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  Your Jehovah’s Witness Is Showing

  by David_Jay in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i just signed up and posted a few times without doing this yet, here is my story..

  i think that i became a jehovahs witness because of my immaturity.

  i had some quirky personality traits, and i joined finding that i fit in because, as i said to myself: these people get me.

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  freemindfade

  I used my best arguments, quoted this and that, and was on a roll until I noticed no one else was chiming in. I think I even stopped in mid-sentence when I realized I was just getting stares and silence, especially from Randall and his family.

  Yea these things have their place. I would say as a witness when it came to the preaching part, I was never jumping to debate with people. Now In regular life I don't either. If a witness wanted to come to my door and talk about the flood or some BS I will clearly ridicule them, but that doesn't happen lol.

  I do think that in some forums such as a discussion board certain topics will be raised to be debated. But its context, some see it as preachy, some don't. But I agree I have strong idea about things but in day to day life I just don't preach them for the sake of trying to change someone else mind.
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  A lot of "forbidden" talk is going on among witnesses

  by nevaagain in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  me and my wife are still "in".

  we had the "talk" a couple of times, but shet is not ready to leave yet.

  while a couple of years ago she started crying on the thought that i am an "apostate" and even gave me an ultimatum until she would rat me out to the elders (never happened), now i sense that she might is a little bit more open to the the thought to leave one day .... anyway, all out friends and family are still in the truth and whenever we are meeting with other witnesses topic #1 is always the recent changes to the meetings / conventions (reduced to one day) which always lead to the changes to the magazines and the recent lay offs of the special pioneers and bethelites.

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  Vidiot

  Agreed. I think some people are really burying their real gut feelings and reactions to say how great everything is. My wife is no longer saying any of it is good.

  I speculate there is a couple things happening, one i call the bubble. That there are a lot of people not liking it but staying strong, but one day a big bubble is going to pop and flood of people are gonna leave or just stop attending. The potential is there. There is an undercurrent of people waking up even if only in their personal thoughts and feelings.

  The other is a butterfly effect. Its:

  the amount and availability of information on the internet.

  its the more visible irrefutable sources of anti witness info (such as the ARC).

  Its history and science making the bible out to be a huge lie.

  Its the seemingly consistent, decent witnesses waking up, talking to family, changing habits, talking to elders.

  All these things I think are building a snowball.

  The religion will never go away, but if over the next few years there is a massive shift, division, or exodus.. I'd call that a win. I believe they have hit their apex.
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  A lot of "forbidden" talk is going on among witnesses

  by nevaagain in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  me and my wife are still "in".

  we had the "talk" a couple of times, but shet is not ready to leave yet.

  while a couple of years ago she started crying on the thought that i am an "apostate" and even gave me an ultimatum until she would rat me out to the elders (never happened), now i sense that she might is a little bit more open to the the thought to leave one day .... anyway, all out friends and family are still in the truth and whenever we are meeting with other witnesses topic #1 is always the recent changes to the meetings / conventions (reduced to one day) which always lead to the changes to the magazines and the recent lay offs of the special pioneers and bethelites.

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  freemindfade

  My experience with the wife is similar. She went from nervous breakdown a few years ago to seemingly being apathetic towards "the truth" even though she is not awake by any means. She has changed a lot and I think it's seeing all this nonsense go on and being embarrassed by the organization and people in it
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  No Blood bracelets

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how disturbing is this?

  someone is promoting this bracelets.. for sale @ $1.99.

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  freemindfade

  Idiotic. Let's be honest at that point it's not about medical directive it's about showing non-witnesses and witnesses how hard core self righteous prick jw you are. Smh
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  Why does it seem to be unhappy people who are attracted to the JWs?

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have had time to think about this........... i was an attendent for many years.......... and looking up and down the rows at every family that was seating there in the khs........... no one was happy!.

  i think of my mother (who brought this religion into our house)......she was one of the most unhappy and miserable people you would ever meet!

  she was a spiritual orphan with few friends and no real family to speak of.. she got the "good news" back in 1950, that "the world" was a bad place and god, would soon be killing most everyone......she was thrilled!...............

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  My answer to this is just go some Sunday and listen to the public talk.

  You will want to kill yourself. Everything is worse than ever with no hope in sight. Stories of misery. Suffering. War. Disease. Depression. This last Sunday the elder was telling a story of who turned out to be his cousin who was a witness, wanted to go to a world party, of course she got drugged and raped, then spiraled into a life of pain and misery until she came back.

  The persecution complex of witnesses is the answer. They have to feel miserable like constantly putting salt in a wound to keep their selves focused on the paradise because that's the only way anything will ever be good.

  Life is so much more beautiful when you are out of that environment
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  No Sports Cars Please!

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i read on a jw forum that jw's came in for disapproval if they drove either sports cars or 2-door cars.

  the reasoning was that a driver couldn't easily take fellow dubbies out preaching in such a vehicle.

  was that ever official policy or just local nonsense from a grumpy po?.

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  Kairos

  You should drop a ej20t from a wrx into that 914.
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  Fishing and JW's???

  by lurkernomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was just reading a thread and came across a completely new jw 'rule', that of not being allowed to go fishing!..

  at least it's new to me as i always enjoyed fishing as did others in my old congregation.

  anyone else heard of this or had this imposed on them in they're jw lives?.

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  Never heard such a thing.

  Many many witnesses I know fish regularly.

  Hunting may get some stink eyes in some areas, but fish??? The effing apostles were fishermen for gods sake.
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  No Sports Cars Please!

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i read on a jw forum that jw's came in for disapproval if they drove either sports cars or 2-door cars.

  the reasoning was that a driver couldn't easily take fellow dubbies out preaching in such a vehicle.

  was that ever official policy or just local nonsense from a grumpy po?.

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  freemindfade

  I have had many, even some with 4 doors. I was once an avid racer (legal and illegal).

  whenever I had two door cars I still always had one with 4 also ("service car"). That was the wife's.

  Still even though I had a "service car" I still was looked down on for owning a car with two doors. that was out west where people (witnesses) have nothing better to worry over except dumb little things. In New York city, no one gave a rats ass the car had two doors, most people didn't even have cars so it was considered nice to have a car period.
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  Counsel from Bro Losch (GB Member) to the Elders about the NFL

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  while attending a week long training class for elders in patterson, bro losch gave the concluding talk about loyalty to the borg, which i was in awe of(i went more in detail in a recent post about a s.a.d.

  where losch was the speaker).

  at the end of his talk, here's what he said: .

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  David Bowie

  by smiddy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i just heard the news david bowie has died ,so sad .

  rip d,b, .

  smiddy .

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  freemindfade

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