Posts by closer2fine

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hello

by shecky in

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hello all:)

closer2fine

Fred -

Quit sniffing around the newbies!

closer

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ANTHEM

by nicolaou in

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shouldn't all of us ex-dubs, lurkers and nominal jw's have an anthem?.

a few suggestions for starters:.

i will survive.

She hangs her head and cries in my shirt,
she must be hurt very badly,
Tell me what's making you sadly.
Open your door, don't hide in the dark,
you're lost in the dark, you can trust me,
'cause you know that's how it must be,

Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
Her eyes like windows,
tricklin' rain upon her pain, getting deeper
though my love wants to relieve her.
She walks alone from wall to wall, lost in a hall,
she can't hear me, though I know she likes to be near me,

Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
She sits in a corner by the door.
There must be more I can tell her.
If she really wants me to help her,
I'll do what I can to show her the way,
and maybe one day I will free her,
'though I know no one can see her.

Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa,
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.

@STRING: Miles From Nowhere

Miles from nowhere, guess I'll take my time,
oh yeah, to reach there.
Look up at the mountain I have to climb,
oh yeah, to reach there.
Lord my body has been a good friend,
but I won't need it when I reach the end.

Miles from nowhere, guess I'll take my time,
oh yeah, to reach there.
I creep through the valleys, and I grope through the woods,
'cause I know when I find it, my honey,
It's gonna make me feel good.
Yes, I love everything, so don't it make you feel sad,
'cause I'll drink to you, my baby
I'll think to that, I'll think to that.

Miles from nowhere, not a soul in sight,
oh yeah, but it's alright.
I have my freedom, I can make my own rules,
oh yeah, the ones that I choose.
Lord my body has been a good friend,
but I won't need it when I reach the end.
I love everything, so don't it make you feel sad,
'cause I'll drink to you my baby.
I'll think to that,
yes I'll think to that, I'll think to that.

Miles from nowhere, guess I'll take my time,
oh yeah, to reach there.

closer

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ANTHEM

by nicolaou in

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friends

shouldn't all of us ex-dubs, lurkers and nominal jw's have an anthem?.

a few suggestions for starters:.

i will survive.

closer2fine

mony -

Everytime I hear that song I get goosebumps. It takes me back. Do you remember the video? Powerful stuff.

closer to fine - totally my anthem when I left. Everytime I have a little too much to drink I end up playing that song over and over again.

closer

50

ANTHEM

by nicolaou in

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friends

shouldn't all of us ex-dubs, lurkers and nominal jw's have an anthem?.

a few suggestions for starters:.

i will survive.

closer2fine

"Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
I promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep
It seems no one can help me now,
I'm in too deep, there's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else's known
Here I am just a-drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
And everything seems cut and dried,
Day and night, earth and sky,
Somehow I just don't believe it
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there
Runaway train, never coming back
Runaway train, tearing up the track
Runaway train, burning in my veins
I run away but it always seems the same

closer

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British JWs ignoring the GB.

by dmouse in

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when we have american jw relatives visit they are frequently shocked at the difference between how they live their lives and how jws over here live.

its almost as if we are from two different religions.. that divide seems to be getting wider.

i have noticed in the past two or three years a noticeable relaxation among british jws.

closer2fine

Soooooooo.........

For all those ex-jws from the US, if the JW's were as relaxed here as in Britain (you could celebrate holidays, maybe no disfellowshipping) would you be a witness again???

Oh and you were encouraged to ask questions and challenge beliefs.

closer

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British JWs ignoring the GB.

by dmouse in

jw
friends

when we have american jw relatives visit they are frequently shocked at the difference between how they live their lives and how jws over here live.

its almost as if we are from two different religions.. that divide seems to be getting wider.

i have noticed in the past two or three years a noticeable relaxation among british jws.

closer2fine

Growing up in the Northeast (US) I remember comments being made by elders that the further you got from Bethel the less "theocratic" the congregations were.

closer

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What I Like About Most Of You Here & The 3 ...

by Celtic in

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a british compliment ... your'e all soooo preposterously predantic!!.

one thing that always made me question jw thinking so much as a kid, were those 3 dots in quotes taken from professionals in the magazines.

that space i always knew was a misrepresentation of facts and it interested me highly that to verify such comments was always most difficult in that position.. that lil space i reckon was one of the reasons for my very first initial doubts at around 14. i would always go further in reading than most, past the scripture given in the body of the public talk to check out whether that was in fact what the scriptures were saying compared to the brothers comments.. hooray and cheers for a questioning mind.

closer2fine

*humming* What I like about you, you really know how to dance. *hmmmm*

closer

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What happened to Tishie's old board?

by closer2fine in

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i can't get on it???.

http://www.support4xjws.org.

closer

closer2fine

Love you Hojon :o)

closer

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ANTHEM

by nicolaou in

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shouldn't all of us ex-dubs, lurkers and nominal jw's have an anthem?.

a few suggestions for starters:.

i will survive.

closer2fine

Gaynor might be out. Did she write this before studying with JW's or after? :o)

I still stand by my namesake:

closer to fine by the indigo girls

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shore
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
And I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
We look to the children, we drink from the fountains
Yeah, we go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

(shameless plug - I use every opportunity to post this song ;o)

closer

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WERE JW'S REALLY INVOLVED @GROUND ZERO?

by crittersitter in

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my currently devout jw sis told me how "proud" she was of the bro's at the wtc and how they fed , and comforted all those ppl...this told at the meetings i suppose.

or was this just spin?

i think i read (was it here) that the doors of hq got locked up so outsiders could not come in..... did they really get involved" or was it enuff to make them look good?.

closer2fine

I hate them and their duplicity.

closer