I did for many years whilst I was finding my new non JW self but now I have been able to merge that side of my personality back into my overall self I have become a fuller person and to deny that would mean denying myself.
mtbatoon
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Do You Hide The Fact That You Were/Are A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus ini don't.
it reminds me every day of what i was was and not what i can enjoy.
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Why Doesn't The Org Feed It's Delegates Anymore?
by Englishman ini hear that food is no longer available at assemblies.. is that right?.
not even a cup of tea?.
this can't be right!
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mtbatoon
I was a food hall skiver. Started collecting cup holders in the breaks and over time worked my up to the holy grail of dish washing, working through the talks and no amount of volume on the PA could overcome the clanking of plates.
*sighs* nearly happy days.
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JW nudists (aka What's wrong with this picture?)
by melmoth insorry if this has come up before but i'm new and it only just occurred to me.
we all remember (or still see regularly, joe-help-you) those wt illustrations of people living happily in a paradise on earth, cavorting peacefully with the animals.
everyone is dressed like retired wasps (no offense to retired wasps intended).
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mtbatoon
I distinctly remember pictures of barbecuing going on. I don't think that a chap would want to be getting involved in that sort of thing in the nuddy thank you very much.
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Does anyone else flip off the Kingdom Hall when they drive by?
by Dustin inso it has become habit for me to go out of my way when driving to make sure i can give it the finger as i drive by.
i especially like to do this on the way to one of my favorite bars, especially on meeting nights just so people who knew me can see me do it.
i don't know why, but this has become a tradition of sorts.
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mtbatoon
I'm happy to say I don't even know where my local kingdom hall is but I shall look it up and salute it the next time I'm in the vicinity.
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mtbatoon
Being able to wear my shorts with the built in mesh support. I call it my happy hammock.
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Life after Jehovahs Witnesses
by WILKO ini was brought up a jw untill i was seventeen, even got baptized.
when i was seventeen i got disfellowshipped.
tried for about three years of sitting in a hall of non stop ignorant people claming to be christian, is it christian to be ignorant or just rude?
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mtbatoon
Holmfirth Yorkshire? I'm just down the road in Huddersfield, never been to Yorkshire cong being as I left before moving away from my home town of Chatham though . Congrats on your future family addition.
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It's a cult Jim but not as we know it
by mtbatoon inhas anyone else noticed any non religious organisations that behave in the same was as the jdubs?.
i've come across two, one was a karate school and the other amway.. .
i believe it has been mentioned before how amway is cult like and i have to agree.
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mtbatoon
Has anyone else noticed any non religious organisations that behave in the same was as the JDubs?
I've come across two, one was a karate school and the other Amway.
I believe it has been mentioned before how Amway is cult like and I have to agree. The thing that gets me is the similarity to the WTS. I was working in Pizza Hut, a very dead end job, when a new bloke started who sold Amway stuff. It didn't take too long till he was looking for converts and soon found one in a colleague who I also new outside of work. The change in him was remarkable, he had the very same Dub glazed eyes when he talked of Amway, I learned that he had spent 100's of pounds on inspirational books and tapes, he couldn't borrow the original Amway members of coarse or copy the tapes. They went around saying that in 5 years they would be able to retire, both are still living in rented accommodation and are in low wage jobs. One of the strangest things was they started turning up to the monthly staff meetings in suits, remember that this is Pizza Hut staff we're talking about and most could just about put on a T-shirt the right way round after working all evening and then drinking and smoking till the wee small hours. The clincher came when there got back from an Amway convention and said the the speaker had declared it the largest gathering of “business people” in Europe.
One day I agreed to go round to their house one evening and listen to their supplier chap try and sell me some petrol additive just to get them off my back. It was like Tuesday book study. They all got dressed up in their suits and arranged the chairs in a big circle. The chap went on about how all the poor misguided ones had to drudgingly go to the shops on a Saturday to buy there cleaning wares and how we could be living a better live if only we bought Amway cleaning products and maybe sold some on for him. I pointed out I actually like going shopping, I'd have to go anyway for food and it was no inconvenience to pick up the occasional bottle of bleach, plus I went mid week to avoid the Saturday rush.
So anyone else had experience of Amway or any other group with cultist tendencies?
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are you pessimistic or optimistic about the future?
by nowisee ini just saw a documentary called "the corporation".
very disturbing.. one premise put forth likened our reality to those who first experimented with flying.
they formed contraptions with wings and jumped off cliffs.
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mtbatoon
even though they make their lot worse by having many more children than the economic growth of their countries can take.
Thank the Gods that the developed west has never gone in and exploited theses people, that would really send them down the sh*ter.
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are you pessimistic or optimistic about the future?
by nowisee ini just saw a documentary called "the corporation".
very disturbing.. one premise put forth likened our reality to those who first experimented with flying.
they formed contraptions with wings and jumped off cliffs.
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mtbatoon
Systems of government come and go. Right now capitalism is the best suited for the worlds technology, population size and social development. It has many down sides but also many pluses. True it can't sustain itself and will collapse through its own greed rather than being brought down by the masses in the way that Marx and Engels tried to orchestrate. I am optimistic in general regarding the future but I don't see us ever achieving our goal system, rather an improved system to meet our current needs.
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I'm going to JW Hell, I'm going to die.....
by riotgirlpeeps ini thought this would be kind of fun to do is list some of the offenses that i have committed according to witness beliefs.
i thought it might be mildly amusing considering the lack of emphasis that any of these things are wrong according to the majority of the population.
i'll limit myself to ten.
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mtbatoon
Celebrate X-Mas and Easter though Easter not as much because I'm not too keen on chocolate.
Had pre marital sex in many unproscribed positions which resulted in bastard offspring (I actually refer to them as my little princesses)
Love eating the yummy yummy blood sausage.
Take recreational drugs but shun excessive alcohol.