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  Pet peeve-itis. Do you have it?

  by exwitless in

  1. social
  2. humour

  at the suggestion of sweetface, i decided to make a new thread about pet peeves.

  here's a few of mine:.

  1) being invited to a baby shower or bridal shower for someone whom i have never met, just so i will bring them a gift.

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  elliej

  Doorbells. Don't ever ring my doorbell, it makes me insane. Ironic.
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  a message for our witness relatives...

  by elliej in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the off chance one of them is perusing this board looking for ammunition, i want them to get this message loud and clear:.

  you did more damage to your cause with your disgusting behavior this last weekend than we ever could have hoped to do.

  your unparalleled hipocrisy was noticed by all.

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  elliej

  On the off chance one of them is perusing this board looking for ammunition, I want them to get this message loud and clear:

  You did more damage to your cause with your disgusting behavior this last weekend than we ever could have hoped to do. Your unparalleled hipocrisy was noticed by all. Your hopes of recruiting anyone in your family are over. Do you get that? Your cult has been exposed and you are ones who helped us expose it. You are pitied and your behavior despised by everyone. You are wrong. Thank you for your help in showing everyone in our family what a disgusting and despicable organization it is that has control over you. We appreciate it.
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  Anything weird you like to eat?

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was camping this weekend with some friends and around the camp fire the subject came up, "what is something weird you like to eat?

  " i thought it was a fun subject and we all had some laughs over our odd appetites.. some of mine .... i love bologna with american cheese and miracle whip (the only thing i will use miracle whip with).

  i love the taste of straight pickle juice or hot pepper juice.

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  Grilled peanut butter and bacon sandwich. Mmmmmm. Truly spectacular.
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  New Here, My Personal Story

  by johannahw in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have thought off and on about the jws for years.

  my little sister brenda converted about 30 years ago and raised two sons in the truth as she called it.

  one boy, mason, is still being raised as a jw (he is 15) and my other nephew, aaron, left the organization on his 18th birthday.

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  elliej

  I just wasn't good enough to make it as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  You ought to let go of that feeling right away. You were smart enough to notice that something wasn't right. The Jehovah's Witnesses lure vulnerable people in by giving them false hopes, and then once they have them firmly in their grips they crush their spirit until they feel worthless. The only thing anyone can do is their best, and nobody should ever make you feel that your best isn't good enough.
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  How many happy JW marriages do you know of?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just reading frequent flyer miles on the subject of feeling guilty for having a happy marriage with a non-jw.. in our congregation which i haven't attended for about a year, i can only think of two or three who seem to be happy.

  of course, i don't know what happens behind closed doors, but i know of several who admit they are unhappy.

  i wrote out a long list of couples who have divorced over the last 20 years--including three elders (one is on his second divorce).

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  I know a large handful of JW's who claim that the religion saved their marriages. They feel very triumphant about this, but I think that they are just settling for a crappy situation and then patting themselves on the back for sticking it out "for Jehovah." Maybe if they would choose their mate based on compatibility instead of works they would be happy in the first place and they wouldn't have to brag about how they stay married to someone they don't really love for the sake of their religion.
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  Come what may.

  by Paralipomenon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  every couple of weeks my family gets together for a group supper.

  this has long been a tradition of ours.

  we alternate who hosts each time for variety, but when it's my brother's turn, he has often invited over people from his congregation as well.

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  My family was in Culvers one Sunday afternoon and we sat next to a table full of what appeared immediately to me to be witnesses. I mentioned it to my husband and then quickly changed my mind; both of the the men at the table had goatees. Everything else screamed JW to me, but that facial hair told me otherwise. I was wrong. They Jehovahed their way through the whole meal and then one of the little girls bragged that when she went up to get her free custard that she told them she was a witness. I wasn't aware that goatees were acceptable, but they seem to be in my area.
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  This Post Will Offend Current JWs: Annie Lennox should be avoided

  by mtsgrad in

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  2. friends

  the language is leaving me.

  the language is leaving me.

  the language is leaving me in silence.

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  elliej

  Hubby and I were told not to listen to "Strangers In The Night" (as if we would) because it was about homosexuals. No kidding.
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  After reading many topics.. I'm confused. Is this a JW forum or an ANTI-JW?

  by MichaelM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm studying with a jehovah's witness and it makes quite a bit of sense but i've been reading many topics on here and it seems that i can find every christian denomination and every religion except jehovahs witnesses.

  do any jw's actually browse here?

  maybe i'm just getting unlucky and picking the wrong topics where everyones discussing about how they used to be jw's.

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  elliej

  Welcome MichaelM. Just a thought: If they really have the truth, then you have nothing to fear from being here and reading the criticism. If it is really the truth it can stand up to it.
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  to hell with god... (letter number three)

  by theinfamousone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah,.

  it has been quite some time since i have written you a letter.

  the reason is complicated, and is much more than just one.

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  elliej

  amen
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  Does Goofy Speculation of Prophecy by the WTBS reason to leave?

  by Mad in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many leave because of it- yet isn't the truth and the wtbs seperate entities?.

  the mad jw.

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  elliej

  The WTBTS is the tool used by the governing body to dispense the "Truth" to it's followers. I can't understand why witnesses think that somehow the two can be separated. The stupid things that are printed in the WTBTS publications are from the "faithful and discreet slave", it's the written form of "current truth".

  Do they think that even thought their Society has been wrong so many times before, they still have all the rules and regulations right? Ohhh, they missed by a mile about the generation and the start of Armageddon, but they were right about not joining the YMCA! Or playing chess. Or wearing beards. Or any of the other obnoxious, absurd, petty regulations they heap on their followers.

  They don't have any prophetic understanding at all. They don't have the right to insert themselves so intimately into peoples lives. Why in the world would I choose to live by the rigid rules set forth by the Society if they don't even have the story right? It is one thing to live a good, clean, moral life. It is quite another to have to jump through the JW hoops. I think it's really rich when a JW says that someone left because they couldn't hack living a moral life. What a crock. Other people in other religions (and out of them) live moral, God-pleasing lives. Even those who celebrate birthdays and holidays.