La Capra

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  Here's another JW / JW adjacent in the national news

  by La Capra in

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  i saw this story on a national news broadcast and said to myself, "hey, that's the same ian rogers that was in my congregation.".

  i tracked down a local article to confirm it was the same person, even though i recognized him immediately and he looks just like his dad did 35 years ago (except for the hair color).. https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/mother-of-napa-garage-owner-ian-rogers-describes-gun-collecting-right-wing-views-in-years/article_9c823a90-6cd2-5c54-9f76-26203b17fe31.html.

  things the congregation leadership did to his mom during those mid-80s years were elemental to my disassociation in 1987--i wrote them down on paper as i was sorting out my decision..

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  California Tubbs Fire photos you might not find find anywhere else...

  by La Capra in

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  to quote someone near and dear: they should have built the whole kingdom hall out of the same thing they built the signs.... i had to wait nearly two weeks to get into the neighborhood to get these pictures for your voyeuristic interests...this is peanuts compared to the over 5,000 homes that were destroyed (this number includes individual units in large apartment complexes that were completely razed).

  those pictures and videos are available in the media.

  wine country is a community devastated..

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  Sonoma County California Folks-Need Some Information Please

  by La Capra in

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  if you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the northern bay area medical liaison committee, i would really appreciate the information in a private message.

  this request is related to family concerns.

  he probably is based in sebastopol, but we don't know for sure..

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  Out of the Mouths of Babes

  by La Capra in

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  overheard in the electronics department at our local walmart,.

  "how would you like your own headphones for the meeting?

  my attention caught, i look up to see a 3-year old in the shopping cart then hear him say in a high whiny voice, "i don't want to go to the meeting.

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  100 YEARS OF YEAR'S TEXTS

  by La Capra in

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  14:7.. 1988 hope in jehovah and keep his way (ps 37:34).

  yes, hope in jehovah, (ps.

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  Ex-JW Beauty Queen

  by La Capra in

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  not sure if this made it here yet:.

  http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090315/articles/903150964.

  we share something exactly in common, "when she left the religion as a 19 year-old ssu student..." i am very sad her dad shuns her, though..

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  Dub w/soul patch?

  by La Capra in

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  i was at the gym this morning, pouring myself a cup of coffee and i noticed a sweaty man sitting at a table reading what looked like the small version of the maroon deluxe nwt (the one made out of pig leather that were all the rage in the early 90's before the "donation arrangement").

  (for anyone who cares, he was in revelation.

  ) it also appeared that he had a colorful tract or magazine and the daily text book (are those spiral bound now?

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  Local JW teen spotlighted in the paper

  by La Capra in

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  http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20070306/news04/703060412/-1/special&themes=lifestyle

  someone is going to have to clean up my link, because i'm on my mac at work.

  (and give me some paragraphs, too, please).

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  This is so huge.

  by La Capra in

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  when i was four, i believed that my life could be painfully and tortuously taken from me, in a ball of flame, crashing down from the heavens, just while i sitting down to a bowl of oatmeal in the morning.. when i was nine, i believed that my life, as i then knew it, would be drastically altered, that i would be tortured for being a jw, and after suffering for who knows how long, i would die (because i still hadn't lived up to jehovah's expectations).. when i was 13, i wanted to be a nuclear physicist-because it sounded cool, but in the meantime i believed that i would die in armageddon because i wanted to go to college, get really educated, and have a great, "worldly" life.. when i was 15, i felt guilty that i hoped armageddon would never come, because i so desperately wanted to go to college.. when i was 17, i was offered an honors early admissions in a prestigious program in a highly regarded engineering program.

  my mother flat out said, "no!".

  when i was 18, i scuttled semi-secretly to the local university, part-time, trying to hide my daily activities without actually lying to anyone.. when i was 19 i quit pretending and disassociated.

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  My Recent Transition

  by La Capra in

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  no one noticed it but me.

  but it did not go uncelebrated and unaccounted for.

  when i was 19, i attended my last meeting while vacationing on a tropical island with my family.

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