Growing up JW can be described for me in two words: LONELY and AFRAID. Lonely because I had no friends in the org and lonely because I wasn't allowed to make friends outside of the org. Afraid because my conscience had been so hypertuned that everything made me feel bad and made me feel as though I was letting down jehovah. Afraid also because all we talked about were the "last days" and how any minute it would be armageddon and role playing how we would hold up under the persecution that was sure to come. Afraid because even if praying to jehovah to say thank you for your dinner the prayer generally ended with pleadings of bringing on armageddon and killing everyone in the world (that would include your non-believing grandparents, etc). Afraid because of the constant talk about the devil and demons -- I was terrified of demons being in my bedroom. When I was about 6 my parents took me to an amusement park in the midwest called Silver Dollar City. There was a ride called The Old Mine Train which replicated going into an old mine back in the 1800's -- it was very dark and a bit scary. Thinking about it now it really was fairly benign but because of the dark and the scary noises I screamed through the entire ride for jehovah to save us from the demons. I can only imagine what the other people on the ride thought. I have a four year old son and if he ever did something like that I would probably take him to a mental health counselor ASAP! can you imagine training a little child to react like this? My parents told this story for years and thought it was a cute manifestation of my belief and faith. Sick.
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What Was It Like To Grow Up A Jehovahs Witness?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; color: #000099; } .style3 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style5 {font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000099; } --> what was it like to grow up a jehovahs witness?it is fair to say, that as a convert from roman catholicism my understanding .
of what it was like to be raised a jehovahs witness is limited because of not.
having had any family in the organization.
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Quick question!
by emilyblue inhello, how long do judicial committees for possible disfellowship typically last?
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Emily-
PLEASE -- find a competent marriage/family counselor, print out all of your postings here, and go discuss this with a professional therapist. Don't ask your ex-boyfriend to go with you....I doubt he would go anyway...you need to go for yourself to get some help with this situation before you waste any more of your time and life with this man.
You need to make a clean break from this man and from his religion and you need to figure out why it is that you tolerate being treated this way.
Best wishes for you to move past this situation and find love and happiness elsewhere.
LimboGirl
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ANYTHING EXCITING EVER HAPPEN AT YOUR KINGDOM HALL?
by anewme indid anything exciting or alarming ever happen at your hall?
i remember only funny incidents, like one brother getting up there with his zipper down.
(i knew alot of brothers after that felt no shame to actually check down there before going up on the podium!
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my parents had a demonstration to do during one meeting. my brother at the time was four years old and during the demonstration got up and went on the platform and started tugging on our mother. dad told him to sit down but he did it again. so my dad did what any good witless would do -- he stopped the demonstration...turned to that audience..."excuse me for a moment" and then proceeded to spank my brother on the stage in front of everyone with whatever piece of wt rubbish they were demonstrating that day. pretty exciting for me and my sister!
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Post the weirdest conversation that you had with a JW
by jambon1 inthere are quite a few but the one that got me wondering wtf i was part of was when an elder explained to a group of us that he wanted to actually see the worldly people being executed when the end comes.
i thought to myself "you unbelievable bastard".
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was in a beautiful park enjoying some icecream with an old witless friend of mine. after talking about how great it was to be in the park and how pretty the scenery was she proceeded to finish her icecream and then toss the cup and spoon into a bush. asked her what she thought she was doing and she replied, "No big deal, I'll just pick it up in the new system!"
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column in St Louis paper by former witness
by limbogirl inreading this made my stomach hurt...especially when the elder reminds the kids that the wedding is a "theocratic" event and restraint should be shown when doing the electric slide.
ugh.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/sylvesterbrownjr/story/3bd0031dded09acd862571fc00130892?opendocument
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reading this made my stomach hurt...especially when the elder reminds the kids that the wedding is a "theocratic" event and restraint should be shown when doing the electric slide. ugh. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/sylvesterbrownjr/story/3BD0031DDED09ACD862571FC00130892?OpenDocument
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Speaker Podiums at the KH
by limbogirl infor some strange reason i started thinking about the fact that i've never seen a speaker podium like the ones used at the kh anywhere aside from the kh.
you know what i'm talking about...those tall spindly legs supporting a small table and then a bible holder thing attached to that.
are those made specifically for the kh?
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First, I love this DB -- where else can I muse about something as random as speaker podiums and people all over the world know what I'm talking about!
LeslieV: No kidding!! wow, a whole enterprise based on speaker podiums! Curious as to whether they sell to anyone besides dubs?
Stephanus: Exactly what I was thinking, too -- what a strange consumer base. I wonder what would happen should another dub decide to compete? Would the original manufacturer heed the "no compete clause" that is so much a part of dub life? or would there be a pricing war and advertising campaign?
WasAnElder Once: LOL!!! Would be hard to take anyone serious who was lecturing from a stand with a big wts logo on it, not to mention switching a car window mechanism to make the thing go up and down.
Wozadummy: BINGO!!
thanks for the laughs!
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Speaker Podiums at the KH
by limbogirl infor some strange reason i started thinking about the fact that i've never seen a speaker podium like the ones used at the kh anywhere aside from the kh.
you know what i'm talking about...those tall spindly legs supporting a small table and then a bible holder thing attached to that.
are those made specifically for the kh?
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For some strange reason I started thinking about the fact that I've never seen a speaker podium like the ones used at the KH anywhere aside from the KH. You know what I'm talking about...those tall spindly legs supporting a small table and then a bible holder thing attached to that. Are those made specifically for the KH? When I moved to CA from MO many years ago I realized it wasn't a regional thing...those stands were used in CA, too. I've never seen any kind of podium like them at non-dub events or conferences. What gives? Are there elves in Brooklyn who make them? LimboGirl
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My Mom's First Birthday!!!!
by mama1119 ini threw my mom a surprise birthday party this year at a nice restaraunt with all her closest friends and family.
she hasn't had a birthday party since she was 7 (she turned 47 today).
she was in the borg for 25 years and this was the first time in 25 years she got to celebrate.
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congratulations on making it to the other side and Happy Birthday to your mom!!
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Entertaining yourself during the meetings
by Mysterious inwhat did you do to entertain yourself during the meetings?
i always had little games i played.
to this day i have a fascination with notebooks and write almost compulsively when something is wrong.
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Hey Cog: I don't think we were weird....just creatively surviving. My skills at "checking out" still come in handy when I'm at boring presentations or conferences.
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Family moving; Need input
by LtCmd.Lore ini'm in a family of five and we are planning on moving, however... i'm going to da myself shortly after finishing school.
i want to wait because i won't be 18 'till april and could therefore be forced to attend the meetings.
so here is the issue, they are looking for a house that can comfortably fit five people, we have found several great houses that would work wonderfully for four people, but we are going the long and expensive way so that we can fit all of us comfortably.
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I agree with jgnat (as usual :) -- have 'em get the bigger house so your poor sister will have more room when she and hubby end up living with your parents. I've known several witness families that have strict rules about when their kids can leave home -- sometimes well beyond twenty years old (more for the daughters than the sons). I had a friend who finally left home and got an apartment at 27 and her dad had a fit because he had a rule that she had to live at home until marriage. Good luck!