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  What's the most thought-provoking novel you've ever read?

  by lucky in

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  i'd have to say for me that it was ayn rand's the fountainhead.

  even though i don't agree with a lot of her philosophy, it definitely made me stumble around in a thought-induced haze for a few weeks after reading it.

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  scotsman

  While I agree with Hesse, Dostoyevsky, Garcia Marquez & Harper Lee as though provoking novelists, the most for me was The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood. I read it while travelling in California and identified with the main character so strongly at the time that it hurt. I remember being in Yosemite feeling completely overwhelmed and unable to tell the Witness friends I was with because it meant telling them the deep dark secret about my sexuality. Took me 10 more years to tell them.

  Have to add Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon but unless you're Scottish it's unlikely you'll have heard of it.
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  JWs and breastfeeding past infancy

  by rebel8 in

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  my jw mother breastfed my sibs so long they remember it.

  one she stopped feeding when she went to kingergarten; i kid you not.

  my mother justified it by saying moses' mother breastfed him until whatever age and the bible encourages it.

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  scotsman

  when we see something that goes beyond what we are used to, we tend to react to it.

  It's just a shame that the reaction has to be one of disgust.
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  JWs and breastfeeding past infancy

  by rebel8 in

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  my jw mother breastfed my sibs so long they remember it.

  one she stopped feeding when she went to kingergarten; i kid you not.

  my mother justified it by saying moses' mother breastfed him until whatever age and the bible encourages it.

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  scotsman

  I just want to know about the JW philosophy.

  There isn't one.
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  Children of the 80's!

  by MelbaToast in

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  alright, i admit, i was a child of the 80s (or what i can remember) but the real reason for this thread is i have noticed that there is quite a few of people on this site that are close to me in age or just a little bit younger or older.

  i will be 28 in june.

  i think that this period in my life is a deep questioning period, because at younger ages i didnt give a flip about anything jw or ex-jw for that matter.

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  scotsman

  For a long time I thought that TV wouldn't get better than Dangermouse but then along came Willo the Wisp! I have it on DVD and it's fabulous.

  The Witness kids here didn't go rollerblading, we went ice skating on Friday nights. It meant we could hold hands. Then some youg punk of a brother got involved in a fight and was discovered to be carrying a knife - ice skating became BAAAD.
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  What's the best way to FADE away from the JW's?

  by JH in

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  what do you think is the best way to fade away from the jw org, without being df'd and without being bothered by them?.

  just stop going and not answer their calls?.

  change congregation, and never show up?.

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  scotsman

  Stopping seems to immerse you in trauma but ultimately moves your life on. Fading seems to result in prolonged angst and doesn't guarantee you'll avoid that trauma.

  I've watched my sister-in-law fade for 6 years and it's like watching someone with a degenerative terminal illness as they withdraw into themselves. I opted for the cardiac arrest.
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  What if either Adam or Eve had remained perfect?

  by Sith in

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  i've never heard this addressed before.

  according to the wts, joe hoba didn't destroy adam and eve when they sinned, because that would have only proven his power...that he could destroy that which he created.

  he allowed them to stay alive and multiply so that he could prove the rightness of his rule and to answer satan's criticism.

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  scotsman

  Noddy and Big ears were not actually gay but lived in sin with Cinderella outside the garden. They would have brought forth a race of much nicer people.

  LoL.
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  Is 2034 ''New Light''?

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  bear with me.

  over the years jw have always strived after/prophesied (even though they deny this) a carrot ''date''.

  as dates come and go, we hear about ''new light'', but according to the wt :-a new view of truth never can contradict a former truth.

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  scotsman

  The only place I've heard 2034 being discussed as a possibly important date is on this board. My family are all still Dubs and none of them think that 2003 WT article was suggesting 2034 as significant. My mother thinks the Big A is coming this year for no other reason than gut feeling, and I have a great aunt who expects it every October, so they're not averse to entertaining dates.

  Are we possibly projecting a little? We have enough sh*t on them without making it up.
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  What's the best way to FADE away from the JW's?

  by JH in

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  what do you think is the best way to fade away from the jw org, without being df'd and without being bothered by them?.

  just stop going and not answer their calls?.

  change congregation, and never show up?.

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  scotsman

  Tell them you're depressed and having doubts and that you're taking a break, let them "shepherd" you no more than twice then say you'll contact them if you need them. Be firm. Crucially, you have to stop hanging out with Witnesses so that you're not percieved as a threat.

  No one's going to make me run away from a city I love.
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  Needle exchange opened today across from my shop

  by orbison11 in

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  i (we) are fuming, chilliwack is a small town outside vancouver , bout 100,000. our only needle exchange was ousted from their temporary spot to right across from my shop, i am a small nail/esthetics women only shop,,,,,needless to say i am livid, along with the senior condo ($180,000) owners across and beside.

  i, along with a retired prominent lawyer, and many businesses, a[t managers are going on an all out assault.

  it is called,,,o.c.t.

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  Needle exchange opened today across from my shop

  by orbison11 in

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  i (we) are fuming, chilliwack is a small town outside vancouver , bout 100,000. our only needle exchange was ousted from their temporary spot to right across from my shop, i am a small nail/esthetics women only shop,,,,,needless to say i am livid, along with the senior condo ($180,000) owners across and beside.

  i, along with a retired prominent lawyer, and many businesses, a[t managers are going on an all out assault.

  it is called,,,o.c.t.

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  scotsman

  Needles exchanges don't work. Addicts should be rounded into institutions and drug dealers shot. Period. Let's take the Singaporean apporach, I mean, we've already lost our democracy.

  Needle exchanges do work in reducing the spread of infection and research indicates that there is not an increase in intravenous drug use where an exchange is available. See the Report on the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic, June 2000 courtesy of UNAIDS.