Topics Started by DesertRat

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What movie makes you cry?
by MsMcDucket in
1. social
2. entertainment
everytime, i watch the movie "a time to kill", i cry.

that movie gives me chill bumps!

that's one of the reasons why i love *************(dang!
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Panic attacks and Jehovahs Witness!
by Gill in
1. jw
2. experiences
how many of you had panic attacks when you were a jw and when leaving?

i know of many jw women and a few men who suffered badly with panic attacks.

since recently having another spate of panic attacks i suddenly realised that i had been having them all my life.
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EUREKA
by DesertRat in
1. jw
2. friends
just a quick message to thank everybody for the outpouring of support in response to my very first post on this site.

i came here only expecting one or two replies at most, and could not possibly have anticipated so much more.

the encouragement i have found meant more to me than the final two or three years of indifference and unconcern encountered among my so-called 'brothers' at the kingdom hall.. i shared this experience with my therapist on wednesday and could not stop crying as i explained to her just what it means to be a jw 'castaway' (rootless and seemingly without a friend in the world) who has found hope and understanding in an online community of people who seem to have been there all along--through the same long years of deceit, hypocrisy, anguish and alienation from the world around.
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A little of my story; by request
by Fleur in
1. jw
2. experiences
i wrote this years ago now...and i will add an update to the end.. essie.

i believe it was about five years ago i wrote that.

there is no name on it so i don't know who wrote it.
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Which Event Made You Think That Armageddon Was Around The Corner?
by Arthur in
1. jw
2. experiences
i realize that this topic has been discussed at length, but since i'm new to this site, i wanted to pose the question again.

i ask this question because of the wide range in ages of all of you on this site.

but what about those who had already left the organization before 2001?
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Post your JW demon stories
by M.J. in
1. jw
2. experiences
it seems that for jws, the demon thing is one of the few "eyewitness" confirmations of what the wts says.

there seems to be such an atmosphere of confirming testimonials that the jws relate back and forth to each other...but are they factual accounts or simply recycled "urban legends"?.

interestingly, the most dramatic demon stories are nearly always something that happened to someone else.. why is it that jws have seen more "demons" than anyone i've ever known in my life?
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Lonely newbie who is glad to be here
by DesertRat in
1. jw
2. friends
i was directed to this site by a very kind ex-witness who runs a christian ministry in california.

there are no words to express how thankful i am to be here.. here is what i hope (key word) will be an abbreviated version of my story: i am 35 years old, single, the only child of jw parents who had already spent over ten years in various watchtower capacities (two of those years as gilead missionaries in guatemala) before i was born.

my father was diagnosed with brain cancer when i was 11 and finally succumbed, after a valiant fight, when i was 14. among the first doubts or questions i remember having was how a god of 'love' could just passively ignore the persecution (malawi!!!
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New Here Sorta
by Jolinar in
1. jw
2. friends
i stumbled across this site last august and created an account but a series of events led me to run away (i can post the story if you like) and i have been moving around a bit until i finally got settled some.

along the way due to my mother's sheltering i had some bad experience because i didn't know as much about the real world as i should have.

i ingested as i have before a psychoactive one night and a surge of memories came rushing back to me of my childhood and a massive handfull of them were tied to the time i was made to endure going to the kingdom hall and socializing with many members outside of.
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What songs got you through good or tough times?
by jojochan in
1. jw
2. experiences
i've been in an upbeat mood lately.

i don't know if it's all the exercise that i'm doing or what but i've not been moody all 3 weeks.one thing that i've noticed, is that i've listened to certain songs that made me forget about "her" and move on with bigger and better things.

when i was depressed i listened to some songs from tool, some from the cure, barbra manning, the old babyface songs,some from sade, sweetback, and maxwell and everything but the girl.
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Where are you on the map? New Maps
by Lady Lee in
1. jw
2. friends
ok there are so many americans on the map now i had to split you all in half.. valis was kind enough to let me place the maps on his website until i found a new home for them.. photobucket seems to be a good option - at least for now.

so i have uploaded the new maps which have been updated to include everyone who has asked.. so if you were wondering where we are from.

or how close you are to other jwd posters in your area just take a look.