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  WOW!!! Really enjoyed it!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  i have to report that i enjoyed the christmas pageant very much last evening.. told hubby i was attending an event from work and off i went; returned home around 9:30 p.m.. i'm telling you all, one thing is read about jesus christ's life, death, and resurrection in the bible, and a much more different experience is to see in enacted.

  it was so vivid i almost cried a couple of times, because it touched me so.

  the customs, the music, the sound, the stage, all those animals parading around, even a couple of camels!

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  Country Girl,

  Yes, real animals! Goats, donkeys, horses, sheep, camels. It was awesome!

  All,

  There was filming going on during the presentation. With my luck, I'll be in it and that'll be enough to start the lynching mob.

  So be it.

  DY
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  WOW!!! Really enjoyed it!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. jw
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  i have to report that i enjoyed the christmas pageant very much last evening.. told hubby i was attending an event from work and off i went; returned home around 9:30 p.m.. i'm telling you all, one thing is read about jesus christ's life, death, and resurrection in the bible, and a much more different experience is to see in enacted.

  it was so vivid i almost cried a couple of times, because it touched me so.

  the customs, the music, the sound, the stage, all those animals parading around, even a couple of camels!

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  Oh, yes, Gumby,

  The meetings will be even more boring now that I have something to compare them to!

  The drama at the assemblies is the only thing I enjoy. The talks and admonishments are all the same I've been hearing all my life. A few times I've told my husband that my attendance to the Sunday meeting depends greatly on whether the talk is one I haven't heard in a while matched with the speaker being some one I hadn't heard or someone I know doesn't make me sleepy. And sometimes, if the Watchtower study is crap I'm sick of hearing, or doctrines I disagree with or couldn't care less about, that's it, I'm gone 1/2 way into the meeting.

  You all must admit, though, that I am making some progress in my journey out of the tentacles of this huge cultish/religious monster.

  DY
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  WOW!!! Really enjoyed it!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. jw
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  i have to report that i enjoyed the christmas pageant very much last evening.. told hubby i was attending an event from work and off i went; returned home around 9:30 p.m.. i'm telling you all, one thing is read about jesus christ's life, death, and resurrection in the bible, and a much more different experience is to see in enacted.

  it was so vivid i almost cried a couple of times, because it touched me so.

  the customs, the music, the sound, the stage, all those animals parading around, even a couple of camels!

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  Dansk,

  Indoctrination and mind-control is such a terrible thing! I mean, I was expecting for something to go tragically wrong the whole night, even in my drive home from the place. But nothing did, everything was so peaceful, and nice.

  I know when I finally decide to do away with the whole org, I'll need professional help to overcome life-long planted fears and prejudice.

  DY
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  WOW!!! Really enjoyed it!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have to report that i enjoyed the christmas pageant very much last evening.. told hubby i was attending an event from work and off i went; returned home around 9:30 p.m.. i'm telling you all, one thing is read about jesus christ's life, death, and resurrection in the bible, and a much more different experience is to see in enacted.

  it was so vivid i almost cried a couple of times, because it touched me so.

  the customs, the music, the sound, the stage, all those animals parading around, even a couple of camels!

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  Hi y'all!

  I have to report that I enjoyed the Christmas Pageant very much last evening.

  Told hubby I was attending an event from work and off I went; returned home around 9:30 p.m.

  I'm telling you all, one thing is read about Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection in the Bible, and a much more different experience is to see in enacted. It was so vivid I almost cried a couple of times, because it touched me so.

  The customs, the music, the sound, the stage, all those animals parading around, even a couple of camels! It was all so magnificent!!!!!! I loved it!!!

  And then in the end all the people that were part of this play, came out to the audience all in their customs to say good bye and wish a merry Christmas. It was all so beautifully done and so touching.

  I can't say enough how much I enjoyed it. And.......... NO DEMONS, just lots of happy, nice people. There must have been easily over 500 people to this showing. It was absolutely wonderful. If invited again next year, I'll definitely go.

  You guys were so right on!!!

  DY
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  What Might've Kept You Still In The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  some people left the organization because of the united nations scam, 1975, the "generation" change, child abuse issues, not feeling the "love" of the brotherhood, etc.

  in all honesty, is there something----that if it hadn't happened----would have kept you still in?

  for example, if the child abuse issues were resolved properly, perhaps, some of those that left because of the mishandling, might still be at the meetings.

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  I'm mentally, emotionally, even by their standards spiritually gone from the Org. What still keeps me physically there is the fact that I love my parents and husband too much, and they're fanatic JWs that I'm sure would choose the Org over me any given day. I'm not ready to deal with that just yet.

  DY
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  Which is worse - a JW wedding or a JW funeral?

  by jgnat in

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  besides the regular stress that all brides go through, a jw couple must worry about being caught in inappropriate behavior through the engagement period, thereby nixing a kh wedding.

  and then there is the stress of the invitation list.

  who must be shunned, is so-and-so of an approved state to attend, etc, etc, etc.. then there is the jw funeral, or jw participants in a regular funeral.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Equally silly. Same old sermon for the wedding, and same old resurrection/paradise sales pitch on the funeral. I don't go to anymore, unless is an extremelly close friend and I can't get out of it, just to the cemetery/burial; and I don't go the KH wedding, just to the party if invited.

  DY
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  What Type of Personality Are You Drawn To?

  by minimus in

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  ....????

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Drawn to controlling types. Will get some professional help some day to break this habit.

  DY
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  Calling all - PLEASE!!! Big Step For Me.

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  now, please remember, jw my entire life.

  therefore, many prejudiced and warped ideas.. the deal is that a very nice co-worker invited me to a 'christmas play' at her baptist church and i accepted.

  the play is tonight, and i have all these messed-up ideas that perhaps it's wrong to step foot into another church; or that perhaps since i've been taught all my life that demons reside in the false religion churches that i'll be bothered by these demons if i attend this event tonight.. please, help me win over these live-long thoughts.

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  Thanks to all, and please the ones that haven't yet, pretty please, go for it and post your experiences in this regard.

  I definitely will go tonight to the Christmas Pageant, but I don't think I'll tell my husband what it is or where it's being held. That'd probably be the official end of my days as a Witness, which at this time I'm not ready for because my parents are very important to me and they're staunch fanatic Witnesses.

  The other people and co-workers that have attended have been delighted by this presentation. I know it'll be a great time and a totally different experience.

  Thanks to all of you for your support and words of encouragement.

  DY
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  Calling all - PLEASE!!! Big Step For Me.

  by Doubtfully Yours in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  now, please remember, jw my entire life.

  therefore, many prejudiced and warped ideas.. the deal is that a very nice co-worker invited me to a 'christmas play' at her baptist church and i accepted.

  the play is tonight, and i have all these messed-up ideas that perhaps it's wrong to step foot into another church; or that perhaps since i've been taught all my life that demons reside in the false religion churches that i'll be bothered by these demons if i attend this event tonight.. please, help me win over these live-long thoughts.

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  Now, please remember, JW my entire life. Therefore, many prejudiced and warped ideas.

  The deal is that a very nice co-worker invited me to a 'Christmas Play' at her Baptist church and I accepted. The play is tonight, and I have all these messed-up ideas that perhaps it's wrong to step foot into another church; or that perhaps since I've been taught all my life that demons reside in the false religion churches that I'll be bothered by these demons if I attend this event tonight.

  PLEASE, help me win over these live-long thoughts.

  Look forward anxiously to your responses.

  DY
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  The Happiest place on earth...Kingdom Hall

  by integ in

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  i was invited to attend the latest visit from the circuit overseer last week.

  what timely admonishment.

  he brought out how we should not tire out in the race for life.

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  Doubtfully Yours

  Not for me. At be at my happiest the day I don't have to enter a KH ever again!!!

  DY