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  Take a Moment and Think About How Awesome You Are

  by Simon in

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  it's easy to get bogged down with life and think you're not getting ahead or progressing.

  but regardless of where we think things may be going, pretty much everyone who's come through this site is an achiever who's done an amazing thing in one way or another even if they may not think about it.. so think about it!.

  you got past and over your programming and indoctrination.

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  Xanthippe

  Well said Simon! My husband and I volunteered for a charity called INFORM based at the London School of Economics for a while after we left the JWs. It helped people learn about religious cults of all kinds.

  The people who ran the charity said to us the amazing thing that you've acheived is that you left the JWs, leaving a cult is so hard.

  They reacted as if we'd done something almost miraculous because they studied JWs, Moonies, Children of God etc and they knew the hold cults have. We should be proud of ourselves.
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  Another Day Another Horror Story

  by Slidin Fast in

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  drip, drip.

  drip the erosion continues.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-10/jehovahs-witness-abuse-exposed/11561776.

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  Xanthippe

  Just makes you weep, all those poor people. All those little children suffering, ignored by this monstrous cult.
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  Thirty years a tower slave

  by rickroll in

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  i was with my brother in law when we were in service and given this book.

  i have posted on this before but it got me to thinking.

  it was taken from us by the local elder we talk to about it.

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  Xanthippe

  If you mean Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave I read it when I was sixteen. My sixteen-year-old true believer self at the time thought the author was very bitter. I haven't looked at it since so my view might be quite different now.

  My mother was horrified I brought it home from the library but it's just a shame it took me another 14 years to leave.
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  "This is Where They Lived Happily Ever After Begins"

  by The Bethelite in

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  i saw this sign (i'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.. yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations.

  i'm sure today october 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.. have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?

  because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets!

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  Xanthippe

  I've been in love a few times and l was married for 27 years. Apparently apes are not naturally monogamous. It's true relationships don't stay the same and marriage can be hard work. I may be lazy now but I just don't want to work that hard anymore.
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  Serious question!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  how would you answer:.

  how can you change or improve an individuals dominant mental attitude?.

  zing.

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  Xanthippe

  I agree with dubstepped, you can't change anyone. I also agree with Simon, keep away from people who lurch from crisis to crisis.

  If you can't keep away, if they're work colleagues make it clear that you won't put up with them dumping their drama on you. They will learn to moan about their 'terrible' life to someone else.
  
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  Post convention grumps..

  by zeb in

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  hm of you with a divided house have to put up with this?

  in this house its walking a mine field.. also our little cat has been gone for some 24 hours and her absence is also my fault apparently..

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  Xanthippe

  Oh sorry your partner is being so miserable Zeb. I hope your little cat comes home soon. I have a sixteen year old cat who's not very well so I never know what I will find when I come home from work.
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  See you in a couple weeks

  by Biahi in

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  leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.

  will not be online, i will miss you all.

  hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.

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  Welcome back Punky, I hope you had a good time.
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  Just made for XJW's - Good Omens

  by fulltimestudent in

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  a 1990 novel, now a film, its just made for us disillusioned ex-christians.

  it takes the piss out of yhwh and his fake son, jesus'.

  the book: "the book is a comedy about the birth of the son of satan, the coming of the end times.

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  Xanthippe

  I read the book when it first came out, good fun.
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  See you in a couple weeks

  by Biahi in

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  leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.

  will not be online, i will miss you all.

  hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.

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  Xanthippe

  Yes Norway was beautiful and a cruise seemed to me the best way to see the fjords.

  
  
  
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  See you in a couple weeks

  by Biahi in

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  leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.

  will not be online, i will miss you all.

  hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.

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  Xanthippe

  What is it about the Mediterranean cruises that people love?

  I think Biahi is from the US so I suppose a med cruise is a good way to see a lot of Europe in a couple of weeks.

  When I went to Norway they were trying to sell me these enormous drinks packages and I thought I'll never spend that even if I have two glasses of wine a night with dinner. I noticed some people drink all day, a booze cruise as you say LV101.