When I was a teenaged Dub, my best friend's sister was D'A for her conduct.. She liked wild guys and lived with a biker guy who rode with The Hell's Angels and ended up in jail for killing someone.. She had 2 kids with this loser..My friend and I would go and visit her and her baby daughters,,even though it was not allowed.. I didn't see why I shouldn't talk to her just because she made some stupid life choices.. She never tried to talk us into her wild life.... Anyways,,,,years later after I was married and we had decided to leave the org... she decided to come back as a JW.. She said it was a great life to bring your kids up in and she wante to bring them up as JWs....( As I said she always made stupid life choices)......A few years after we officially left,,,, I saw my former JW friend ,,,,her husband,, and her reinstated sister.... I stopped to say hello. because ..what the heck.. I did nothing I was ashamed of...... they all basically pretended I was wallpaper,,, I found this ironic,,,, as I had never shunned her when she was out.....guess she was effectively brainwashed......
lilybird
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Fun with Shunners ;)
by damselfly ini used to try and avoid running into jw's after i was first d/f, but the past few years i have taken a different spin on it.
at my old job as a cashier if i was the only cash open then they had no choice but to have me wait on them.
the apprehension on their faces as they approaached was hysterical.
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Crazy stories of JW's sacrifices
by IronGland ini remember hearing of a failthful older brother who was attacked by vicious dogs while in service.
even though his clothes were shredded and he was bleeding he continued walking door to door to finish his assigned territory for that day.
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lilybird
Did you ever think "why don't they use some of our contributions to build a a bridge across that river or at least buy them a boat?"
That is the thinking of a logical person.... Iron Gland... Dubs would prefer that you have limb or life stripped from you... Makes for better experiences to use in their talks to inspire the mindless masses at the District Assemblies...
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New Light (from the 50s) "Religion" now acceptable word
by Odrade in"in 1951, advocates of true worship learned something significant about the term religion.
some of them could well recall 1938 when, at times, they carried the thought-provoking sign religion is a snare and a racket.
from their standpoint then, all religion was unchristian, from the devil.
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lilybird
It never ceases to amaze me how the GB can keep changing their doctrines on different beliefs,,,, and put it down to "new light" and the faithful mind-numb Dubs just ride along with it.....my mother-in-law gets so excited everytime they do a complete turn on some doctrine...It seems it is spoke to them as some divine inspired revelation.. and they are just so fortunate(not lucky) to be priviledge to it
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Annoying relatives
by greendawn indo you happen to have annoying, troublesome relatives (including all the inlaws), jws as well as non jws, that irritate you with their actions?
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lilybird
Yes... I have a few relatives like that... but we don't see them much.. as hubby and I feel..after breaking away from an annoying cult.. we don't need anymore stress in our lives.. including stressful relatives.. life is very peaceful....well for the most part...
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Longtime JWs: Can you recall the path of JW doubts throughout your life?
by ithinkisee inhave any of you who were ever "raised in the truth" really traced your doubts back to as early as you remember?
i would be interested in hearing what they were.. i started tracing my path of doubts.
doubts as a child:.
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lilybird
I began having doubts after the birth of my first child...There were some things that went on in the congregation that made me wonder if they really had the spiritual direction of God ....but I mostly felt that I didn't want my children raised in this life.. I had been raised a JW and didn't want my kids to go thru what I had ... When I started to discuss my doubts with my husband,, I found he felt the same way and after much discussion.. we both decided to disassociate ourselves...I found out many other things later on through this site...that I wasn't aware of.. It made myself and my husband even more sure that we made the right decision to walk away from the control of the JW society...
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Talking to God in a Lucid Dream
by mark12 inone time when i was a kid i had a lucid dream experience where i dreamed of talking to our lord, obviously i know that its all in my head but the experience was so powerful its stuck with me and i still think about it,
since ive tried to build a dream inducing machine but i wasn't able to so i just bought one: i got mine at www.thedreamq.com, i dont know of they're available elsewhere.
i have them all the time now and i just wanted to share this, you all should know that lucid dreaming is a religious experience thats not comparable, really,,,
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Hi mark.. I don't need a dream machine,,, I always dream long technicolour dreams...they are best after eating chocolate or ice cream before sleeping.... although last nite,,,,,, I had a nitemare... I dreamt I was a JW again.... out in field service..placing lots of mags and books... shudder.... must have ate something really wrong last nite :)
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Hey JCanon aren't you a JW? Then why look at this website!
by inquirer inif you love jehovah and his organization so much, why look at sites like this!
they don't like you people using the internet and particularly sites like this!
this web site is so negative against jw's it's not funny!
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lilybird
maybe he's just full of.....new light?????
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first timer
by DramaQueen inthis is my first time on this web site.
i learned about it from my mom who also posts here.
i used to be a jw but was (thankfully) never baptized, and because of that (the fact that i am no longer a jw) it has kept me from talking to my grandmothers, some of my uncles, and my aunts and also some of my cousins.
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lilybird
Welcome Drama Queen,, its so great to have so many new posters... makes every posting that much more interesting and informative!!!!!
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Happiness is...
by jeanniebeanz inhappiness is .
what is happiness to you?
this tormented me as a witness.
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lilybird
Knowing Im free to make my own decisions in my life whether good or bad for me,,, without fear of disapproval or approval from a cult society...and my kids have the same freedom.......
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Week Starting July 11, 2005 Service Meeting
by TheListener insong 49.
10 min: local announcements.
selected announcements from our kingdom ministry.
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lilybird
Those JW presentations are so inspiring......*yawn^........................