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Hindsight is 20/20: What were your signs?
by divejunkie in
1. jw
2. friends
what i mean is now that you are out of the wt; do you ever think back at something you innocently said or did when you still believed or you were little that now feels like a sign that you would someday get out of the bullsh*t?

for me, growing up in the jw's, i feel there were signs of my "goat hairs" even way back then.

** even as a child, every saturday morning i would spend at least 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out what to say to get out of going to field service .
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where do I start..here goes!!
by blsrose in
1. jw
2. experiences
hello, my name is bonnie, i will start by how i came "into the truth".

my husband and i lived in dallas, tex in '72, of course we were not married at the time of our being contacted by a work friend of his, though they still befriended us and our families became close.

soon, we were married and quickly thereafter, we were invited to the kingdom hall.
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Rules Created by the Body of Elders and an Off Topic Question
by XJW4EVR in
1. jw
2. friends
in my latest post in my story, i recounted how my dad and another elder made attendance at high school sports events a no-no.

in retrospect, i don't recall anything in print that made attendance at local sporting events a shepherding offense.

maybe my memory is faulty.. did your boe make rules like this?.
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How many of you joined to placate family members ?
by bocephus in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just wondering how many of you might have joined the organization to placate family members .

i can say as a teen i was baptized for the sole purpose of quieting my father .

how about you did you do it for the fear of losing family members
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Memorial
by Soapydish in
1. jw
2. experiences
this is the first year in my life that i won't be going to that thing with the bread and the wine.

you know what i'm talking about.

even though i gradually stopped going to meets since i was 21
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Whoo hoo . . .I finally signed up
by Woofer in
1. jw
2. experiences
after a few months of lurking i decided to register.. was raised a dub all my life .

.got married at 19 (biggg mistake) because as you know "dating is only for marriage" (obviously not for trying to get to know someone better) and was married 11 months after i met my ex-husband.

i felt a lot of pressure from both families to get married.
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Breaking News from WTS Branch-Eclipses are natural
by DannyHaszard in
1. social
2. current
jehovah's witnesses: eclipses are natural happenings

ghanaweb.com - 2 minutes ago comment box join in accra, march 27, gna - eclipses are natural happenings that occur with regularity and do not represent a threat nor carry some prediction of calamity, jehovah's witnesses said on monday.

jehovah's witnesses: eclipses are natural happeningsaccra, march 27, gna - eclipses are natural happenings that occur with regularity and do not represent a threat nor carry some prediction of calamity, jehovah's witnesses said on monday.. .
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Ever have a part on a convention or assembly?
by Frog in
1. jw
2. friends
i played a role in a convention drama when i was 14. it was a really poxy modern day drama.

something about catching my bigger brother puffing on a cigarette lol.

i had to practice the part for months in a dogey american accents.
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What do you do now with all that extra time?
by beautifulisfree in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just wondering what everyone does with their extra time??

the meetings took up so much time in our lives.

for me its soo fun to sleep late on sat (no service!
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Bethel Police pulled me over for a violation
by What-A-Coincidence in
1. jw
2. friends
wearing faded jeans only as a bethelite is a cause for concern for the governing body.

i had jeans that were not totally faded as the "world" would consider them.

so one freaken' weekend as i passed by a wt building, a tightwod bethel elder (now just an elder) asked me how i was doing (bla bla bla).