Posts by penny2

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New Here

by LearningMore in

i have been lurking here for a couple of months.

i was born and raised as a witness, and am a little weirded out to even be posting on here (you know the paranoia).

anyway, i faded about 10 years ago, and after reading so many posts, i am so happy that it was a pretty uneventful experience.

using humour with cult members

by besty in

folks i needs some input on this subject.. i have 3 family members who are shunning me due to their jw belief system and i would like to prime some non-jw relatives on the use of humour to reach out to them.. its not right imho to poke personal fun or be sarcastic or unkind about their belief system so what do we do?.

any suggestions on how humour can be used in this way?.

garybuss + dogpatch - you guys are the experts - please advise......

penny2

I suggest keeping the non-JW family members fully informed of the shunning. Not in a complaining way, but just matter of fact. It will make its way around the family, and surely, some of the JWs will realize how ridiculous it is - won't they?

Sorry, I know that's not humour.

penny

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Update on Husband...

by cognac in

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this is really torture sometimes.... he made a run for it from this site, went out in service for 2 days and is back into full-fledge more jw.... that totally sucks... ackkk... i wouldn't care so much if he wanted to be a jw, it's just he's always pressuring me to be it also and live my everyday life the way that he wants to me to live it.

i feel like i'm being totally controlled... .

this is not going to happen like this forever.

penny2

My advice is... Start smoking...

NO, NO, NO!!!

Cognac, don't ever smoke. So many young JWs who leave do this but you'll regret it forever.

penny

PS - mkr32208, I'll assume you were joking. Phew!!!

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Need help disassociating

by Lo in

hi, i am 19 and from ireland.

i have been studying the bible with jws for more than a year, and enough is enough.

i simply decided i don't want to be answerable to a human organisation like that who like to think they have the answers that they simply cannot have.

penny2

Lo, welcome to JWD!!

Wearing a cross - she'll get the message!

penny

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Update on Husband...

by cognac in

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friends

this is really torture sometimes.... he made a run for it from this site, went out in service for 2 days and is back into full-fledge more jw.... that totally sucks... ackkk... i wouldn't care so much if he wanted to be a jw, it's just he's always pressuring me to be it also and live my everyday life the way that he wants to me to live it.

i feel like i'm being totally controlled... .

this is not going to happen like this forever.

penny2

I'm still going to all the meetings...

What a pain that must be!! You must be in turmoil at times. What about scheduling some quiet time away with hubby. Enjoy yourselves.

Then set a ground rule that you'll go with him on Sundays but nothing more. What can he do to you? Except make your life miserable for a short while but he'll get over it.

penny

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Response in the US to announcement

by CaptainSchmideo in

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one young, zealous brother was thrilled about it!

"they (meaning the gov.

body) know something's going to happen, or they wouldn't be doing this!

penny2

The local reaction here in Oz - "Why do we have to wait until January?"

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Rationales behind Elimination of the Book Study and Likely Effects Thereof

by Olin Moyles Ghost in

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i realize that the book study news has been discussed ad nauseam, but i would like to join the fun.

lots of potential reasons have been bandied about on the board.

for example, legal liability for crimes/torts that take place at the bookstudy homes may make the society nervous.

penny2

There are so few elders that some are doing 2 bookstudies.

People generally hate going out at night to "study" boring material they've been through before. It's a joke.

People don't like relative strangers traipsing through their house bringing in mud from outside and ruining the furniture.

Among the comments I've heard - "Why do we have to wait until January?"

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It's official....Bookstudy is DOA

by CoonDawg in

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okay, so my wife and mom both got back from their public talk / wt study this evening.

my loudmouthed sister asked if there were any announcements.

the bookstudy is hereafter known as "the congregation bible study".

penny2

I'm really pleased. One less meeting my elderly parents will have to attend. One less night of indoctrination for my nieces and nephews.

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I am going to my first meeting at a Kingdom Hall today......

by imissmaine in

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i decided to take in my first meeting today in an effort to better understand my girlfriend's family.

to be honest, i am not looking forward to this at all.

i know most all the people i am going to meet are nice and mean well.

penny2

Welcome IMM and SFF. Thanks for posting your thoughts IMM - it's interesting to read the impressions of someone who has never been a JW. Oh to be ignorant!!

penny

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Did you ever know of someone who had a "study"?

by bluesbreaker59 in

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then you went with them on their "study", and it was with some dimwitted person who could barely tie their shoes?

or some single parent woman with 5 kids living in a shack?

or some lonely older person that just wants a "friend" to talk to?.

penny2

It's certainly different now to the late 60s, early 70s when people were flocking in. They thought their lives beyond 1975 depended on getting baptized asap. If someone hadn't made a move towards baptism after 6 months of "study" they were abandoned.

Soon there were loads more ministerial servants and pioneers. The kids were leaving school early to pioneer. People were selling their houses and going where the "need was great".

Almost everyone had "studies". Looking back, it was much more like a cult then.

penny