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A funny comparison
by Dawn inok, i thought the comparison of these two videos back to back was hillarious so i have to share this with you all and get your thoughts.
video #1: singing at a jw assembly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vxlqe3-sg (and don't forget to check out the comments below the video!).
video #2: singing at a small church somewhere: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9094243614884928480&q=gospel+singing&hl=en.
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Such Pharisees!
by Dawn ini guess i'm gabby mouth tonight .
my brothers are both elders, i'll call them brother a and brother b. brother a disowned my mother since our dad passed away, because he's mad at things that happened when we were kids.
apparently it's easier to take it out on mom now because brother a couldn't stand up to dad - but that's another story.. it's a while since dad passed and brother a refuses to return her emails, phone calls, help her in any way.
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If you have young ones being indoctrined - there is hope!
by Dawn inwhen i was df'd and made a decision not to return my son was only 4. my parents still did their part to indoctrinate him and he insisted on going to meetings with them quite often (i know - if i knew then what i know now i would have stopped that - but that's water under the bridge).
i spent many hours explaining to him why i did not believe it any longer, and having to suffer through him being upset with me for not going to meetings.
i just kept giving him information, explaining things to him - as much as i could in a non defensive way.. by the time he was 13-14 years old he barely went to meetings - mainly only when his grandparents guilted him into it.
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Instead of going to the assembly.....
by Dawn inlast year i seriously thought of going to the summer district convention for a day or two just to listen to the information once again now that i've been out so long.
i thought it would be interesting to hear it "as an outsider" - but i just could not make myself go.
i found too many other things that i would much rather spend my time at during the summer months.. so i thought it would be fun to list a few of the things i have actually done now instead of going to assemblies, meetings, or field service:boating/water skiingfishingcampingstudy dance (i danced in my first public performance this past summer!
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I wrote it 3 years ago and it is still so true
by Dawn injust popped in tonight after a long time away from the forum - funny how busy life gets.
there are so many new people here, so much great healing going on.
so many with questions, and still so many that are hurting and scared with tough decisions ahead.
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ahhhhh....this feels good!
by Dawn ingot an e-mail from my brother this week - first contact he's made with me in over a year.
he just wanted to make sure i knew he was going to be in town soon and wants to see my son (not me mind you - but my son).
i'm df'd - he's an elder.. do you know what was so great about this e-mail?
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This is one reason why I couldn't take it anymore...
by Dawn inan earlier post mentioned jw spaces on myspace.com - so in curiosity i was surfing the site.
came across a few and read the posts.
quite honestly - the deepest question i could find was "did adam and eve have belly buttons?
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They never thought they woud die
by Dawn ini was over visiting my mom this week and i was suprised at some of her comments.
she would usually say things like "this system can't last much longer" and point to world events she was certain marked the beginning of the end.
she and my father became jw's in the 50's, were convinced armageddon was near, lived through the hoopla of the 75 fiasco.
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JW at my door this weekend
by Dawn inmy neighborhood gets worked about 1 or 2 times a year - and since i have been out a long time, and moved from another city, the jw's here do not know that i used to be one.. so - this poor unsuspecting man stopped on my doorstep saturday morning to share a scripture with me about the "last days" that we are living it.
i took the opportunity to point out that his organization has predicted armageddon more than once and it did not happen (of course - slipping in deut 18 about the false prophet .
he started to try and explain the whole 1975 fiasco when i stopped him and said that i was referring to their claim that armageddon would come before the generation of 1914 had passed away.. would you believe - he sat there on my doorstep and lied to my face telling me that the jw's never taught that armageddon would come before the generation of 1914 passed away .
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My son got his acceptance ltr....
by Dawn infor state college.
i am so excited for him.
and so very very very glad that i got out of the "borg" when he was still just a little guy.