Twenty first century pharmaceuticals!!
How many jws on antidepressants?
doofdaddy
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Why do the majorityof JW's look so happy at the hall?
by JH ineach time i go, i see a bunch of happy people, young and old.
some smile more than others, but just about everyone seems happy to be there.. maybe we left because we weren't that happy, rather than finding flaws in the religion.. maybe they look happy because they aren't allowed to look sad..
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How did you build a new life outside of the JWs?
by Sirona in"if you leave jehovah's organisation, where will you go?".
no doubt many of us have been asked that question.
so where did you "go" when you left the jws?
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doofdaddy
I looked at life through fresh eyes, like a child. Potential....
I was so nervous the first time I went to a coffee shop alone, I didn't read the newspaper in my clammy hand. A woman just started chatting to me. She wasn't flirting, actually waiting for her husband. Just friendly.
That tiny seed was fertilised by starting to travel over seas again, also on my own. Of course this was also a " spiritual" journey as well, peaking ihto the forbidden realms of my previous existance. What a journey!
It may sound a little weird but dancing also came into my life. I saw all the indigenous peoples dance and the realms that they could reach in that state of bliss.
The rest is history. Sometimes I look back at my jw life and can only explain my radical new full life as being born again! Ha ha
Andy
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An update at the JW media site
by DT ini just received this email update from the jw media site:.
"police officers and local officials of samarkand, uzbekistan, raided the.
homes of jehovah's witnesses and took 18 congregation members to the.
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doofdaddy
Geez! They are desperate if they have to ferret out stories about Uzbekistan to find persecution......Where?
Assault of young women would be going on hourly in police stations next door to the the publishing company in Brooklyn and for less reason than being part of a banned religion.
A but these are WORLDLY teenagers. god ordained fodder for rape and violence
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Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(
by reniaa ini've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!
i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.
they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".
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doofdaddy
Here's my two cents worth....
If you really believe it was a better life, go back as life is too short to be so unhappy. It appears that you have an issue with boundaries as you talk about the religion's strictness.
That is the big issue on moving forward from the jw's, making our own personal boundaries. That is when we become responsible for our decisions in life and ultimately receive personal freedom and contentment.
Good luck!
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Have you gained more than lost?
by compound complex ingreetings, my friends:.
the above question is not in regard to one's weight.
that would be a rude question .... in terms of your jw experience, have the losses you've suffered been offset by the good you've gained?.
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doofdaddy
That's a difficult way to gauge my present life.
Once I discovered the truth about the lies of the jw organisation, there was no cost involved. How could I continue to support a lie? There is no cost in searchig for truth.
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Just out of interest - how many Australians are on this site?
by Son of a preacher man injust out of interest id like to know how many aussies are posting?
im on the east coast, been everywhere from desert to coast.
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doofdaddy
Haven't been on jwd for yrs and here is a thead on Aussies!
I live near Byron Bay. We missed summer this year. Rain and more rain
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Nancy Yuen featured on the July 15, 1979 Watcthower has passed on.
by What-A-Coincidence inher life story was the front cover on the july 15, 1979 of the craptower ... she is now dead.
the wt and the memorial program can be downloaded on the link below.. .
through his organization have i found.
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doofdaddy
I met her in Hong Kong with Harold King when she was just released in the late seventies early eighties. I was there when they recorded her story for the WT.
She was a sweety but totally immersed in her "reality". I could imagine anyone locked up for twenty years would need a coping mechanism.As earlier noted, she at least was happy with her life and decisions.
The watch tower didn't tell their loyal readers that she was viciously and repeatedly tortured, as she told me. Maybe the white middle class followers may have found that the slicing and burning of a young woman for her "faith" unpalatable
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doofdaddy
Ooops hit the wrong button...
Anyhow, they are now twenty five and twenty and our bond is water tight. Just last week my son rang and invited me to a dance party.
I had a bliss moment dancing with my boy, seeing his big grin and the admiration of his mates who I reckon were a little envious of love and consideration of each other.
Andy
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doofdaddy
I raised my kidsfor a number of years as a single dad. My daughter was eight and my son was five at he beginning
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Aussies/Canadians of JWD most laid back~
by FlyingHighNow ini was thinking today, i've been here at jwd for nearly three years now.
i've observed that our aussie members are the most laid back members on the board here.they don't take their country, their politics or anything too seriously really.
people who are from europe tend to be more laid back than the brits and americans.
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doofdaddy
Hmmm
What a subject to come back to the forum on.
Our laidback attitude has two sides. One is having a laugh at ourselves, the other is that we have a leader who needs to be put out of office but we allow him to remain çause we won't get fired up enough. (or maybe we are just tired out from opposing him...)
As for Mr Bean, I absolutely hated that series. Blackadder? Fantastic