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  Alone at new years eve again

  by Pleasuredome in

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  new years eve 1996 was the last time i enjoyed a new years eve with a girlfriend.

  even though i wasnt into celebtrating it in a major way because of the jw influence on my life, it was a really great time to be with someone i cared about.

  1997 onwards i became involved with the jws and of course i couldnt become involved with a worldly girl, so i became celebate.

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  Just think how fun it will be to put your feet up, down some brews, turn on the telly to UK Gold and watch all those Only Fools and Horses reruns! Who needs anything more??? :) Diana
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  Do you really need liquor at a wedding reception?

  by ronin1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is in response to the post on december 10, : "a wedding gone bad"-.

  the question: do you really need liquor at a wedding reception?.

  here is my story:.

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  All I know is that if I ever get married for the second time I'd better be bloody bladdered this time around Diana
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  Any exJWs in Westchester County?

  by HomebutHiding in

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  2. experiences

  that's all...just want to know if i am alone in this neck of the woods.

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  I am in Lancaster County at the moment but grew up in North Jersey....

  Neon, where in North Jersey are you from...I am from Sussex County.

  Di
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  Do you feel alienated from your JW family?

  by dins in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a general query as today i am feeling, as most sundays, like i want to move to the moon and get away from my jw family...ie, mother and father.

  for years i lived abroad and didn't really think about it much, but now that i am back and in the area, just the very thought of spending too many minutes in their company makes me want to pack up and move away again.

  it's been several years since i left home and the jw organization.

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  Thank you to everyone who read this post and gave me advice. I never realised how many of us actually feel the same way, but after thinking about it and reading the posts I have decided to make a few changes for my sake and my son's sake...thank you all. Your're all ace!
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  Do you feel alienated from your JW family?

  by dins in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a general query as today i am feeling, as most sundays, like i want to move to the moon and get away from my jw family...ie, mother and father.

  for years i lived abroad and didn't really think about it much, but now that i am back and in the area, just the very thought of spending too many minutes in their company makes me want to pack up and move away again.

  it's been several years since i left home and the jw organization.

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  Just a general query as today I am feeling, as most Sundays, like I want to move to the moon and get away from my JW family...ie, mother and father. For years I lived abroad and didn't really think about it much, but now that I am back and in the area, just the very thought of spending too many minutes in their company makes me want to pack up and move away again. It's been several years since I left home and the JW organization. My parents were never really that strong when it came to the religion and I saw a lot of hyprocisy with them and with the other members in the congregation, and I still see it and it is driving me mad. I cannot bear to sit through one of my father's "blah-blah-help us not be this and that thank you for this and that" prayers when he is the biggest hypocrite I've had the misfortune to encounter, and my mother's "I've got to stay with him because of the truth" routine when she really can't bear to look at him either and oftentimes admits it.

  So what do I do? I have been avoiding their house like the plague for two years now, always finding some excuse, but feel it's rather academic since they know how I feel and the excuses are running out. But every time I walk into the house, the old pain returns, and it's like I am a child again and my father's many abusive overtures toward us children resurfaces....does anyone feel this way? I am feeling so guilty like an awful daughter, but no matter how hard I try and even with the help of Prozac, I still feel the same way. Does anyone have any advice (other than moving to outer Mongolia since I have considered this!!) Am I being awful and selfish???

  Diana
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  What Do You Like to Collect

  by Kenneson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over the years i have had several collections, ranging from louisiana bottles, (this collection was stolen); books relating to la.

  which i donated to a library; books by or about jws, which i gave to another library; a stamp collection, which is at my sister's house.

  my florida related stamps are now on exhibit at the state library of florida.

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  There is a rumour...

  by caballoSentado in

  1. jw
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  hi friends,.

  i need confirmation about a rumour i keep hearing about in my country.

  several jw's who know about the wt-un affair are saying that in usa the wt is having the elders in the congregations give a speech accepting the blame for this scandal & asking for forgiveness or something similar.

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  So if the UN is so bad, what makes the UN library okay? I believe the knew exactly what they were doing and their attitude was let's just dis the UN in our literature and use their library. No one will ever put two and two together! They'll never apologize for anything since they're always right!
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  Things said on stage that made you laugh

  by LyinEyes in

  1. social
  2. humour

  there was an elder at our hall ,when he would call on someone , he would help the brother with the mic to find the person.

  he did this by saying: " sister little in the front"....hehehhe ,, of course being bored to death, this always cracked several us of rowdy back seat sitters up.. here are more examples from our old hall.

  sister key , in the rear.

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  My sister..(bless her) was never the brightest bulb on the tree back then. She read the scripture, I think it was in Psalms ,where it says the stars would do something in applause, and she said applesauce. I laughed so hard that my mother made me go to the back...

  But most of the things said at the hall were by people who thought they were informed and intelligent and most of the time it was just rubbish.
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  Is it possible to fall out of love....and married?

  by Lost Diamond in

  1. social
  2. family

  i would like to know what your opinions are and i would really appreciate some input.. i have been re-married for two years, but along the way there has been some deep hurts, although no infidelity.

  he claims that he loves me, but i do not feel the same way for him as i once did.

  i was married to a verbally abusive husband for 11 yrs, and i'm wondering if maybe i just wasn't ready to remarry so soon, and the hurt my current husband has caused has rubbed some old wounds alittle too often.. he has done some emotionally hurtful things to me in which i don't really care to go further on right now, and this has caused me to distant myself from him.

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  Diamond,

  Simply put, yes. I think the question is more like, did you ever really love him to begin with?

  I met my ex-husband at 23; got pregnant and moved to the UK, where I stayed, in the UK and in a marriage that I soon realised was not what it should be. My ex is one of the kindest people I know; he was an excellent husband in most respects and an excellent father (still is.) But I never really loved him. Oh, I tried. I tried counseling and more counseling; ran the gamut of antidepressants and sleep aids, and tried to make my guilt at not loving this man go away by keeping busy and acquiring material possessions thinking that would make me better. But in the end, I could not push these thoughts away any further. I was literally a walking medicated misery. Terrible wife, impatient mother and just all round depressing to be around.

  I came to the conclusion three years ago when I turned 30 that I had to do something. I wasn't making him happy, I was sure of that. So I left. It was the most difficult decision I have ever had to make, since there is a child invovled, but I had to do it for myself because I was on a definite path of destruction.

  Now here I sit and I am the happiest I have ever been. It's been a long road, but things have a way of working out. My ex has moved on and has found somebody that he truly deserves to make him happy. I am just content being on my own for now and am not looking to settle down soon.

  My story is just one of many. Everyone here has something to say; some piece of advice to offer you, but the decision ultimately has to come from your heart. Our society seems so down on people who strive to be happy, often labeling them as self-centered. I know this; I have this label branded on me by many. But those are people who have not lived my life.

  Good luck to you in whatever you decide. Obviously you have given this much thought and I am confident that you will make the right decision for yourself at the end of the day. Who knows, this existence may be all there is.

  Drop me a line if you would like to chat more.

  Diana
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  What org rules were stupid to you?

  by MARTINLEYSHON in

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  2. friends

  when i was in the truth i thought that the most ludicrous and petty ruling they ever introduced and still practiced is that congregation book study conductors were and are responsible for collecting every group members report.

  surely every member ought to be responsible for his/her own actions.

  at the beginning of the following month and certainly before the 5th i would always receive the stupid telephone call from the secretary are you aware that 3 publishers havent reported?

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  Definition of a Tootsie Roll: A small, round, tubular shaped sweet, flavoured with chocolate and some sort of other flavours that don't resemble chocolate but when you're bored at the meeting, you'll eat anything!!

  Just got off the phone with my sister and she said that the reason we were told not to eat these lovely delicacies was because they had BLOOD in them! I suppose that's why I probably prefer the dark now!!

  Diana