Rubyvixen

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  Yet another "My Story"

  by mapleaf18 in

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  my story: and i apologize in advance for the long post.. i was born to special pio parents and i attended my first meeting when i was 6 days old, which was unusual in the 50s and 60s because babies were usually quarantined for the first month or so.

  my mother had a poor childhood and was often placed with uncaring relatives which served as foster homes.

  my father was raised in a single parent home by his divorced mother who was looking for answers.

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  Rubyvixen

  Thank you for sharing this part of your story.
  
  I gasped at certain parts of it because that was a lot like how my childhood was with my father as the PO...
  
  :::hugs::::
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  Allow myself to introduce....myself

  by pele38 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i must say, i never thought that i would see the day when i would find a site about disillusioned (mostly) jehovah's witnesses, but low and behold...one truly exists.

  first let me start off by saying thank you to the creators of this site, and i'll have you know that i've been lurking for several days now and i am just finding the time to finally log on.

  i've been a member of the borg for over 20 years now, been baptised for about 14 of those years and now i find myself in the most unusual of places.

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  Hi there!
  
  I just joined yesterday after reading these boards for a few years. The people here are awesome...really good community.
  
  Nice to see you here as well :)
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  Superstitious JW Nonsense

  by 95stormfront in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one of my jw relatives was relating to me another one of their superstitious nonsense stories designed to demonize every damn thing that doesn't fall into an approved wt list.

  she was telling me about a her friend, who upon cleaning a relatives house, found a voodoo doll with a prayer to demons written on paper that it took an hour to burn.

  she also related to me how in the hour it took to burn the demon paper prayer, everyone around them getting sick and falling into convulsions.. i guess she was a little perturbed that i was .

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  Wow. This is all taking me way back.
  
  My parents never let me watch the smurfs or have Cabbage Patch dolls and much of that was due to urban legend. Instead we had some sister in our hall make us 'fake' cabbage patch dolls which sucked....they were so not cool :(
  
  I remember all the tales of demons and my mother claiming that a lot of her Bible Study people's house were 'demonized' and she could feel it.
  
  Ya know, for people who are SO against such things (what ever happened to all that bunk about not even speaking of such things for fear the demons would suddenly perk up and rail against you?) they sure have a LOT of experiences with it. They are regular Buffy the Demon Catchers ;)
  
  Some of the stories I heard as a kid though were genuinely terrifying at the time. Whenever I slept over my cousin's house we used to tell each other 'demon' stories we had heard from various brothers and sisters like other normal kids would do with ghost stories.
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  oh argh, my comment above got duplicated....any clue of how to fix it?
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
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  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  Undercover, that is exactly how I viewed the GB. I just figured they were nothing more than annointed people who also happened to have to run the Org. My view on the annointed though was pretty skewed from an early age though, since most of the annointed in my Hall were certifiably pretty short of a full deck :P
  
  It wasn't until I was in my pre-teens and then early teens that I realized how people revered them and when I started putting the pieces together of how insidiously ridiculous the whole thing is.
  
  Panic, your experience makes me so mad. I can so imagine that very thing happening. How utterly disgusting. How people in the Org can sit there and see that and not feel just as disgusted is further proof of how brainwashed so many of them truly are =(
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
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  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  Undercover, that is exactly how I viewed the GB. I just figured they were nothing more than annointed people who also happened to have to run the Org. My view on the annointed though was pretty skewed from an early age though, since most of the annointed in my Hall were certifiably pretty short of a full deck :P
  
  It wasn't until I was in my pre-teens and then early teens that I realized how people revered them and when I started putting the pieces together of how insidiously ridiculous the whole thing is.
  
  Panic, your experience makes me so mad. I can so imagine that very thing happening. How utterly disgusting. How people in the Org can sit there and see that and not feel just as disgusted is further proof of how brainwashed so many of them truly are =(
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  It's 98 degrees, put on your suit and go to Yankee Stadium

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone go to that convention in ny back in the 50's?

  remember when they lasted until 8pm?

  in the summer?

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  yes!!!!
  
  I remember the umbrellas! The stupid umbrellas and battery powered fans that were supposed to give us some relief...yeah right :D
  
  For the people who asked about my reference to Yankee Stadium in the late 80's and early 90's, no they were not 8 days , they were the 3 and 4 day conventions and absolute torture even then in the NYC heat and humidity...yuck!
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  Wow.
  
  The celeb thing is far more rampant than I even experienced then. I mean, I got dunked when I was 12 (again, to keep my parents from pressuring me) and my Uncle came to our assembly for that and I remember people crowding around and being really excited to talk with him and me in typical pre-teen fashion was suitably weirded out and rolling my eyes the whole time.
  
  My Uncle, while having megalomaniacal facets to his personality (who doesn't there? haha) is probably far more charismatic (or was, haven't seen him in about 10 years) than the rest and to some extent relished human contact as opposed to others I have met throughout the years who seemed like they tolerated contact as if the people fawning over them were silly fans. Ugh.
  
  I did meet Franz on 4 separate occasions and he was quite feeble at the time and I was quite young and I was not very impressed ;)
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  Wow!! You even have pictures of the Stanley! I really assumed that by now, it was no longer used...interesting.
  
  Those pictures take me back!
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  The GB as JW celebrities

  by Rubyvixen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am really,really curious as to how other people back while in the org viewed the gb.

  because my oldest brother (older than me by 14 years!

  ) was first at the watchtower farms and then brooklyn bethel and my uncle is a member of the gb, my mother tended to flaunt these facts and look for every opportunity to go to either place with her bible studies (these terms are so weird to use after all these years lol).

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  Rubyvixen

  I know the voice thing gives it away.
  
  I am refraining from listing his name here totally due to Google.
  
  I am pretty sure that some of the things I said here though probably made it quite obvious ;)