Don't love him, but respect him for the bold move that jostled me out of compliance with a parasitic organization. Thanks, Ray.
Phaedra
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In The Name of Love, Need Your Opinion
by thankyou ini'm non-jw.. been following this forum.
most of you folks have been through hell, but are still loving souls.
i'm reeeally impressed and glad to be here.. my question is at the end of this.
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Are JWs trying to make dysfunctional kids and destroy their ability to live normal lives?
by C0ntr013r inare jws trying to make dysfunctional kids that wont "fit" in normal society so they will "return to jehovah"?
because there have been many stories about young people who have been out in the world only to find how bad it was and how correct the org was.. a good jw kid with "good" jw parents will have many big issues, some examples:.
fear of demons (fear, misfit).
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As a dysfunctional adult post-jw, trying to correct the damage of the first 30 years of my life, I can say they do a great job. -
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Creepy things jw's have said to you
by purrpurr inhere's mine: i'm 14 years old, just baptised and a old boy married elder of about 60 odd comes up to me and says " ooooooooooh!
"purrpurr"!
your getting such a lovely figure on you!
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Phaedra
Really the whole mindset of JWs is twisted. Spent lots of time in car groups where it seemed the only way to cope with the ongoing rejection was to visualize the just desserts of householders at Armageddon. Taking their nice houses after the fact seemed passive aggressive, and when you believe you're supposed to be the happiest people in the world, the behavior makes sense.
Not creepy, but the elder who made a point of telling us about the pagan roots of knotted pretzels... and to be sure we broke them before eating them (=bad if we didn't). Bet he didn't touch a fortune cookie with a ten-foot pole.
I still can't look at pretzels like a normal person.
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Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?
by Wonderment ini wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.
could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?
perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.
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It's connection... of so many kinds.
For those with family in, it's a unique connection to keep some sanity.
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JW's correlation to franchise business
by jeremiah18:5-10 ini operate a 31 restaurant franchise.
it is no small task.
the franchise is a well known american company and a rapidly growing one.
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JW's correlation to franchise business
by jeremiah18:5-10 ini operate a 31 restaurant franchise.
it is no small task.
the franchise is a well known american company and a rapidly growing one.
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Phaedra
Hi Jeremiah,
Are you hiring? I'm about to be unemployed in IL.
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So How'd you like your Last Resting Place?
by snugglebunny inlike this perhaps?
it is pretty cool after all... .
(i took both of these pics and the difference was, well, obvious!).
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JAMES WOODS is in the hospital (heart related)
by Terry injames woods has been a long time regular on this discussion group in all of its incarnations.. he had some kind of "heart-attack" and has been in dallas' emergency ward for several days.
he also has a blood clot doctors are working to break up.. 972-261-4412 is his cell number.. he was in a talking mood yesterday afternoon.. i bet it wouldn't kill him to get some well-wishes.. james goes back a long way as an ex-jw.
he knows where the bodies are buried :).
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Does it ever just hit you...It all may be a dream
by LevelThePlayingField inthat the paradise may or may not be real?
that the things you have been taught for many years from the jehovah's witnesses may not really be as they say?
has it really ever really hit you with that "pow" of reality ever?
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Phaedra
My JW reality never questioned the paradise. As a raised-in, I always believed what I was being taught was real, and I might never die or grow old in this system of things. When I found myself outside the box, I was not only embarrassed at the naivety of belief, but have experienced depression and embarrassment ever since.
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WOL Alumni? (Big Ray's Witnesses Online)
by Phaedra inyears ago i was a member of big ray's witnesses online discussion board, when i was a questioning jw, which seemed to have come at a time when many were leaving of obed fernandez's witnessesonline, which went off air.
i'm wondering if anyone who use to post there is here and out?.
obed posted a link to this site (simon's) when it closed, which helped facilitate my next step out of the jw organization.. no matter, my hats off to both obed and big ray for the space they each created for the processing i needed as a jw.
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Years ago I was a member of Big Ray's Witnesses Online discussion board, when I was a questioning JW, which seemed to have come at a time when many were leaving of Obed Fernandez's witnessesonline, which went off air. I'm wondering if anyone who use to post there is here and out?
Obed posted a link to this site (Simon's) when it closed, which helped facilitate my next step out of the JW organization.
No matter, my hats off to both Obed and Big Ray for the space they each created for the processing I needed as a JW. I made a few friends on WN and WOL and wonder if they ever saw TTATT.