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  Let's kick things off

  by Simon in

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  as you can see from my profile, i'm from the uk and was brought up in the truth.. how about some introductions from people ?

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  Prisca

  so where are all these ppl now??.......

  ooops, better do my bit - I'm Prisca and I was brought up in the Borg. And I'm from Australia, despite what my ever-changing profile says!
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  Intelligent Things Men Say

  by Prisca in

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  2. relationships

  now you were expecting a blank page, weren't you?

  hehehehe..... .

  actually i have met many intelligent men just as there are many intelligent women.

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  Prisca

  now you were expecting a blank page, weren't you? hehehehe....

  Actually I have met many intelligent men just as there are many intelligent women. I think it's time we stopped all this gender bashing and appreciated the differences and the similarities men and women share. To be quite frank, I prefer the company of men to women, but that's just me. I was brought up by a male single parent, so I learnt to see life through men's eyes. Pretty interesting experience.

  So let's be friends and love each other, ok?

  Edited by - Prisca on 9 March 2001 4:49:32
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  What Have You Learnt?

  by Prisca in

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  what have you learnt since you left the borg?.

  have you become a better person?

  have you worked on traits you didn't like about yourself when you were a witness?.

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  Prisca

  What have you learnt since you left the Borg?

  Have you become a better person? Have you worked on traits you didn't like about yourself when you were a witness?

  Are there lessons in life you've learnt since?

  Has there been a learning curve?

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  I have learnt to be a more compassionate person. I no longer see things in black and white. I now see in shades of grey.

  I've especially become more tolerant of non-Christian religions. I've found their adherants are interested in the same goals in life as I am, so there's no need to view them with distain just because they don't believe in the Christ.

  And it's definately been a learning curve. I've seen how intolerant my so-called friends are, and how loving my former "enemies of true faith" are.
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  revenge of the eighties on nick-at-nite

  by twvsnt in

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  2. entertainment

  has anyone been watching nickelodeon's "revenge of the eighties marathon?

  all the television shows anyone watched growing up in the eighties are being shown on nickelodeon all this week.

  watching these shows brought me way back to when my biggest worries of the day was missing an episode of silver spoons.

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  Prisca

  I used to love "Family Ties". Alex was my capitalist hero!
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  Here I go Again!

  by Frenchy in

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  2. friends

  i wanted to make a reply to ozzie's thread about jobo and ended up making a new topic!

  anyway i think jobo should be banned from here.

  danielle was aggravating but he's obscene.. -seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it-.

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  Prisca

  Don't worry Frenchy, we still love ya! And I've sent an email to Simon, hopefully he'll be online soon!
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  So What Tipped You Out, Then?

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can you remember that distinct moment in your life when you suddenly knew that your time as a jw was truly over?.

  for me, that moment came several years after the removal of my privileges in the congregation when i admitted to having known my then fiance in a way that was not fitting for a ministerial servant.. i was quickly stripped of my 2 servants jobs, group study conducting, pioneer status, public talk giving and praying in the kh.

  i was also forbidden to ever be alone with the lady concerned.. about 15 months later i was assigned a public talk, after 30 minutes i dried up.

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  Prisca

  yep TW, they think that "intelligent woman" is an oxymoron
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  Chinese Proverbs

  by Prisca in

  1. social
  2. humour

  chinese proverbs.

  1. man who run in front of car get tired.. 2. man who run behind car get exhausted.. 3. man with one chopstick go hungry.. 4. man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails.. 5. man who eat many prunes get good run for money.. 6. baseball is wrong; man with four balls cannot walk.. 7. war does not determine who is right; war determine who is left.. 8. wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house.. 9. man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.. 10. man who drive like hell bound to get there.. 11. man who stand on toilet is high on pot.. 12. man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.. .

  (there were more, but i decided to censor them)

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  Prisca

  Chinese Proverbs

  1. Man who run in front of car get tired.

  2. Man who run behind car get exhausted.

  3. Man with one chopstick go hungry.

  4. Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails.

  5. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

  6. Baseball is wrong; man with four balls cannot walk.

  7. War does not determine who is right; war determine who is left.

  8. Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house.

  9. Man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.

  10. Man who drive like hell bound to get there.

  11. Man who stand on toilet is high on pot.

  12. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.

  (there were more, but I decided to censor them)
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  Assemblies...conventions...special days...

  by NikL in

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  there is a phenomenon in dub dom that i have always hated.

  the circuit/district convention.. people will spend hard earned money, use up any vacation they may have to travel to a city they don't really have any particular reason to see to sit for entire days and listen to the same b.s.

  they could sit and listen to at the meetings in their home kingdom hall.

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  Prisca

  Hey Simon,

  Didn't you and Angaharad meet at a convention? That one must have been worth it, eh?
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  They SLAUGHTER KIDS in JWdom, don't they, Mom?

  by Focus in

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  2. friends

  here the prime sources of data are watchtower publications.. the data.

  fact one (from watchtower magazine 15 october, 1993 p32).

  doctor x, sympathetic to the jehovah's witnesses, stated that to forego blood transfusions increases the mortality rate for a standard operating procedure from c0.5% to c1.5% (in the advanced world).. fact two (from awake!

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  Prisca

  Thank you focus for this interesting and well thought-out post. Posts like these make me wish I had a printer!

  Hey waiting, I used to find the "hidden" points as well, and could never understand why I seemed to be the only one to see a "new point" while everyone else glossed over it. Glad I'm not the only one.

  "I just do whatever the Society says. They've researched this, you know."

  Makes me shiver when I hear things like this.
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  So What Tipped You Out, Then?

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can you remember that distinct moment in your life when you suddenly knew that your time as a jw was truly over?.

  for me, that moment came several years after the removal of my privileges in the congregation when i admitted to having known my then fiance in a way that was not fitting for a ministerial servant.. i was quickly stripped of my 2 servants jobs, group study conducting, pioneer status, public talk giving and praying in the kh.

  i was also forbidden to ever be alone with the lady concerned.. about 15 months later i was assigned a public talk, after 30 minutes i dried up.

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  Prisca

  I had been wondering about things, and having doubts as to whether the JWs really had the "truth", and was looking at those outside the organisation and seeing that they were just as nice, if not nicer, than my so-called bros & sisters.

  Then one day I was discussing the 144,000 doctrine with a fellow work-mate, when it hit me. As I was trying to explain my belief to him, I realised how illogical it was. And the more I tried to convince him, the less convinced I was! It was that night that I realised something was wrong, seriously wrong, with the belief system of JWs.

  However, as it had been drummed into me that doubting the organisation = doubting God, I tried to be a stronger Witness, applying myself more to the meetings and personal study, in the belief that if I studied more, I would understand my beliefs better and have more faith.

  Well, that was the result, though not quite in the sense I imagined.

  I understood the beliefs of my life-long religion all right, and discovered that they didn't really match up with what I read in the Bible.

  As for my faith, it increased - in God, that is, and less and less in a man-made religion.

  So I started doing research on the Net, studied the Bible a bit more, and gradually stopped going to the meetings altogether.

  The result? I feel free in my mind and heart. It's like a huge weight has been lifted off my mind. I actually trust in God now, knowing I can rely on Him fully. I no longer live for just today, but am looking beyond the horizon for tomorrow. And I feel so alive!