PP, whatever makes you happy. I look at JW's the same way I look at most other religions, just with a little more cynicism. Knowing what you know about the religion, If you think you'll be happier going to meetings and fraternizing with JW's, more power to you.
Posts by Dune
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116I've Decided That It'll Be Best For Me To Return To The Kingdom Hall.
by Philadelphia Ponos inafter carefully evaluating the my current life situation, i've come to the conclusion that returning to the hall will be best for me.
i simply just don't fit in with the rest of the world.
i don't drink, smoke, have sex, go to clubs, listen to worldly music, watch movies, or gamble.
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What if your Significant Other wanted to become a JW?
by Dune intoday, i was ambushed by a pair of witnesses while leaving my apartment.
they offered me a magazine, to which i declined, but gave the latest awake & watchtower to my girlfriend.
at our next stop, i took the magazines, rolled them up and was about to toss them when she told me that she wanted to read them.
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Dune
No problem camelot. And congrats on taking the first step.
I was still living with my parents when i wanted to leave the religion. I didn't want to rock the boat, and didn't know what would happen if i outright Diassociated myself. So instead I started going to other congregations and slowly stopped going to the meetings. It reached the point where i was so off the grid where no one really bothered me except for the occasional call.
You never know what will happen, it really just depends on your congregation, if the elders there have a personal vendetta against you or have a hardline stance. The elders in my old congregation just left me alone save for the calls, but no announcements were made.
@found sheep. Even if cam is a fraud, its fine by me, I'm been gone for so long that I just see it as a big joke.
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What if your Significant Other wanted to become a JW?
by Dune intoday, i was ambushed by a pair of witnesses while leaving my apartment.
they offered me a magazine, to which i declined, but gave the latest awake & watchtower to my girlfriend.
at our next stop, i took the magazines, rolled them up and was about to toss them when she told me that she wanted to read them.
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Dune
Today, I was ambushed by a pair of witnesses while leaving my apartment. They offered me a magazine, to which i declined, but gave the latest awake & watchtower to my girlfriend. At our next stop, I took the magazines, rolled them up and was about to toss them when she told me that she wanted to read them. I was surprised at first, considering that she knows about my JW past, including the fact that I had just completed a successful fade when i first met her, but I handed them to her and jokingly told her that I'd leave her if she started going to meetings, to which she laughed and teased me for a bit. We later read some of the awake article and made off colored jokes about the articles & writing style.
This had me thinking though. I know it sounds bad, but if she DID started studying, attending meetings and going door-to-door, I probably would end the relationship (hell, she'd probably have to end the relationship since she’d come to know me as a conniving Apostate). I'm a laid back, not controlling, relatively easy going person, but the idea of being in a relationship with a JW just disturbs me in so many ways.
So, what would you do if your significant other started to study and seriously consider becoming a JW?
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THOR movie.
by Mad Sweeney inif you've seen it, what sort of "adult" stuff is in it?
why is it pg-13 and not just pg?.
would you bring a relatively mature 11 year old to see it?.
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Jehovah's witness meetings are NOT BORING......
by punkofnice in...i was told but they usually were as i look back.. as a lad i'd sit and look to see who the lights would fall on.
i'd get an almond and see how long i could suck it before i chewed at it.
i'd imagine playing rock'n'roll on the congregation's piano.. how did you get through the meetings when you were bored?.
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So If I am to be raptured on Saturday I guess I should spend the day outside?
by stuckinamovement ini don't want to get trapped in a building when i am called to the lord.
these are details you gotta think about.. my rapture checklist.
clean underwearbiblesnickers and trailmix (you never know how long the trip up might be)sunscreen (the uv rays at 50,000 are killer)harmonicais there anything else i am missing?.
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Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny?
by jworld ininteresting article in the new york times looking at the economic differences among the united statess various religions.
jehovah's witnesses get a mention in the article as one of the lowest income earners.. "the most affluent of the major religions including secularism is reform judaism.
sixty-seven percent of reform jewish households made more than $75,000 a year at the time the pew forum on religion and public life collected the data, compared with only 31 percent of the population as a whole.
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Dune
I was just about to post this, good thing i searched first.
The funny thing is that I didn't even have to read the article, just the first sentence and I knew JW's would be a metric somewhere in there.
As a teen, i remember hearing JW's say a $30K a year job was a 'good' salary to support oneself while pioneering. Growing up in a household where the combined income was less than 40K, even at 14, I knew that I wanted to make alot more money than that.
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Did you watch R rated movies when you were in it?
by ldrnomo inlast night, i watched an r rated movie that featured violence.
at least 30 people were shot in the first 45 min of the movie.. while i was in and an elder, i watched r rated movies all the time just didn't talk about it.
so how many of you watched r rated movies even though "mother" said not to?.
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The Civil Rights Struggle: Put it to Rest
by prophecor inwe have been priveliged to have the first black president in the us to serve in the white house.
with the wrestling of the 50's and 60's, king and the kennedys.
race riots, vietnam, the drug culture of the seventies, and so on and so forth, isn't it time we all took a deep breath and take into account all that has transpired between where we are and where we've been?
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Dune
The Symbolic Representation falllacy, If a handful of minorities acheive greatness politically and/or financially, there isn't anything holding them back and therefore protections afforded to them by the law/and or government are unnecessary.
So not true, just like the myth that Affirmative Action mostly benefits Minorities (when it in fact mostly benefits White Women), just because an African American man is presiden and one of the richest women in the US is African American, doesn't mean that racism is no longer a hinderance to African Americans.
Another thing to keep in mind is just because it is taboo to be overtly racist, it doesn't mean that covert forms of racism aren't in full force.
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Status within the Org
by Luo bou to inhave you ever noticed that within the cong if your not a elder or ms you have no status.
you may be educated, successful and respected by your worldly colleagues but that counts for nothing.
any elder with the intellect of a flea who is incapable of having an intelligent conversation thinks he is a superior somebody 'cause he can parrot wt rhetoric.
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Dune
Very true.
The prosiding overseer in my congregation was an overnight grocery store stocker. I remember him telling us how he was constantly passed over for promotion and how his bosses were "boys" who were half his age.
I think one of the things that draws people to the religion is that it sort of has this social reset button. Men who are ignored and do relatively meanial task in the real world come to a meeting and suddenly they're in a completely different setting where they are admired, respected and even feared.