halcyon
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The only way to leave is to believe
by halcyon inthat it's okay for there to be no "other place" to go to.
once you realize that there doesn't have to be one right religion that one must be a part of, but that life is blessedly filled with imperfect ways and people who all have a little bit of truth, then you find that you can leave with peace of mind.
(that doesn't make it any easier to be shunned and lose family, but at least inside yourself you're not filled with a gnawing fear of your own decision.
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Healthcare rumor
by metatron ini spoke with a congressman recently and asked him if the government could simply nationalize the aig insurance company and provide national healthcare in the us thereby.. he laughed and indicated that some very smart people in washington are examining various ideas about this !
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metatron.
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Halloween Candy Recalled
by AudeSapere inhalloween candy recalled .
(you can verify this on snopes: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp) .
there is a new warning put out by the canadian food inspection agency..... sherwood brand pirate's gold milk chocolate coins are being recalled due to the fact that they contain melamine, the ingredient in milk product that has caused many infant deaths in china.
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symbolism, intention (and linguistics?)
by halcyon insomething i've been pondering .... this will ramble, sorry .... .
the symbolism that we put on things.
i sorta got really sick of all the symbolism attached to everything in jw.
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your memories of COs?
by halcyon ini keep having this memory, and i don't know why it recurs.
i remember sitting down with a co one day, one of my last years there, in the back school of the kh, and i don't remember if i was out in fs that day or if it was after a meeting, and i don't remember my "status" in the hall at the time, but apparently i was "weak" because he was trying to encourage me.
it's quite possible that i requested a little chat with him after a bookstudy.
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secret santa thank you thread
by halcyon ini did my first secret santa all wrong ... didn't wrap the gift before sending it (duh!
but i'm not used to this kind of thing), and then waited too long before sending it so i got caught up in the mad pre-christmas-weekend rush to get things sent out, and then shipping cost more than the gift!
i'm so sorry to my recipient for not making it a little more ... "special" ... .
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questions about a letter.
by lancelink inmy wife has an associate who senses something is wrong with her "spirituality" and last week they had a somewhat deep discussion.
the associate is very much into being a jw, and so is her whole family, she just cannot wrap her mind around the fact that someone .
could question the wt society and their beliefs.
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Bible Trivia Flop
by WTWizard inyou may have known that awful game where you start with a pack of trivia cards.
you know, the one that someone reads you a question and you are supposed to answer it?
that is, all the questions are about the washtowel version of the bible and the doctrine.. this is supposed to be the major "entertainment" for the witlesses.
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Do you suppose all these drivers were JW?
by halcyon innot!!!
as mary said in the "comments you won't hear" thread, jws don't have a monopoly on honesty!.
http://www.ketv.com/cnn-news/18651779/detail.html.
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Utopia, millenium, nationalism and socialism ...
by halcyon inthis timeline reveals prevalent thinking from the 1700s on, that sounds a lot like fertile ground for an apocalyptic, socialist religion to set roots in: .
http://alt.nntp2http.com/history/colonial/2007/07/f7766c69afe3e30d43f7f9d73e17e3fa.html .
anyone have anything to add to this?