I think my first time was just after the events of 9/11.There was an impromptu concert that came together at the UM campus. The vocal music department s well as singers from all over the area joined to make one huge choir. We sang the national anthem, among other patriotic songs and it felt so good to join in.
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14My first flag salute and national anthem!
by White Dove ini've come a long way, baby!
i stood for the national anthem for the first time ever at graduation on sunday.. i saluted the flag for the first time ever at a community event last night.. it was surreal and felt wonderful, like i was doing something so natural and good.. when i put my hand over my heart for the first time, it felt very strange.
i had to think for a minute if i used the proper hand over the right place.
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Looking for Old Friends
by Wordly Andre ini'm going to start this topic, i know some of us know people who have left before we did, and have lost touch.
so i'll go first, i am looking for jennifer n. of lancaster/palmdale ca area, she had a son and i use to hang out with margie.
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Emma
Sandy and Ernie Harrington, Canada. They were at Canadian Bethel for a few years until the birth of their first child. I think they may have lived somewhere in Quebec after that.
Any of the Maycut family from central Pennsylvania.
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Today i picked up my greyhound, and his name is.....
by digderidoo infranky!!!.
thanks guys for all your suggestions, but i ended up choosing the one based on his race name franks bypass.. paul.
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Emma
We had a rescued greyhound named Harrison. He was the best pet ever! They know they've been rescued and show their appreciation.
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Crisis Mode! Advice please!
by 5thGeneration ini am in deep shite!.
haven't been to a meeting for a year.
rumours are rampant in canada as my family is 'prominent'.. p.o.
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Emma
I've been there. I told my mother that I would not discuss the situation and to leave my children alone; that's when the shunning began in all seriousness. Sometimes you just can't fade, you just have to take a stand. I hope everything turns out the way you wish.
YOU are the head of your household NOT your dad
Yup!
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Looking for Old Friends
by Wordly Andre ini'm going to start this topic, i know some of us know people who have left before we did, and have lost touch.
so i'll go first, i am looking for jennifer n. of lancaster/palmdale ca area, she had a son and i use to hang out with margie.
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Emma
My best friend from when I was young, Linda Galka. Her last name was Gapin the last time we were in contact.
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Thank you, Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society!
by David_R ini wanted to say thank you to the wbts for enforcing a 'no-contact' rule on all those that have left the organization.. only by experiencing first-hand my former best-friends treating me like a complete stranger (see 'garbage') for standing up for my own beliefs was i finally able to tell the society 'good-bye' forever and not feel guilty about it.. i know this was not the wbts's intention from the alienation practice.
it's intention was to make me feel guilty and lonely enough to come back to them.
however, it has backfired on them and finally given me my freedom.. thank you, society, for lacking kindness and understanding.
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Welcome and amen. My family made the break so much easier by complete shunning. But they'll never be allowed to figure that out.
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Announcement: They Clapped!
by metatron inweird.
after the letter was read, many clapped.
i don't know how to interpret that.. .
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Emma
So where are they getting their serious spiritual food? Sounds like they've gone to fast food that no one will ever remember "eating." Of course no one will ever look at it that way.
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I took the red pill (with a cool, crisp glass of Fresca)
by Sebastian Melmoth ini am absolutely thrilled to find this site!
i just took the red pill of reality and all i can saw is wow!
i had no idea the borg was so hypocritical and twisted.
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Emma
Hey Sebasitan! Loved your post. It starts my day off with a chuckle and a smile. Welcome! Keep us posted on your extricating yourself from both closets.
Emma
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April Awake....signs occur "all one time period"...what is it???
by oompa injust read in the april 2008 awake on page 5 under "what is the sign" : "the events that jesus mentioned--wars, earthquakes pestilences, food shortages---would not be new in themselves.
they have been happening since early in human history.
the difference would be that they would all occur in one time period.
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Emma
I guess it still amazes me that Witnesses work to fail.
If only they could see that this is what they're doing. It all goes back to them having to accept the gb/wts as speaking for god; after you get them believing that, you can sell them anything.
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JW membership turnover - a real-life study
by besty inmuch has been commented here on how jw's rely on an ever-changing membership for keeping their 'the sky is falling, the world is ending' doctrine fresh.. recently it was posted that fully 2/3 of born-in jw's leave at some point, and i thought you might like to see how this works in practice.. so lets take sam and i and our extended families - we were both born and brought up jw's.
start with me.
mum and dad were converted in the 1950's.
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Emma
My family is a bit smaller but
'60 - grandma, mom, me and two sisters
'70's and '80's, me mom, two sisters+husbands, my husband, four kids=11
90's I woke up and left, my four kids came with me, ex-husband out but still thinks it's the truff
My two sisters and one bil are left, no kids. Sweet! Three left.
I hadn't looked at it this way before!