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  What was your eye opening moment?

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?.

  i think for me it was the time i saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a da'ed jw.

  i thought to my self "no way jesus would do that.

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  lurkernomore

  The UN NGO business opened the floodgates for me. I came across the NGO status purely by chance whilst reading comments on a cringy JW meme that a Facebook friend had posted. This was just over a year ago. Within a week or two i'd come across the wonderful resource that is JWN and watched dozens of videos by Cedars, Marc & Cora aswell as others and did endless research using the CD-ROMS to back up what I had read.

  I finally read COC after finding a download and by August of last year my Wife and I decided to just stop everything JW.
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  CO says "WE ARE NOW AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE THE GREAT TRIBULATION!"

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  40-50 years after saying "armegeddon is right around the corner" we are now making progress!!!.

  gotta have a sense of humor to deal with this stuff..

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  lurkernomore

  Hahahaha nearly spat my coffee all over the laptop just reading the title!
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  Is it common for old men to marry young JW?

  by adjusted knowledge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left in the 90's and marriage partners were similar in age at my former congregation.

  i ran into a former jw friend from my childhood.

  i haven't seen him in 15 years.

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  lurkernomore

  There's a couple in our no longer hall where an elder husband is a good 20 years older than the wife. Been married close to 20 years now aswell.

  More recently a friend of mine from another hall, same age as me, around 29/30 has married a woman old enough to be his mum. They seem very happy. It's interesting to note though that she was dfd a few years ago for sleeping with a 21 year old from the same hall!

  Also my wife is 3 years older than me, but that's just to make up for the higher life expentancy of women in the UK ;)
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  Have anyone here ever told a elder he is full of poop.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wonder what the report to the branch would say.. he said " me, you and the wt organization is full of poop".. do we df him?

  ?.

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  lurkernomore

  Once after a service group I ended up calling an elder a dickhead as he had been very unchristian towards me and others for months for handing our reports in a couple days late. I'd had enough and blew my top a little. Some were shocked, other's laughed. Needless to say he was sweet as pie from that point on.
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  What to cook for the CO?

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the funniest i have seen since ages..... http://www.forevereating.com.

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  lurkernomore

  Anyone read the home page? Right at the bottom there's a calender with the title

  'A week without Jehovah= Weak'

  Sums up the kind of ass that put this site together.
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  God's Inception Style Punishment of Toddlers

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a follow up to jehovah kicks a puppy about the garden of eden / serpent myth and the punishment for disobeying god.. anyone who has had kids knows that that they need to be taught what is right and what is wrong.

  it's no point trying to discipline them if they have't learnt the rules first - they simply and fundamentally don't know something is wrong so punishing them in anyway is just asshole parenting of the worst kind.. i.e.

  toddlers draw on the wall, that's what they do.

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  lurkernomore

  The Bible requires it's readers to go 'beyond what is written' for it to make sense in many of its passages.
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  Just sent a letter...at 1am, after drinking a lot of Scotch

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sent to the production company that made 'going clear' (documentary about scientology).

  edit: i sent an email...not an actual letter.

  dear mr gibney,.

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  lurkernomore

  Good Sean Conner impression Onager ;)
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ... Proclaimers of "soon, very soon" since 1879

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the first edition of the watchtower magazine, july 1879, made the following comment on page 5 regarding how "soon" the end of this system will come:.

  exactly 136 years later the latest edition of the watchtower magazine, july 2015, (paragraph 3) made the following comment on page 15 regarding how "soon" the end of this system will come:.

  jehovah's witnesses ... proclaimers of "soon, very soon" since 1879.. .

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  lurkernomore

  Same sh@t different century lol!
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  What bad habits have you picked up since leaving the Borg.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went back to smoking and gambling but the good habits out weigh.

  the bad ones, like lying to people.

  is't fraud against the law, the practice.

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  lurkernomore

  The only 'bad' thing, if you want to call it that, is taking up playing the lottery, other than that most things have changed for the better. I drink less (not that I drank too much) and I've been going back to the gym lifting weights for the first time in 2 years. This has always been a passion of mine and since the kids arrived and all the jw stuff I rarely had time. I feel much healthier for it!
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  What Things Did You Not Talk About as a JW?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you have to lead a secret life as a jw.

  you're not supposed to over drink, go to night clubs, enjoy worldly concerts, etc.....sex, though is really taboo.

  you could never freely talk about your sex life.

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  lurkernomore

  My wife and I had a select group of friends where pretty much anything went. We'd go our get drunk, swear till the air turned blue, ate too much and basically just had a completely carefree, fun time. Other than whether we could be bothered to go to the meeting the following day we never discussed jw stuff at all.

  Funny enough the least wittoy jw is now an ms who still goes to casinos and smokes the occasional cigar and the rest of us are out thank fudge!