Posts by happy@last

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reading COC for the first time

by This is my tigersuit in

happy@last

I read it a few years ago and recognised so much of what was written it startled me also, it's almost like having a blindfold removed when you see the WTBS for what it really is. Never stop asking questions. Enjoy your journey.

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why dont more elders leave?

by Crazyguy in

you would think that what they are exposed to more would wake up and leave, why not?

thoughts..

happy@last

There could be a number of reasons, I was an elder for about 10 years. I felt I wasn't doing it right as I had doubts, thus the guilt trip. Then other times I was doing so much I had little time to think for myself. I would agree that for many its a power trip also, but there are some who genuinely believe they are there to serve and either are too busy or squash out the doubts until they can't do it anymore.

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Interview video with former JW elder and 'mole'

by RayPublisher in

a great interview with native new yorker and longtime contributor to this board isaac carmignani (truthsetsonefree) is below:.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8gxvudwgu.

happy@last

It was a nice interview, he seems to be very busy helping lots escape different cults now, I think that is a great idea.

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When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed references

by GoUnion in

this topic has been covered extensively but i just wanted relate what hapopenes with this subject and my elder father.

he called me up one day to check in on me he always asks if i'm going to msettings and i always tell him no im not.

well this time he wanted to know why i didn't trust the g.b.

happy@last

I placed a simple one here on my site: http://www.x-j-w.org/read-the-bible/

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I was 36 when I started posting here. This weekend I celebrated my 50th birthday!

by nicolaou in

and i mean celebrated!

it was a cracking barbecue party for around 40 good friends and neighbours as well as my 'never jw' cousins and one of my brothers and his family.. .

drank a bit too much, embarrassed my kids with some 'dad dancing' and laughed until 2 in the morning.

happy@last

Many happy returns

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Nugget's Scans (much better than the photos we took)

by cantleave in

jw
friends

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happy@last

I love the detail, they are really nice

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Raising Children in more than one language

by SonoftheTrinity in

i recently told my wife that i am speaking only in the jamaican dialect from now on in my house because she has failed to teach her children her native language because she has put religion first, manners and discipline second, their education third, and her native language somewhere at the bottom.

while i am not jamaican, nor have i been to jamaica i lived in a jamaican rastafarian community as a rastafarian.

i am now orthodox christian as are many rastafarians and i still consider myself culturally rastafarian but no longer identify with their heresies.

happy@last

I think if they are aged 9 and 10 it might be too late to get them to pick up a second language that easily. Best if they were 4 and 5 or younger. No harm in trying, once they have mastered 2 languages it is easier to pick up others

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