I said Oh no I couldn't they are really bad. I asked him if he knew what News stood for. No I don't he said. Well I heard it means Nights Entwined With Satan.
Now thats damn funny
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What kind of Witness were you?
by EmptyInside inthere always seemed to be some witnesses who seemed to be in it for the social aspect of it.
the ones who planned most of the gatherings and trips.
and the ones who got invited to the parties two states away.
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Another newbie... so to speak
by joeblow inhey... how's everyone?.
i'm a new guy here... so a bit about me.. i was raised as a jw.
my parents started studying when i was a baby, so it's all i knew growing up.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
Welcome!
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Rated R Movies?
by NikL inbeen wondering if the jw's are still told to not see them.
seems like i haven't seen or heard anything like that in a few years.. .
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aSphereisnotaCircle
I once overheard an elder say that R rated movies did not effect him, he could "handle it".
The two other elders he was talking to agreed with him.
I decided right then and there that i could "handle" R rated movies too.
So yeah, it's a regional thing.
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Immunizations?
by crazy2try ini have a question.
today at work a woman was saying that she was upset because the foster mother of her children had taken the children to the dr and they received their immunization shots.
she told a co-worker that she was mad because they did not respect her beliefs.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
My siblings and i were born between the late 1050's to the early 1970's, none of us were vacinated.
While still a dub I had 2 children in the early 1980's and neither were vacinated.
In my family, doctors were considered evil, and vacinations were counter productive to your health.
However, i found that most JW's had no problem with vacinations, our family was not the norm.
After I exited one of my children wanted to go on a foreing exchange program to a very far away country.
She had to get all the shots she missed growing up, it took 2 or 3 doctors visits getting up to 6 shots at a time.
yeah, I felt like a lousy parent.
My last child is current on all her shots.
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JW's a RELIGION based on PERFORMANCE! How dangerous is that???
by freewilly01 ini have come to realize that this religion is based almost solely on performance and that is the most dangerous.. i always felt that as a person or jw (while an active witness)that i was always just as good as my last assignment, comment at the watchtower meeting, feild service report.. this left me with a huge identity crisis in the borgorg......... i really didn't know who the hell i was?.
did any of you feel similair?
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aSphereisnotaCircle
I was close to 30 and got one of those emails your friends send. saying what is your favorate color and blah blah. so you can learn about your friends. I looked at the list and started crying, I had no idea what the answers was to any of the questions. All those years of doing as I was told and not thinking for myself left a big gaping hole.
I had a similar experience, it was stunning to find out I knew nothing about myself.
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When a JW repeat himself, what does that signify?
by bohm inmy girlfriend is visiting her family for the first time in a couple of months.
she is showing great progress in how she interact with her parents; she is intuiatively using the counter mind-control things from hassans book, i am so proud of the little bugger.. however, her parents are a really hard case, and today it was her dad who was particular strange.
he seem to have an odd tendency to go into completely closed body language (crossed arms), become super formal and repeat himself again and again when they talk; especially the last part seem to be a reaction to my girlfriend showing emotions and affection towards him, for example saying she just want them to be proud of her and be a larger part of her life.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
I have heard this sort of reaction (repetition of phrases) described before here
When he does that he is in full cult mode, his mind is shut, whatever you say will be bouncing off a teflon steel door.
BTW, the society teaches it's rank and file to use repitition for emphasis.
However repetition is used by all cults as a mind control technique.
Repeat after me, I beleive, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe,
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Child access mediation went pretty good...they miss more meetings
by Aussie Oz inwell, some of you may know i have been battling the ex since late last year for better access to the children.. after calling her bluff and actualy getting a lawyer, we had to go to mediation before it could progress to court.. appointment one was postphoned by her so she could get better prepared.
the session was a total failure with her wanting me to see them less and drive 8 hours over 2 days for visits.
(we are 2 hours apart).
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aSphereisnotaCircle
That's awesome Aussie, congratulations!
How do your kids feel about missing meetings?
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First Time that I Didn't Go to the Memorial - Now Depressed
by daniel-p inso this was the very first time in my whole life that i didn't go to the memorial.
my wife went, and she was sullen before and after... i know she wanted me to go.
i told her afterwards that if she wants me to go next year i would, but she didn't say anything.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
I remember the first memorial that I missed.
It was a very strange evening, very mixed emotions. This was somthing that had meant a great deal to me in the past. Now it meant nothing, there is a feeling of loss, even if it is all a lie.
That first year was the only time it bothered me though, by the next year i didn't even know, or care wich night it was on.
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Oh Those terrible horrible, no good, very bad wordly people !!
by man in black insaw this in the chicago tribune today, thought some of you might enjoy it.. put a lot of those jw "worldy people".
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/ct-news-hageman-fire-20100327,0,5478590.story.
chicagotribune.comaurora house fire restores faith in peopleit took a house fire to make reporter william hageman see the good in peopleby william hageman, tribune reporter.
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aSphereisnotaCircle
I saw a similar event take place when a witness family i knew lost everything they owned in a fire.
The out pouring of love and concern from complete strangers (all wordly) was incredible.