Topics Started by nojudgement

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I am marrying a df JW-
by wtphobic in
1. jw
2. friends
i will be marrying a df jw in just 2 months.

it is now really bothering him that his parents won't come to the wedding.

omg- not only is he df, but it's being held in a church!!!
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How do you help them understand?
by Sassy in
1. social
2. relationships
i have posted as each step of my exiting has brought new stresses into my life.

you have all been awesome in your support.

i know i still have a ways to go but many of the hardest steps have been undertaken... and i have an interview for a new job, so my working with a guy who is a jw, might be taken out of my environment so i can go somewhere that is not only closer to home (short commute) but also no one will know i was ever a jw.
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Coming Out With Pride & Confidence!
by Corvin in
1. jw
2. friends
i have only been visiting this board for a couple months, but wow, how it has helped me!

thanks to everyone who has shared information and their stories, given advice, listened, reasoned, confessed, vented, cussed, challenged and supported.

i am formerly known as "hunyadi", but i made the decision to come out a few weeks ago.
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Covering up bathroom mirrors at the assemblies!!!
by nojudgement in
1. jw
2. friends
this was one of the craziest things i remember about the summer conventions.

i would go into the sister's bathrooms and the mirrors would all be taped up with brown paper so that we couldn't look at our reflections.

were were amish or something?
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What One JW Belief Could You Never Totally Accept???
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
for me it was that god will destroy billions of innocent children simply because their parents weren't jehovah's witnesses.....and you??

?
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Introductions
by CeriseRose in
1. jw
2. friends
well not 'new', as i'm over 30. heh but i'm newly out (letter of disassociation dropped off at kh end of january, and i was announced last thursday night).

i posted my 'story' on a different ex-jw board, and as it is so long, i'm not reprinting it.

hehe even with cut and paste it's icky.
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Passing the time at JW Assemblies
by Leolaia in
1. jw
2. friends
love_truth, in describing the utter dullness of jw assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread.

what were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass?

some of mine: looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.looking for people i knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroompractice writing people's names in elvish scripthaving a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forthseeing how many pages of my bible stick together when i slam a wad of gum in between its pages.. what else?
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JUST READ CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE
by marie67 in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm new to this forum.

actually i've been a lurker for awhile.

posted on sassy's call to the newbies.
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Are there any Newbies out there???
by Sassy in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just wondering if there were any new members out there who haven't yet said hello... if so.. please come in and say hi here.. .

its an easy way to get started.. .

i know there are those who will read/lurk for a while but one day they jump in and say hi.... .
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The Memorial: Blasphemy or Monty Python Sketch?
by metatron in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
soon the special night will be upon us, when millions of jehovah's witnesses.

will gather together for the sacred purpose of merely passing around the emblems.

of christian salvation and rejecting them.. this event proves to me that anything, no matter how silly, will be treated solemnly.