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Have you ever read ex-JW fiction?
by apostawriter in.
if so, what did you think?
if not, was there a particular reason why?
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feeling blah - angry at the cult...
by EyesOpened ini posted awhile back, been "lurking" pretty much daily over the past months and from reading everyone's posts - i actually have gotten to know some of you... sort of... if you read my profile you will know i was a lifer, pretty much knee deep in the 'borg (picking up the slang.... i stopped cold turkey last fall - didn't go to memorial, special assembly day, district convention, circuit assembly... no field service in almost a year... these are all firsts... and i am 40 years old.... guess what, i have ignored phone calls, messages from the cong elders, everyone was panic'd for the first 3 months or so... then it all stopped... no calls... they have written me off i guess... of course it has helped that i moved 45 minutes south of my congo, back to my home town - where everyone in the congs around here know me... the rumor mill has told them something is up, but since i'm not df or da, they don't know how to act - so they just ignore me.... i just need to vent abit - feeling down lately because of the things i have learned - feeling betrayed by my parents for joining such a cult.
blaming jw's for ruining my sister's lives, blaming jw's for wasting my life... i want to go to a meeting and yell during the public talk about how foolish everyone is for belonging to this cult... .
it seems i have accepted the loss all of my conditional friends - hundreds of them in central indiana... i see them at the mall, at restaurants and they look right past me... kinda funny now, but it still hurts when my former friends - even the best man at my wedding - refuses to talk to me or even call to ask what is going on and why i stopped... i am invisible.
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Going to NYC Tomorrow - Any Suggestions What to See, Hear, Eat - Cheap?
by Seeker4 inlori and i are headed to nyc tomorrow, and we'll be there 'til thursday.
we'll also have limited funds (ie: don't suggest a broadway show!
any specific suggestions on good, inexpensive things to do, places to see, music, art, food?
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XJW Novel could get you DF'd
by apostawriter inhi everybody, i've written one of the first works of fiction ever published about a gay jehovah's witness...do forgive me for bending posting guideline #6, as i should probably share this with you.
if youre a jay-dub, reading tattoo this madness in could get you disfellowshipped.
you would, however, be in fine company.. .
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Get Your Smurf Name!
by apostawriter in.
be sure to share it with us... visit www.dfmenow.blogspot.com and scroll down to the smurf picture.. daniel (odoriferous smurf).
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My mom calls to chew me out about my college... YIKES!!!
by FreedomFrog inso, i was happy and celebrating because of getting good grades in my courses, well i get a call from my mom.
at first the phone call was just "hi, how are you" then she laid into me saying my "problem" (meaning my divorce) was because i was putting my education first and not jah.
she goes on to tell me that the "talk today" was about people murmuring as israelites and bad things happened to them.
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Poor Witnesses
by KW13 in.
my mum managed to secure a reasonable paying job, it asked that she worked basically full time till the new year because the place has just opened but it would give her a pension (instead of trying to live off a small state pension) when she is older, and there are a few nice 'perks' including staff discounts.. well, despite her managing to get the job while many failed to secure a position, and managing to get through the different interviews and processes she will now drop the job, before she even does the training, yet alone starting it because the wife of an elder on the phone convinced her to take up her daughters 'ironing round' and also give herself more free time, for jehoover things - although she mentioned my mums health and asked if she had energy to do that.. anyway, while i was sat next to mum she said "yeh, i can't see this system lasting much longer" - a stupid gambol i think, its all based on chance.. i shouted at her after, i said why are you doing this?
you need to secure your future, because you don't know what might go wrong with this ironing round thingy and its going to mean travelling to peoples homes, you may lose customers and not gain them, and then i asked how long she's known about 'the witnesses' and we worked out, that since 1985 to now, she came from being disfellowshipped in 1996, meaning for at least 10 years she has been waiting for this end of the system...a long time eh?.
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What is the JW View of Clowning :o)??
by Seeker4 in(i threw this into the "jw view of cloning" thread yesterday, and thought maybe a few would like to have some fun with it so i gave it its own thread.
there was this comment in a letter to the body of elders about clowning in march 2003:
"as to the matter of clowning, we can see from phil.
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What are you reading - Summer 2006?
by eyeslice inalways a popular thread the what are you reading at the moment thread?.
my favourite reads for the summer of 2006:.
the history of love by nicole krauss.
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What 5 qualities make good Ex-Jw's?
by apostawriter in.
looking for personality adjectives here.
it's a chance to give yourself some love (or criticism).... daniel www.dfmenow.blogspot.com