You go girl! I don't understand how they can advocate hate the way they do, these "loving" people....
You did the absolute right thing and I applaud you!
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I don't play their game any longer
by Dawn ini've posted a few times about the troubles with my poor mom and the &*!
@# elders telling her she can't talk to her daughter.
being that i'm the only family she has here to take care of her.. anyways - i've kept my distance out of respect for her....that is...until a few weeks ago.
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I respect and appriciate ..Everything this forum stands for.
by Paradise Found inso have the regular posters here become the m/s.
of the congregation?
the more articulate the elders ?.
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I only show up every now and then because I sit at a computer for 8 hours a day at work and have no desire to even turn the thing on when I get home. But every now and then I proctor a test here at school and that means I sit in a room for 3 hours just making sure they don't cheat or fixing their problems as they arise. While thus employed I am free to search the internet and all its wonders, and I usually decide to come here and see what you guys are up to. It helps remind me that I did the right thing in getting away from the jw I was involved with for 3 years when he was sleeping with me but according to him we weren't dating, but were "just friends."
You guys are funny as well as informative, too!
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My Life in Jehovah's Service - VERY INTERESTING STORY
by Dogpatch in" the overseer made it quite plain..
"if i can't say i have been advised not to serve in alternate service--why are you actually doing it?
i was there to serve jehovah; consequently i was doing jehovah's will.
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Terry-
I was totally mesmerized by your story. It is at once heart breaking and hopeful. To know that you came out on the other side-not unscarred but still kicking -is hopeful. That there are so many others still stuck in that no man's land of conditional love and acceptance is heart breaking. Thank you for sharing, I related in so many ways.
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This is about out beloved Dansk
by mouthy inhow sorry i was to hear from dansk-he is going through a very difficult time.. i would like all prayers, thoughts, please keep this in mind ____ for me!!!!.
the sad news he has cancer.it is lymphoma!!!
they are waiting on the results of the biopsy before determining treatment..... he didnt want me to say anything at first- as he feels you all have your own problems & he didnt want to upset anyone-because he says "they are dear friends".
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Can A JW "Call The Whole Thing Off"?
by Englishman injw's can't end an engagement to marry someone.. when my teenage engagement to a jw sister ended, i was asked to state who had brought the relationship to an end because that person would be summoned to appear before a jc.. i was astonished at this infringement on a person's freedom.. here's the wt's take on this:.
questions from readers.
is it proper for a christian who is engaged to be married to break off that engagement??a.
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A QUESTION FOR GUYS
by sandy inwhy do some guys feel the need to have sex with their ex-girlfriends?
is this a common thing?
how many of you guys did or do this?.
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little1
I think I understand your attachment and your reluctance to flush 4 years of a relationship down the toilet. I had a similar circumstance with my ex-he wouldn't commit to me, yet still wanted to sleep with me. I kept hoping that he would see how great I was and that he would eventually want to stay. It didn't happen. But as long as I was willing to let him hang on (for 3 years), he was there trying to take advantage of my love. I finally had to cut myself off from him. I couldn't take the pain. Yes, I still miss the good times, but ultimately I know I did the best thing for me.
Tell yourself that you deserve someone who treats you with respect and caring, and that someday that someone will appear in your life. It's hard to let go of someone with whom you have had such a close connection to, but ultimately it will be doing yourself a favor. At your young age there are plenty of worth guys out there. At my age it seems more difficult! It will be one year in Sept since I saw him. It gets a little easier each day. Hang tough.
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Anyone up for an apostate group Skydive?
by Celtic inany of you here up for a sparkle of fun this summer, the first apostate group skydive?
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does money talk in the cong?
by little1 inthe jw i dated had lots of money and seemed to take the religion pretty much a la carte.
when it was to his advantage he'd play the religion card, but he seemed to get away with a lot.
by that i mean he owned and flew an ultralight, spent lots of time at the airport with non jws, slept with me (although they didn't know that), traveled to europe 2x to take his non jw mom to france, spends a lot of time visiting his mom in fl.
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The jw I dated had lots of money and seemed to take the religion pretty much a la carte. When it was to his advantage he'd play the religion card, but he seemed to get away with a lot. By that I mean he owned and flew an ultralight, spent lots of time at the airport with non jws, slept with me (although they didn't know that), traveled to Europe 2x to take his non jw mom to France, spends a lot of time visiting his mom in FL. Just a lot of things that don't line up with what I read on here would have been accepted in the cong.
He likes to flash the cash around-pays with hundred dollar bills -even at Waffle House (how tacky is that?). If he made big donations to the WT and local cong, and made it known how much he was giving could he get away with more? He hung around them for 14 years before he was finally baptised.
I'm confused as to how he manged that?
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what's your favority JW reference from a movie or TV ?
by itsallgoodnow in.
mine is from friday, the movie with ice cube, where a couple of jw ladies wake up ice cube's character's family one morning and there's some mouthing off, and you wouldn't believe the nasty words coming out of these sweet looking old "sisters".
hilarious!.
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I listen to The Prairie Home Companion on NPR with Garrison Keillor and last week they did a bit on vacations and the guy says, "Remember that time we checked into a little bed and breakfast in New Hampshire for a week? We didn't know it was owned by Jehovah's Witnesses. Every night they knocked on our door and wanted to come in and tell us about the new millenium and Armaggedon. And we ended up sleeping in the car..."
Also on the joke show he told this one-
"What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with a Unitarian? Soeone who knocks on your door but doesn't know why."
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What makes marraiges last
by desib77 inmy husband and i have been married a little over a year now and it has been the happiest year of my life.
i have finally found someone that i truly love and that truly loves me.
he's also my best friend.
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The main thing I would do differently in both my marriages is not marry the person(s) I did! I got married in haste both times, didn't really know them or myself at all. Found out too late we had nothing in common. Now I am much older and comparitively wiser. I would look for an equal. Having things in common is a big key, I think, as well as allowing the other person to enjoy things you don't necessarily want to do.
The thing that kept me from being sucked into the jw life was the fact that I had more of a sense of who I was and what I wanted, and I knew I didn't want to be controlled. There was a time when I would have gone with him just to be close to him. I'm not gettin' back in the box. Now I hear he is dating someone who he says is "a willing student." Baaaaaaaa! I hear a sheep and am glad it's not me!
Good topic!
little1