we are leaving for a class dinner from our old school in about 15min.
there will be 6 classes from 1952-1958. i hope i can remember a few of them, my brother is comming along with my best friend from my childhood and teen years.
it will be at a moose lodge.
I went to my class reunion last September. I had a great time! They had made name tags for us with our graduation picture on them. No one really knew me when I was in High School because I was a JW then. It was nice to finally get to talk to classmates on my own terms. One girl asked if I was still a JW. She said she had been praying for me for years, and was really happy that I was out.
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59 for empathy and 48 for Systemizing
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i think that the way jw treats women is absolutely terrible!!!!!
makes me want to confront them and give the powers that be a taste of the same medicine they dish out.
how can the be so cold and insensitive to treat another human being this way for any reason and try to justify with the words of the bible.
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it dune? It is YOUR viewpoint that is weak. 38 years in the borg and more personal experiences than I can count showed me that women are considered second class citizens there. Took me a long time to gather the courage to leave that environment, and realize that I am not inferior to a man. Today, I am respected by all in my professional and personal life, and I am far happier today than I was when the borg controlled my life.
Stick around, and you'll learn that the watchtower is a house of cards built on faulty reasoning and a history that is nothing to be proud of. .
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back in the 50's there was a world welterweight fighter from cuba named 'kid gavilin' that became one of jehovah's witnesses.
the society wanted to get a little mileage out of his fame and have him write his life story for the 'awake' magazine, but he was too 'punch drunk' to do so.. there is a web site all about famous jw's @ www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_jw.html where you can check out many more.. outaservice (too famous to mention)
Tom Reynolds... of Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds... lives in central Florida now. I'm not sure which congregation.. Met him in the 80s..
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in your time as jws did you ever meet any of the annointed?
did they have good christian personalities and what did they think of the wts and its governing body ?
i met one and he was very unhappy with the way the gb treated him and generally the way they run this society, he told me he wrote them two letters containing a long list of complaints with full scriptural support but he was ignored, first letter got a reply amounting to "no need to write to us" the second one no reply at all.
My grandmother was one, Alice Moody.... but my grandfather, Joe, was not. We had a few in my congregation. I can't remember all the names... most died when I was a child. David Hadden was one...Hyde Park Cong....MA
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the bible attaches importance to your name, do you like yours.
if not, what would you change it to?.
i always hated mine, outaservice smith.
I was named after Deborah of the Bible. It's way too formal... no one ever called me that except my mom, and if she called me that, and included my middle name... I knew I was in serious trouble.
I don't let anyone call me Deborah... it doesn't fit me... Debbie is ok... better at least than Deborah.
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did you ever dream that you'd be posting here too?
I remember when I was a teenager (sitting with my group of friends) someone gave a talk and said that many would leave. Told us to look at the person next to us... one of us would probably leave the organization because we would want to persue worldly things... I looked to my right and my left... not me, I thought! Well the people sitting next to me are still in.... but I didn't leave to "persue worldly things" He got it partly right... does that make him a prophet?
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i went with some in my congregation for a couple of weeks when hurricane andrew hit florida in the early 90's.
we slept on the floor of an assembly hall there.
then i also went to st. thomas v.i.
I was out by then, but my x husband (still a jw) did. He went to one of the islands ( don't know which one) He relayed the following story that I think is very ironic. He didn't get it though.
He helped to rebuild the house of an elderly man who had been a Catholic most of his life. He had started studying with the JWs, and stopped going to the Catholic Church. When the hurricane took his home, he went to the Church and asked for help. They told him to ask the JWs since he had left the Church for them. So, the JWs helped him. My x thought this showed how hypocritical the Catholic Church was.... I said...ok, turn it around. If he had left the JWs to go the the Catholic Church, would the JWs help him then? I waited for an answer.... not a word....
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ok, so i allways thought that dating someone who used to be a witless would be cool , since you would both kinda know what the other had been through in his/her life.
so my question is: how many of you date/have dated ex-witnesses, why or why not and does the relationship benifit from it...and just your ideas about it in general.. .
I'm dating an xjw.... we "dated" when I was 16. We're both 50 something now... It's wonderful!
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i was just thinking of this, because of my last post topic.
if the watchtower changed their no blood policy to accepting whole blood, would and could that .
open the flood gates for law suits from jdubs that sacrificed their children for the tower, or would .
Hubert, no. He said that freedom of religion is so ingrained in the US, that government doesn't want to get involved. He said I would have a hard time finding a lawyer to take the case..he wasn't going to do it. He said that my dad was an adult and he chose to follow a religious edict. That was his choice, regardless of any pressure put on him.
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