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  Shocking Email from a Dear Friend who is No Longer a JW

  by rubadubdub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i received this email tonight from a dear, dear friend who i believed had died.

  she was in very bad shape when i last spoke with her over a year ago.. "i'll make this short in case it is not functioning.

  besides i'm not sure whether it is alright for you to read it or not.

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  troubled mind

  Please reach out to her !
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  Interesting Findings from the ESA Plank Satellite

  by cantleave in

  1. social
  2. current

  the european space agency has produced a fascinating map of the universe using the super dooper plank satelite.. by stripping out dust emissions and radio frequencies from the milky way galaxy and more distant objects to leave just the afterglow of the big bang, an image of the microwave radiation (measured over a 15 month period) has been obtained that gives an extremely precise picture of the universe just 380,000 years after the big bang.. what we have learned from this data is the universe is some 80 million years older than we thought, the universe is made up of slightly more ordinary matter than was previously thought - 4.9% of all matter, up from 4.5% - and that there is less dark energy (which cosmologists don't understand) than previously thought and also it has an axis of evil (it appears the early universe was assymetrical) and a cold spot!!.

  so we need to go back to the drawing board with regard to inflation theory to account for the asymmetry and cold spot.. this is why i love science, the more we learn, the more we have to learn.

  btw, god sisn't show herself!.

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  Science ....I love Science ...bookmark for later
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  JW women in critical condition after being attacked by pit bull while out in service

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20130319_11_0_twowom831238.

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  Such a sad story ,I hope they both survive . The poor 78 yr old woman ....that is going to be a rough recovery .

  I always was leary of farm dogs in our rural territory when I was going door to door . (We had a young sister get bitten pretty badly one time ) One of the brothers carried a baseball bat under his front seat after that ...

  This past week in a town close to us , a 7 yr old boy was killed by a friends pit bull . He was in their back yard ,and the dog broke its chain ,and attacked the boy .
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  Do JW's need to ask permission for major decisions?

  by 00DAD in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  psychologist steven hassan writes that ""destructive mind control can be understood in terms of four basic components, which form the acronym bite:.

  i.behavior control.

  ii.information control.

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  What I always loved was when an Elder would tell you something was totally your decision ......then add, but if that is what you decide you will then be limited in receiving certain priviledges ......

  My Dad told me they talked with a forked tongue ,Why didn't I listen to him earlier ?
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  POLL: How long did you remain a JW from point of baptism to leaving the KH

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was baptised --1963. left in 1978. fifteen years.

  pre-baptism, another 5 years.

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  Born in ...baptized in 1978 , last meeting was memorial of 2006 after several months of fading before that ....26 yrs
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  JW Bombed

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on friday the 1st of march, i went to my cousins 21st birthday celebration - she has never been a jw.

  my other cousins (twins) were introduced by my mother to the faith over 20 years ago (they are now 38) and got baptised when they were about 19. they both weren't that "strong" in the faith and married "worldly partners" and stopped going to meetings.. they knew i had left and i presumed they knew i was disfellowshipped for apostacy.. at the party the one twin came over to me and we chatted about life etc and she says "oh carl is going to start studying" - i looked at her a little odd and asked what it was as he already had a financial degree.

  "no silly, he is going to study the truth" my face must have been a picture and in a very high voiced squeaked why would he ever consider that, he is an intellecutal guy....... she continued about how the people had changed and were so much better than when we were younger.

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  How sad ...
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  A question for those that have been around this board for a long time

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i stopped going to meetings in 1988 and da'd in 1989. for a few years we both actively participated in the xjw world, she quit doing that a long time ago, and has pretty much completely moved on.

  the other night i told her about my planned blog (which will probably launch this weekend) it will mostly be about my writing, a lot of which is mostly about jw related issues.

  she asked why i am still so drawn to this subject.

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  troubled mind

  Cheaper than therapy
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  What song would you dedicate to the borg?

  by krejames in

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  2. friends

  zed's thread on powerful albums got me listening to darren hayes after ages and i decided i would like to dedicate this song to the borg.

  http://youtu.be/nwvtdt9mntw.

  step into the light.

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  Give this one a listen AWESOME lyrics when fading from mind control .........

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=hpbZMZm0kbE&feature=endscreen
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  What song would you dedicate to the borg?

  by krejames in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  zed's thread on powerful albums got me listening to darren hayes after ages and i decided i would like to dedicate this song to the borg.

  http://youtu.be/nwvtdt9mntw.

  step into the light.

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  troubled mind

  This group has several songs I used as my anthem of leaving the JW's .....

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fQTmvFfGo
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  Discipline or child abuse? Still going on in the hall?

  by Pickler in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  does anyone else remember all the discipline of children at the meetings?

  i was just thinking how i never see anyone physically punish their children anymore.

  growing up attending meetings there was a constant stream of children being taken out & hit, as well as all the whispered threats, arm squeezing, pinching etc.

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  I have been out for almost seven yrs . In our old hall when our children were small there was a time when we had fifty kids under the age of 10....There were LOTS of crying children . The Elders made an announcement not to take a child outside of the hall for a spanking ,because the neighbors might not understand 'spare the rod '.