Thank you all for your kind responses, although I must say the entire experience made me such a stronger person.
Posts by snarf
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15Did you know any jw who made money off "immoral" businesses?
by snarf ini married into a jw family, my husband, now ex, was df'd at the time, but reinstated.
after he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis.
at first he made me do it, but i had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well.
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What Used To Bother Your Conscience?
by minimus inmany jws were trained to have "sensitive" consciences.
very little ever bothered my conscience.
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snarf
This ties in with the gossip thread, but it was the gossiping that drove me bonkers. When I was studying, I always heard about the members of the cong. and I also knew pretty much everything the other studies were doing and what their progress was.
Also, the way some of the children were treated. Being spanked by their parents in the other room, but you could here the slaps and the crying...sadened me so much...
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Did you know any jw who made money off "immoral" businesses?
by snarf ini married into a jw family, my husband, now ex, was df'd at the time, but reinstated.
after he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis.
at first he made me do it, but i had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well.
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Thankfully, I am free of that family now, but I do know that they are still in good standing with the Org. Trust me though, it played a huge mind game with me.
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Did you know any jw who made money off "immoral" businesses?
by snarf ini married into a jw family, my husband, now ex, was df'd at the time, but reinstated.
after he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis.
at first he made me do it, but i had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well.
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Luna - This was an all nude club and they wanted me to wipe down the poles everyday......YUCK, it still gives me the creeps!!! Plus, it sucked cause all the money I made cleaning, my JW hubby spent most of the money back at the club during business hours.
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EVERYONE...PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING OUR NEWEST MEMBER
by jaredg inwelcome kimberb.....it was so great to rediscover you!
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snarf
Hello Kimberb.....
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Did you know any jw who made money off "immoral" businesses?
by snarf ini married into a jw family, my husband, now ex, was df'd at the time, but reinstated.
after he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis.
at first he made me do it, but i had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well.
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snarf
This work was contracted directly by our business to the strip club. We had keys to the place, purchased supplies and did the work ourselves. Plus we had a carpet cleaning company, not a cleaning company, so I had to obtain different insurance to compensate for the cleaning end.
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Did you know any jw who made money off "immoral" businesses?
by snarf ini married into a jw family, my husband, now ex, was df'd at the time, but reinstated.
after he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis.
at first he made me do it, but i had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well.
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I married into a JW family, my husband, now ex, was Df'D at the time, but reinstated. After he was reinstated he started doing business with a strip club, cleaning it on a daily basis. At first he made me do it, but I had major issues, there were naked pics posted everywhere, and a porn shop with all sorts of toys that were sold in the club as well. When we seperated his family took over the business, against my will cause it was ALL in my name. Any way his dad was an elder and I made issue of them doing business with the club several times, even during the marriage. How could they make money off that business, but why did other witnesses get counselled for cleaning or painting churches? Just curious if anyone else had similar experience.
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Blessings from Jehovah...
by misguided in...today i brought home a new (to me) mini-van.
i've been driving an oil-leaking, 1990 caravan with radiator problems and no heat.
i paid $5000 for a 2001 dodge caravan - not the long one, but fully loaded.
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snarf
Congrats on the new van ! Sounds like you really deserve it. Thank yourself for all your hard work, and look at your "blessings" as a reward from yourself, to yourself.
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HEY I HAVE SOME GREAT NEWS!
by jaredg ini have found one of my old jw friends from when i was a teenager.
i discovered her on myspace and wrote her message and it turns out that she is out of the religion and doing well.
this is the first time i have met one of my friends from my inner circle who has left the jw religion...i'm so excited!
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snarf
That is so cool, hope all goes well for the both of you !!
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Please don't take offence at this ...
by Joe Grundy ini'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.
i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.
not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.
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One of the women that studied with me had a degree in political science, but she obtained that degree before studying with the witnesses. She married a guy who was disfellowshipped at the time and later was "converted" to understand her husband more. She is now a realestate agent, has been for about 15 years. That is the only one though. All the other ones I knew were either homeschooled, or had no education after the 12th grade.