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  I Found God

  by xjw_b12 in

  1. social
  2. humour

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  he's doing the talk show circuit.

  here he is on leno

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  Insomniac

  I found Jesus. Turns out, he was hidin' behind the couch the whole time!
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  First Christmas

  by yxl1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when we first left the dubs, we celebrated x-mas pretty much straight away, but had no decorations or tree, and only gave gifts to each other.

  for some reason it just seemed wrong to put up decorations and we continued to celebrate this way for about 5 years.

  we decided to put up decorations when it was my daughters 1st x-mas, and have never looked back.

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  Insomniac

  Thanks, Gently Feral! We'll have to try some of these. Even more meaningful if we make it ourselves!
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  Remembering Names

  by iiz2cool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i deal with over 400 people where i work, and i have trouble remembering names.

  everyone knows mine though.

  i can remember their ip addresses more easily than i can remember their names.

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  Insomniac

  I have the same problem. I tend to call everyone punkin, rock-star, gorgeous, whatever. The sillier the better-they all think it's my special nickname just for them! I hope they never catch on, that could be embarrasing.
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  First Christmas

  by yxl1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when we first left the dubs, we celebrated x-mas pretty much straight away, but had no decorations or tree, and only gave gifts to each other.

  for some reason it just seemed wrong to put up decorations and we continued to celebrate this way for about 5 years.

  we decided to put up decorations when it was my daughters 1st x-mas, and have never looked back.

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  Insomniac

  This'll be my first year to actually celebrate Christmas (since I was 9). Last year, we exchanged gifts, but didn't call it Christmas. I want to put up a tree this year! Something really sparkly, lots of lights. But, geez, the decorations are expensive, especially since we'll be starting from scratch. I've been dating my guy for 4 years now, and out of respect for my beliefs, he never did xmas either. But this year it just feels right. I hope I can remember the words to all the carols!
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  Are you with a JW or a non-JW?

  by Out At 22 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

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  my boyfriend (feels more like fiance though i guess as we've talked about but just need the ring) and i have been together over two yrs and living together for over a yr. he never was a jw, and professes to be no religon and isn't even sure god exsists.

  is your signifigant other a jw or non-witness?

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  Hunny-Bunny was never JW. Currently he's vaguely Christian, but belongs to no church (coool!)
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  Young JW's, What would it take for you to come back?

  by Spudinator in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question is for the "younger" jw's, and ex-jw's that post here, say in their teens to mid-twenties.

  please consider the main question, and try to answer the a, b, and c segments if applicable.. what would it take for you to come back into the jw fold?.

  a. organizational changes?.

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  Lift that silly ban on deviant (anything other than missionary position between married folks, I guess!) sex. Also, start referring to God as She at least as often as He. Quit harboring child molesters and beaters. Encourage people to try new things (yoga, martial arts, rap music) before condemning them. Quit telling folks to spend their one day off all week knocking on stranger's doors to try to convert them. Accept the inherent worth of all creatures-even women! Let people smoke, iffen they wanna.

  But then, it wouldn't be the Society, then, would it?
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  Polyester skirts and recipe cards

  by joannadandy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ahh yes.. eyegirl and i were taking that long dirty and shameful walk down memory lane.

  tonight's topic.

  the second school, and why it sucked monkey nostrils to be a sister back there giving a talk.. you would think, no sweat, smaller crowd, less pressure.

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  In our hall, the 2nd school was poorly ventilated. And hot. The smell of dirty diapers filled the air. The brother I was seeing on the sly (I taught him how to French kiss!) once got so flustered back there that he started to stutter, then dropped his notes and they got all out of sequence. There were a lot of them, because he'd left nothing to chance, just wrote the whole thing out word for word. He couldn't get them back in order, and got progressively more panicked, until finally the elder told him to just sit down. He later told me that it was the most frightening moment of his life-like a horrible nightmare! Timmy, if you're out there, please know that I still thought you were cool after that, and that all the loving brothers and sisters who giggled at your 3 minutes of terror were a bunch of jerks.
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  Ask Not For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls

  by czarofmischief in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it tolls for me!.

  yep, mrs. czar and i made it official this weekend.

  in a small civil ceremony, definitely not at the kingdom hall!!

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  Insomniac

  Awww, that's so sweet. Congratulations and all the best to you both!
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  Child Abuse not grounds for divorce

  by RevMalk in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i've read, and heard that sexual child abuse is not grounds for divorce according to the watchtower.

  can anyone help me in finding documented proof to that effect?

  (or even not so documented is a start).

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  Insomniac

  In my family's case, my mom was told by every elder she spoke to that since I did not have two witnesses to my stepfather's assaults on me, and he was denying it, officially it never happened, so she had no grounds for divorce. I caught hell for running away at 15, while he continued in good standing. This was, however, 19 yrs ago-they may have changed the rules since then.
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  Coming to the Dark Side

  by Vita Nuova in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i believe with certainty that the critical point when my de-programming from the jw mind-set began was when i was hired by my former boss and present friend of 9 years.

  she was the most adorably human person i had ever met, yet she was a part of the world nonetheless.

  i believe that our specific friendship began to infiltrate my conceptions about the world in a way that wasnt wholly evident to me.

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  Insomniac

  My guide to the other side turned out to be the most amazing, funny, smart, bighearted individual I have ever known. I fell in love with him, and miracle of miracles, he fell for me, the dowdy sister! It's meant the loss of some (but not all) of my old JW friends, but it's been worth it! What amazed me the most was that he is not, nor did I become, evil people because we don't go to meetings or bang on people's doors on Saturday morning. We try to lead good lives, and I feel that God still loves us.