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  What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???

  by minimus in

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  periodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".

  smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???

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  What about the burglar who broke into a house that belonged to a JW. He came across a briefcase thinking that there were valuables inside, but it turned out to be JW literature. Of course he contacted the owner of the briefcase to return it after he was enlightened and asked, not only for forgiveness, but a free home bible study as well!
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  Question of the Day

  by whyamihere in

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  if you could sit down and have dinner with 3 people who would it be and why?

  (dead or alive) i think this really makes you think in what your answer maybe.

  its kind of hard.. mine are:.

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  Bob Saget for obvious reasons

  Jake Gyllenhaal for obvious reasons.

  And this guy I knew who died...there were suspicious circumstances but was ruled a suicide. I'd like to know what really happened.
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  Jay-Hovah uh-huh / uh-huh

  by prophecor in

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  does anyone know what the deal is with rapper sean carter, aka jay-z and his refering to himself as jay-hovah?

  its a pretty close call naming yourself such by jw standards possibly bordering on blasphemy.

  does anyone know if he may've been associated with jw's at some time, and if he was, whether his choosing of the name might be a response to his no longer believing the teachings of jws?

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  I'm not totally sure, but I haven't heard anything about him being a JW or XJW.

  On the other hand, Jehovah is not used exclusively by the JW's as their god. Isn't Jehovah the name of the Jewish God, too?
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  What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  periodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".

  smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???

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  What about the demonized computer mouse that chases you and hisses and snaps at you like a rattlesnake? Anything to keep the witnesses away from the internet, hey?

  The dumbest thing I ever heard was some witnesses in a poor country that were going door to door and were very hungry.

  Some people came by in a truck ridiculing them for doing the preaching work. Guess what? It was a vegetable truck and they started throwing vegetables at the hungry witnesses to bully them. Turns out that the ridiculers gave them their meal for the day!
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  What is your most ridiculous example of shunning?

  by Poztate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  formerout started a thread about being shunned.... this triggered something in me that i guess i really wanted to forget about.

  how ridiculous do you get with shunning?.

  sorry to min or others if this has been talked about.. mine came with the pre 1975 panic to come back to the "truth"before it was too late.. i signed up again in 1970...what a dummy.. my mother was dfed so that meant that i had to shun her.

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  Billygoat,

  No wonder we're all so jacked up

  I never heard it put that way, but hell yeah we're jacked up!
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  What is your most ridiculous example of shunning?

  by Poztate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  formerout started a thread about being shunned.... this triggered something in me that i guess i really wanted to forget about.

  how ridiculous do you get with shunning?.

  sorry to min or others if this has been talked about.. mine came with the pre 1975 panic to come back to the "truth"before it was too late.. i signed up again in 1970...what a dummy.. my mother was dfed so that meant that i had to shun her.

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  Also, my mother said I could come to her house, but we were not allowed to have a meal together. But when I moved to another city, I could stay for a little bit and have a meal because I was traveling. Later they changed their minds and said I could only come over if I agreed to get a piece of furniture that belonged to me and bring it back with me, because then I would be going there for "family business."

  Also, they've seen my five-year-old son only a couple times since he was born. The first time they actually came to my house when he was a few months old. Then my father wouldn't come because it was against his conscience. But my mother decided it wasn't against hers, but she had to meet me in a park, she wouldn't come to my house. Now they say that he's of the age that he can come visit them on his own. That the only reason they were allowed to visit me before was because my son was too small to be visited by himself.

  So now when they call me every two years or so "for family business' they ask if they can pick him up and take him for a weekend. I'm like, yeah right, like I'd let my son go off with a complete stranger so you can start brainwashing him!

  Argghhh, I hate that cult. I'm so glad that I'm out.
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  What is your most ridiculous example of shunning?

  by Poztate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  formerout started a thread about being shunned.... this triggered something in me that i guess i really wanted to forget about.

  how ridiculous do you get with shunning?.

  sorry to min or others if this has been talked about.. mine came with the pre 1975 panic to come back to the "truth"before it was too late.. i signed up again in 1970...what a dummy.. my mother was dfed so that meant that i had to shun her.

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  There was a family of JW's in our congregation where the father was disfelloshipped.

  I was pretty close friends with the girls of the family, but was not allowed to go over for sleepovers unless he was gone. But their mother babysat me for very cheap, and that was ok if he came home while I was there because it was business? Also, my mom would get her vacuum cleaner fixed by him and it was ok, because it was business.

  One time, I was allowed to go to a sleepover there even though he wasn't gone because we agreed to sleep outside in a camper. That was ok. If I went over there to spend the day but not sleepover, it was ok. It was stupid.
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  Sing Jim_Tx's praises..............

  by Sunnygal41 in

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  there is a member of our forum here who is really quite the charming gentleman, if you get to know him..............he's very shy, but, i thought it might be nice to say a few nice words about him anyways...........care to share and say something nice about jim?.

  he'll probably be very upset with me for making such a fuss, but, he's worth it...........

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  I haven't been here too long, Jim_Tx, but I always look foward to reading your post! You're a very sweet man!
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  I am moved

  by rune in

  1. jw
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  i stayed up all night to see it... the buildings out the windows of my apartment shimmer in the distance as a wave of golden light rises from the horizon, painting the sky glorious shades of blue, violet and orange.

  the darkness recedes, creeping through the forests before the city.

  light, especially a sunrise, holds a special place in my heart.... what moves you?

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  Rune...

  Is that you, Terry?
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  Why do you post?

  by Xena in

  1. jw
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  threads, posts within threads...life events, doctrine, hopes, dreams, drama.....what causes you to post here?

  what do you feel you get from it?

  or give to others?.

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  Nancy Drake

  I finally found some people who are as weird as me! Ok, not all of you....