Sail Away

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  What to do when running in to a JW you know...How is this for a suggestion ?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey all,.

  so i have recently seen quite a few jws that were former friends in our community.

  i am always polite and say hello - although most will not acknowledge me.

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  I never play their shunning game!
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  Cute: A Goose Quacked And Pecked At A Cop’s Car. When He Followed Her, He Couldn’t Believe What He Saw!

  by Hecce in

  1. social
  2. current

  officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.

  he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.

  a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.

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  Love this! That was one patient Mama!
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  Beware of divulging any personal info on this site!

  by Crazyguy2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey this is crazyguy, forgot my password so this is my new name.

  anyway be sure to all you new ones that if you post any personal info on this forum or respond to pms asking for email addresses this information maybe able to be used by wt spies to try and find out who you are!

  someone has recently pmd me asking for my email address or more accurately to respond to his email address which would give him mine, this maybe an innocent request but this person also has no posting history.

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  The Organization has taken everything it possibly can from me. I have nothing left to lose. There is relief and freedom from having walked away cold turkey and subsequently sending a letter of resignation through my attorney. I did that so they would stop randomly showing up on my doorstep. I didn't want to be looking over my shoulder constantly.

  That said this is the internet, so I am protective of what I say about my husband and family. We are all out except my FIL, but I feel only they should tell their personal stories, if and when they are ready.

  Diane
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  Great Announcement

  by Tiana in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  am a newcomer.

  had a starnge metting in local news last night.. check it out.

  actual info starts at 50;12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxdjs13l0k.

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  I have dicey wifi today in Belize, and I hate listening to this fear-mongering crap. The usual the GT is coming soon; do more!

  Of note:

  Comment about focus on training in using the Bible in the ministry, not WT literature.

  "New" instructions from GB for elders to have weekly contact with publishers through field service groups.

  An aside, why is there a brand new KH on Caye Caulker in Belize, population 2,000? The locals here work in the tourism industry and are dirt poor.

  Edit to add: I didn't listen to the propaganda interview video played in the middle of the talk. Maybe someone else can take one for the team and summarize it.
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  Great Announcement

  by Tiana in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  am a newcomer.

  had a starnge metting in local news last night.. check it out.

  actual info starts at 50;12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxdjs13l0k.

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  Mind Numbing Meetings

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  without a doubt, jw life is boring.

  and those meetings!

  5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.

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  Yes, Zeb!

  Minimus, I'll tell you how I did it-- I jeopardized my mental and physical health. The JW life nearly killed me in the six months before I walked away. I had an Intensive Out-Patient hospitalization and was was admitted to the hospital for being over-medicated for PTSD and severe, recurrent clinical depression.

  It nearly killed our son and nearly destroyed my marriage.
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  Mind Numbing Meetings

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  without a doubt, jw life is boring.

  and those meetings!

  5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.

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  How did we do it???

  "Without a doubt, JW life is boring. And those meetings! 5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service". . .driving in field service and having maybe one or two dollars thrown your way to help with gas, obeying the "headship principle" at home and in the congregation, pioneering, conducting "Bible Studies", personal study, preparing insipid talks and magazine presentations, studying with our children, dressing (shopping, laundry, ironing) our children for meetings and dragging them out at night when they should be in bed or doing homework, attempting to provide a social life for your children when they were seen as "bad association" because of your "marked" "unbelieving mate", providing food for and participating in spring and fall cleanups, serving meals to C.O.s, serving meals for RBC projects for months on end during 2 mold remediation renovations and 2 complete rebuilds, volunteering at assemblies and conventions and driving the needy to same, calling on and providing meals/doing chores for the sick and elderly, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning the toilets. . . all the while working part-time "secularly" and being told it was never enough. 🤔
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  Cart witnessing

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if anyone has posted this before but it's just been put on youtube so i guess it's okay to show you??

  if not, please delete it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdusnlvjm-k.

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  My heart breaks for these children!
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  Holiday Plans

  by Kathy1978 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  anyone doing anything interesting/fun for the holidays this year?

  we got some presents for our kids and a tree.

  other than that, just chillin.

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  My husband and I are flying from the Northeast, USA to Guatemala City to spend the holidays with our daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. The older will be 4 years old on December 22, so we will have a birthday party too. His brother is just 19 months old. We will drive to lake Atitlan for Christmas. Santa will ride on a fire truck, and there will be fireworks for days.
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  They would Stone us if the law would allow

  by ElderEtta in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several years ago unless i was dreaming i read a watchtower quotation that effectively said that they would execute us as disfellowshipped individuals if the law would allow.. was i dreaming?.

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  Actually, I vaguely recall something in writing just a few years ago. It may have been in an article about "mentally-diseased apostates".

  The you, as a parent, would have to throw the first stone was still spouted by the elders the year I walked away in 2011.