I miss having people giving me shit for having a moustache, wearing a bright tie, or some other disgusting sin I regularly practice. Someone please, please, please abuse me so I can feel normal again!
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What Do You Miss About Being An Active JW?
by minimus indo you miss the "friends"?.
do you miss the meetings?.
do you miss field service?.
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Jehovah'$ Witne$$e$ say center would have big impact
by betterdaze injehovah's witnesses say center would have big impact.
a planned 3,000-seat educational center will have a substantial economic impact on orangeburg county over the next five years, jehovah's witnesses officials say.. .
the center could generate $264 million in revenues over a five-year period, with the added benefit of more than $18.4 million in new sales tax revenues for the local area, church spokesman bill sims said.. .
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With each person spending an estimated $66 per day, there will be a total annual revenue of $52.8 million
How do they figure each person would spend $66 per day when the society tells people to bring their own lunches to the assemblies? A family of four spending $528 in two days? Not bloody likely.
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Insulting Terms used by the WashTowel
by punkofnice inloading the language is a propogandist tactic to trigger a reaction in the mind.
a prime example is the word 'apostate'!.
i have been called 'spiritually weak' for quitting field service, meetings etc.. how would you respond (without swearing or giving a punch up the hooter), if you were called this?.
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I was told by my mother (yeah she's a jw) that my marriage was immoral.
I wish my marriage was a little more 'immoral'. Maybe then it would have lasted.
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I'm tired of beening asked to take surveys
by I quit! inyesterday i went to barnes and noble and bought something.
today i get an email from barnes and noble asking me to take a survey about my experience.
i was to receive a coupon for completing it.
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I don't complete surveys. I used to, but I stopped when one company offered me a gift for completing a half hour survey and never delivered on the gift. Other companies offer coupons or discounts for products or services I have no use for. I can't be bothered.
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Being honest with yourself, could you have reasonably adjusted your attitude and continued on as a JW?
by miseryloveselders ini ask this question in harmony with deedub's swan song thread which i linked below.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/205902/1/time-to-say-good-bye.
to some degree, i think i understand where she's coming from.
just speaking from my own experiences since stepping into the world of anonymous apostacy, i went through a few different phases of personal outlooks.
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could you have reasonably adjusted your attitude and continued on as a JW?
No, because adjusting my attitude would have been neither honest or reasonable. It's one thing to be misled or ignorant. It's quite another to open ones mind to information, digest the information and learn, and then make a conscious decision to go back and live a lie. I could not jump through the mental hoops it would take to justify something like that, nor could I ever respect myself again if I did so. I'd feel compelled to spit in a mirror every time I looked in one.
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Insulting Terms used by the WashTowel
by punkofnice inloading the language is a propogandist tactic to trigger a reaction in the mind.
a prime example is the word 'apostate'!.
i have been called 'spiritually weak' for quitting field service, meetings etc.. how would you respond (without swearing or giving a punch up the hooter), if you were called this?.
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- spiritually weak
- walking corpse
- birdfood
- dog returning to its vomit
- 'manure on the surface of the ground'
- stupid
- worldly
- apostate
It's really not much different from what they think of all "worldly" people. The only reason they say it to our faces is because they know us and can predict our reactions. They don't have the balls to try that on a stranger, but the contempt they feel for all 'worldly' people isn't much less than what they feel for us.
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Did having children make you a better or worse JW
by journey-on inafter i had children, i changed gradually in the way i thought about the religion i was raised in.
one day, it dawned on me that if my child was injured in an accident and needed blood to survive, there was no way in the world i would say "no" to a blood transfusion.
why continue the charade?
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It's hard to say since I never had children. I probably would have become a worse JW. For the most part the JWs treated me like dirt after I got baptized, and I don't think I would have wanted to subject any children to that. My ex, on the other hand, was the quintessential "company man" even though they treated her like dirt too. If we had kids, I probably would have left the cult, the ex would have gone in deeper, and the kids would have become a battlefield.
I'm glad we never had any.
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What Are You Passionate About?
by minimus inwhat's your passion?.
some people are very intense when it comes to politics, religion, jws, sex, love, the arts, music and almost anything that could get them revved up..
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Nothing revs me up. I'm perpetually apathetic.
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Working Hard and Smart ...
by snowbird ini am working so hard!!!.
i don't wanna lose my job.
syl.
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Quit your whining and get back to work!
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Is it just human nature to gossip or are JW's worse? Feelings are hurt....
by mamalove init is so strange how once you distance yourself from your kingdom hall and friends, that they find it necesary to discuss and contemplate your departure and put out all kinds of statements that simply are not true.. i am licking my wounds today because some kind of nasty things were said about me to a friend of mine who is df, from her ubber righteous sister.
it was via text, so it was there to read.
the thing i can't figure out is i have nothing to do with this woman.
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I recall one gossip session that started in a car group while we were in field circus. It was about the PO's wife:
Sister_a: Ruth P_______K was sooooooo spiritually weak last year! She never commented and her watchtower was never underlined! She's much stronger now! She uses 3 different coloured highlighters in her magazine!
My_Ex: She's just doing that because she's trying to look righteous to the congregation! Did you see the way she holds the magazine? She's making sure everyone sees her psychadelic watchtower!
Me: Why are you two looking at her magazine instead of your own?
That's when I became the target.
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