Alpaca
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The Kool-Aid Edition
by Alpaca ini just found copies of the january 1, 2009 wt and the january awake that were left in public place.
it was the first time i've looked at either rag in probably 10 years.. the writing is absolutely pathetic.. it got me to wondering.
what does the kool-aid edition look like?
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The Lottery
by purplesofa inthis two part video will surely make you think.
here is a link to this classic short story, if you rather read it.. http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html.
as i was reading the comments at youtube, it seems this is mandatory reading in some schools now.. .
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Could a single decision/mistake bring down watchtower
by badboy inwith decisions by bankers etc bringing down financial systems, other situations decisions have had wie ranging consequences makes one wonder if a single decision could bring things down.
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ok what did I do wrong here
by loosie inmy thread about the ex-diva, ex-slave, and x-masturbater got locked.
there was no obsence images there.
i wasn't selling the shirts.
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Geographic Cure
by rebel8 ina geographic cure is when someone moves away to escape their past in some way.
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the optimal type of geographical cure is after the necessary internal changes and progress in healing have been made--essentially to escape the things/people in your surroundings that trigger negative emotions or behaviors in you.. the unhealthy type of geographical cure is running away in an effort to avoid doing the necessary healing work and make changes in oneself.. interested in your thoughts as it applies to healing from jwism.
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Has anyone ever had a broken humerus....not very humorous!
by Alpaca insome of you guys may remember that last fall i was talking about doing a cross-country bicycle trip.. well, that idea had to be scrapped, at least for a while.. two days before last thanksgiving, i broke my humerus.
and, of course, since i am right handed it was my right arm.
the doc said that it would be long, tedious recovery-- 6 to 8 months.
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Its All About Them Until We Remember Our First Name
by AllTimeJeff ini have been told by more then one person of my propensity to use the phrase "...it's all about them.
" when it comes to the governing body.
them and their authority that is.
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i have been outed pretty badly as an evil apostate.......BEWARE!!!
by oompa inand in a kinda funny way........this friend of mine.......who is very close friend of my df'd son and is much younger than me.....he has been dfd for ten years and shunned by his family and really reall misses them......and has been in a longterm gay relationship and i always felt bad for him because there is almost no way to come back in...then fade...if you are in a gay relationship.......so anyway he has heard me trashtalk wt a ton...and seemed to have zero problem with that and griped about his wt issues...... so i call him the other day and immediately respond with some comment about the damm cult.......we he says," wow oompa you prob don't know but i am going to all the meetings again!!
so i am just snap....."wow, that is amazing...i had no idea....are you just going back for family...and then try to fade?
" which is what i just knew had to be the case....and i even mentioned how that would be hard to do with his partner all it would be discovered.......get this....."oompa, i am doing this for me and not my family......they don't even know i am going so don't say anything"........so i am in shock and the more we talk the happier he sounds about da troof....and i mean he is like filled with the holy ghost......so i mentioned how many things we have talked about that they teach that we both dissagree about.......and he says he know they prob have some things wrong but all religions do.
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Wilmington, VT Congregation Being Dissolved!
by Seeker4 ini just heard this week that the wilmington, vt congregation is being dissolved.
it is here in southern vermont, and i can remember when it was formed, probably about 30 years ago.. the congregation was always troubled, it seems, and there were so many personality conflicts in it that people who lived next to the kingdom hall would travel to the brattleboro, vt congregation to attend meetings!
a good percentage of witnesses that lived in that territory refused to go there and attended other congregations.. it seems that attendance has dwindled down to 20 or so, and so it is being disbanded.
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1914 is going down.....done away with.......
by oompa inleaving wt: if 1914 goes, they cease to be a religion, imo.
but, that's another thread.. since leaving wt said this on another thread........i gave him his "another thread".....is so wish i had walked away in 1995 because right away i knew we had just thrown 1914 out the window......since now there was no timelink to the date........no more the end will come during the lifetime of those alive in 1914. i am afraid i disagree with leaving wt on the thought the religion would fail if they totally dump 1914, only because of their history..... they had staked everything on jesus coming invisibly in 1874 and taught that for about 50 years......then kicked 1874 out the window.....and they stuck around after that.
does anybody know how/why they changed this teaching from jesus coming in 1874 and then decided it was 1914?.....................thanks....................oompa.