Christmas? Halloween? Birthdays? I don't celebrate any of those, and won't ever have an interest in doing so. But if there's a Christmas party down at the office, or someone is getting birthday cake, I'm not going to run away like the old days. Give me some egg nog and a slice of Betty Crocker!
BecauseImBroken
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Are there still things that were witness no-no's that you refrain from?
by AK - Jeff infor me, after decades as a witness there are quite a few i suppose.
this thread was inspired by min's thread about sex and our attitudes now as opposed to when we were witnesses.. one thing that i have never done - and it might seem somewhat trivial to many - i have never, not once, in my entire life uttered the f word.
i always found it to be utterly vulgar - and i still do.
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Being a JW is smart; Until you do STUPID things to remain being one....
by BecauseImBroken inso it begins....
a lot.
her 3rd in 2 years, and 2nd in 6 months.
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HA! My father got a phone call this morning; and the elder that called told him that although I am disfellowshipped, if I do not cooperate with them, my father's conscience should not allow him to continue as an elder. WOW. Their way or the highway? The funny thing is, my father and I live in 2 different states...why the hell should what happens with me affect his standing in his congregation? They REALLY are out for this girl's head.
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Being a JW is smart; Until you do STUPID things to remain being one....
by BecauseImBroken inso it begins....
a lot.
her 3rd in 2 years, and 2nd in 6 months.
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BecauseImBroken
I stated that incorrectly
Out of everyone in the group, she was in the middle of her first Jc(drinking) and I had just gotten reinstated About a year before that. So both of us were the "cooler" ones in the group by everyone else's standards. -
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MY DAD HAS LEFT THE ORGANIZATION!!
by freedomlover inhold on everybody....ready for this.... .
if you've been reading my posts over the past few months you'd see the research and progress my dad (a former elder) has been making.
he and my stepmom were visiting us this weekend and he told us he's done with the jw's.
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As my favorite singer once said:
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Are there still things that were witness no-no's that you refrain from?
by AK - Jeff infor me, after decades as a witness there are quite a few i suppose.
this thread was inspired by min's thread about sex and our attitudes now as opposed to when we were witnesses.. one thing that i have never done - and it might seem somewhat trivial to many - i have never, not once, in my entire life uttered the f word.
i always found it to be utterly vulgar - and i still do.
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Yeah that did slip my mind. I still look down upon politics, military affairs, and nationalism. I'm neutral as can be in that sense. But that's a Biblical no-no, not really a JW one. The JW's are the only one's that follow it.
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Being a JW is smart; Until you do STUPID things to remain being one....
by BecauseImBroken inso it begins....
a lot.
her 3rd in 2 years, and 2nd in 6 months.
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Yeah DF'ed roomie. And here's my definition of a friend: someone who will ALWAYS be your friend. If I get df'ed and my "friends" won't talk to me...they aren't my friends. Sadly I do feel the elders in this situation already were set on DF'ing both of us, but she managed to weasel out of it. Her JC and my JC were assigned to work together in this matter by the WTS, and they told me and her so many lies, took things out of context, bent the truth, withheld facts, and worded questions in their interviews with others all in an obvious attempt to get us to incriminate ourselfs or one another. They managed to basically ruin my life. And if I didn't have a heart I'd grab a few cans of lighter fluid and light the KH on fire.
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Are there still things that were witness no-no's that you refrain from?
by AK - Jeff infor me, after decades as a witness there are quite a few i suppose.
this thread was inspired by min's thread about sex and our attitudes now as opposed to when we were witnesses.. one thing that i have never done - and it might seem somewhat trivial to many - i have never, not once, in my entire life uttered the f word.
i always found it to be utterly vulgar - and i still do.
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BecauseImBroken
I am a musician and I still feel wrong when music that's classified as heavy metal, regardless of malicious lyrics or not, comes on. Programmed into my head to hate the stuff.
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When you were a JW true believer, what were you most afraid of?
by under_believer init's been pretty well established that all religions use fear as a motivator, to some degree.
the jw's have honed this practice to a near art form.
what were you most afraid of when you were a jw?
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BecauseImBroken
2. Big time. But hey, there's no hell right? It could be worse than just that.
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Not swearing is proof of the "truth"
by pennycandy inthis was a said by my jw relative to my never-been-jw husband this weekend, during a conversation about the prevalence of swearing.. "my friend maria's husband [was unbelieving mate, now a witness] always swore like a sailor.
he said he could see jehovah's witnesses had the truth because they didn't use bad language.".
for all the reasons for believing jw's have the truth, this was a new one to me..
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BecauseImBroken
I always bumped heads with my ex-in-laws-to-be about this. As long as you're not cussing up a storm in the KH, it's a conscience issue. Just like rated R movies and whatnot. Ironically, she argued with me about how she thought it was ok to have a tattoo in an obscure place once. Just goes to prove that JW's follow things that are convenient for them to follow.
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MY DAD HAS LEFT THE ORGANIZATION!!
by freedomlover inhold on everybody....ready for this.... .
if you've been reading my posts over the past few months you'd see the research and progress my dad (a former elder) has been making.
he and my stepmom were visiting us this weekend and he told us he's done with the jw's.
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BecauseImBroken
Fill me in Freedom, what exactly changed his mind?