ChrisVance

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  What religion are you now?

  by Michalea in

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  i've struggled with wanting to be 'something' mostly probably to fill that hole that was left and to try and belong somewhere, anywhere really.

  so i've tried penecostal, presbyterian, united churches but they all seem fake.

  i always compared everything to the jw's, and didn't even realize it.

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  ChrisVance

  I'm not a member of any religion, but I am a member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
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  Underlining the answers in the Watchtower magazines

  by JH in

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  2. friends

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  i found it funny how some people would literally underline just about everything in the watchtower magazine.

  the more the magazine was underlined and notes were written, the more a person looked spiritual.. did it ever happen that you didn't read your watchtower magazine, and you underlined just about anything just to look as if you read it?.

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  I always underlined and marked a and b in the margins. If I didn't look up all the scriptures I'd feel guilty.
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  If you were gay would you...

  by Swan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in light of the recent threads on homosexuality, if you were gay would you let anyone on this site know?

  would you feel supported as a gay exjw or would you feel ridiculed?

  would you feel safe here?

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  Since this a board is made up of xjw's I find it surprising that there are so many who are supportive of us. But then again I shouldn't be too surprised. When I was a dub I told a few of my friends that I was gay and none of them treated me any differently but when the elders found out I had done so, the **** hit the fan. Of course, there are some dubs who are very homophobic. I remember one dub women saying she felt sorry for people who had gotten AIDS from blood transfusions, but she didn't feel sorry for homosexuals who had it.

  There is one person on this board who, even though he says he OK with gay people and has gay friends, always manages to put a negative note to his comments. It comes across to me as a passive agressive hostility. Of course, I won't give his name, but I wish he'd cut it out.
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  My philosophy paper on leaving the JWs...

  by logansrun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday i found a disk i had forgotten i still had.

  it contained a paper i had written for a philosophy class i took last summer -- just about a month and a half after leaving the jws.

  it's not the greatest treatise in the world and, today, i would have written it differently.

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  ChrisVance

  Good paper.
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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  extremely.
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  Did you ever win anything?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever won anything in your life?

  i didn't, but indirectly i did.

  back in 1982 my mother won a brand new honda civic.

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  ChrisVance

  In the late 70's I won a Carribean cruise for two from Coca-cola.
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  Watchtower lunacy, circa 1950's

  by logansrun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the long and unusual history of the watchtower society there are many doctrines and rules that would make one wonder if the originator of them was high on crack or just escaped from the loony bin.

  why, just by using the "search" feature on your watchtower cd-rom and typing in the most innocuous of words will many times lead to the most outlandish article that your imagination could ever conjure up.

  i just typed in the word "hats" and see what i found...

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  I remember being in field service with a circuit overseer when I was about 9 years of age, sometime in the late 50's. He said he was going to leave his hat in the car because he sometimes found himself tipping his hat out of habit. Another brother in the car said, yes, that's just another custom bad custom of this system of things. Now I know why the circuit overseer had to leave his hat in the car. Pretty funny, or should I say pretty sick.
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  God, where are you?

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i haven't seen you posting here lately, and i just wondered if everything is ok?.

  i've always considered you my best friend.

  but lately i've been thinking about a lot of things, and it occurred to me: you've never said one word to me in my entire life, even though i've sent you thousands of messages; not exactly what friends do to each other.

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  ChrisVance

  I do believe in a higher power
  
  One that loves us one and all
  
  Not someone to solve my problems
  
  Or to catch me when I fall

  That's the popular way to believe in god now days. I wonder what it'll be 50 years from now.
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  God, where are you?

  by onacruse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i haven't seen you posting here lately, and i just wondered if everything is ok?.

  i've always considered you my best friend.

  but lately i've been thinking about a lot of things, and it occurred to me: you've never said one word to me in my entire life, even though i've sent you thousands of messages; not exactly what friends do to each other.

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  ChrisVance

  That's the trouble with imaginary friends. No matter how much you like them, they never actually do anything outside of your fantasy. And one day you fall off your tricycle and realise that illusions wont help you crawl home.

  Expatbrit - I prefer reality also. Not everyone does though.
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  What I Don't Miss at a District Convention

  by simplesally in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  name the things you don't miss about going to a dc!

  ---getting there so early and then find that the "servants" have saved all the good seats

  ---not having time to make a decent lunch and getting admonished about not buying from nearby vendors.

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  ChrisVance

  Why can't you buy from nearby vendors?