p.s. oh ya, i'm in ireland too
rathfear
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Ex-Witnesses in Ireland...
by jdhf inhey there....i've been noticing that there are quite a few support groups in other countries for those who leave the 'truth'.
i am appealing to those who are in the emerald isle to see if there is any chance we can get together and enjoy 'real' association, being of same minds etc.
anyway... i will put this out there and hopefully those in ireland will get in touch and we can support each other!
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Ex-Witnesses in Ireland...
by jdhf inhey there....i've been noticing that there are quite a few support groups in other countries for those who leave the 'truth'.
i am appealing to those who are in the emerald isle to see if there is any chance we can get together and enjoy 'real' association, being of same minds etc.
anyway... i will put this out there and hopefully those in ireland will get in touch and we can support each other!
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rathfear
Yeah having left after a while you realise how hollow "fellowship" in the org was, be a good dub :(
What I have found since leaving the org is no one that wasn't in the org understands what it was like no matter how much you try to explain what seems more nonsensical by the day.
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rathfear
Could only open 45 doors and there is nothing behind it then, ends up with a semi-circle of doors that can't be opened or closed. Ah brings back memories of wandering around estates in the freezing cold and peddaling the tripe of WTBS!!
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rathfear
Yeah, in the org women were pretty easy to figure. The young ones were after the whatever pioneer brother was available. The married ones were always trying to get their hubbies promoted. And the divided home sisters were more grounded in reality.
"Worldly" ™ women are much more varied and overall a mystery in some ways. The dating scene is quite confusing because unlike in the org people have more freedom and with that comes more things to be indecisive about.
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Today's My Birthday
by minimus inmy good friend says i'm the only guy he knows that tells everybody about his birthday.
he says being a jehovah's witness really screwed me up/.
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rathfear
Happy birthday minimus, hope you don't have any decapitations
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How old were you when you were baptized as a JW, and what was it like?
by BonaFide ini was baptized at 15 years old.
a brother toutjian gave the talk.
it was the circuit assembly.
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rathfear
Lets see I was 17 and I suppose I did it to belong because my mother was in and thanks to being brought up in the truth™ I had no life outside of it anyway. After baptism I still didn't belong in the congregation I was expected to be a good JW but was left out of stuff and passed over for stuff because of who you knew or were related to. The internal politics was confusing to me then, looking back I see how petty and pathetic it was and also realised that the baptism questions were about dedication to the borg.
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Do you ever shed the Jw experience?
by AK - Jeff ini have been out for 5 years.
my wife and i left together.
she saw the sham long before i did - though neither of us could 'put our finger on' what was wrong until we read coc, found the internet, etc.. i believe my wife leans toward atheism more than i do - i consider myself agnostic of the whole matter at this point.
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rathfear
Some things are easier to get rid of than others, the meetings and field service I just threw out the window, but all the rules and regulations that runied my childhood are something that I am stil coming to terms with. Well its my birthday next week and I'll be celebrating it so I'm past that point, then I have a date with a wordly™ girl and no chaperone , its taken along time to get to this point but everynow and then I cast off another vestiage of my past. I voted in an election for the first time yesterday felt good to vote for a real governement and not a hypothetical one in the sky. There are some things that I would not do still, but I probably wouldn't have done them even if I was never a JW so they're ok.
I still have problems dealing with my extended non-JW family, even though I'm out I don't see them because they cut off contact years ago when my parents first got involved, its a legacy that I have to deal with.
The there are things likes like phycis and other stuff like that, I don't know how to view alot of these things, is it a case of doing all the things that were forbidden for the sake of it? I don't want to do that, but I find that I have to figure out who I really am and what I want. I still think that some of the experience will always be with me and I can never totally get rid of it.
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The Pepsi machine
by John Doe indispensed two, though i paid for one.
i drank them--so cool, so refreshing..
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rathfear
Makes up for all the random times those machines swallow my money, where are the owners when the shoe is on the other foot?? Exactly you never get anything back!! That other pepsi was probably paid for by some thirsty sob, like me
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District Convention Mischief?
by jws indoes anybody have a list of convention dates and a hi-res scan of a convention badge?.
i remember all of those talks about behaving at assemblies and all of those talks about setting a good example.. .
what if people were to go to an assembly, looking exactly like a jw, but behaving like a jw could never get away with?.
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rathfear
The problem with a high res scan of a badge, its a bitch to get the colour right as most domestic printers aint up to the spec that the badges are printed on. Its possible to get right though, you'll more than likely have to mess with the colour balance to get the correct colours are the badge will look dodgy
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Talk by insane speaker ... try to listen ...
by Albert Einstein inif you are ready for everything... try to listen the talk by ciro aulicino you will be with me in paradise.. the fact, that jw are willing to listen such crap is a proof, they are all insane.
(i wanted to say "idoits", but decided to be polite...).
if you have good guts, sit down and go for it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwa9kx5wjtm.
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rathfear
I never realised how boring those talks were, now I know why all the elders "volunteered" at the convention, so they could go around with ear pieces and look important and not have to listen to the life saving message. If I was back again I would have got myself permanently assigned to the far side of the car park, counting cars is much more enjoyable.... ah