chellechelle
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Take the Beliefnet test... and post your results!
by Awakened at Gilead inan atheist friend (never a jw) sent me a link to this fun test:.
http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx.
turns out i am 100% secular humanist, but unfortunately i am still 5% jw!.
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What Are Your Favorite "Comfort Foods"?
by minimus inpersonally, i love chicken pot pie with a real pie crust---not the flaky puff topping..
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Apocalyptic Cults Always Predict the " Last Days "-Why it's a Total Farce
by flipper ini've been reading the book, " the kingdom of the cults " by walter martin.
he's a " christian " so being an atheist/agnostic i've had to wade through some of the more subjective christian comments and observations he makes on things.
but he does see through the bs of cults in predicting the last days.
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The stupid father of one of my kids.........
by oompa inso i go to the trader joes the other day and notice a really attractive .
woman in produce, but i can't place her....so i follow her over to the bread aisle, and got a better view of her face....but still could not figure out where i knew her from....so i finally said "excuse me, but you look so familiar, i almost know we have met before.
she looks me right in the eyes and says, (without smiling) "'i'm pretty sure you're the father of one of my kids.
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How Old are You ?
by flipper ini know- you aren't used to seeing me ask a simple question like this.
so- i'll start .
i am 49 years old, will be 50 in october .
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As a JW Did you Feel you Could Fully Trust the Elders ?
by flipper ini know for many of the 44 years i was in the jw cult from birth - i felt i could.
or should i say i was conditioned to feel that " i should " trust the elders.
as jehovah's witnesses we were all told the elders were " crags in a waterless country " who would be a " spiritual stronghold " for us.
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therapist says affairs can help some/my marriage....really...
by oompa inwell that took me back a bit...but since i have led a double life since third grade...i have become the master of compartmentalizing...and since my exit and since it is now not just to my parents (as a youth)...but now having to do it to my hardcore jw wife....well...it just gets frikkin easier and easier...i now think i am becoming capable of stuff i would have never dreamed of...this is scary.... i have decided i can afford it financially though i dread this at 47, since this is the second time i would lose half my assets....crap...and my wife is a wonderful lady!...hot even!...but i so want to grow and be totally free...damm the costs are so high...why cant i be content with a non-nagging jw wife?????.
oh...and basically it seems that if certain needs (not just sex!
) need to be met...and your mate will never know...than it can help your marriage continue with no bad side effects???
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this faded person was a "threat from the grave!"....CO says....
by oompa ini am sick today so spent a lot of time on jwd and saw several posts about whether or not elders would take action against a fader or not....it brought to mind an interesting and powerfully told story a co told us that alway stuck in my head...faders should find it very interesting and i hope this does not catch on...............oompa.
"a sister/mom had a daughter that was very loved in the congregation....for some reason she left the truth for a couple of years and even lived with her worldly boyfriend, but she was not disfellowshipped and her family did not shun her in any way....the elders did not complain as she was deemed to be "no threat to the congregation," and many in the congregation did not shun her either since she was perceived as "no threat to the congregation"....even the elders liked her and talked to her everytime she came to the memorial....very friendly with her.....life was good and this went on for years....it was as if she was was still part of the congregation....not a threat at all.
this sounds like a happy, wonderful arrangement doesn't it friends?
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Thought for the day
by John Doe ini've been questioning my course in life the last few weeks.
am i building the right life?
i feel as clueless now as i did 10 years ago.