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  Is it just me...

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  ...or do the posters here just keep getting quicker and wittier by the moment?

  i am laughing and choking and spraying tea everywhere from one post to the next.

  i can hardly catch my breath.... ~merry

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  lilybird

  Hi Merry. I agree with you. Some of the postings have me sitting here at the computer laughing like a fool..Its better than realily TV shows.. at times.. lol
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  My Story.................

  by whyamihere in

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  2. experiences

  my whole mothers side of the family made us think like that as well.

  everyone knew who my family was!

  i knew he was the once since i was 9 years old.

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  Thanks for sharing your story, Brooke.You had to grow thru many hard times but the hard times make you stronger and give you character so you can face what else life throws at you. I can tell you have become a strong and caring person because of your life experiences. You have a loving husband and beautiful children. It shows that everyone can make a happy life even if their childhod wasn't the best...
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  Hello

  by moses in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just would like to say hello to everyone out there i have not posted in awhile i have been busy,i find this site as a great help for my escape from the org.

  i wonder how long they will be around and when the r&f will wake up.

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  lilybird

  Hi moses, congrats on your escape. Although I am sure that there will always be believers in the org. Especially some of the older ones , It is might be harder for them to really accept they have wasted their whole lives this way..........
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  Does being a JW make a person physically sick?

  by Gill in

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  2. friends

  definitely mentally and more than likely physically.. i have read on a few posts and freeminds about an increase of mental illness amoungst jws of between 2 and 40 % and it seems understandable considering the amount of stress being in the borg puts on people.. but what about physically?.

  what are your experiences since leaving the borg?.

  do you feel well and fitter than ever before?.

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  I used to become physically ill when I had to give a talk in the Ministry school.Eventually the elder in charge took me off the talk list as I was always ill when i had to give talks.
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  Hello world, this is my first post ever...

  by zagor in

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  2. friends

  just wanted to tell everyone how much i love this forum but never had balls to join in.

  now that i'm officially dfd i can do whatever i like.

  how about that?

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  lilybird

  Welcome zagor, and congrats on starting a new life away from the control of the witness organization
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  thumbs up to......

  by desbah in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ...getting a puppy.

  ...having a full take of gas.

  ...payday.

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  lilybird

  watching your children grow up to be accomplished adults and achieving their dreams (especially so when you gave up your dreams because you were told not to dream or aspire for your life by the witness organizationn)
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  Guess who came to my door Saturday morning?

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ..... burton cummings!

  he said that he likes my music and will do everything in his power to get me a recording contract!

  so we sat and had a few beers, and shot the bs for a while.. yeah right, i wish.. it was actually the not so musically talented jws who came to my door.

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  Hi Nos, I enjoyed reading your posting, Something similiar happened just shortly after we formly DA's ourselves. I was sitting on my front porch when the brother on service walked by, He recognized me right away and just turned his head and kept walking. He was an elder at the time. My story isn't as interesting as yours.It's a short one.. :)
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  Sentimental Mood

  by MerryMagdalene in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been thinking back to my j-dub childhood with a sort of sad fondness.... my great-grandfather was the first witness in the valley where he lived and ranched.

  he became one after listening to rutherford's radio programs.

  i have no idea why and am a bit curious.

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  Sometimes I reflect on my teenage years growing up as a witness in the late 70's. At that time we were still allowed to have big house parties with disco(shudder) dancing. All the parties were chaperoned by witness parents and sometimes elders. But we had fun, without drugs drinking and we had a group of guy and girls who were really good friends with out the pressures of sex before we were ready, We went to parties all over Toronto, meeting other witness teens. Life seemed carefree. I was newly baptised and we all looked forward to bliss in paradise someday. Sadly, we all had to grow up and we all started getting married by 19. That was what you had to do or you were washed up by 21 it seemed. By that time, the society really started disapproving of parties and disco clubs.(we went to disco clubs downtown Toronto as well). By that time I was out working and getting engaged, so it didn't really affect me, but I felt sorry the ones younger than me like my sister who were not allowed to party and have fun. I think that is where the society went wrong with the teens, here anyway. They stopped allowing you to be young.Most couldn't take being reined so they left. But I know I did have some good times as teen witness. My husband and I often talk about the fun times. Too bad we grew up and discovered all the lies we had been taught and been believing ..Better late than never I guess.
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  Why did you leave?

  by greendawn in

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  2. beliefs

  if someone asked to state briefly why you left the jw brotherhood what would you say?

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  I was fed up with being told who I could associate with, how to think, how to live my life. Spending meaningless hours in field service which was just disrupting other peoples live. Also the hypocrosy of JWS being god fearing and loving when they were generally judgemental and materialistic. I say generally, as some really seemed to want to serve God and know God, but they have been brainwashed by the org.
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  DID THE WATCHTOWER DESTROY YOUR VIEW OF HUMANITY?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  are ya fat?

  ugly?

  stupid?

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  I totally agree with you greendawn. There are many so-called worldy people who are kinder and more compassionate than some JWS. They don't pretend to be something that goes along with dogma from an org set up by power hungry leaders e.g.GB. There is good and bad in everyone it is up to our own personal choice ,,, which is something not allowed by the org. You have to associate with all the losers just because they call themselves JWS. When I was deep into the org, I was nervous to talk to worldly people. My mother taught me that they were all bad especially the men. I would only have a good marriage with a brother.Some of my friends who married sons of elders ended up with abusive relationships. One friend spent the night at my house in fear of returning to her house. It took me a awhile to learn to trust others outside of the org, but I love the freedom to choose who I can be friends with