sweet pea
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Devil and The Deep Blue Sea?
by sweet pea inhow do you view your friends who are still witnesses - do you look at them and wonder how you can get them out or do you think that many are best off staying where they are.
i find myself constantly wondering whether they would prefer to be where besty and i are now or whether they would be so traumatized by leaving when they have such a large family/network of jws that there is no point in even trying to help them to see the truth about "the truth".
some seem genuinely very happy to be a witness (even though its obvious that its all a struggle).
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Recommended Reading
by sweet pea inwhat would be your top list of books that have influenced you to be at the point where you now are in your life?
for me so far it would have to be awaken the giant within by anthony robbins, crisis of conscience/in search of christian freedom by ray franz and understanding cults and mind control by steve hassan.
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The Kindest Most Effective Words
by sweet pea insuggestions please on the kindest and most effective (i.e.
they might stop and seriously think about why) to say to very special close friends that we will no longer be attending the meetings.
i spoke to the first of a few friends today and could tell they were deeply upset - their first reaction was "but there is no where else to go?!
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Feeling Special
by sweet pea intoday in the uk is father's day.
i bought a card for besty from our two little baby boys.
my two year old gave it to besty this morning.
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One To Get Them Thinking...
by sweet pea inbesty and i told my best friend last night we had decided to stop going to the meetings (mainly due to exhaustion/heart not in it/few organsiational issues in the news had bothered us etc, etc).
she was disappointed but felt that we should do what's right for us - she would only have a problem with us if we went down the 'apostate route'!
further into the brief discussion we had besty asked her a classic "how would you know if jehovah's spirit had been withdrawn from the organisation" - she thought about it for a moment and concluded that zero growth would possible be a sign - we didn't have the heart to tell her that taking into account the drop out rate/population growth that that is precisely where the borg is right now!!
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Hope for Shattered Families?
by sweet pea inpassword protected has written a great article - check it out on www.freeminds.org - it's on the front page..
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Holy Spirit Day
by sweet pea ini'm off to the alpha holy spirit day tomorrow and was thinking about what as a witness i believed about the holy spirit and my mind has gone blank - i can't ever remember talking that much about it or looking up any scriptures on it - what did you feel about the hs when you were a witness and what do you think of it now?
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Anyone know where she is?
by sweet pea ini would love to get in contact with lauren welsh who used to be in redhill congregation, surrey, england - anyone know her?