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  What Do You Do For Fun?

  by minimus in

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  now that you have all this extra time (not having to go to meetings, service, conventions, etc.

  ) what do you do for fun?

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  Peppermint

  Bird spotting.
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  How the Witnesses got me.

  by Peppermint in

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  let me tell you my story of how i started attending meetings.

  i started going to meetings at the age of sixteen?why?

  because i was a broken youth at that time.

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  Peppermint

  Let me tell you my story of how I started attending meetings.
  
  I started going to meetings at the age of sixteen?Why? Because I was a broken youth at that time.
  
  My mum had been a JW all my life but my dad had always stopped my brother, my sister and me from attending.
  
  So I grew-up really as a ?Worldling? so to speak. Not really thinking about anything JW.
  
  From the age of about fourteen onwards I became a wild child. You name it I did it. Fuelled by alcohol, and I?m ashamed to say the outrageously disgusting habit of glue sniffing I became the local crime wave. Burglary, robberies, vandalism, football hooliganism this was my everyday life.
  
  I had a lot of anger at this time, and I?m not really sure where it all came from. But it was directed exclusively at authority. It all culminated in me attempting to attack my High School, I went there in the dead of night broke into the headmasters office and destroyed the place.
  
  Anyway the police got the school to draw up a shortlist of suspects. I was number one. The police raided my parents home while I was at school. I will never forget the feeling of turning into my road and seeing it full of police cars.
  
  I was arrested and told, this is it, prison (juvenile) for you. And don?t expect any change out of 12 months.
  
  Well this was the turning point for me, almost immediately after this I asked my mum if I could go to meetings with her. I knew I had to make a change in my life.
  
  The meetings made a massive impression on me. My first one was Bowes Road assembly hall in North London. I was dressed in combat army gear with an earring and a fringe that went down to my chin.
  
  I became for a while the celebrity convert and was love bombed and treated with more compassion then I ever had been. I felt good.
  
  I also enjoyed the JW doctrine, it had an anti-authority edge to it. I revelled in thinking that the government, my teachers the police etc. had got it all wrong after all. Had only temporary power, and come the great day they were going to get it.
  
  What was the outcome of my arrest?
  
  Well in the months between being arrested and going to court a miracle had happened. I was now clean-cut and respectable looking. I had left school during this time as well and got a job. The judge said ?A changed man, let him off? Jehovah had saved the day, hooray.
  
  Many others I know who became witnesses also had similar backgrounds to me. It just seems odd now that such an authoritarian and controlling religion could appeal.
  
  Did the witnesses attract similar people in at your congregation?
  
  You?ll be glad to know I am now a good, law-abiding citizen who thanks Jehovah?s witnesses for putting his life on track, but has moved on.
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  Hello

  by Es in

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  hello to everyone, my name is esther and i am from australia.. i was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw.

  i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.. i just wanted to say hi.

  this is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,i'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them.

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  Peppermint

  Welcome Esther.
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  It's Final... The GB are Lizard Beings

  by FreePeace in

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  i was doing some research for a novel i'm writing, and came across this article.

  while i pride myself on being open minded, this one is just a bit over the edge without proof.. http://www.reptilianagenda.com/exp/e122299a.shtml.

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  Peppermint

  The mention of David Icke tells me where this story belongs.
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  Australian Identification Guide

  by unclebruce in

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  in australia we like things neat and orderly.

  that's why our beer is colour coded - green lables for southwark etc.. white australia developed from six very distinct colonies.

  we can tell each other apart as soon as one says a word (especially poor sods like me inflicted with a lexy downer {adelaide} accent).

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  Peppermint

  I have an uncle and many cousins living in Tasmania. They are defiantly of the shaggy and windswept variety.
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  Harder

  by Music Mouth in

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  as you get older, do you find yourself gravitating towards softer music, or do you find you like the harder stuff as much as ever?.

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  Peppermint

  In my early teens I listened almost exclusively to punk bands like the Clash the Damned, stranglers and the Jam.
  
  
  In my later teens my listening mellowed with a bit of soul and jazz creeping in.
  
  
  Today I listen to classical music more than anything else, and enjoy the beautiful works of Dvorak, Rachmaninoff and Delius to name a few.
  
  
  I still have a soft spot for The Clash though, as you can see from my picture. Best band ever IMO.
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  Jws calling at inconvenient times

  by badboy in

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  know of any instances.eg called when cooking dinner ?

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  Peppermint

  I don?t have any examples of Witnesses calling at incno....hang on, doorbells ringing. Back in a mo.
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  JW off-shoot list

  by under74 in

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  2. beliefs

  so, i've been trying to find as many jw off-shoots, mostly personal reasons.

  i never knew there were any until about two years ago.

  i guess the wts did a good job because i didn't have a clue.

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  Peppermint

  under74.
  
  The Romanian group you were looking for is this one I think.
  
  http://the-true-jw.oltenia.ro/
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  JW off-shoot list

  by under74 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i've been trying to find as many jw off-shoots, mostly personal reasons.

  i never knew there were any until about two years ago.

  i guess the wts did a good job because i didn't have a clue.

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  Peppermint

  Try these,
  
  www.reganbalman.com/biblesites.html
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  i was wondering....

  by myvalk in

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  why are there so many intelligent people in the truth, if its clearly hogwash?

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  Peppermint

  On face value witnesses can seem well educated when compared against people of similar social backgrounds, particularly if that background is working class for instance.
  
  Jehovah?s Witnesses as a group are taught to study Bible topics and present themselves well. They also may have better communication skills than others with a similar education and upbringing.
  
  The fact is however it generally stops there. All their energy goes into developing these skills and nothing else. So aside from those things I don?t think they are any more intelligent then any other group of people. In most areas they lack intelligence because they have closed minds.