Holden Caufield
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New Name
by Holden Caufield inthis is me d i had to change my account i am now holden caufield.
how are you all?.
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Liking somone
by d inwhen i was a jw.
i found it hard to say that i liked someone and in many ways still do.
how about you..
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My summer camp job experience
by d inthis summer i met a russian women i worked at a summer camp for people with developmental disabilities and she is going back to russia in september.
i grew to really like her as a person.
i just feel empty that she is now gone to new york heading beck to moscow we hung out on three seperate occasions and i enjoyed myself and her company .
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They really are pooping their pants over these latest "signs"...
by undercover ini've seen a few threads/posts where some of y'all have heard from jw contacts and how they've stepped up their 'the end is close' rhetoric because of the earthquake/tsunami in japan.
i usually take those things with a grain of salt.
there's always some jw whose cheese has slipped that reads prophecy into every little thing that happens.
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Any Good 1975 Stories?
by Think About It indespite denial by the wts of any 1975 armageddon predictions zealous jw's did believe it, openly talked about it, and some even sold houses & belongings in anticipation of it.
do you have or know of any good 1975 stories?.
here's mine.........i was a freshman in college and had quit attending the kh back in hs.
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You Might be a Jehovah's Witness, if ...
by Elders Son inyou might be a jehovah's witness if:.
*** if you think that service to god can be measured in hours, you might be a jw...............*** if you see no problem with arguing that a loving god would never create a hell, while at the same time promoting the idea that this same god is about to kill all non-jw human beings in a fair judgment, you are a jw...............*** if you believe that it is a example of love and kindness to visit with your grandchildren while forcing your disfellowshiped daughter to sit in the car outside, you might be a jw...............*** if you think passively taking in repetitious brainwashing at several meetings a week is a delightful spiritual experience, you might be a jw...............*** if you cannot imagine that people are capable of ethical and loving behavior outside of complete social control, you may be a jw...............*** if you feel that it is ethical behavior to shun (rather than counsel) people in your religious group who have committed a sin, you may be a jw...............*** if you allow a corporation to take the place of god, you may be a jw - or you may just be an american making an offering to the real religion of the majority - money...............*** if you think the spiritual center of god's kingdom is in new york city, you are either a stockbroker or a jw...............*** if you have ever reported a spouse to the elders for requesting oral sex, you are probably a jw...............*** if you feel guilty for having a friend or two outside the membership, you might be a jw...............*** if you think it's an act of unfaithfulness to god to get an education or a decent job, you might be a jw...............*** if you feel you have a great wealth of bible knowledge - despite never having gone to school beyond 12th grade and/or never having read any biblical scholarship - you might be a jw...............*** if you think the idea of the trinity is anti-christian, you might be a jw...............*** if you think the name "jehovah" appeared in the original writings of the greek scriptures, you are a jw...............*** if you believe that only anonymous and somewhat secretive organizers in brooklyn can dictate which bible texts are to be interpreted literally and which symbolically, you are a jw...............*** if you believe that there is only one correct interpretation of a biblical text, you are a poor reader, a fundamentalist, and possibly a jw...............*** if a biblical statement outright disagrees with what is taught in the watchtower - but you believe the watchtower is correct, you are most probably a jw...............*** if you consider cleaning up a messy backyard to be practice for working in the "new system of things on paradise earth", you are a jw (especially if you routinely think in all capital letters)...............*** if you think demons choose to reside in jewelry, furniture, china, books or blue smurfs, you might be a jw...............*** if you feel that death is much more important than birth, you might be a jw...............*** if you think that all men with facial hair are unacceptable, (although every picture in your publications show jesus with a fully grown beard) you might be a jw...............*** if you think that overseers (district or circuit) do not receive a salary, you are a jw...............*** if your reaction to someone wearing a cross is the same as a vampire's, you might be a jw...............*** if you think jw's are not an authoritarian cult, you are probably a jw...............*** if you think the watchtower is not a brainwashing tool, you may be a jw...............*** if you think field service does not involve agriculture, you might be a jw...............*** if you think elders can be 30 years old, you might be a jw...............*** if you can imagine newspaper headlines that read "all humans on earth except jws are destroyed!
" with joy in your heart, you'd be a jw...............*** if you have constant pain in your right shoulder and can't unclasp your right hand, you probably have "bookbagitis" - making you a student or a jw, (but probably not both)...............*** if you can't have a conversation with another human being without saying "jehovah," you are a jw...............*** if you are a male and your first reaction to a brief interruption of a meeting - by the entrance of a beautiful woman wearing a miniskirt - is "how immodest that sister is," then you are a jw...............*** if you eat turkey on thanksgiving and feel guilty about it, but insist that it is alright only because it was free from work, you are a jw in denial...............*** if you wrap presents in brown paper to give each other on "family gift day," you are a jw with too many "worldly associations."..............
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Do you have any assembly memories/stories?
by RisingEagle inon an earlier thread about ice cream i remembered a snack that was sold at assemblies and that started me thinking about some of my memories of childhood at conventions/assemblies.
i guess it was the taste/smell association because even today when i go to various convention halls for home improvement expos, car shows and the like it takes me right back to the past.
i have many memories wrapped around the conventions and experienced different things because i have lots of elders in the family that were used, literally, for food service, the accounting office, security and dramas.
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Any one out there been diagnosed with bipolar?
by Lehaa ini've just started being treated for bipolar disorder, used to be called manic depression.
medication i'm now (lexapro) on seems to be working really well.
i do worry about how my being bipolar will effect my kids.
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Paradise Lost
by galaxy7 indoes anyone remember the book paradise lost to paradise regained?
i was made to study the scary parts evertime i misbehaved which must have been all the time as the book imprinted into my brain.all i wanted in life as a child was to join the girl guides go hang out at the ywca with my friends and take part in sports day at school.so my mother asked the then congregation servant if i was demonized,they decided i would be fertalizer for my mothers pear tree.
anyway i grew up fairly normal,took me ages not to be afraid of lightning.had children who never entered a kingdom hall.most of my family served in some capacity at bethel so they dont talk to me.since then i have been a searcher looking for somthing to fill the void.has anyone found anything??