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  I'll just pick it up in the New System...

  by limbogirl in

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  many years ago while driving with some jw friends in the car we stopped to get sodas.

  one of the jw's finishes her soda, opens the car door and tosses out the can.

  i was incredulous and said, "what are you doing?

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  Elder has Power of Attny for my Mother

  by limbogirl in

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  my witness mother has a rare form of leukemia -- fortunately she is doing well and it hasn't been an issue yet.

  she notified me some time ago that she had completed forms to make one of the elders at her kh her power of attorney in the event that she required medical treatment.

  she told me that she did this to relieve me and my siblings of having to make difficult decisions for her at that time -- meaning authorizing blood.

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  random memory from district assembly

  by limbogirl in

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  i remember being at a district convention when three young mormon men came in and somehow ended up sitting next to me.

  i was sitting with three of my girlfriends and although we were all 19 years old we had to sit within a row or two of our parents in order to be policed appropriately.

  the assembly was a yawnfest as usual but the mormon guys showing up added a bit of interest -- i immediately picked up on the fact that they were there for laughs not because they had any interest in becoming jdubs.

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  JWs and the holidays at work

  by limbogirl in

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  i had lunch this week with some business colleagues and one of them complained that at her office there is now a "no merry christmas" policy which includes not saying merry christmas, not decorating the office for christmas, no christmas party, no secret santa games or exchanging of gifts.

  i asked why all the rules and she said that there is one woman (out of nearly 150 employees) who is a jw and office management has decided the best way to handle the situation without excluding this woman or offending her in any way is to eliminate all reference to the holidays.

  as you can imagine the other employees are in an uproar.

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  perspective on growing up in a jw family after i had my son

  by limbogirl in

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  curious to see if anyone else can relate to this....i've been away from jw-world for many years yet really began to have a lot of issues resurface for me when i became a parent two and a half years ago.

  .........specifically, i began thinking a lot about my parents raising me and i'm just blown away at the way in which they chose to fill my head with jw teachings from such an early age.

  i can't imagine ever teaching my little boy about wicked people, demons, satan, destruction at armageddon and so forth at such a young age.

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  Anyone ever go on one of those bus trips to bethel?

  by limbogirl in

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  back in the late eighties while still in high school instead of doing something fun for spring break i got an all expense paid trip to bethel.

  on a bus no less with about 75 other jws headed to the promised land.

  somewhere i still have a photo album filled with snapshots of the printing presses and all of the "cadets" happily churning out literature -- and of course all of the female cadets happily scrubbing toilets and doing laundry.

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  how do JW's handle being witnessed to by other religious evangelizers?

  by limbogirl in

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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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  impact of meetings/assemblies on my non-JW life

  by limbogirl in

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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.

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  JDubs at the mall and other inventive ways to put in "time"

  by limbogirl in

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  has anyone else seen the jdubs at the shopping mall ??

  they sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from pottery barn and macy's.

  i did a double take when i saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what i observed is that no one stops at the table except what appear to be fellow jdubs.

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  Hello Everyone! I'm new to the forum.

  by limbogirl in

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  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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