Don't become emotionaly attached to JW.com

by sleepy 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Perry

  It really is kinda funny how the personas online are perceived differently than in person. There is one poster here that has a very different opinion in many ways that I do. I doubt that we would have ever become good on-line buddies. Anyway, after he ribbed me a little, he let me know who he was privately. We were roommates and even pioneered together years ago!

  I begged him to come down and he drove several hundred miles to get here one weekend. We had a blast, broke bread, had a few beers, reminisced about the past, philosophized, pontificated, and definitely re-affirmed our friendship. We both found out that we had some definite commonality. The commonality was far more valuable that any difference of opinion, and there are several. But really, what more could a person ask for in a friend than they share core values?

  The way I feel about it is that, although validation and understanding is extremely important when exiting, eventually we’ll get tired of only talking to people that agree with us and move on to core values regardless of where the opinions go from there.

  This board has been very helpful for me. Thank you Simon for providing this!

  UADNA-TX
  Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America
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  ozziepost

  Just like going to the Kingdom Hall, really!

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "If our hopes for peace are placed in the hands of imperfect people, they are bound to evaporate."

  
  - Ron Hutchcraft Surviving the Storms of Stress
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  Beck_Melbourne

  That's pretty cool Perry...I have often wondered if people have bumped into old acquaintances from their past on here. Not everyone posts their pic, so how would you know sometimes.

  Cool story...wish it would happen to me

  Beck
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  ozziepost

  Beck,

  Wonder no more! Some in NSW knew each other in their Dub days and some in the USA did too.

  Just a happy family really!

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "If our hopes for peace are placed in the hands of imperfect people, they are bound to evaporate."

  
  - Ron Hutchcraft Surviving the Storms of Stress
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  plmkrzy

  Not just 'good' emotional attachments...but the bad ones too..the ones where a poster really gets under your skin and you want to poke them in the eyes with red hot pokers...sorry...that was a bit too graphic...and I NEVER thought about doing that to another poster on here...honest

  BECK...ROTFLM ars O

  I wasn't goint to post here, just skimming then I read that, LOL.

  I myself am trying a New approach. Stay Away from really twisted people.

  "I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
  Some happy,some sad"

  styx
  
  This one most definitely Happy
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  butalbee

  Yes, I am emotionally attached to this site. I live, breath, and sleep JW.com. It has ripped into my personally life and keeps me at my computer for countless hours each day. Although, in my case I have no personal life soooooooo guess this addiction isn't really that bad...do need a new hobby though, but what???????? Hmmmmmm???? Think I'll start new sex thread--there--that'll do as my make-shift hobby......
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  Solace

  butalbee,
  Your so naughty!
  No need for you to start a new one, as soon as you arrive it instantly becomes a sex thread.
  sigh,,,,,, I guess for some people it just comes naturally.
  
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  rhett

  Yes, I must agree with this topic. Its a website to talk about JW stuff. This isn't a nice new family to replace the one you lost in the JW's. For some people it may lead to more in real life but for the majority of us its nothing more than a website. Computer interactions are just that. They're not real life and can't replace it. If this place is your family or anything even resembling it you might want to consider turning the computer off for a while and going outside. That is not a healthy thing.
  Flower, you talked about going and talking to people in real life about JW stuff and moving on. That's good. Keep doing that. Talking about people you know online as family. That's bad. That's delusional.
  A certain other poster talks about how they have no life so they talk about sex on here. That's sad. Are you writing from experience? You have to wonder about anyone who writes about sex so much yet also writes about this site being their life. You can say you're as attractive as you want to be online. Once again, don't get so attached to a website folks.
  Go outside people. Come here on your free time to talk about JW stuff. This website isn't your family. Your family is the group of people who have the same blood as you.

  I don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
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  flower

  rhett, youre entitled to your opinion. however i disagree. i dont think i'm delusional because i have made friends or a family of sorts here.

  there are four people here right now with the same blood as me running through their veins sitting in their rooms or sleeping. I've not heard a word from any of them all day and for months in a couple of cases. They care less about me than they do a total stranger in some other kingdom hall. They treat me as though i am a sick, wicked, child of satan. there hate is written all over their faces when i look at them. if there were a legal way for them to get rid of me and keep my child to raise in the org they would do it in a heart beat. they do all possible to make life worse for me and harder for me. i cannot count on even a couple of dollars for gas when times are tough. to sit up with a cup of tea and talk is unheard of for me in this 'family', something i have never experienced. I could never be myself or express myself or ask for advice in my family.

  My real life family hates my guts so I've found other ways to fill in the voids. I'm well aware of what this board is and what its not. But if I consider this my surrogate family while I am healing and trying to adjust to the real world who are you to say its delusional?

  If you think that because you state something is 'bad' or 'delusional' or 'unhealthy' that makes it so then you are the one who is delusional.

  flower