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  JW chick just joined my sports team

  by sass_my_frass in

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  a guy i work with organises three teams entering a little lunchtime sports competition.

  i joined in last season for the first time, and this season mr frass joins my team also.

  i just got the team list, and it looks like a last-minute entry on my team is the only jw in the building.

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  penny2

  I can imagine how you feel - work is a place where you can be yourself and forget about the stress of having been a JW. Now there is a possibility that there is going to be an awkward situation and the focus could be on you.

  I think you need to look at this differently though. If there is a shunning event, she will be the one to look silly. If it gets talked about, you won't be the bad guy. Everyone will be feeling sorry for you. And while no-one likes to talk about religion, they do love to talk about stupid religious practices such as shunning.

  In a previous job, half the people I worked with were related to JWs (it was a very small office). They were constantly gossiping about the crazy things that happen. I never let on that I used to be one and I didn't take part in the conversations either. But it did give me an insight into how non-JWs feel. They sympathized greatly with the exiting and out of favour JWs in the family and had no tolerance for the narrowminded attitudes of their witness relatives.

  Most people prefer to blend in so maybe the JW at your workplace is "broadminded" (she is after all playing sport, which is unusual). Shunning is such an obviously stupid practice - I can't imagine anyone putting it into practice at work, but you never know!

  Hope it works out.

  penny2
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  Two more exams down!!

  by sass_my_frass in

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  have just finished the fourth and fifth of my 24-unit undergrad degree.

  the first exam was for a very easy unit.

  last week i got a weird phone call that i thought was a telemarketer with extremely poor english who had somehow gotten my details.

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  the uni knows, and they've recalled the exam

  This means you have to do another exam? How annoying!!

  Congratulations on going for an undergrad degree though. Something you probably wouldn't have done had you remained an obedient JW!

  penny2
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  After reading many topics.. I'm confused. Is this a JW forum or an ANTI-JW?

  by MichaelM in

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  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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  penny2

  Hi MichaelM, welcome to JWD! Feel free to post on here if you wish. I am still officially a Jehovah's Witness although I haven't been to meetings for a while.

  I no longer believe Jehovah's Witnesses "have the truth" but I mostly keep this to myself. If I told my family (who are almost all JWs) they wouldn't be allowed to associate with me. I would find this difficult to cope with. This is a good outlet for discussion with others who understand.
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  Where do you think you would be now?

  by brinjen in

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  just a thought, wondering where does everyone think they would be right now if they hadn't found the truth?

  i mean the real truth, not the wts.

  would you be single?

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  IF I'd married any of the bros who showed an interest in me when I was 19, 20, 21.........

  I might be married now to an elder....we would have had a couple of kids....who would have gone through their disfunctional stage, drugs, alcohol....the kids would have been disfellowshipped and I would be miserable. The kids would have got over their disfunctional stage and would now be normal and hopefully, well adjusted citizens. I would still be miserable. But I wouldn't have shunned my kids. I know that, because even as a devout JW, I had a rebellious streak and refused to shun anyone.

  INSTEAD I'm alone but I'm not miserable. I had the "misfortune" of falling in love with non-JWs. We didn't marry or even live together. I went through hell. But they were both intelligent men and they planted the seed of doubt. I now know the truth about "the truth" and I am forever grateful.

  penny2
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  Sharing a bed

  by sass_my_frass in

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  this is ot (like half of the topics in 'friends'), and a bit personal, but i don't actually have that many friends that i can talk about this with, so here goes.... mr frass and i believe we're very happily married, and we're very affectionate.

  trouble is, around midnight many nights, i'm finding that i can't get comfortable and sleep.

  i need to turn around a lot, cuddle a spare pillow in *just* the right way etc.

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  Neither of you seem to be really happy with the situation. I agree with some other posters - I think you should get a king size bed. The difference is unbelievable.
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  HELLO TO ALL FROM THE SPAWNOFNVR!

  by SpawnofNvr in

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  hallo ebrybudy!.

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  Welcome SpawnofNvr. We look forward to having your perspective on some JW related issues - it's nice to know how young people think about these things. I presume you are not sorry that you are missing out on meetings and field service.

  penny2
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  Sunday Notes at the District Convention – An emotional plea to “young ones”

  by truthseeker in

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  continue following me john 21:19. much of the program was similar to the previous two days.

  the fact that jesus has appeared in almost every talk title suggests that the society is once again morphing its tactics to persuade more persons that they arent an old testament cult but an alternative christian denomination.. i repeat my previous assertion that there is a manipulative intelligence at work here.

  no ordinary person could possible have such foresight and such knowledge of human behavior to think and write the things these watchtower writers do.

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  I dread my nieces and nephews being subjected to this brainwashing. The convention in our area is in August - middle of winter. Is it mean of me to hope that if they are going to be sick this year, that it happens during the DC?
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  Inspected a jw's car saw nwt and did some witnessing to him

  by hambeak in

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  a young man came in for his state vehicle inspection today and i noticed a nwt on the seat.

  i asked him if he was a jw and replied yes.

  he then asked if i was and replied i used to be but now am a full fledged apostate.

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  he has defied his dad and is going to college

  There's hope for him then. Good on you hambeak, taking the opportunity to "give a witness". It's comments like yours that will stick in his mind, even if he doesn't do anything about it in the short term.
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  Have JW's done away with disfellowshipping?

  by lostlantern in

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  a friend just said that disfellowshipping is no longer practiced due to legalities, does anyone know if this true?

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  penny2

  If you don't want to be shunned (ie treated like a disfellowshipped person), you now have to be careful never to say, "I am no longer a Jehovah's Witness."
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  playing the part

  by aoxo in

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  anyone ever give a demonstration at the assembly's?

  like a life experiance or something.

  i did a couple of times, something stupid like how i placed mags at school or something like that.

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  I also told my experience at a CA about pioneering without a car. I said if I had a car, I wouldn't be able to pioneer. In my case, it was all genuine - I really thought the Big A was coming within the next couple of years and nothing was more important than pioneering. I was dirt poor.

  Eventually the need for clothing and transport took over. I got a fulltime job, my licence and a car.