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Could an EX-JW Dating Site work?
by Bourne 72 Replies latest social relationships
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Bourne
sweetstuff said -----"It could work I think, biggest problem would be matching people up with where they "are". I know I wouldn't want to get involved with someone who didn't celebrate the holidays or still had some of the jw mindset. But other than that, I think it could be a good idea."
I agree. A solution would be to include a unique filter for our site to add to the usual filters (religion, children,political leanings, etc.) . This could be: Religious Status: Pick one: athiest. agnostic. spiritual but not religious. Fading but still in. Successfully Faded.....but paranoid. DF but still ( relatively) moral, no holidays. DF and HAVIN' FUN,BABY! JW apologist in the vein of Ray Franz. Full Hedonist Mode....anything goes. -
Blackboo
Im not looking to date...jus chill and get to know someone with the experience of being a JW..that would make for endless conversations....no ice-breakers or nothing..24 black male around Houston, Texas area ex-sista's holla!
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JWdaughter
Too bad I'm married. I'd so go for. . .well a couple of you:)
I don't really think I would seek out ex-JWs as a mate, but I definitely would as friends, and that is occasionally where friendship goes-for SINGLES!!! Personally, while it would be nice to have a mate that understood some of the reactions I have to various JW news tidbits, we all have an extra dose of mucked up. Might make for some impaired children or something.
I am training my daughter about the weird JW things, so she is becoming appropriately pissed at the religion. I am trying to inoculate her, and in the process I am finding out that this stuff IS as weird and twisted as we all believe it to be. My daughter is BRIGHT! Barely 16 and in college and working. She knows stupid when she sees it. Then again, she is smart enough not to get me arguing (with her) too:)
Shelly
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FlyingHighNow
I'd have to say that I agree with this:
I don't really think I would seek out ex-JWs as a mate,
It would depend on if the person was raised as a JW. I have found that people who were raised as JW's and were involved in it very much as teens and young adults tend (though not always) to be much more affected by the religion, even after they have left. They tend to display more guilt over lifestyle issues. Someone not raised as a JW will be less affected by the religion. If I ever get married again, I don't want to deal with JW attitudes about women, marriage, gays, etc. I guess if the person was exceptional and I was very, very, very much in love with him and him in love with me, it might make a difference though.
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nvrgnbk
I agree. A solution would be to include a unique filter for our site to add to the usual filters (religion, children,political leanings, etc.) . This could be: Religious Status: Pick one: athiest. agnostic. spiritual but not religious. Fading but still in. Successfully Faded.....but paranoid. DF but still ( relatively) moral, no holidays. DF and HAVIN' FUN,BABY! JW apologist in the vein of Ray Franz. Full Hedonist Mode....anything goes.
Your "filter" is full of potential contradictions, Bourne.
Or if you're Blackboo, for example, you'll want to indicate how unimpressed you are by facts and logic (see If you dont believe in God...according to the bible you are a fool!)
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dawg
Hard to say... this city has a lot of lovely ladies, some are 35 or so and grad students trying to get their PHDs.... so it really not too damn hard to find a nice lady with big brains here to date... and Its hard to say if it'd be good to date an ex-JW, on some levesl yes, you'd have something to talk about....
And like some have said, it's depend on what levels the ex-JW had reached... I'm free of this cult and have absolutley no intentions of ever entering a KH ever again... But there are lonely people out there.. I will say that the only reason I visit this site is to enoucrage others to speak out against the cult, as I feel that we may be able to help others get away becasue they'res streenth in numbers,, but its also nice to have people to talk to that understand what I feel... But would you want to hear this all the time? Hard to say, maybe if the relationship could have something other than this to focus on.
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Bourne
nvrgnbk said "Your "filter" is full of potential contradictions, Bourne."
Well,
1. While I am serious about my proposal, as I was typing the list, I felt like joking around a bit, but if YOU are serious, how so?
2. Isn't the membership spectrum here a contradiction, what with the wide range of religious (or non) beliefs? Surely you enjoy this diversity among us.
Bourne, of the "can't we all just get along?" sheep class.
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sweetstuff
It would depend on if the person was raised as a JW. I have found that people who were raised as JW's and were involved in it very much as teens and young adults tend (though not always) to be much more affected by the religion, even after they have left. They tend to display more guilt over lifestyle issues. Someone not raised as a JW will be less affected by the religion. If I ever get married again, I don't want to deal with JW attitudes about women, marriage, gays, etc. I guess if the person was exceptional and I was very, very, very much in love with him and him in love with me, it might make a difference though.
I don't really agree with that, I think those who grew up in it, feel less guilty knowing that they had no choice, they didn't walk into a kingdom hall as an adult and say, please take me to paradise. But its an individual thing I guess.
Flying High Now, I am sorry If I am mistaken, but I thought you were in love and very happy, with a guy named Andy. Perhaps I am mistaken, I thought I read a thread about you and him and him having an accident a while back.
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nvrgnbk
Surely you enjoy this diversity among us.
I do.
Very much.
But for starters, you can be both spiritual and atheist or agnostic.
And about morality, you really must define what it is you're talking about.
Some people think it's "moral" till livestock comes into the picture.
LOL!