I grew up around the religion, never was dunked in the "toilet of wasted dreams" But if I would of become a JW I would of been second generation.
joe_black
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The Point of this Site?
by Samael inforgive me if i sound rude or this question has been answered elsewhere, as i am a neophyte and discovered your site through google in my religious studies.
from reading the various posts it seems that this site serves nothing more than an iconoclastic purpose.
was your experience as jw's so traumatic that now you can but put forth such effort to daemonize the religion?
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joe_black
Balsams earlier post on the meaning of the word "neophyte" hit the nail right on the head, it stated in part: "Neophyte (neophytoi, the newly planted) Samael obviously was 'planted' here to ask this question by none other than the "society". Who else would come into a JW discussion forum and say things like: "forgive me if I sound rude but", "daemonize the religion" and then ends by saying that the posters here are acting like "petulant children" This Samael is definitely a WTBS 'plant'.
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joe_black
Hello Ariel! You are not alone. I'm new here also, cya round!
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I'm a registered voter now
by TweetieBird inhubby and i were at trader joe's the other day and a guy asked us to sign his petition.
after we signed he asked if we were registered voters.
we said no and he asked if we'd like to be.
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joe_black
Congratulations TweetieBird! Registering to vote is one act that took me quite a while to do. I have always been interested in politics, even while growing up around the JW religion I would always,(of course secretly) watch the National and Local voting results. To this day I still haven't told anyone (other than wife) of my actions. I wonder how my JW family will feel when they see my name in the paper when I decide to run for one of the seats on the City Council! lol... have a great day!
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Would you shame someone for going back to the Witnesses?
by free2beme ini was thinking about this, as i have a former witness friend who is showing signs of wanting to go back, even though they have expressed over the years a lot of frustration and lack of belief for the faith.
as much as i find their decision to be a mistake, i do understand why.
after all, unlike myself and family, i have never been shunned by the few family members left in and i moved on over the last decade to build new friendships and hobbies.
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joe_black
I know a person who has been disfellowshipped 2 times, and just re-instated for the 2nd time. I can't figure this dude out. I mean why would you want to keep going back to the vomit as the scripture says. Side note: I work with this guy, and each time he's been DF'd he's very friendly, helpful, talkative. But, like this last time he was re-instated, he's become introverted, won't hardly talk to anyone, including me, total change of personality. He was a better person "out" of the religion. So yes I would say that he shamed himself by going back, especially 2 times.
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Say something Philosophical and Deep
by JH insay something philosophical and deep so that we can all benefit from what you're going to say.
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joe_black
There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus
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Man gets a beating!
by joe_black inhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/law/05/02/dominatrix.ap/index.html
man who stole to pay dominatrix gets real punishment.
new york (reuters) -- an executive at a heart disease charitable foundation who embezzled close to a quarter of a million dollars over two years to pay a dominatrix to beat him was sentenced tuesday to two to six years in prison..........................i would of beat the living sh*t out of him for half that amount.
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joe_black
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/02/dominatrix.ap/index.html Man who stole to pay dominatrix gets real punishment. NEW YORK (Reuters) -- An executive at a heart disease charitable foundation who embezzled close to a quarter of a million dollars over two years to pay a dominatrix to beat him was sentenced Tuesday to two to six years in prison..........................I would of beat the living sh*t out of him for half that amount. lol
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Say something Philosophical and Deep
by JH insay something philosophical and deep so that we can all benefit from what you're going to say.
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joe_black
"Indian who drink too much tea, drown in his tea pee"
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If your a BELIEVING Jehovah's Witness
by KW13 inimagine i wanted to sell you a painting.
i gave you a lot of documents and proof that infact it was a valuable constable painting.
the price was high but for what you appeared to be getting, the sacrifice in money is worth it.. what if, for example.
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joe_black
I grew up with that "painting" hanging on the wall at our house. I looked at it every single day wondering whether it was authentic or not. When I "grew up" and left home, I found out that you could get that same "painting" at any second hand store without the pain and cost.
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What did YOU do during the downtime?
by LittleToe inso, if i'm not much mistaken jwd was just down for over 24 hours - the longest time i can remember in over four years of posting here.
these things happen - c'est la vie.. so what did you do during this time?
did you suffer the dts?
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joe_black
So would it be safe to say that not only have we realized that there is a life outside of the watchtower, but also a life outside of JWD?......as most here are DA'd or DF'd from the watchtower, would or should there ever come a time where we can DA or DF ourselves from this forum?