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Ive got the Christmas spirit--its killing me
by DS211 intonight we watched home alone 2, last nghr we watched home alone...i hear the christmas music and i have started to....feel again.
its hard to describe this feeling...its overjoyed, peaceful, hopeful, at the beauty ive missed around this time.
and at the same time it kills me because my children dont know it...its just another day, no special time, no holidays...my daughter asked me the other night if she could have a birthday.
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I9s for volunteers
by dissonance_resolved incan you think of any reason why they would start making bethel volunteers complete i9s?
(us work authorization forms).
no compensation is received so why would it be considered employment?.
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Halloween is like celebrating bunnies who aren't important
by dissonance_resolved infrom my young daughter's notebook titled "things to remember about the truth.".
i see i've failed miserably as a jw parent- or maybe not?.
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Faders????
by Crazyguy inok so i have been actively fading but my question to all you faders with family.
if one just fades doesn't it just look like to your kids that you have just become spiritually weak?
i mean aren't they my kids just going to ask their mother why i'm not going in time, and that will give her a chance to explain things the way she wants?
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Avoiding the subject
by dissonance_resolved inso as i progress in my fade, i've started to notice a curious phenomenon.
just when i think this will be the missed meeting/ field service/ assembly that will cause all heck to break to loose- no one says anything.
this includes immediate family and extended family in the same congregation.
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Not doing good things for bad reasons
by dissonance_resolved inso someone made a comment on one of my other posts that got me thinking- they said "the non-jw you is better than the the jw you.
" that made me think of all the good things i've never done for whacked-out jw reasons:.
1) contributing to charity- united way (religious origin), red cross (has the word cross in it so it must be wrong), salvation army (forget it), greenpece (political), donating to food banks at the holidays (why help someone celebrate a pagan holiday?
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Out of the mouths of babes
by dissonance_resolved insince i started my fade, i've been really worried about my kids being taken to meetings by my husband and continuing to be indoctrinated.
i guess i needn't have worried, though, the wt is digging their own grave for me.
below is verbatim my young daughter's notes from a recent meeting (though names have been changed):.
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Swimming In the Pool or Going to the Meeting - A Real Tough Decision
by Comatose injoke.
man, its nice to be free.
what did you do today instead?.
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Health care proxy
by dissonance_resolved ini wanted to get some input on how to handle the health proxy issue going forward.
i'm a fader, inactive now for about two years.
my husband and family are all still in.
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Some updates made to digital publications may not yet appear in the printed editions
by dissonance_resolved inthis is the new disclaimer at the bottom of the downloads page of jw.org.
pretty soon the old versions will all just go down the memory hole and they will think they are in control of the past..