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  anyone else write anti J-DUB poetry????

  by theinfamousone in

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  my mom found this one and flipped..... .

  benevolently greedy.. ridiculously wise.. unfortunately lucky.. painfully happy.. stupidly smart.. a contradiction in terms;.

  blind,.

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  alamb

  And the swallowing blackness

  from which I drag my soul

  is now clutching for my children

  and I see them disappear

  and I see their faces

  the faces they hide behind as they knock on the doors,

  and memorize those words.

  Good news of terror and death and hate.

  And I dare not lose their stares as they sink

  for it is the last hold

  And if blink, they will be gone

  and they will forget I exist

  and who they are.

  So I look in those faces

  and open my heart to send the love they felt

  when they lived under my heart.

  and hope they never forget.
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  anyone else write anti J-DUB poetry????

  by theinfamousone in

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  2. experiences

  my mom found this one and flipped..... .

  benevolently greedy.. ridiculously wise.. unfortunately lucky.. painfully happy.. stupidly smart.. a contradiction in terms;.

  blind,.

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  alamb

  "You are dead" they proclaim

  But only now do we breath

  Only now do our eyes open

  and we wince at the light which embraces us

  and we find a world of color

  and we feel pain and joy that has been numbed away by their words

  But it is here

  and we are here

  and we a born to a new life in the light of the dark

  and we cannot return

  to the death you live.
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  anyone else write anti J-DUB poetry????

  by theinfamousone in

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  2. experiences

  my mom found this one and flipped..... .

  benevolently greedy.. ridiculously wise.. unfortunately lucky.. painfully happy.. stupidly smart.. a contradiction in terms;.

  blind,.

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  alamb

  Keep going! I'm inspired.
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  What one sentence could you say to a JW that would stick with them?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  you've probably heard sentences that stuck with you.

  quotes, one-liners.

  you hear them and they make so much sense or touch you so personally at the time that they become part of you.

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  alamb

  Some that stuck with me:

  1. Who was the FDS on earth before Russell?

  2. I'd rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question.

  3. (Mulan's) I will never again bet my life on a belief, I might be wrong.

  4. The "Truth" should stand up to any questioning, so why not question?
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  Hello from Utah

  by Todd Mitchell in

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  my name is todd and i am new to this forum.

  i just wanted to say hello and introduce myself.

  i am from salt lake city, utah and i have been free from the wtbts since 1998. i wanted to also see if there are any ex-jw's in utah that might want to chat.

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  alamb

  I'm from Utah. Seems I can't escape. Glad to have some company!
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  What Decisions Did You Make Only Because You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i believe that most jws are deep down inside angry over the fact that they went along with the status quo and the majority just to be accepted.

  some witnesses would like to have a tattoo, a mustache, a shaved head, a beard, a new red sportscar, etc.

  but they don't because they would be viewed as "immature".

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  1. I hid my participation in school business teams and when I won, I couldn't go to the award ceremonies and receive "worldly recognition."

  2. Gave back a full scholarship to college to pioneer.

  3. Refused to have my name put in the halls of my school for achievements.

  4. Couldn't eat Lucky Charms.

  5. Made my three children sit through 5+ hours a week of teachings in the name of saving them. My eldest couldn't walk or crawl until 15 months because I was a pioneer and she was either in her carseat or a Kingdom Hall chair. A nice neighbor pointed out that my child never actually "hit the ground" so was unable to learn like a "normal" baby. That's very painful to admit. But I do have the timesheet of pioneer hours to justify neglecting my own child.

  6. Married someone I didn't love. There were only 3 available JW men in the state. Turned down alot of good guys because of religion only.

  7. Didn't turn my father and another elder in to authorities for molesting me because I had told the elders and "they would handle it."

  and more, but I better stop before I am more disgusted.
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  Reverse Shunning

  by JV in

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  has anybody launched a preemptive strike so to say on the witnesses and shunned them before they shunned you?

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  I prefer "un-shunning". I don't go out of my way to speak to those I wasn't close to anyway. But if I see an old friend, I go up and give them a hug. One friend hung onto me for a full 20 seconds or so and whispered that she loved me and missed me. I whispered back, "I'm right here. I didn't go anywhere."
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  Shunned again, and you won't guess where. EVER.

  by kwintestal in

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  well, we were going about our business today as we usually do on a monday.

  mrs kwin went to work, kids went to school, i stayed home and made apple sauce and beer.

  2:30 comes along and it's time to pick up everyone and, oh yeah ... we have that appointment today.

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  alamb

  I'm sorry for what you are going through. I have had my share of sleepless nights and throwing up and migraines, etc. I will try Damsel's advice too. Thanks Damsel.

  I was shunned and invaded simultaneously also. An elder on my bogus committee also worked for the State. I moved out of my home with my daughters and applied for state insurance for them as their dad wouldn't pay any support for them. The elder also worked at the state office and came up with information out of my file on my bank accounts and jobs when he wasn't the worker on our case. Illegally spying in theocratic warfare. He said my ex shouldn't have to pay me support, I was an apostate and I had $ in the bank. I asked him how he knew that and the silence was deafening. But the others quickly changed the subject. I turned him in.

  You are getting good advise here. Don't take the shunning personally, although that is so hard. Brainwashed is brainwashed and maybe she's there for a reason.......so the therapist can see it firsthand and hear the loopy rationale they use to explain it as a loving provision.

  *gag*
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  My Scan Results

  by Dansk in

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  as many of you will know, yesterday i received my scan results from the haematologist.

  when i entered his office he was beaming and so i thought the news would be good.

  the chemotherapy has shrunk the cancerous lymph nodes in my stomach substantially!!

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  I am so happy for you. Thank you for making my heart smile.
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  Which aspect of JWs would you like to see a documentary about?

  by Gadget in

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  if you had a chance to make a documentary about some aspect of the jws, what would ou choose?

  would you talk about shunning, the blood issue, explain how its a cult, or what?

  unfortunately this would only be for an 8 minute segment on a current affairs programme so i need something that'll get peoples attention and make them think without having to go too deep into the subject.. what would you choose to talk about?.

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  Shunning. A documentary. Just have a narrator explain it and then have audio clips of elders, CO's, etc. explaining what a loving provision it is. All the while having a fade-in, fade-out slideshow of faces of families and written on the bottom of the screen the number of years their family has been torn apart....and the faces of the children robbed of loving parents due to a hate-filled doctrine.