Blondie that was alot of work! Wow I havent attended a Watchtower Study for years! Now I am so much more aware of subtle mind control tactics. I am so much more an independant thinker since I left the org. I do miss having the W & A delivered to my home like the old days though. Now you have to go to the hall and get them. Fat chance Im going to do that! Hey, this would be the perfect religion! Live on my remote mountain top and get the W article and other meeting parts right here off this website! Our questions and answers could be our chat. And instead of singing during the intermissions we can get up and have a snack. I could even swear a little in the background in my own home and no one would know or be bothered! I could reprove myself and repent and forgive myself and feel better and be back in good standing for the next meeting!!!
Posts by anewme
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38Comments You Will Not Hear at the 7-24-05 WT Study (Parents)
by blondie inwell to remember jehovah's example.
providing materially and spiritually can be an .
what can parents do in order to provide for their children.
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Ultimatum
by datingAjwgirl in.
is it wise to give bible student girlfriend of a year the ultimatum of reading crisis of consiencness or its over.. if she does read it will she just reject it as the devils handiwork?
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I agree with Damsel Fly. If you love her, leave on a good note. Tell her you are there when she needs you, when she has doubts. Tell her you dont want her to get hurt. A stand-off is not a good idea.
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Service Meeting Schedule for Week of July 18, 2005
by TheListener insong 173.
10 min: local announcements.
briefly consider the august 15, 2000, watchtower page 32. highlight the benefits of maintaining a regular program of daily bible reading, even during vacation periods and at other times when we are out of our normal routine.. 15 min: "conducting progressive bible studies - part 11.
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I havent seen a service meeting schedule in 4 years. Nothing has changed about it. Shudder! I can still feel the minutes tick by like hours. When they were over and I was sitting in a chair waiting for my elder husband to come out of a little room and I was the only one left sitting there at 9:50pm I wondered how much more of this can I endure?
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Service Meeting Schedule for Week of July 18, 2005
by TheListener insong 173.
10 min: local announcements.
briefly consider the august 15, 2000, watchtower page 32. highlight the benefits of maintaining a regular program of daily bible reading, even during vacation periods and at other times when we are out of our normal routine.. 15 min: "conducting progressive bible studies - part 11.
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anewme
Big Dog, that was very funny!
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Welcome ANEWME
by Crumpet in.
i couldn't see a welcome thread for our new ex-elderette posting as anewme and wanted to say hi and ask what prompted her departure from dubdom.. welcome anewme!
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Hi again, its me. I had to go to town. While driving I was thinking about my confession to you all. You dont really believe it do you??? The Babylon the Great comparison? I was just kidding! Just pretend I never said it. But to add to my story I would like to say I wish I could have just stayed home more from the many meetings. I needed a break. I wanted some relaxing weekends. I wanted my husband's attention. I was ashamed to ask for this. I cant believe I didnt put my foot down more and have the life I wanted in the truth. When I was single I had more control over my attendance and field service. In my 20s I pretty much attended when I wanted to. I was the only JW in my family. But after I married and after my husband became an elder and all my in laws were elders and our nieces and nephews pioneers our lives became more and more a part of the theocratic activities. I begged my husband to let up a bit. We had book study at our home for 12 years and weekend field service. Few would sign up for the hospitality for the visiting speakers, so my husband would always offer our home on a Sunday afternoon. We were poor and our rental home a shambles I thought. I was ashamed of our poor offerings. I felt the bros and sis who attended the meetings and hospitalities at our home were bored with it too. I didnt feel like I was a friend of any of them. I grew tired of the routine week after week. We never took a vacation. Every weekend was for the congregation. Every evening if the phone rang for my husband from a cong. member, there went the evening......And of course there is so much more. Complaining about things like this does little good now. Like I say, perhaps I could have done things differently. I hate to put down the witnesses. There are so many people I love in that organization. They are sweet and good people. I'm sorry I hurt them. I miss them very much...especially the children and the sister from Holland. But, I could not continue in the same routine I was going. I felt sure I would get cancer or something from the mindnumbing routine and boredom. My husband conducted the Bookstudy, Field Service, The Sunday talk and the Bible Studies we shared!!!!! Anyway, I hope you all will not shun me too. I sinned royal scarlet. But I have asked God's forgiveness and in my heart I feel he forgives me. Isnt that enough? What do you think?
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Welcome ANEWME
by Crumpet in.
i couldn't see a welcome thread for our new ex-elderette posting as anewme and wanted to say hi and ask what prompted her departure from dubdom.. welcome anewme!
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anewme
To all you sweet innocent XJW people.
I still have a shred of decency left I'll have you know!
My story is tooooooooo XXXXX rated for a little website like this and all of your young ears. Oh my!
I know, go and find an older publication.
Turn to the chapter on Revelation.
See that slutty broad sitting on the wild beast?
C'est moi'!!!
Like I say, I went about getting out all wrong. Not the nice lady like way to leave. But out is what I wanted.
I called the elders myself!
So "In one swift pitch" I was thrown out.
Over and done.
A new life begins.
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Welcome ANEWME
by Crumpet in.
i couldn't see a welcome thread for our new ex-elderette posting as anewme and wanted to say hi and ask what prompted her departure from dubdom.. welcome anewme!
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HOW ABSOLUTELY SWEET OF Y'ALL!!! Yeah, I am having such a good time reading all your thoughts and comments.
Its so true that nobody knows how we feel like someone who has gone through it also!
I'm just newly absorbing all this. I'm not ready to tell my story. (Should write a book too) But I did not take the intellectual road out. I chose to go out in a BLAZE OF SINFUL GLORY!!!
I respect those who thought it all out a bit more than I did, you know, write the earnest letters, cite the scriptures, point out the inconsistencies, show some intellectual stuggle with it all.
But no! Not me!
I had to be all DRAMA!
That little judicial committee room is probably still smokin!
Thats all the past now.
I've moved on and am ok with everything.
Yes, I lost alot, friends, nieces and nephews, relatives, marriage, 35 years of my life.
But it wasnt the worst experience humans can be subjected to. No one tortured me physically or ripped my nails out or made me walk the flames. It was all emotional drama that with the help of new friends I have gotten over. I got remarried in May to a handsome man 15 years younger than myself. But with all the time I give to feeling happy and free now I do wonder, you know, middle of the night stuff, how much of all that I used to believe do I still believe?
That is why I have found your website here so intriguing.
Thankyou for the warm welcome.
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Ok we've left the Org - Now what?
by Nellie ini am no longer a witness.
i've told all my worldly friends and my immediate family - my kids have told their friends.
i haven't been to a meeting in over a year (and have no desire to go to one) - but i'm not dad or dfd.
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Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful insight by all of you!!!!!
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witnoid weddings
by katiekitten inwhen i was a kid weddings in the troof were a big deal.
probably because they were the main if not only excuse for a knees up.
if someone was getting married they were not in control of the decisions about the reception.
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OHMYGODHOWFUNNY!!!!!!
This had me laughing so hard!!!!
Brought back sooooo many memories of Witness weddings---especially those back in the early 70s!
My own wedding was a congregation effort too in the early 80s. Hokey. Butcher paper banners. Rented doofy ancient old community house, and yes with a wooden old stage..and upright old piano!!!
Being poor young pioneers (with no money or education)my fiancee and I could not afford a big shindig.
Never mind that neither of us wanted a big wedding, but Sister Social Organizer insisted due to our popularity we should let her throw us a big one. (Now I see that the congregations needed a late August get together)
Today I see how much power I actually posessed to have this very important day of my life MY WAY.
But then, I was programmed to put others first----even on my wedding day.
Food was donated by the 300 guests (several congregations were invited). Potato salad, little weiners on toothpicks, kind of spicy meatballs, three bean, jello........
A brother and sister made the cake. Someone forgot the music.
My worldly father, dressed in his best suit, got incensed when my new Witness mother in law asked him to take out the garbage and help a little. They never spoke again to each other.....EVER.
It turned out to be the hottest day of the year.
Anyway, the good news is my second wedding held two months ago in lovely May was absolutely the way I wanted it!
I had it where I wanted it! My dress was exactly what I dreamed. My guests were only those I wanted to celebrate with. And the groom was so handsome with his long blonde pony tail! A dream come true!
Friends, there is LIFE and LOVE after disfellowshipping!!!!
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Witnesses review books on Amazon.com
by sixsixsixtynine in"you people are all idiots" post reminded me of some the witness reviews i've seen on amazon.com.
enjoy!
weak and wrong, march 18, 2003. .
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anewme
Wow! I'm new to this site. You XJWs are so funny! Your wit is intelligent and refreshing!!! I am enjoying myself immensely!!!