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  What is your greatest fear?

  by Podiatrist in

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  just wondering, my experience tells me that many jw live in constant state of watchfulness, bordering with paranoia.

  did any of that have an effect on you?

  like last week ive had a pleasure of browsing new childrens book great teacher or something (well it was new to me anyway) i was mightily surprised on the number of references to satan or devil.

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  chrissy

  No one that has been through it thinks that their fear-instilling trickery is ok. I remember, as a kid, the scary photos in publications, demon stories, etc. One of the first books read to me (that I recall anyhoo) was My Book of Bible Stories...and even that had some freaky images for a toddler to digest.

  These days I try to see all fear as illusionary...a psychological projection.

  Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add some thing to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.

  All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less.

  These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you.

  Eckhart Tolle
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  The KH and people in it make me so hateful

  by tsunami_rid3r in

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  2. friends

  so the brother who was suppose to do sound had to read the watchtower that morning so i had to do it b/c no one else who knew how to showed up.

  so there i was sitting through this boring talk that talked about entertaiment or something and i heard it all before so i started reading this watchtower that was laying on the sound system.

  then brother elder walked by and told my dad i was sleeping, and another brother elder walked by and told my dad i was sleeping.

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  chrissy

  True...that is the least they can do
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  The KH and people in it make me so hateful

  by tsunami_rid3r in

  1. jw
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  so the brother who was suppose to do sound had to read the watchtower that morning so i had to do it b/c no one else who knew how to showed up.

  so there i was sitting through this boring talk that talked about entertaiment or something and i heard it all before so i started reading this watchtower that was laying on the sound system.

  then brother elder walked by and told my dad i was sleeping, and another brother elder walked by and told my dad i was sleeping.

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  chrissy

  I could stop going right now but then I'd have to get a hair cut and pay my bills like the cell phone and truck insurance.

  (that's awesome)

  I hope your parents are not paying your tuition as well... you do not want to be a slave to them and the wt for another four years... student loans never looked so good.
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  JW College Girl Getting DF'd For Going To Mormons For Love

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  the new talk in the hall per my mom is that a twenty something year old sister is getting disfellowshipped because she's been attending the mormon church because she found a nice mormon boy that is interested in her.

  since there are no jw eligible men around, she has gone over to the other side and will pay for it with the announcement soon.

  word is---she just "needs" to get married.

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  chrissy

  Similarly, I have a 26 yr old & single jw girlfriend who stopped going to meetings recently for the same reason...she claims that the guys her age are coming out of the closet with their alternative sexual lifestyles (i.e. gay) and leaving the org., making her already minuscule selection nearly obsolete. The rest, as she says, just don't know how to party. (she is pretty funny) Anyway, I find it annoying the way they and everyone else in society pushes marriage as the ideal. For christ's sake, even the conservative christian Bush administration allocated $300 million to further promote marriage, like it needs it. Marriage can be lovely and all but is it right for everyone? Hmmm.

  Regarding the post earlier, about god creating us with a desire to get married...I think he created us with a desire to simply procreate, like the rest of the primates. And couples instinctively stay together mainly to raise children, not co-exist and irritate each other eternally in dull sexless marriages that ran their course long ago.
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  Last meeting I attended at the Kingdom Hall

  by JH in

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  they played the wrong song for about 30 seconds, and everone was trying to sing to the tune....lol.

  dum dums....

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  chrissy

  I only remember the last meeting I attempted to attend...

  My faithful lil' sis was visiting me from out of state and eager to attend Sunday meeting at my new kh. Only I did not have a new kh. (I never went back after leaving the place I grew up) I found one in my neighborhood and agreed to take her... and for the first time, explained to someone I had not been to a meeting in over a year. Naturally, not knowing, she was shocked.

  We pulled into the parking lot, got out of my car, and walked to towards the door. We were late as my body's physical reaction to the idea of going slowed us down a bit. Being late, we could hear the funeral dirges playing from outside the door. I think I literally had my hand on the door when I turned to her and said, "I can't..." I will never forget the look on her face, like..what are you, nuts?

  She dumb-foundidly followed me as I ran back to my little vw and took off and she took turns crying and praying the entire way back to my house. I think she thought I was possessed or something. It was unforgettable.
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  Hi you all.

  by chrissy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new to the forum & simply introducing myself.

  i've enjoyed reading some of the posts here.

  it is so nice to know these forums exist for poor ex-jw girls that suffer from post tramatic sheltered-from-the-rest-of-the-free-world syndrome.

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  Thanks for making me feel all welcome!

  Yes, codeblue... I do live in Seattle area. I recently moved here from Rhode Island. In the past five years I have lived in five states.... PA. KS. MD. RI. and now WA. (in that order) Hopefully this is for good. At least this is the plan. But you never know where life (or your spouse's job) will take you.
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  The saddest song you've ever heard

  by littlerockguy in

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  what is the saddest song that brings tears to your eyes just about every time you hear it?

  mine is harry chapin's cats in the cradle

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  chrissy

  Anything by the Red House Painters. Katy song in particular.
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  Don't woory about skin cancer, new system will be here soon!

  by wordlywife in

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  my jw step-daughter has taken to tanning salons and sunning herself a lot, contrary to her jw dad warning her (even used one of current awake article), and me worldly wife telling her she should be careful, a relative of mine died from malignant melanoma, it is rough to watch someone you love go through this.

  her comeback was "oh well, the new system will be here soon!

  oh lordy.................... .

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  chrissy

  Oh my!! lol (as nerds say),

  that totally takes me back to my teen years as a JW, circa 1995....my fellow girlfriends and I sunbathing in our modest one piece's under the advice of an older sister who promised us the same deliverance from skin cancer!! "Don't worry" she says, "the new system..."

  Yeah right....you should see this lady today. The new system did not come and she is stuck with skin like a leathery handbag.

  You should tell your step daughter about jergens natural glow it isa sunless tanner of sorts, only it is mixed w. a lotion so it is super easy to use and does not streak. I used it recently and loved it.
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  Hi you all.

  by chrissy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new to the forum & simply introducing myself.

  i've enjoyed reading some of the posts here.

  it is so nice to know these forums exist for poor ex-jw girls that suffer from post tramatic sheltered-from-the-rest-of-the-free-world syndrome.

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  chrissy

  Physically I checked out about three years ago. However, I was raised in that mess, so mentally I am still trying to sort things out. It is getting easier everyday, thankfully. But it is like, who do I thank? I want to thank Jesus for eveything since I feel that he was shafted a lot. Although, I really don't care. That is another nasty side effect... still feeling this need to always be polite and such. ayayay.
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  Hi you all.

  by chrissy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new to the forum & simply introducing myself.

  i've enjoyed reading some of the posts here.

  it is so nice to know these forums exist for poor ex-jw girls that suffer from post tramatic sheltered-from-the-rest-of-the-free-world syndrome.

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  chrissy

  New to the forum & simply introducing myself. I've enjoyed reading some of the posts here. It is so nice to know these forums exist for poor ex-JW girls that suffer from post tramatic sheltered-from-the-rest-of-the-free-world syndrome. I hope to make some friends here cause lord only knows, not many people understand things like a grown woman fearing demonic forces, armaggedon coming, and so on and so fourth.