That you should investigate and 'make sure of the more important things' or whatever when you are studying to be a JW, but once you become a JW you are not allowed to question anything or you will get disfellowshipped for apostate thinking.
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How I lost my soul mate.
by Abandoned ini've shown this to a couple of friends, but i'm ready to widen that audience a bit.
so, without further ado, here's my soul mate story.. i worked with amber and saw her a few times a week.
when i first accepted a lead care position, she was the one who trained me in on med passing and from that first day i worked with her, i was so impressed by how kind and patient she was.
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Forgot to add--Abandoned, I hope you meet a lady one day who truly appreciates you because you deserve it! You are such a romantic!!!
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How I lost my soul mate.
by Abandoned ini've shown this to a couple of friends, but i'm ready to widen that audience a bit.
so, without further ado, here's my soul mate story.. i worked with amber and saw her a few times a week.
when i first accepted a lead care position, she was the one who trained me in on med passing and from that first day i worked with her, i was so impressed by how kind and patient she was.
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Abandoned Sorry for your loss, you may have scared her away though, sounds like you were pretty intense.
I feel for you, as I feel I lost my soul mate 4 years ago. I felt suicidal when I broke up with him, because I didn't think I could live without him because my feelings for him were soooo intense; he treated me like a queen but refused to commit to me, so after 18 months I broke up with him. What really upset me is that he was the one who pursued me and he would say things like "God does not recognize second marriages", "I promised myself I would never remarry" etc etc. But he did remarry a little over a year after I broke up with him. I absolutely loved everything about him and we clicked so much, and he made me feel awesome. He even told me he had been with a lot of women (he was older than me) but that our intimacy surprassed anything imagineable, like fireworks every time.
I rushed into a marriage to try to block my intense sorrow and now am going through a divorce. I wished I had gone into therapy instead of another marriage, but anyway. I still shed tears sometimes over this previous boyfriend because my heart still aches for him. Sometimes I feel like my heart will never mend, it's that bad. And I purposefully married someone I was not in love with, because I don't think I could ever let myself fall for someone that hard ever again--I don't think I could live through it again, the pain was and is still too intense.
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Apostates do you still read Watchtower literature? And if so Why do you?
by booker-t ini was just wondering how many ex-jws still read wt literature and if so why.
i have noticed alot of posters here know what the lastest wt or awake magazines are talking about and i was just wondering why do you bother to read that stuff since you left the wt?
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I agree with many of you, that for the most part I can't stomach the articles anymore. Usually if I see any mags or tracts in the laundryroom--I toss them so no one else will read them. I do like to share articles with a Catholic girl I work with to show her how ridiculous their beliefs are.
By the way, I would love it if someone would mail me the January 15 Watchtower having to do with the whole shunning thing. Anyone have an extra copy?
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'I love you'
by Zico inyesterday, i came to the realisation, that nobody has ever said these words to me, least not that i can remember, which was a temporarily devastating moment for me.
this began with my father.
spotting him in front of the tv in his favourite chair, i walked over and came out with the words 'i love you' it felt very weird, because i think it may be the first time i've ever said these words myself, but i'm going to blame my upbringing on this.
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I love your post! When I was growing up neither of my parents ever touched me, hugged me, said I love you or anything positive PERIOD. When my sister and I were teenagers, we started kissing them goodnight and you should have seen the surprised looks on their faces at first but there was also a hint of happiness because they liked it. When I became an adult is when my dad started saying I love you on the phone, and I admit I had to get used to hearing and saying it to my family.
I have 3 kids, and I have always made it a point to touch them and tell them I love them and that I'm proud of them. Self-esteem is SO important to a child so they can become healthy adults.
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AHHHHH! I'm PREGNANT!!!
by Jez injust thought i would pop in here to tell you all that i am 3 months pregnant!
it was quite a shock.
my husband and i have been married for 5 years.
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Congratulations! That is wonderful, you will have plenty of helpers and you already have mommy experience!
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Have you put your JW family behind you? Are you content with your decision
by nicolaou injust feeling a bit fed up.
it's not always like this i know but i'm wondering if life would be far easier for me and my wife if i just drew a line under all my efforts to maintain a relationship with my jw mother, brother and sisters.
all the rejection, judgementalism and condescension gets a bit much after a while.. how many here actually said 'goodbye' to their jw family and can honestly say they did not regret it?.
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I just have a JW sister, to whom I recently sent my letter of disassociation. I don't regret finally letting her know how I truly feel about the Watchtower Society, but I do regret how I worded some of the letter as I was not very nice in the letter. But my emotional state when I wrote the letter was one of being fed-up with her severe emotional issues, some of which are promoted by the WS. And I guess since I'm always learning more negative crap about the JW religion, I am just plain fed up with that religion in general.
So in hindsight, my advice is if you write any letters--wait a few days before you send them!
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My Haunted Office
by Warlock inthe following account is 100% true and all of the paranormal activity was experienced firsthand by me.. i work in a converted garage.
there is a side door, with a window, and a back door with a window that leads to a swimming pool.
both doors have cloth canopies to keep out some of the sunlight.
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There is one thing I forgot to mention in the original account.
The office used to crack, all day, all four seasons. The way a building cracks when it's settling, but this was ALL DAY.
When the lady of the house died, it stopped.
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Funny you should mention about the cracking ceiling, my aunt's house used to do that 24 hours a day non-stop no matter what the season or whatever and it used to creep me out. I had a couple situations happen at her house also when I spent the night--once a lamp fell over on me when I was sleeping--the lamp was at least 2 feet away from the bed--and I was basically fighting with the lamp and had a hard time waking up; the other time I slept in another room and woke up feeling like something was trying to smother me with the sheet. Also--my aunt suffered from terrible nightmares in that house, she would wake up screaming every night--her family was too embarrassed to talk about it but it made me wonder if their house had spirits or something in it.
Also--same aunt owned a very old victorian house that was built in 1850 by my relatives. I heard something/someone whisper my name when I was a kid from an empty dark bedroom, and the memory is as clear as day; I still get chills thinking about it. I've had other people say they felt an evil presence in that house, and one person said she definitely felt a couple cold spots in the house, and we had a few other things happen over the years. As long as the house was full of people, I didn't mind spending the night there but mostly the house is very creepy.
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UPDATE!: THEY ALL ADMITTED EGGING US -Elders now know, heads are rolling!!
by Lady Liberty inoh.... how the saga goes on!!
i swear we could write a novel about our life exiting the watchtower!!
ok..many of you read what happened..our house was egged and so was my sisters car that was parked here, and "frosty" was attacked!!
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LL--I haven't had time to read through this whole thing, but I had read your previous thread on what happened.
Due to the fact that they are only apologizing because they are being forced to, I would say--PRESS CHARGES!!! Especially when you think of all the crimes that JWs commit that they try to sweep under the carpet--molesting and other crap. I go for any kind of public news that sheds a deserved bad light on the JWs.
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What do women REALLY want?
by Abandoned inok, i've heard it all: sincerity, honesty, security, money, love, romance, flowers, poems, promises, and more.
but, in my arguably limited experience, i've been shot down while doing all of these (at differnt times obviously).
so, what do women really want?
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Troucul--"They want the impossible, they want you to walk on water, then commit suicide while shouting their name, and while they're standing on your grave asking 'what else can you do for me?', they want you to rise from the dead.
Do not trust them."
Me thinks you have had some bad experiences?