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  Competing In the name of Jehovah!

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  inspired while posting on another thread, i was wondering, have you ever competed with other jws to get recognition or favour??

  i can remember as a kid, being in a book study group with other kids, and when it came time to give an answer that kids could cope with...all kiddie sized hands would fly up and we'd all look at each other in the hope that it was our hand that got chosen.

  i remember some kids would burst into tears if they didn't get chosen...and others would scowl or quickly go about looking for the next answer.

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  What did I do Farkel??

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  " it's time to spank you, and i will do it in a new thread (you won't like it.

  i'm vicious when it comes to idiots.).

  you never know when to quit, but that's ok. i know how to deal with it.

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  What does Black_Melbourne mean Farkel?

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  farkel.

  i am just wondering what you meant by this:.

  there have been ex-jw support groups for at least a dozen years on the internet.

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  Ex JW Support Group - any suggestions?

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  i just thought i'd put this to the multitude and invite your suggestions or some feedback, as i am thinking about forming a support group for ex jw people in my area.

  my motive is based on my own experience when exiting the borg...and how isolated and lonely i felt when i left.

  i was lucky enough to have one family member who had left the borg a few years before me.

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  Do you sit next to a "deviate" at the...

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  there are deviates in the jw fold....and if you are a lurker...did you realise that you could be sitting next to one every sunday...he tips his hat and smiles as you walk in...chats to your kids and playfully tugs at their pony tails...he compliments your wife on her lovely outfit...and makes remarks about how encouraging your answers were in the wt study.

  he is a smooth talker...a 'cool cat' in fact.

  he is exemplary in every way...puts in his report card on time each month...and he puts in a diligent effort to attend all meetings...answers well...shares in kingdom hall cleaning...works in the field ministry with the discarded ones everyone tries to avoid...a true 'cool cat'.

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  Whats wrong with this picture??

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  took me a while to figure it out.. http://home.camelot.de/danielt/whatswrong.html

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  Any other churches call themselves the 'truth'??

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  old habits die hard...and quite often in my comments i will refer to the borg as the 'truth'.

  does anyone know of any other churches that refer to their own particular church or religion as the 'truth'??

  also, does anyone know how it originated...all my life i have used the term...comments like 'how long have u been in the truth?

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  Hot Cross Buns Stories!

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  my jw mother used to peel the cross off the hot cross buns at easter time...she said it was her way of compromising...so that we werent partaking of anything pagan.

  did anyone have parents like mine...or am i the only one??

  what was your understanding of easter eggs and hot cross buns at easter time?

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  Don't want to stumble anyone!

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  did you have narrow minded turds as elders/overseers in your congregation?

  yup so did i...they're everwhere.. "there was this one time..at band camp"....it was in a hired hall actually...where we used to organise congregation functions like farewells etc.

  this usually consisted of food...non alcoholic beverages...and some entertainment...usually square dancing and some skits...and a presentation or speech.. at one function a particular elder was offended that the 'gay gordon' was one of the dances for the evening...so he promptly left...yup...at the next function it was renamed the 'happy gordon'...as his conscience wouldn't allow him to attend otherwise.

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  Whats the dumbest thing you were counselled for?

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  i was once counselled by the elders for watching 'knots landing'....it became widely known in the congregation that me and a few other sisters would rush home from field service to watch our favourite soapie.

  if we missed it, we would ring each other up for an update...or...if we weren't near a tv we would ask someone to put the phone handset on the top of their tv so we could hear it...pathetic huh...but that was all the excitement we could scrounge up in our otherwise dull and uneventful lives.

  one of the elder's wive's conscience got the better of her...and she confessed to her husband..lol.

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