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Will the World ever Die?
by blacksheep in
1. jw
2. friends
during the last few years, i've progressively observed a phenomenon which i hadn't really seen before in my jw mother.

lately she's been talking about her will, about wanting to get long term care insurance for herself and my dad so they won't be a burden on us kids.... it's like she knows she's going to eventually die in "this system.

" what happened to armageddon's right around the corner??.
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Prats with microphones
by Jonty Parkin in
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2. friends
in your congregation, did you ever have macho-wannabes on the microphones, strutting up and down the aisles handling the mikes as though they were aka assault rifles?.

we had a few tossers like this.

in fact, i might even have been one of them.... jonty
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Karate
by the bandersnatch esq. in
1. jw
2. experiences
i started doing karate a few months ago.

today, an old memory came flooding back - i remember my mother telling me when i was a child and asked how people could punch through piles of wood, and breeze-blocks and suchlike, she told me it was because they were helped by the demons.

for years i thought karate was a satanistic activity (no, really!)...
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Where did they get their brainwashing tecniques?
by cyber-sista in
1. jw
2. experiences
what is really the most disturbing thing to me is that i really do feel that i was brainwashed in those 20 + years in the org--i mean seriously brainwashed.

i am not an idiot, but there were times that i look back on now where i was a radical jw, though this is not really my personality to be such.

i remember after assemblies (while greatly relieved it was over with aching back and all) i would feel different--sometimes i would start donating more money to the wt and at one point i seriously thought of puttingthe wt in my will.
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staying out of school assembly!
by happehanna in
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2. experiences
does anyone else remember how awful school was because of the dreaded school assembly.. my whole school life was blighted because i couldn't go in.

my young son can goes in and it is the best part of his day, he loves the hymns.

how glad am i that i came to my senses before my son suffered like i did as a child.
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discussions with householders
by kj in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm expecting a return visit from 2 nice jw ladies and i'm going to try counterwitnessing to them.

i've been warned about possibly wasting my time, which i know is a possibility.

i'm not afraid of them sucking me in- i know way too much now.
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Another newbie
by myauntfanny in
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2. experiences
i just wanted to introduce myself before launching myself at the various threads.

i left when i was 14 and that was 30 years ago, i thought i was well over it but when i read some of the postings on here they really got to me.

there are definitely long term effects.
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Can you believe this?
by staceman in
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2. experiences
even i am pretty shocked at this one... .

my daughter who is 20 years old and df'd for about 2 years now is attending meetings again.

but yesterday she tells me that she didn't feel like going to the meeting and that her mom probably wouldn't even know that she wasn't there.
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The Future
by the bandersnatch esq. in
1. jw
2. experiences
since leaving the borg just over two years ago, as a young man in his early-mid twenties, i realise now for the first time in my life i'm not worried about the future... .

while in the organisation i constantly worried about my life, it's direction, and the coming apocalypse (and how i would fare).

would i have enough time to get the things done i wanted to do?
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STOP Talking to Your Family OR ELSE!
by UnDisfellowshipped in
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2. friends
" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 411).

" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 413).

" (the watchtower july 15th 1963 issue, page 446).