Topics Started by Whiskeyjack

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JW at meetings vs. JW at social events
by truth_about_the_truth in
1. jw
2. friends
have you noticed how jw switch modes depending on where they are?

they seem a lot more 'normal' at social gatherings than while they are engaged in 'theocratic' activities.. it's like there's a spiritual switch that they turn on and off.

zombie mode/human mode
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Did You Date As a JW To Just Find A Marriage Mate??
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
or were you a recreational dater?
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You know you're NOT a JW anymore when...(add some)
by Flindersgirl in
1. social
2. humour
you don't automatically wake up with a headache on sunday morning.... you no longer go around (while in field service) mentally deciding what home you'll "have" after armaggedon.... every item of clothing you buy as a woman is not first assessed for its modesty value.... you no longer worry about the 144,000 watching you have sex...:).

when on holiday you don't have to find the nearest kingdom hall asap (remember brother and sisters you are not on holiday from jehovah!!!).

being able to laugh about having a numb ass at the assemblies from sitting and the hilarity in having to tell people that you found the meeting "uplifting" when really you were fighting sleep the whole time.... you no longer have to avoid entire sections of music stores in order to make sure you don't pick up and "demonistic" vibes from backmasked cd's.
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Elder says "Watchtower is cutting costs"
by truthseeker in
1. jw
2. friends
an elder told me the other day that the reason the society is making the awake!

magazine monthly, is to cut costs.

didn't tell me that the society were simplifying, or trying to make the awake more kingdom friendly.. nope, just cost cutting.
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The Social Structure in the Congregation
by Mary in
1. jw
2. friends
ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

to say that jesus said his followers should all be on equal footing, it's incredible how much the r&f witness is not on equal footing.

the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:
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Can 'the truth' survive the Internet?
by Noumenon in
1. jw
2. friends
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great article here, from some university prof. doesn't seem he was ever a jw either.. http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2003_10/cox-truth.html
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A JWD / Knowledge Jones ...
by Taylor S. in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i've been thinking about it in my sleep ... can sleep.

it's been less than a month since i stumbled onto this site while researching the roots of jwism for a character i'm writing on.

since then, i haven't written anything, haven't done much recreationally .... i've just been digging deeper through this site and simultaneously .... digging through my memories of growing up dub.
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WATCHTOWER AND TOBACCO INDUSTRY???
by chuckyy in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
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i have heard recently that the society has some sort of financial connections with philip morris the tobacco giant.. is this true???

chukyy
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Hi, newbie here
by ChimpGirl in
1. jw
2. friends
hi y'all from chimpgirl in the uk.

have been posting on support board for exjws for a year or so now and someone there pointed me in your direction.

glad i found ya!.
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Traitors and heroes.
by Norm in
1. jw
2. friends
the whitewashed history of the watchtower society in nazi germany.. the man who became leader of the german branch of the watchtower society after the war is without exception portrayed as a beacon of virtue and faith, standing fearless against the nazis:.

*** w89 5/1 12 jehovah has sustained me as a friend ***.

many of the loyal ones, among them erich frost and konrad franke, who suffered much for the lords sake and later became branch overseers in germany, returned alive from the fiery furnace of persecution.. .