When my Dad was baptised the first thing he did was to light up a cigarette. Back then no-one expected you to stop smoking immediately, most JW's continued to smoke for a year or two after baptism.
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The WT must read sites such as this. Otherwise, why would they warn against apostate websites in their publications?
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OH well - we can always look forward to Lady Lee returning with tales of how AAWA abused her.
Wake me up when it's done.
..if I haven't died of old age by the time she's finished..
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My Final Goodbye
by Lady Lee ini want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
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..and if things do get too rough for Lady Lee over there, she can always count on a sympathetic ear here.
I really hope things go well for her.
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WT: Train your kids to shut up - April 2013 OKM
by aposta-Z inquote from april 2013 our kingdom ministry; available on here: http://jwleaks.org/ .
" even if they are too young to understand everything that is discussed, children can be trained to remain awake and sit.
quietly.
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As I heard Fred Franz once say at a UK assembly: "Better a tired child than a dead child".
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Cedars versus Simon
by Calebs Airplane inif cedars and simon had a debate about how to run a website and lady lee were the moderator, who would win this debate?.
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Who would win? Definitely the one who had suffered the most!
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A question for those that have been around this board for a long time
by JeffT inmy 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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No big deal. You get brought up with something you'll probably take an interest in it for evermore. To do otherwise for me would mean blocking out a part of my life. I have moved on but I haven't needed to block it out, although it occupies my mind a whole lot less than it once did.
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Under construction but live - FREEMINDS 2.0
by Dogpatch incheck out the new freeminds 2.0 currently at:.
http://freeminds2.org.
so the old and new will be combined all in one site shortly at freeminds.org.
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Is there a resident president to set a precedent?
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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini am an inactive jw.
i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.
i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.
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slimboyfat said: Has anyone actually met Cedars?
I doubt that he's English born. He has a superb command of British English, loves football and Spitfires etc, and except for one or two Americanisms in his spelling (z and not s) but that's possibly a deliberate ploy.
Unless he's Scandinavian.....
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I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini am an inactive jw.
i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.
i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.
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Just my fourpennyworth - for what it's worth:
Cedars obviously has a good and lively mind and much of his research into the WTBTS has great value.
But he's still a newbie ex; a newbie ex who has yet to come out of the closet.
When one leaves the JW's and comes across a site such as this, together with it's characters from all around the world, quickly becoming a respected and valued poster can be a heady mix indeed.
Such a heady mix that when that person meets up with resistance to his methods and ideas, he can become very impatient and frustrated with those who don't go along with him.
In fact, being an ex-witness can sometimes be more time and mind consuming than actually being a witness.
Yes, we'd all like to see the end of the WTBTS together with it's Governing Body. And it will happen one day, probably just by slowly fading away. But us ex's need to remember that for us, the time isn't short, the door to the ark isn't closing, and (forgive me for the over-used cliche) the sky won't fall in if all of this takes a few decades yet.