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  City person or Country person

  by JH in

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  i travelled alot recently and i passed through many major cities, and i saw the contrast between nice small quiet towns and huge cities with so much traffic.. so, where would you rather live, in a quiet small town where there isn't much to do,but where it's quiet and there is not much stress, or in a big city with lots of traffic jams, where life is more expensive, but where there is more to see?.

  i like the smaller town life.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses as "a people......"

  by ScoobySnax in

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  who out of all you nasty old apostates (tm) will agree with me, that if you take the gb that you dislike so much, and the watchtower that you hate out of the picture, will agree with me that at the end of the day, and on the whole, jw's really are a good bunch of people.

  i did my same old rekky last sunday at the gillingham convention, and will have a good look around next sunday at twickenham convention.

  i've been in lots of crowds, at stadiums and arenas, but an assembly is something else, it is somehow unique, its somehow different from any other crowds, there is a deep sense of "togetherness" i've not see any where else.

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  My story - part One.

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  i have never posted my story on jwd and it was only recently that it occured to me that i should really make more of an effort to; here is the first part....sorry if its longwinded.... .

  i was brought up in the borg from the age of 18 months old and as you can understand i have known little else.

  previous to being in the truth my mother was an unwanted child and beaten by her mother, sure enough she fell into an abusive relationship with my father which left her with minus zero confidence and on the verge of a nervous breakdown; apparently my mum was considering throwing us both off a railway bridge she was that depressed and to her there was no point in living.

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  Did You Usually Feel Guilty While A JW?

  by minimus in

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  my 79 year old mom that has every ailment known to man was going to the bookstudy this afternoon because she felt "guilty" for not going the last couple of meetings due to illness.

  i told her it was 95 degrees outside and asked her not to go since she has difficulty breathing.

  she decided to do it anyway.

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  not dfd but no-one speaks to me

  by dedpoet in

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  i am ex pioneer, ex ministerial serpent not been near a kh in 6 years, smoke, drink had a live in gf until recently, but not dfd, so much for keeping the cong clean!

  still, none of my "brothers" with a couple of exceptions, speaks to me now, their way of trying to win me back perhaps?

  not that it'd work - i am happy now after 10 years of bs from people who ought to know better but don't

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  Who all here was personally helped by JWD

  by Ticker in

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  i was and i am ever thankful to this board and all the wonderful members on it that have contributed to my freedom.

  thankyou all so much and i think i might be becoming a jwd addict.

  i love this board it is so helpful.

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  Just got home from the assembly!!!!! How fortunate I am!!!!

  by gringojj in

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  okay i just returned from the assembly in historic amherst, mass.

  i justlove the old houses in that town very nice.

  anyways to recap the good parts, first off obedience.

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  How I got out of JWs, they showed me the way!

  by out of the box in

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  i have been writing 'my story' in bits and pieces here.

  it was pouring out, one of the kids sick, jw husband wasn't going.

  i got in the car (this little hatch-back car was a loaner from the garage because our larger car was being repaired) i was stopped at a stop sign and i was on time for the meeting.. i heard something and turned in time to see something coming at me fast.

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  what do ex jws become

  by jwfacts in

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  what do most ex jws become, christian, athiest/agnostic or some other religion?

  and since we all need to be labelled, what do i call myself now?

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  UK & IRELAND MAP

  by ballistic in

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  2. friends

  i had an idea that i could build a uk map of everyones location which would show you instantly who is in your area from jwd.. (it might be an idea to do a seperate us one aswell but i'll wait and see if this one takes off first, or if anyone from the us wants to volunteer to do that one).

  (and australia but you are all in the same backyard anyway - literally!!!).

  anyway, all you have to do is post or email me your username and town and i will draw you on the map above which will change gradually to include everyone!.

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