. So you "sacrifice" your child to receive this blessing. It is not a blessing that is going to happen today (even though you're about to have to face the fact you've martyred you child) but in the future. Jehovah will bring your child back to life in the New System, provided you stay faithful until the end. You think this future is just around "the corner" but it's not. This system keeps going on and on.
You start looking at babies that are around the same age as the one(s) you "sacrificed" to this cult. 5, 10, 15, 20 years pass. You're still waiting on Jehovah. You're still waiting for your blessing. You feel like there's something not quite right, but the HLC committee was right there "helping" you make your "righteous" deciscion, for what you think at the time is God, but later find out is just a book publishing corporation. The HLC committe was Jehovah's "loving arrrangement" for helping you make this godly descision. You really had not much of a choice. Sacrifice your child...make Jehovah happy...Save your child....make Satan happy. It's so crazy!
It was interesting for me to see that when when I had my 2nd baby only 1 elder came to visit me in the hospital. 10 days later when I was having a post partem hemmorage...I had almost every elder, brother, sister, "friend" in the congregation "visiting" me in the hospital. At the time I thought it was strange. Now I know it was because they were watching ME!
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If I was to walk into your home . . .
by Lady Lee inwhat one thing would i see that would tell me the most about you?.
the center of my home is my computer and my books.
standing at the door that is the first thing you will see.
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6 kids (aged 9-19)
1 dog
2 cats (plus one who thinks he's ours - he's always on the deck)
2 bunnies - geeze how long do these things live? One we've had for 10 years now...and he was supposedly 2 when we got him.
1 guinea pig
1 gerbil
1 budgie bird
about 25 Convict fish
my fiance's 3 kids and 1 grandbaby
more kids...that aren't mine...just hangin' out
and a HUGE MESS!!
and my very awesome fiance!
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The Artist formally known as Prince
by Sasha indid any of you floridians see the article in the palm beach post.?
it seems they were giving a party for prince the other night (he's performing at the super bowl in miami toinght) and he would not show up because there were designs of dragons on the walls.
the article went on to say that prince is a "devoted jehovah's witness" and therefore believes that you can't look upon dragons because it is a symbol of the devil...now, my question is: have any of you current, or former witnesses ever heard of that?
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My daughter says that the stage looks like the symbol of an ank, an Egyptian symbol for fertility and sex.