missing the JWD glory days

by fresh prince of ohio 46 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Iamallcool
    Iamallcool
  • fresh prince of ohio
    fresh prince of ohio

    Lamallcool, sorry to learn of that. I believe I spoke with him on the phone once, great guy. :(

  • steve2
    steve2

    Thanks fresh prince of ohio for putting me onto that thread by Leolaia from several years ago - her concise and incisive overview of Watchtower history is worth keeping! When seen in the light of retrospective, what we called "the Truth" is utter man-contrived and controlled paranoia. JWD is the place to see the TATT free from religious baggage.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    JWN is definitely a much slower moving board than JWD. It has changed, this is true. It's okay to be nostalgic. Then we can MAKE today. But I know what you mean. I first found this board in 2001.

  • free @ last
    free @ last

    So was H2O an exclusively JW/xjw board? What exactly happened to it? Why the mass exodus? Doesn't seem like it exits today.

  • still thinking
    still thinking

    The regulars at that time said we "disrupted their quite little 'coffee shop' atmosphere."...Farkel

    Can't please everyone...especially people who HATE change and like to have everything their own way.

    I've seen comments like that about people fairly recently...and how the forum NEVER used to be so divisive...I call it, selective vision about the 'good old days'.

    I've read a few of the old threads...and there was no coffee shop atmosphere (not in the old threads I've read anyway)...and those good old days look very much like today. Only the names have changed.

  • d
    d

    I have been on this forum for only 3 yrs and I do not see many changes.

  • talesin
    talesin

    Well, I for one am feckin' tired of conversing with a 'new' person on here, only to find out they are really 'old' with a new name ... it's like being spied on ............... just learned something new in THIS thread. You know me, but pretend you don't ...

    Methinks I need to take a break for a while.

    tal

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    The coffee shop atmosphere was partly due to much lower numbers of people posting and that this board was not an ex jw board at first. The disruption was in posting big things about the WTBTS, more than it was personal vendettas between factions.

    Right now, things are more like they've always been as far as peacefulness goes. People don't have to agree all the time, but they don't have to draw battle lines and war everyday, in groups, either.

  • Paralipomenon
    Paralipomenon

    When I signed up there were many more "factions". Each had their own core members and there wasn't much fraternizing.

    Let's see, there was Thom's place, that was smaller and seemed like a close knit group

    Englishman's forum where you would find some really deep debates

    JWO, where all the ex-JW trolls thrived

    and JWD which was the largest and often the target of "board wars"

    Some interesting times, more drama than midday soaps!

    Edit: I think the biggest difference is that other than BBXB, most of the ex-jw communities get along with each other now.

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