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Enjoy Watching grass Grow? Join the Dull men's club - really!
by AK - Jeff inhttp://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=&storyid=2006-11-09t154755z_01_n08318708_rtrukoc_0_us-life-web-dullmen.xml&src=nl_ustechnology.
i think i have heard everything now.. jeff .
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Poor JWs on a RV today........
by Gill inyou talk to people in general about jws and what a crock of shit their beliefs are and you think 'maybe i went on too much!
' 'perhaps they weren't really listening anyway!
' "i wish i hadn't bothered!'.
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Did You Ever Get Done In By Hearsay???
by minimus inwere you ever talked to by elders or charged with something because of hearsay??
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Watchtower Article Titles We'll Never See
by COMF ini saw redhorsewoman's thread title, "the time is at hand", and knew why she picked it: because the society uses that phrase all the time (or used to when i was in, anyway... i'm betting they still do).
it reminded me of a district assembly part from along about 1983 called "now is the time" (can any of you brighter types guess which song they chose to accompany it?).
this got me to thinking of how the society has these pet phrases they use over and over again, often featuring them in some thinly reworked format (like going from "now is the time" to "the time is at hand") as article titles.
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The Best One-liners for Witnesses
by gordon d inwhat have been the most effective reasons that you've given to the people that you love for why you're no longer a witness?
considering that most dubs have the attention span of a 2 year old for anything from an a-prostate, please be consise and succint with your answers.
just trying to plant some seeds of reasoning.... maybe in-depth discussions with those folks will come at a later time.
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Why do we tell our stories: reconsidered
by Lady Lee inmany of us were victims of various kinds of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual and definitely spiritual abuses.
many people have created an atmosphere where it is finally safe for us to tell our stories.
we do this for a variety of reasons.
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Feeling very down right now.
by jakes infriends!.
today has been one of those days for me.feeling very down and depressed.. finding out that you were living a lie for so long can be devastating to many.
i will however pick myself up again.
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What are some personal truths you now believe in after leaving the WT?
by lovelylil inthese are things i hold as personally true for me:.
1) there is no religion today that has the only truth about god.
2) the bible contains truths for christians but other religions have books that contain truth for them.
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My Ex is suicidal, apparently
by dmouse insome of you might remember my story from years ago - how i became an 'apostate' which effectively ended my marriage of 20 years.
how my wife subjected me to intense psychological abuse when i left 'the truth'.. my son ben, whom i love deeply, left when he was dragged into the back room and told he was being used by satan to corrupt the congregation (he was only15) because he was gay.. my dearest middle daughter charlotte, who has more common sense than all of us put together, 'left' on her 14th birthday.
she was dragged out of the house in her bare feet to be taken to the meeting, and because i intervened i spent the next year on a camp bed in the front room.. in the end, i could not stand the abuse and left.
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To Benefit the Lurkers and Newbies - tell your story again!!
by AK - Jeff ina nice grouping of stories regarding our time in and exit from the borg would aid all the newcomers here.. how about a paragraph or two [the condensed versions] of how we all found ourselves here today?.
jeff .