Topics Started by happy camper

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What was your favorite thing about service?
by Dustin in
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i used to love break time.

especially if it was afternoon service, and we stopped at taco bell.

i used to be damn good at eating tacos in the car without spilling anything.
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? Need fellowship with ex-Dubs . Is there a WS by geographical location ?
by disciple in
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2. friends
exez,.

i have managed to meet up with 3 ex w in houston tx and through the grapevine have heard there are at least 150 active in houston area .... any way you know of to start bringing those together.

is there a message or post board that is primarily geographical in nature?
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How do you feel about.....
by bagpuss in
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2. friends
going back to a kingdom hall?.

recently i've had a couple of visits from jws while i was at work.

each time they left a message that the co was going to be visiting this week and that it would be good if i went to the meeting.. i was really surprised at the strong reaction i had to the thought of going to a meeting again.
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Do you have a better career now that you're out?
by wanderlustguy in
1. jw
2. friends
just dawned on me that i couldn't do my job if not for leaving.

i'm a director of marketing for a telecom company and travel the country constantly, different city and state every three months or so.

part of the job is "having" to take people out for drinks and dinner, etc all the time.
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having a hard time making friends
by happy camper in
1. jw
2. friends
i was wondering if anyone else has had a hard time making friends since leaving the organization.

being raised as a jw, it seems difficult to me, as i was never allowed to have any friends who weren't other jw's.

as a result, i have isolated myself to only my immediate family.
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new to this site
by happy camper in
1. jw
2. friends
hi, i am new to this site.

i have been an ex- jw for about 10years now, and this is the first time i have done this.

( trying to avoid the "apostate" label) haha i would love to hear from some ex- jw's, and see if they have and are going thru some of the same experiences that i am.
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wanting to leave jw org
by min79 in
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2. friends
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i am a baptised jw and am wanting to disassociate myself.

i am looking to find someone who has left this org to give me some idea on the letter to write and how they dealt with their friends who shunned them
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Finish This Sentence....You Know you're a JW teenager If....
by doodle-v in
1. jw
2. friends
during class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?

" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.

-doodle-v. your turn!
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For those raised as JWs...
by Country Girl in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have found that while i can remember my childhood from ages 3-5, i can't remember much after that until i was 17 or so.

my mom came into the jws when i was 3, and i remember celebrating our last christmas.

it was a small christmas tree on the end table and it had a present for each of us (2 kids).
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congregational cliques
by chuckyy in
1. jw
2. experiences
it was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.

in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.

if you were in the clique, fine.