Hmmm. Tough call. I wanted to let you know, though, that I am sorry about your mom and about the dilemma you're finding yourself in. I think Scully's advice is good.
((HUGS)) You're in my thoughts.
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Can an ex elder help me please
by orangefatcat ini have been reading the publication, "pay attention to yourself and to all the flock',
under the subject of the "proper view of disfellowshipped and disassociated persons.
unit 5 (a), it says, " the principle set forth in jesus' words, at matthew 10:34-38 has a bearing on situations involving disfellowshepped or disassociated relatives.
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Are you *really* into something?
by DanTheMan ingetting to know various personalities on this board, i get to feeling that a missing component in my life is to get *really* into something.. for instance, the board has our resident intellectuals and political debaters.
i am in awe of the broad scope of knowledge and seemingly instant recall of obscure facts that many on this board seem to have.
i consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but i am light years from being a true intellectual.
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Currently, I am *really* into getting through the last 2.5 weeks of this pregnancy as comfortably as possible (LMAO Yeah, right!!!) and after that I'll be *really* into my new daughter, and my 4-year-old son. :)
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lessons in love from the faithful and discreet
by galaxy7 ingod certainly realizes that carrying out his righteous laws about cutting off wrongdoers often involves and affects relatives.
as mentioned above, when an israelite wrongdoer was executed, no more family association was possible.
in fact, if a son was a drunkard and a glutton, his parents were to bring him before the judges, and if he was unrepentant, the parents were to share in the just executing of him, 'to clear away what is bad from the midst of israel.
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Bebu, watchtower.org was down for a few days but is now back up. I was able to go to the link this morning.
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Are You Dealing or Dwelling?
by pettygrudger indesib's arrival thread got me thinking (along with some kind words from special k).. when i first came here, i was so happy to see so many others with shared experiences and issues of the jw's, yet sad at the same time to know that there were so many.
i spent alot of time here in the beginning.
even though i had been out of the jw's for almost 16 years at the time, i found the time i was spending here i was "dwelling" or going back to my own painful experiences.
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When I first came to the site, I had been away from the Borg (and really totally removed from it) for about 8 or 9 years (can't remember exactly when I started posting here). So a lot of the threads I read brought back memories of things I hadn't thought about in a loooooooong time; and lots of them were hilarious to look back on.
But now I only post sporadically; and sometimes I go weeks without even reading. It's counterproductive for me to keep rehashing the same things over and over again; and I am not interested in the board politics.
Any "dealing" I do is not a result of this board.
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Osama bin Laden found...
by starfish422 incourtesy of the onion: http://www.theonion.com/news.php?i=1&n=0.
tell me that first graphic on the left hand side doesn't look like a classic awake!
cover.
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Well, not really.
Courtesy of The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/news.php?i=1&n=0
Tell me that first graphic on the left hand side doesn't look like a classic Awake! cover.
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Does it feel like it's been that long?
by Nosferatu ini haven't gone to a meeting in 8 years (except for 1 funeral - never again).
personally it feels like it's been 10 years since i've gone.
so much has happened since my last meeting.
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I'm just so proud of myself that I haven't even been inside a KH since October, 1993; and my last meeting was June/93. I'm past the ten year mark and I will never go back.
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Good article about the NWT
by starfish422 inhttp://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/nwt.htm
this is from the freeminds website.
i love reading quotes in their full context and realizing how much the "brothers" have chopped them up to suit their own purposes.
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http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/nwt.htm
This is from the Freeminds website. I love reading quotes in their full context and realizing how much the "brothers" have chopped them up to suit their own purposes. As usual.
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Have You Renounced Everything Jehovah's Witnesses Believe In?
by minimus innow that you don't practice the religion, is it safe to say that you reject everything that you were taught??
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Well said, Room 215!
I have rejected all of the religious crap I was taught in the JWs; but I also learned lots about poise, appearance, and public speaking. Lots of people pay hundreds of dollars to get the training I got free. Not only that, if I can knock on people's doors and speak seriously about absolute bullsh*t, I can tell anyone anything. LOL
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What do the GB members do for cash?
by starfish422 inam i correct in thinking that the gb members are unpaid for their role on the board?
how, then, do they survive?
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Uzzah, thank you for a serious answer. :)
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What do the GB members do for cash?
by starfish422 inam i correct in thinking that the gb members are unpaid for their role on the board?
how, then, do they survive?
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Am I correct in thinking that the GB members are unpaid for their role on the board? How, then, do they survive?