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Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i am inactive for about 10 years now..
19
Dinosaurs.
by bobert in
1. jw
2. friends
as a jw i always believed that dinosaurs at one point existed.

my whole family did, almost all the jws i knew did.

one time i was out for dinner, and one of the people with us was convinced that they never existed.
50
My daughter's wedding dilemma
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.
33
Did other JWs judge you? What for?
by Julia Orwell in
1. jw
2. friends
some judged me for going/having gone to university.

some judged me for being 'too smart.

' some judged my non jw brother for being in the army.
35
Live Forever on a Paradise Earth
by HeyThere in
1. watchtower
2. bible
sometimes this sounds good...but....forever?

forever in a jw idea of perfection?

does this mean no sports, or detective tv shows, or bad neighborhoods?
20
Look! It was very good or: Evil in the Animal Kingdom
by TheOldHippie in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have fed a number of birds regularly thru winter, and among the species were some doves.

this spring, two of them took a liking for each other and teamed up.

for a couple of weeks, extensive construction work was jointly done and resulted in a nice little nest, undoubtedly a cosy home for the small family which expected to multiply.
20
Do you still keep in touch with the Witnesses?
by Iamallcool in
1. jw
2. friends
37
10 Pragmatic facts why Jehovah's Witnesses can't face reality
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations and meanings.. a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.. b.no higher education is to be pursued.. c.no non-jw friends or associations are encouraged with their "outside" points of view.. d.no free-style questioning of doctrine or criticism permitted.

curiousity is verboten.. e.threat of being "marked" or disassociated looms over them.

2.between every real-world event and the rank and file jw's mind is a roadblock.. a.the moment of identifying is short-circuited by an interpretive moment of re-labeling in watchtower-speak.. b.all things happening are forced into a narrow storyline and propagandized as end times happenings leading to armageddon.. 3.social and personal identity is expunged and replaced by a collective persona: "jehovah's witness".. a.private thinking is red-flagged as selfish and sinful.. b.personal improvement, welfare and ambition is crushed and door-to-door ministry substituted as "worthy" endeavors.. c.self-conscious obsession permeates witness awareness as each person is transformed into a public spectacle of performance for judgement.. d.since you aren't an individual you don't really have a right to fall in love and marry or educate or earn.
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Another night, another JW dream
by MrMonroe in
1. jw
2. experiences
such a ripoff when you dream you're back at the damn meetings.

i once dreamed a local (rather liberal-minded) elder, jack hoogendoorn, was smoking a cigar while he was giving a talk on the platform.. last night i was back there again: one elder who suddenly decided he was going to be "encouraging" gave me the latest stats on baptisms, while someone else i was meant to go witnessing with was not-so-subtly probing me about how many magazines i'd been placing lately.

i chose not to tell them i had decided against placing mags any more.
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DF'ed and Confused...
by Stumbeline in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i think the title pretty much says it all.

i have a tendancy to be long winded about things, so i'll just give a general introduction and maybe tell things as i go along.

i don't even really know what i want from this site (ironically i remember jehovahs-witness.net mentioned from the platform as a site not to go to).