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  The Worst jw Is Better Than The BEST Worldly Person

  by TOTH in

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  did anyone else used to hear this?

  i can remember this growing up in the 1970s.

  my folks joined the wt back in 1968 under threat of armageddon coming in 1975. i was in first grade and ran the gauntlet of no flag salute, national anthem, holidays and no worldly friends.

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  troubled mind

  Oh yes I heard those very same words as I grew up . I also grew up in the same era as you TOTH . I could have friends at school ,but was not allowed to go to any of their homes after school and they were not welcome at our home either .

  When I was in jr high a girl my age finally moved into our congregation .....so immediately she was my ready made best friend because she was a JW . Just because she was a JW she was immediately suppose to be better than any of my school friends . Yeah she was a great influence ...smoked, taught me how to get beer,and introduced me to older boys in her neighborhood .......
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  If I ride my motorcycle across country this summer, can I camp on your lawn?

  by UnConfused in

  1. jw
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  how many of you would allow a decent guy and his dog to toss a little tent in your yard?.

  here is my pup, patch, and i riding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdxek6pwri.

  i hope to ride from the coast of maine to california this june.

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  We live in Illinois almost to the Iowa border right off I-80 in a small town ,and have a large backyard just right for a tent ! You are welcome to stay over here .Send a pm if you will be coming through our area .
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  How did you visualize Jehovah when you were young?

  by Matsimus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was born as a third generation (perhaps even fourth gen. but my great great grandfather never got baptized) jw.

  i remember that when i was young, perhaps about five years old, i would think about jehovah as this big black ghost with yellow eyes.

  to me he was quite frightening, and i was constantly catious not to piss him off.

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  As a kid I thought of him as an old mean man with long white beard (Gandolf ?) plus the Paradise Lost book was a horrible visual aid for little kids to learn about God . As I got a little older (after the little pink book for kids came out ) I liked the idea of Jesus being kind ,gentle and approachable ,but Jehovah was still always mean .
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  JW's 'put off living'

  by Lady Viola in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading a book and read the following quote:.

  "one of the most tragic things i know about human nature is.

  that all of us tend to put off living.

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  troubled mind

  So sad ,and so true ! I was asked by a psychologist, "What were my hopes and dreams ?" ....I could not answer because as a young child I learned to squash everyone of those thoughts before they matured . He could not understand when I tried to explain to him how my thinking had been affected becuse of the JW religion .

  I have a hard time even now following through with an interest ,but I am trying .
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  I don't like "taking the lead"

  by I Want to Believe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some men probably got off on the power/ego trip being a male jw gets you, but i never cared for it.

  i'm an introvert, and was an especially awkward one at that haveing been reaised in social isolation, so it was about the strangest feeling in the world when as a newly-baptized teenager (back in the day) i started to pioneer.

  i was about as green as you could get in every way but i was told i had to take the lead in the service meetings and the car group.

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  I don't like being led !! Rebel , I too have always been more of a leader than a follower ,given the chance I will takeover ! Sorry can't help it .

  Having a man tell me which door to knock on never really mattered ,but OMG having a teenager trying to make car groups could make me crazy . Some of the 'brothers' were just as bad ....I more than once spoke up and said how about if we did it this way instead :) ALWAYS with a smile and subordinate manner .
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  Should you ever tell tour aging parents the truth about the truth

  by Star tiger in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  since finding out the truth about the truth myself and having successfully extricated myself and my parents about the jw's, i find myself with a new dilema that being they still believe the bible as a literal book for their salvation as i has read all of thomas paines works and how the bible is not very good for the human family, as they are of advancing years would it be inappropriate to shatter their illusions of some kind of paradise and let them flounder in a moral precipice and wonder what their lives have been about.

  on the flip side once their time has come how would i feel for not telling them their false views.

  at the moment i am in the deist point of view, with a tendency of the agnostic, it is quite a dilema!.

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  troubled mind

  You have done a good thing getting them out of a distructive cult ...after that everyone should be free to believe as they wish . All being said NO ONE can PROVE what there is after we die so don't push the issue with them . Let them believe what ever comforts them in their old age .
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  Please keep our buddy SD-7 in your thoughts (and prayers)!

  by serenitynow! in

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  2. friends

  sd-7 texted me today.

  his wife is in labor, has had some complications and is having an emergency c-section.

  he asked me to spread the word to the folks on jwn.

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  Congratulations ,good to hear baby and Mommy are doing fine .
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  Our door to door activities were a personal ministry and not recognised as representatives or volunteers of the Watchtower Bible And Tract Society

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  how do you feel about that ?were you misled (again) after all these years ?

  this article from the newspaper in the latrobe area reffering to steven unthanks case is truly disturbing.

  its an affront and an insult to any and everyone who has participated in the ministry of jehovah`s witnesses over many, many years.talk about being thrown to the wolves.how low can this organization go in saving face at the expense of those whose loyalty and devotion is discarded for a perceived image.absolutely shocking.

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  troubled mind

  I found my old Publisher ID card that they did away with years ago here is what it says :

  Name :Troubled Mind

  Address: XXX

  City ..XXXX.......State ..IL.....zip code ...XXXXX....

  is engaged in preaching the gospel of Jehovah's Kingdom from house to house in cooperation with the following congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses :

  City ,State , Congregation

  Signed by the Presiding Overseer ......................dated issued 2-15-1990

  signature of publisher along side of card on the left . (bottom right was a symbol of the world with an open Bible in front of it )

  So was this my personal ministry ? What was I a publisher of ?............

  Very legal move to put an end to these cards ...I think I was suppose to destroy mine ,ooops.
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  Tinnitus - are you afflicted?

  by Glander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tap a spoon on a crystal goblet - the ringing sound never stops.

  sometimes birds also chirp, it is always there.. otc remedies are useless.

  mine started with a workplace situation that could have been prevented with simple ear plugs, but in those days nobody knew that extreme noise over a prolonged time could cause aural nerve damage.

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  troubled mind

  My husband has it ,and sometimes he really suffers because it can get very loud . He worked on engines for yrs ,and was in a band for a few yrs ,I am sure those things contributed to the damage .
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  How many people did you bring into the borg?

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do not count family members.

  how long did it.

  take to bring in each sheep, are they still in?.

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  troubled mind

  I was a publisher from 1973-2006 over thirty yrs ., and NOT one ! Thank goodness