gloobster
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A puzzle to start the day!!
by PopeOfEruke ina great puzzle!
able to be enjoyed by straights and gays alike!.
enjoy!
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Bah Humbug?
by gloobster inmy parents more or less disassociated themselves from the borg when i was very young, and i kept going to the hall with my grandpa, an elder, until i was about 13 or so.
however, although my parents did not profess to be jehovah's witnesses any longer, they also did no move on to anything else--they were terrified of what their relatives and the jw's might think, and i don't know if they knew how to move on anyway.
anyway, i did not attempt to celebrate christmas until i was living on my own, i think when i was 21. .
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JW's as a cult
by gloobster inone of the hardest things for me to admit, even more than a decade after having cut off witness ties as much as possible, was the possibility that they might be a cult.. i would always tell people that jw's had messed up ideas, that they screwed up people's families, etc., but a cult?
surely i wasn't born into a cult.
the following is one definition i found on the internet:.
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Question for any electricians or DIY people - help appreciated
by The Nothing Man inok - i was doing some work on a circuit board (actually, it was a cd drive) and basically it all went badly wrong.
i was trying to modify the circuit by soldering pins to the copper on the board, but before i did that i had to scrape away the protective layer on top.
unfortunately, i scraped too hard and damaged the copper badly.
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Hi! I'm new here!
by gloobster ini just signed up here, so i guess i should let everyone know a few things about myself.. my maternal grandfather was an elder in a congregation here, and he and my grandmother raised my mother quite strictly as a jehovah's witness.
my father's father was also a jehovah's witness, though much less devout.
when my parents were in their mid-20's they more or less disassociated themselves from the flock.
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Triple Bypass Surgery -- Blood?
by gloobster ini'm worried about my uncle--he's going in for triple bypass surgery on wednesday, and he is still a devout jw, and therefore will refuse blood.
does anyone know anything about this type of surgery?
obviously it's major surgery, although it's much more routine than it used to be.
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Jehovancholia
by gloobster inso, finding this forum and making a couple posts, along with other events in my life in the recent past, has made me a little melancholy about the old hingdom kall.
since most of my memories of attending meetings, going out in service, etc., are from my childhood, they tend to have that effect on me.. i have played the piano for 19 years now.
it's my one real passion.