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  The desire to return just for family's sake

  by Ephanyminitas in

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  those of you who have close witness family members -- how hard has it been not to just throw up your hands and just return to the society, just for appearance's sake?

  my parents, whom i love very much, are witnesses, and it's very difficult for me to go day to day knowing that i'm completely letting them down.

  i no longer believe anything the society says, but oh how tempting it would be to just go back and fake my way through, knowing that i could give my parents peace.

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  I was raised a dub. Only my sister is still a dub, everyone else in my immediate family has gotten out. Most of my extended my are dubs. I used to be close to some of my cousins, and occasionally I wish I could talk with them. And my sister and I were very close. I haven't seen her even once in the past ten years. I've never met her husband. I miss her terribly. She still talks to the rest of my family--they drifted, I was dfed. I haven't seen my most bestest friend in the whole wide world in about 15 years. I miss her almost as much.

  I would not go back into the dubs for anything.

  But I have thought about trying to have my babtism declared invalid. I don't know if that is possible, and I doubt that they would be so compassionate, but I have thought about it.

  queereality
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  IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR AUSTRALIANS

  by ozziepost in

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  we've been advised by australia's major network, channel nine, that their investigative programme entitled "silent witnesses" will go to air this sunday, september 22nd.

  it'll be on the 'sunday' program much like dateline and panorama and will screen from 9 am to 11 am.the story itself will be around 40 to 45 minutes in length.

  depending on the response from this story, they may decide to run the panorama story with a follow up on the aussie story the following weekend.

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  Becky wrote:

  Jan, can I go to the bathroom now??

  No you may not Sister. No bathroom excursions permitted during discourses no matter how long those discourses may last.

  You must learn the fruitage of self control sister ..... if you can't, well that is your problem .... we will just move down a seat

  Jan

  LMAO

  Thanks. I really needed a good laugh.

  I sure hope someone gets this program onto the www.

  queerealiy
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  Ozzie's Weekend Poll #21

  by ozziepost in

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  we've brought forward this weekend's poll because we're sure to have other things on our mind tomorrow!

  just in case you missed it, try this link: .

  http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1149.asp

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  5. It's not convenient right now.

  And I'd invite them to come back next week when I would ask them to come in and sit down:

  19. I read in the Watchtower that Jesus is not my mediator. Did you know that?
  10. May I show you why I have become a Christian/Buddhist/agnostic/atheist/humanist etc?

  OMG, I'm so sorry. I forgot my cousin fixed that chair last night. The glue must not have been dry. Here, let this soak in for half an hour and it should come unstuck. If there is any damamge to your clothing, I'll pay for it. But, since you'll be here awhile:
  

  12.Have you heard anything about the Watchtower Society and the UN?
  13. Why do you think the churches have had problems with paedophile priests?
  6. Have you seen Dateline/Panorama/Sunday?
  16. I heard a lot have left the organisation; is it true?

  And after they had ripped their clothing off of the chair and were running from the demonic B!tch from Hell

  15. If I came to the meetings, would anyone speak to me?

  BWAA-HAA-HAA-HAA-HAAAAA
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  My father has died (Tom Amoroso)

  by amoroso in

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  hello my name is nick amoroso son of thomas charlas amoroso and sherrie amoroso.

  i recieved news of my fathers untimely death thursday sept. 19. i am not sure who reads these forums but if you are from the northwest of the u.s. and have been in the truth for a conciderable amount of time you will know my father.

  for those of you that do not know him i feel obligated to tell you his story.

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  amoroso,

  I am so sorry. Your dads life was so tragic.
  You must be going through a lot of emotional pain.
  Please, don't forget to take care of yourself.

  queereality
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  I GOT IT!!!

  by Mimilly in

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  omg!

  i got the job!

  i'm hired!

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  queer_reality

  Congratulation!!!!

  Uh... does this mean that you are buying the drinks?
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  Family

  by DJ in

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  hey everyone,.

  i was moved by the sad news about ima and his poor son's kindness to follow his dad's last wishes.

  (see thread entitled, "please read") anyway, it struck me as odd last night that i actually shed tears over this man.

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  I HATE what they did to all of us here! Liars, theives.....I want to scream it!

  Oh, YES! Sometimes I have to be so very... circumspect. I escaped the jws years ago, in another area. Now I have a civil service job. I work with and for a few jws. One of them is an elder. Behind his back, he is called "Robo" which is short for RoboCop--he was a Military policeman in the Marines. He's a real assh*le. He happens to be my boss. (sounds: screaming, things crashing into walls and breaking) One of the r/f jws I work with once (in my presence) forgot himself and actually agreed with some criticism of Robo.

  I just want to have 'normal' thoughts...lol what are they? Isee these people living their lives and they look truly happy....are they faking it? The wtteachingscan realywreak havoc on a person, huh?

  Yeah. I often do not even have a scale by which to measure something. For example, how much anger is reasonable in a given situation? Or what to expect from a friendship. As for happiness, well, I figure I'm doing good if I'm not depressed. For me, its pretty incredible just to feel content--as in not being conflicted. I've been told I need to raise my expectations. That I should expect to feel happy. That is such a peculiar idea.

  I feel so relieved to have found this board. (Thanks Simon!) Most folks just don't get it.

  I really do have to write up a bio so y'all can know a bit more about me. I'm really, incredibly screwed up.
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  Last night my dad tried to commit suicide

  by cruzanheart in

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  i'm still blown away by it.

  when i went out the door this morning to take the kids to school (7:15 a.m.) i turned on my cell phone and there were two messages from his retirement home, both saying that he had fallen at about 4:30 a.m. and was being taken to the hospital.

  i called the hospital and they told me that he said he had taken 18 xanax in an effort to kill himself.

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  OMG, I'm so sorry. You must be so stressed out. Take good care of yourself.

  He sounds like quite a guy...

  >until that hot affair with the 85-year-old
  >cutie in his retirement home two years ago

  ROTFL!
  That's so awesome. Good for him!

  Best of luck.
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  PLEASE READ

  by IMA_PALLED in

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  before my dad went into surgery he asked that i contact the people on this board and let them know how much it ment to him much it ment to him over the past month or so to be able to talk with all of you.. this is one of the few things in his life he could still enjoy.dad wanted to especially thank craig (ona ) for accepting him and apologies for anything he said that might have offended you.. my father was in so much pain over the past seven years ,god must have thought it was time,dad passed a few houres after surgery.. dad asked not to have a service and will be cremated than placed in an urn ( as he said "so he can keep an eye on mom" ) we all loved him deeply and he will be missed.

  i will leave the company email should anyone want to,i will print them out for mom and the family to read.. again thanks to all, our love is with each and every one of you.. matthew mc cune [email protected]

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  You've suffered a terrible loss.
  Please accept my condolences.
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  bad news

  by larc in

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  last night, my wife zazu, had a stroke.

  she is in the hospital, and will be there for a least a week.

  she can still think clearly and converse.

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  (((((((Carl & Zazu)))))))

  Best wishes and hoping for a full recovery.

  Hang in there.
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  Gently Helping Someone to De-Tower

  by Scully in

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  it looks like today is going to continue to be a day of surprises for me.. one of my daughter's classmates called earlier and said she wanted to go "trick or treating" with my children this hallowe'en.

  normally, this wouldn't have surprised me, except that when we first met this family, it was on the little girl's birthday, and her mother made it very clear that they didn't observe birthdays because it was against their faith.

  so anyway, i wanted to clarify with the mother today, because she had told me in the interim that they were jws, and i didn't want to cause any offense or do anything that would get the little girl in trouble later on when her mother found out.

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  Way Cool!

  I hope she calls you.