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  The Grinch Day at School

  by skeeter1 in

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  today, little man went off to school wearing green.

  it is "grinch day" for the 1st graders.

  they are watching the grinch movie, eating grinch food, and having alot of fun this last week before christmas vacation.

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  Today, little man went off to school wearing green. It is "Grinch Day" for the 1st graders. They are watching The Grinch movie, eating grinch food, and having alot of fun this last week before Christmas Vacation. We read the Dr. Suess book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Every JW & ex-JW should read that book. Reminds me of a certain religious leader who decided to ban almost every celebration under his authority on an entire group of followers. My little guy told me that he was sorry that my parents didn't let me have Christmas, made me wear fancy clothes to school every day, and never had a birthday. So, we talked about "party pooper" people. People who always see the negative in things, even good things. I turned it into a lesson to focus on the positive. He totally gets it. Anyway, i am proud parent of my little man!

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  Do you frown upon tattoos?

  by confusedandalone in

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  i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.

  i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.

  today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.

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  When I first saw tattoos (during and after JWism), I recoilled. My first reaction was to think they are not so cool. Someone has to be a posterboard for his cause. Why not just buy a t-shirt that says it? I put them up there with Cameros, Mullets, and Pissing Hobbs stickers. I really did label the person.

  Now, I try very hard to not judge. I sold my high horse. Everyone is different, and a tattoo is their symbol to the world. I've seen a few tattoos that were cool. One, on a mom who lost her son. It was a tattoo about her son. Another, who had her entire leg in a "totem pole" of children's faces. Those were her children. I think you need to ask the people about the tattoo before you go into judgemental mode. They could be very warm & loving people who are finding a way to express themselves. Or, it could be that they did live to excess on night, and came home with an unexplained tattoo (which is always funny). Or, it could be a man who got a Jessica Rabbit tattoo . . . I thought, "Dude, that's wierd that you lust after a cartoon rabbit."

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  Does this Site get more Newbies than WTS gets Baptisms?

  by skeeter1 in

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  just wondering on whether jwn gets more newbies that the wts gets bapstisms?

  are there any statistics?.

  this site's newbies usually lurk for a month or two, with no interaction with us.

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  Just wondering on whether JWN gets more Newbies that the WTS gets bapstisms? Are there any statistics?

  This site's newbies usually lurk for a month or two, with no interaction with us. They sign up here without an indoctrination, interactive bible study that requires repeat visits over the course of a year or two. Either JWN is pretty efficient at getting newbies or people are disagreeing with the WTS more & more and use JWN as a tool in their pathway to exiting.
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  My Mom Wanted To Know If I Would Ever Consider Going Back.... Guess what I said....

  by minimus in

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  never!!!

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  I was told that I would become a JW again. I laughed and said, "Nope. I know too much about them."
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  Nelson Mandela - comments of what his life meant to you

  by MMXIV in

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  nelson mandela has passed on.

  he was a symbol of hope and peace to many.

  has his life and achievements meant anything personal to members of jwn?.

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  I always smile when I see his face. He has such a wonderful face and smile, and I think that comes from deep inside of him.

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  Depression amongst JWs

  by tornapart in

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  has anyone seen this post on facebook?

  the comments below it are staggering!

  so many suffering from depression... along with the few judgementalists.

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  "A District Overseer gave his experience as an assembly"

  My first thought,"Is this for real?" I can't imagine a District Overseer at any assembly being permitted to talk openly about his own depressionl illness and addressing his sound reasoning as to why it is hard for the mentally ill to attend a KH. And, then admonishing the judgemental. Wow. Is the DO an apostate? Isn't the assembly supposed to be a whipping session, trotting out all sorts of exemplary JWs to give their stories of finding the meetings and field service invigorating and the answer to life?

  My second thought, "Wow, on the JW facebook comments on this article!" Seems many understand that the meetings are a pressure cooker of group think and are craving a well reasoned excuse to not attend the meetings and to do so without others being judgemental. 400+ comments in a day . . . something is afoot within the Borg.
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  So what types of people actually flourish under the JW regime?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i sure as eggs know which types don't:.

  creative types: to do well at a creative industry one must dedicate a lot of time to developing one's talent, and as a jw one simply doesn't have time.

  since writing a story or painting a picture doesn't contribute in any way to prestudy, meetings or fs results it's considered useless anyway.

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  People with Obsessive Compulsive Thought Disorder or Idealistic type people.
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  JWs took off from work in 1975?

  by skeeter1 in

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  a friend of mine is an electrician supervisor.

  back in 1975, one of his employees was a jw.

  the jw was so convinced that 1975 would bring the end of the world, that the jw took off from work (like, the first week in january) and sat on the top of a north carolina mountain waiting for armegheddon.

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  No, my buddy didn't know what happened to the guy.
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  Hello, its good to be back, seriously!

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  for the last year or so, the opening lyrics to gloria estefan's "always tomorrow" have been howling at me.. i've been alone inside myself, far too long.

  never really wanted it that way, but i let it happen..... .

  (btw, the message in that song is great for former jw's, if you want to think about the lyrics that way....).

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  Good to see you back.

  I, too, have taken a small break in posting on this site. I resonate with your feelings. In 1985, I was able to leave the JWs and not think about it. I didn't think it was a cult, but I didn't think about it much at all. You see, I was young and life was calling. Then, in 2004, I had to "deal with" my whole JW past. Since 2005, I've been on this Board. Debating, arguing, getting PurpleSofa mad at times (Sorry Purps ), and dealing with the issues of really leaving/healing from the JWs and realizing the lie.

  But, the past several months, I've taken a new direction in life. I have added new hobbies, took up a musical instrument for the first time in my life, burried myself in work & family. I became a human who was born in the JWs and left it. Now, I see me as more then an ex-JW, but as someone who has gone over that hurdle.

  It's like being too close to a really big mountain. You can't see it, and you can't take it all in. So, you try to walk all around it, up every trail & down every waterfall of it. It's a tiring journey. It makes you mad at the mountain and you think you "understand" the mountain. This is the postings on JWN and studying up on cults, and reliving your JW abuse.

  And, when you've "seen" all there is to this mountain, you decide to walk away from it. You walk away for several miles. This is your break from JWN.

  But, you turn around, and there is the mountain. (No matter where you are, you are affected by that really big mountain of JWism). But, this time, becuase you are farther away, you can take in the mountain in its entirety. But, you also see other mountains, the sky, the ocean. And you realize that that one mountain is just one element in this landscape of life. And, that mountain is a painful SOB of a mountain to stay on all the time and you no longer want to waste this life on just that mountain.

  But, we come back to this mountain becuase it has transformed our lives forever. And, there are other, new climbers who are beginning their trecks on it.

  Skeeter
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  JWs took off from work in 1975?

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
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  a friend of mine is an electrician supervisor.

  back in 1975, one of his employees was a jw.

  the jw was so convinced that 1975 would bring the end of the world, that the jw took off from work (like, the first week in january) and sat on the top of a north carolina mountain waiting for armegheddon.

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  A friend of mine is an electrician supervisor. Back in 1975, one of his employees was a JW. The JW was so convinced that 1975 would bring the End of the World, that the JW took off from work (like, the first week in January) and sat on the top of a North Carolina mountain waiting for Armegheddon. When the JW returned to work, my buddy had to keep the others in the shop from making fun of him. Anyway, did this happen alot?