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  Let's write a short [or long] story....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  one line at a time.

  no vulgarity please - take the story wherever you want to.. .

  jane was a brilliant spokeswoman for the council, and as she prepared to step to the podium a surprising flash of light caught her left eye.

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  then she thumped him soundly over the head with her copy of the NWT bound in a lovely green cover.
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  WT's Strong Hold on the In-active

  by sandy in

  1. jw
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  ok, this past friday i organized a meetup for ex-witnesses in my local area.

  i invited my brother who was never baptized (was almost baptized at 13 but one of the elders asked him to wait till he studied throught he second book).

  after the elder asked him to wait he never attended the meetings again with the exception of memorials and some assemblies.

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  What do you expect when you're brought up in an org/religion that perpetuates such fear? I look at my beautiful, happy two and a half year old son and I can't figure out how at that age, my parents had already extablished in me beliefs about wicked people, armageddon, the demons and on and on. If my son were to demonstrate the vocabulary or behavior that I had at his age I would seek medical/psychiatric treatment for him immediately. I remember going to an amusement park when I was four and one of the rides had a scary theme -- I screamed and cried all the way through that the demons were in the ride and were trying to get me. I wonder what the people around us must have thought to see a little girl so upset and screaming for jehovah to save her from the demons. I used to be scared to close my eyes at night because demons might get in my room. When I was 12 I saw my brother eat some forbidden birthday cake and I practically had a nervous breakdown. I was so terrified by what would happen to him for eating that cake. At the age of three I said prayers that included things like, please jehovah, kill all the wicked people and make them suffer for turning their backs on you. what little kid do you know would say such things?? I saw the book Crisis of Conscience once at a bookstore and felt like I had just been shocked -- I was so scared of even being around it that I left immediately. Even when you're out of this mess it takes a long long time to get over the fear that is so deeply imbedded and for some of us at such a young age. It's psychological child abuse. period. Your brother might just not want to revisit this chapter in his life. I've personally gotten to a point where I can laugh at a lot of this but it will always be there lurking.
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  how do JW's handle being witnessed to by other religious evangelizers?

  by limbogirl in

  1. jw
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  recently i was at my mother's house -- she is queen jw of her kh (i kid you not) -- when there was a knock on the door and what do you know...it was two young women from one of the local churches out inviting people to attend services.

  my mother proceeded to seriously beat the sh*t out of them with her bible knowledge and confusing chronologies.

  the two women didn't back down but they soon realized they were in way over their heads.

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  Recently I was at my mother's house -- she is Queen JW of her kh (I kid you not) -- when there was a knock on the door and what do you know...it was two young women from one of the local churches out inviting people to attend services. My mother proceeded to seriously beat the sh*t out of them with her bible knowledge and confusing chronologies. The two women didn't back down but they soon realized they were in way over their heads. When they got to a point that they couldn't keep up with her firing scriptural bullets at them, my mother told them they needed to have one of their elders pay her a visit for further discussion. I was hovering in the background listening to all of this absolutely mortified!! Then I had to hear my mother relate this "witnessing experience" to my elder step-dad and I was absolutely shocked at how pleased she was at how she had handled these two women. (I'm sure she probably also shared it during the tms at the kh) There was so much I wanted to say to her at the time but didn't -- I can't discuss this stuff with her because she's so irrational about it. No JW (no matter how much they love persecution) wants to be treated like crap at a door -- so why is it ok to do that to someone coming to their door. Is my mother so misguided as to think that those two women would want to join up with the JWs after being treated so rudely? Not sure where I'm going with this other than venting and expressing my incredulity once again at the confusing, hypocritical JW-World.
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  Angelique Kidjo.......

  by AK - Jeff in

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  anyone familiar with her work?

  i picked up her album from the library just to see how it was.... the cover is all in foriegn language, some african dialect i think... the album title is 'logozo".

  seems to be african dance music, but i am not sure.

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  Jeff,

  According to my boyfriend (he knows her) she is one of West Africa's hottest singers -- has an amazing voice, very up tempo -- almost African rock (if there is such a thing). Her album, Oremi is one of her best and the one you refer to is also good -- all of them are great.

  Think I'll have to check it out for myself now!
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  JW environment and emotional well being

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
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  how many of you felt that the jw environment you once lived in was accepting, warm, supporting, nourishing, and wholesome, a place where the emotional world of man could flourish experience a blissful state of well being and attain inner fulfillment?

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  I never felt this way about the org. I would parrot those words if anyone asked about what it was like but the exact opposite was true. I didn't fit in at school and I didn't fit in at the kh -- it was a miserable lonely existence growing up. And sadly I stayed in it too long because I was worried that giving up that miserable world would be even a worse fate than staying in it. I was so wrong!
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  Hello Everyone! I'm new to the forum.

  by limbogirl in

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  2. experiences

  i just found this forum and joined today -- i am so happy that you're all out there sharing your stories and experiences.

  growing up jw or just being jw is such a unique experience and can only be shared with people who have been there.

  a little about me... i grew up jw -- mom pioneered and dad was an elder.

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  Hi to All! thanks so much for the warm welcome! hope to get to know you all through our exchanges of experiences as jw's and now ex-jw's.
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  Hours of work, to get those talks right, and most people were not listening

  by free2beme in

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  2. friends

  i remember one time i worked on a talk about a week.

  looking up points, cross referencing ideas, and then i get up there and i just knew most people were either asleep mentally or not paying any attention.

  who could blame them, i set in the front row doing microphones and i could hardly keep my eyes open.

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  sorry to all of you who prepared so well for your talks --- but i pretty much ignored everything you were saying. i would have doodled or read the bible story book but i would get a spanking for those offenses so i just sat there staring at you but not taking in a word. best talk i ever saw --- my dad, an elder at the time was giving a talk which involved one of those lame skits. my mom went on stage and they demonstrated placing magazines at the door. my four year old brother pranced up on the stage about halfway through and started clowning around (my sister and i did nothing to stop him) my dad stops the skit and says, "friends, excuse me for a moment" and then proceeds to spank my brother with the blue truth book in front of the whole cong. i definitely woke up during that one! my mom and my sister tried to put some drama into one of their talks once...my sister pretended she was upset because the "wordly" kids were making fun of her at school (which was actually the truth most of the time) so she pretended to cry and then my mom was supposed to show her from the bible how terrific being persecuted for your beliefs is but instead they ended up bursting out laughing and laughed all the way through the talk. they probably got a "needs improvement" on that one! :)
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  Say something here, that you'd say in your JW active days

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  i'll start:.

  hey brother smith, how about if we go preach the good news tomorrow morning, hey?

  pick you up at 9

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  "sister smith is going where the need is greater."

  "sorry, we just ran out of fruit bags" (said many times while volunteering at lunchtime at the district assemblies)

  "I did some informal witnessing today"

  "I would like to share an experience I had in field service......"

  ".......we're offering the Watchtower along with its companion the Awake for a contribution of 25 cents to cover the cost of printing"

  "does your dog bite?" (said many many times in field service)

  I didn't say the following but these were the most dreaded words uttered at the watchtower study by the conductor -- usually said after someone had just given a particularly long-winded answer: "Can someone elaborate on that?"
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  impact of meetings/assemblies on my non-JW life

  by limbogirl in

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  2. experiences

  i grew up jw and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever.

  as a little kid i developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though i were paying attention but honestly i wasn't even in the room.

  i perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-jw adult it's really a problem.

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  serendipity: that's terrible -- i guess the silver lining is that it prepared you well for later life. some of my colleagues have a really hard time sitting through lengthy presentations...i have no trouble at all! can sit for hours and look perfectly attentive and engaged -- now if i could just not zone out everytime i'm at one of these things. jez: thanks for the reply -- you sound so happy -- i wish you the best in pursuit of your education.
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  impact of meetings/assemblies on my non-JW life

  by limbogirl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i grew up jw and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever.

  as a little kid i developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though i were paying attention but honestly i wasn't even in the room.

  i perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-jw adult it's really a problem.

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  I grew up JW and like many of you spent countless hours in boring meetings and long assemblies that seemed to go on forever. As a little kid I developed a talent for sitting at the meeting or assembly and looking as though I were paying attention but honestly I wasn't even in the room. I perfected this over a number of years and now find that as a non-JW adult it's really a problem. I work for a large corporation in management and of course attend a ton of meetings, conference calls and the like and it takes every thing I have to stay focused and on topic. Seems that the minute I sit down in a meeting that lasts longer than 30 minutes I'm gone -- checked out -- in another world. It's an automatic response and I feel like it's because of the hours upon hours of my life in which this was a survival technique. Sometimes at the end of a business meeting I have no idea what was even discussed. Anyone else experience this?