I cannot stop laughing!!!! The studies I always ended up attending always had the fuddy-duddies attending. Can you imagine being that young man!!! Hey, Sparks, thanx for the PM. Glad I got kicked out.
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HELP!God get me out of here!PART2 [dedicated to gay people with thanx]
by Sparks into be read by any-one,but especially dedicated to the gay people that kindly read part one in good faith;many thanxxx`s to you all.
[if you haven`t read part one then basically it was me taking the piss-out of myself,being a world class homophobe.well who else can you take the piss-out of in these day`s of political correctness..apart from yourself...!?!
] many thanxxx to every-one that replied to part one;sorry i didn`t answer you sooner,but i`ve been off-line for a couple of days with a huge technical problem with my computer;(since writing about being stuck in a gay`s paradise and my homophobic reactions,my computer keeps going down on me.....but we`re still good friends).i will answer all your posts back over on part one now, i wrote this while off-line.okay lets start:- .
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Prince Streetwitnessing?
by Gadget inmy line manager from work got back from holiday in hollywood on sunday, and all day at work yesterday he was telling us all about it.
on his tour of beverley hills he had princes mansion pointed out, but was told that the singer didn't live there anymore, but had bought a bar on sunset boulavard instead and could be found outside it everyday giving out religious leaflets.
and sure enough, when he went down there, prince was standing on the street talking to people and giving them religious leaflets.
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five_crew
Did anyone hear Prince's speach when he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? It was the biggest line of bullspit I had heard in a long time. He is going out on tour now, going to play a lot of hits, but none of them that go against his new religious beliefs!! What a load.
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disgusting
by five_crew inhow do you deal with family members who still cling to the beliefs and yet never attend meetings or assemblies?
my step-parents all but stopped going to the meetings when i was df'd, guess i was too embarassing.
but, they cling to their beliefs.
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five_crew
How do you deal with family members who still cling to the beliefs and yet NEVER attend meetings or assemblies? My step-parents all but stopped going to the meetings when I was df'd, guess I was too embarassing. But, they cling to their beliefs. First they will talk to me, then I will do something they don't agree with and stop talking to me on the basis of their "beliefs", then they will get over it and talk to me again and start the whole thing over again. The worst thing they ever did was at my Grandma's 75th birthday party this summer, yes they went. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle when my mom died. My aunt was my mom's sister. This was 25 years ago and at my Grandma's party, my step-mom went around introducing me to relatives at "****'* daughter." Do you realize how hurtful that was? How would she feel? Even my non-JW relatives were shocked and apologizing to me for it.
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The good in Jehovah's Witnesses.
by ScoobySnax ini don't think i've made any apology for my leanings here towards jws, whilst i don't imagine most here will agree with me, i just think its good sometimes to redress the balance on this forum in a small way to let people who might be reading/lurking/ know that.. despite feeling messed up a bit in my own head about which direction i want/have to take in my own life, and despite many struggles as deep and traumatic as many have experienced here, i still hold jws as a group in the highest esteem.
i can remember what it was like to try and do the "right" thing and follow the way of the truth, it was bloody hard, and i fell down many times.
i always used to try and pick myself up dust myself down and start over again, sometimes with success for longer periods than others.
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five_crew
While I do agree that there are some "good" JW's, how do you explain the ones that have let their children die for their beliefs. Let me explain. My aunt had a child that was physically disabled. She was a JW, her husband was not. My cousin needed an operation to save his life, she said fine WITH NO BLOOD, against the wishes of my uncle, the father. Needless to say her 10 year old child died in surgery. Then she had the nerve at the burial to pull ME to the front, only 15 at the time, to see my mothers grave and the grave. Telling me "isn't it nice we will see them in paradise" NO, to me it wasn't nice. My mother died when I was 5, I couldn't look at her grave and be happy. I couldn't even stand after seeing her grave, had to be carried out to the car, I was miserable. But, isn't it nice to see them in paradise? I was in a miserable family and they made me miserable, all I could think was that if she were alive I wouldn't be miserable.
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HELP! God get me out of here!
by Sparks inhave you ever been stuck in an embarrassing situation where you think you`d rather die than endure another 30 seconds...?
what is it with some of these witnesses!okay so they are no part of the world,fine,but which world,which planet are they on..!!!
(ok, let`s start at the beginning).i was a witness for many years, so while i`m out shopping or working, i quiet often bump into pioneers and other witnesses who are out on their ministry.some-times we just say "hello" and go in our seperate way`s; but often we will stop and chat for ten minutes or so.some-times i have to-be almost rude to get away from some,especially the pioneer`s who set the hours meter running as soon as we start talking.i am never rude to the witnesses, i was a pioneer myself and always try to put myself in other peoples shoes[ the golden rule ].sometimes i meet the odd elder while in the town centre.
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five_crew
That was just too funny!!!!!
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five_crew
Hello Nancy,
I just joind myself and a month ago moved from Wisconsin.
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My Story
by five_crew inthis is my story.
it is my first time telling my story and a little intimidating.
when i was 8 my adoptive family became jw's.
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Thanks to all of you, it is really encouraging to see so many people in one place who feel this way. I have been searching for this for a while, but have always been afraid of consequences that go with it. There is alot more to my story, but how does everyone deal with the pain associated with the memories of the things that happened? Not just the pain but the hurt and dare I say, ANGER.
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Do you have a favorite piece of music?
by MorpheuzX ini don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?
i know the question seems juvenile.
but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.
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five_crew
I found a song off Kenny Chesney's new CD that touched me very deeply (you may think it is funny), but it is called "Some people change". It gave me hope that even the most narrow minded people can change with God's help. The very core of what we would all like to see, it tells us "against all odds, against the grain, love finds a way, some people change." How nice to think that even the most strict JW's still have hope to change
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Anyone going to the memorial??
by New Castles inanyone going to the memorial this coming weekend?
i didnt want to, but my wife does.
i guess i will end up going....anyone else?
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Not me, I have not been to 1 since I left ten yrs. ago
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What made you leave?
by Joysome in.
by this i mean what was it specifically that said to you that this isn't the truth?
caused you to give up what you always thought was the truth?
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When my husband and I decided to get married, he wasn't good enough for people because he wasn't a JW. Never mind that he loved me and treated me exactly the way God tells us man should love his wife. My parents always told my grandma (who took great offense to this statement) "I don't care who she marries as long as he is a JW." What a crock!!!
