Have you a POSITIVE JW experience??

by ScoobySnax 59 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  Well, let me say it in this way. You know how when you're really sick---you have massive headaches, cramps, constipation, you're violently throwing up,have unstoppable nausea, the runs, and you wish you could just die??? Then suddenly, relief starts occuring. You start to be able to lift your head up, get out of bed, and actually feel good again! That's how I might compare the "positiveJW experience". You don't realize how good life is until after you've experienced being a Jehovah's Witness.
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  Mary

  LittleToe said: Yes, there was that aloof feeling that you got when folks on TV quizzes didn't know basic bible questions like "What is the first book of the bible?".

  Or something simple like: "The names of the 3 Hebrews cast into the fire for not worshipping Ba'al." I mean, come on, doesn't everyone know the answer to that?
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  OldSoul

  Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah
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  luna2

  I'm a very conventional sort of person and very rarely tested limits even as a teen. I can even remember as an adolescent sort of polling older friends and relatives trying to determine if I was within "normal" parameters or not. I was very worried about what people thought of me.

  Becoming a JW helped pull me out of the box and let me see what it was like not being like the majority of people around me (my children and I were the only ones in our family living the JW life). Of course, I was pulled from one box only to be put into another, even more restrictive box as a Witness, but now that I'm finally out, I think I can look more clearly at various customs and practices in society and decide to participate or not based on what *I* really want to do and not what other people think I should be doing.
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  Thegoodgirl

  Luna: I agree, it forced us to think. We had to "think our way out of a cult" which is not easy! That's the best thing it taught me.

  Mary: yes, absolutely! My husband always looks over at me when there's a Biblical question, especially if we're with a group of people. He's proud of my useless facts, and so am I !

  I too learned a lot from preparing presentations and rebuttals "at the door" at like 10 years old. It also helps to develop a professional side (at 10 years old). Learned to stand up for what I beleive is right, though I'm more of a pushover now, I think. Yes, learning to be friends with older people, especially if they are the only other pioneers, so you hang out like three days a week.

  I thought it was Ashak, Michack, and Abednigo...
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  Markfromcali

  "Klatu, Verata, N..."
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  LittleToe

  OS:
  I'm impressed that you recall the Hebrew names. Most only remember their Babylonian ones

  An extra point for anyone who can remember songs that use their Babylonian names?
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  FMZ

  I think the word you are looking for is "Nicto" Mark. :P

  FMZ
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  DannyHaszard

  Prior posters attribute WT/JW experience to staying clean and sober,non smoker.

  Yup,Jim Jones and David Koresh helped many of their disciples stay clean and sober up too.
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  whyamihere

  My brother stopped being a Pot head and got a Job!....lol I like him better when he smoked pot. Well you win and loose.

  Brooke