I sort of like Focus’ avatar. It looks kind of prrrrrdy. ;-)
Posts by SAHS
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26Did You Ever Have A "Crush" On Anyone Here?
by minimus ini know that many many have had crushes on me..
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Hello and Thank You!
by Vintagewife ini've been lurking here for about 3 months and decided it was time to register and become active.
i left the organization 17 years ago.
like so many of you, i had endured less than christian behavior from the strong cliches that ran our congregation.
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SAHS
To “Vintagewife”: Welcome to the forum! Even though you have left the organization 17 years ago, I believe that it is still quite important to share your experience with others in similar situations because having been in the Watchtower cult has to have affected people on different levels. I myself have been in a strongly-JW family since my birth (in 1966), and I know only too well that much of the damage done remains with us on a subconscious level. (I’m actually still stuck in the damn thing, as I am currently living with my JW folks under their roof.) I still have the occasional dream about a slowly-approaching storm, obviously representing Armageddon, of which I never had any confidence of surviving since my early teen years. Like they say in any kind of support group, “You have to get it out.”
I too have seen how some of these “elders” really act, toward their spouse and children. They have that “headship principle” thing hard-wired into their noggins and thus feel pretty much compelled to play the part of the “alpha male” in the family and treat their wives as just another dumb child. (Sickening, really.) Let’s just say that their speech and vocabulary at home are not exactly the same as at the Kingdom Hall!
You mentioned about “those in charge being removed from their positions” and that “many were found to be adulterers and drunkards.” The JWs are really just as bad as everyone else, for sure – but the only difference is that they just think they are so much better!
Hang in there. It’s always encouraging to see so many others like yourself having had the courage to step off that whacky ride on the JW merry-go-round. Take care.
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Assembly Invitations: A Sad, Pathetic Anachronism
by metatron inso, witlesses are handing out assembly invitations locally for their gatherings to invite the public to attend...... .
a meeting that's 50, 100, 150 miles away?
there was an era when placards were put in storefront windows and bombastic sermons were delivered by radio.
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If so many people already refuse to open the door to the JWs on Saturday mornings when they call right at their door, choosing instead to hide behind their curtains so they seem to be not at home, . . . then they SURE AS HELL ain’t going to drive a hundred miles or so to some convention where they’re surrounded by JW propagandists!
I think that this is certainly one for Captain Obvious!
http://www.cpbgroup.com/upload/Hotels.com/Captain_Obvious_New%20Feature_618x357.jpg
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Major reversal for the Watchtower imminent - Countdown: only 5 left.
by Focus in.
focus.
("armageddon" class).
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“Phizzy”: “. . . you are stating " the bleedin' obvious". Having said that, it cannot ever be a bad thing to point out that, having painted themselves in to a corner, . . .”
“defender of truth”: “It's amazing how many Witnesses miss the bleedin' obvious, though. Those pictures are like a slap in the face with a wet fish, even to people with an iq of 10 or less.”
That reminds me so much of Captain Obvious on that current TV commercial about “hotels.com,” which you can see at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRliaitQWs.
I think that us “apostates” are really fulfilling the role of the “Captain Obvious Class” for those folks unlucky enough to still be trapped by such a ridiculous cult as the WTS.
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12 Step
by lambsbottom inhello everyone,.
i've been attending sexaholics anonymous meetings for years now and it has kept me 'sober' when religion couldn't.
currently active but fading.. anyone on here attend any type of 12 step meetings?.
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SAHS
Actually, I have been in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous since the late ’80s. Although, unfortunately, I have been on and off, in and out quite a few times. I was born into a stongly-JW family in 1966, and I have had quite an onging struggle with the AA program. (Nothing like the JW outfit to mess someone up enough to make any kind of normalcy a struggle.)
It’s kind of ironic that you have chosen the user name “lambsbottom” while trying to manage sexaholism – the idea of a lamb’s bottom just makes me somewhat horny. (As you can see, I also have some sexual “issues” myself , but I don’t bother with any 12-step program for that in particular. One 12-step support group is enough. After all, life has to have some kind of fun, before you’re done.)
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Pleading with my Captors
by not bitter ini have always had bonkers dreams and i remember a lot of them, even some from my childhood.
i have the common dreams of flying and being chased all the time.
and i used to dream about demons but not for a very long time.. but heres the thing, i often dream that i've been captured and about to be tortured or murdered and the rest of my dream is about me negotiating my freedom and promising all sorts of things if they will only let me go free.
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I myself have had a reocurring dream about a large storm system slowly approaching from a distance. It certainly doesn’t take too much intelligence to realize that the approaching storm represents Armageddon – complete with dark clouds and multiple tornado funnels. (Those sketches in the big old orange-colored book “Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained” certainly had a large part to play in the psyches of many prepubescents.) Also, I have had many dreams about weird, uncanny “supernatural” things happening. In all these instances, I’ve always been really glad that it’s been only a dream. My, what fears are fostered by that Watchtower enterprise!
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Writing YA book about JWs...
by UFCFan inso i'm a amateur writer, though i lost my muse for the last story i was working on.
but i had a good idea for a new young adult book that won't just be fun to read, it will help people learn ttatt.
it would be about six or eight teenagers with jw parents, but they all lead double lives at school and away from the congregation.. i don't have many plot ideas yet though, so i'm trying to find someone to co write this with.
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Actually, “UFCFan,” there are plenty of actual, real-life stories of JW teenagers who have been forced to live a double life for quite some time. Now, if fiction is your thing, then by all means proceed along that route. I’m just saying that should you want to go from fiction to fact, there are numerous real-life experiences of such teen folk who have known all too well the ignominious situation of having to sit on that uncomfortable fence for family’s sake while indulging in as normal a life as they can get away with. I myself would tailor my book to more of what Terry Walstrom has done in his book, “I Wept By the Rivers of Babylon.” Take my advice: there’s nothing more compelling than actual personal accounts to captivate human interest.
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Birthdays
by Laika ini had my first real birthday party yesterday.
call me an irredeemable pagan, but i was massively excited about this, the whole thing was very special, i got a little emotional and i think my friends must have found it a little strange but it was just nice to be creature worshipped.
when i was a child my parents always used to tell people i didn't miss out by not celebrating my birthday but i did miss out.
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I’m glad to see that you had a good time on your birthday and were reaching out (and attaining) the office of overBEER.
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Another PR / marketing website for a JW international convention - this time Seattle
by sir82 inhere is the link: http://seattledelegates.org/.
i would guess this is the wave of the future.
a secondary channel of business revenue for the wts - compensation for recommending restaurants, tours, etc.
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I wonder if the tour on something like this in New York includes the United Nations headquarters building, where they probably might see some sort of plaque saying something like “Watchtower was here!”
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Writing YA book about JWs...
by UFCFan inso i'm a amateur writer, though i lost my muse for the last story i was working on.
but i had a good idea for a new young adult book that won't just be fun to read, it will help people learn ttatt.
it would be about six or eight teenagers with jw parents, but they all lead double lives at school and away from the congregation.. i don't have many plot ideas yet though, so i'm trying to find someone to co write this with.
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Maybe see if you and Terry can get together on something like that. He specializes in different genres, but he certainly has a good flair for writing biographical as well as fictional and semi-fictional accounts, of course with a clever connection to TTATT.
