Thanks everybody! I'm so glad you like it, too! I also love how it kinda looks like Brooklyn in the background. Bethel is burning! Betterdaze, I'll try to find a good excerpt and post it, sure! I'm in the process of making a website for the book, too. - Kyria
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The cover art for my new JW memoir!
by klydia inhey all, .
my memoir about growing up as a jehovah's witness is being released by touchstone in march '09 and wanted to share the news with the ex-jw community.
it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed - tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing.
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Is there any one thing you DID like about the witnesses?
by dobbie inok so obviously there's more bad than good(slight understatement i know!
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just wondering cos i asked myself that question and the only thing i can think of (and it seems a bit materialistic to me lol) is that i could dress up in nice clothes and see men in suits!
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I miss not knowing the answer to EVERYTHING. Of course, it's more *satisfying* to mature and understand that you don't know everything and that's part of the process of life, but it's never as comfortable as the immaturity of being a snotty little know-it-all. :)
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The cover art for my new JW memoir!
by klydia inhey all, .
my memoir about growing up as a jehovah's witness is being released by touchstone in march '09 and wanted to share the news with the ex-jw community.
it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed - tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing.
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Hey all,
My memoir about growing up as a Jehovah's Witness is being released by Touchstone in March '09 and wanted to share the news with the ex-JW community.
It's called "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed - Tales From A Jehovah's Witness Upbringing."
I just got the cover art for it, and I think it's hilarious.
I took one look at the "wicked" running from fireballs and thought: "Score! Ex-JWs are going to *get* this!"
The design itself was out of my hands, but I did scan a bunch of pages from the Live Forever book and sent it to the publisher.
I think they were clearly inspired! What do you think?
- Kyria
(Also, you can pre-order it on Amazon.com, but the cover art isn't up there yet, and it's not available until March). -
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Last night at "Worlds Apart"
by klydia inhi everyone, i met a bunch of people from the 'ex-jw meetup' at the screening of world's apart last night.
i just wanted to say again how amazing it was to see you there and to talk to you after the movie.
i've been "disfellowshipped" for 10 years, but i don't think i've ever really talked to any ex-jw's in depth like that.
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Hi everyone,
I met a bunch of people from the 'Ex-JW Meetup' at the screening of World's Apart last night. I just wanted to say again how amazing it was to see you there and to talk to you after the movie.
I've been "disfellowshipped" for 10 years, but I don't think I've ever really talked to any ex-JW's in depth like that. It was a very moving experience. There are some things that no one else can understand unless you were in it, and it meant a lot to me to be able to talk to someone about it after the film ended.
I knew there was something special going on in the audience, because the woman behind me was crying in a way that no ordinary filmgoer would cry unless they, too, had been shunned by their family. At several points, I had to put my head on my boyfriend's shoulder and weep. It was very hard to watch, even after all these years. Mostly, I think, because the rest of the non-cult raised audience seemed horrified and enraptured by the story... and yet, really, it's ALL of our stories. For the first time I felt like people really cared.
Anyway, thank you for being there, even though it was a coincidence :)
- Kyria
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Message I got on myspace from a JW
by crazyblondeb ini got the following message from someone i used to know, on myspace.
he lived down the road from my family.
he's still a jw.
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"All the kids I was kept from hanging out with are now dead, drug addicts or losers who cheat on their spouses and convince themselves they are a great person, yeah, I missed out alright." Really? ALL of them? EVERY kid he knew is now a drug addict? Wow, Satan sure is everywhere! The kids I wasn't allowed to hang out with are now, well... people with careers and families and lives. Most of them are doing quite well since they were allowed to go to college, unlike me. So incredibly brainwashed.
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Do you remember giving talks?
by klydia ini'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.
i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?
did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?
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By the way, my boyfriend and I are currently losing it over "beast fed." Would that make the UN the Wild Breast?
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Do you remember giving talks?
by klydia ini'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.
i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?
did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?
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Wow, what an amazing set of replies! Thank you all for sharing (not that it was just for me, of course...)! I completely forgot that they used to notice your gestures. What a great memory! I now remember marking my index cards as to where I would "gesture" and then awkwardly waving my hand in the air. It must have looked ridiculous. And, of course, there were those sisters that would never get together to practice with you. But I also remember being paired with an elders wife and really thinking that this was my big chance to impress them. Plus, I knew that everyone would really be watching. I love that the sisters couldn't dare to "teach" men (egads! a woman has nothing to teach a man!) so we had to pretend to be teaching each other. What idiocy. How sad that they have an accepted list of situations now. I remember my first talk in 1982 (I was eight) and I was at an ice cream parlor with an older sister. As if poor Witness kids don't have enough pain in their lives, they can't even pretend to be eating ice cream on stage anymore!
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Do you remember giving talks?
by klydia ini'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.
i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?
did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?
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Hi everyone, I'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk. I remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip? Did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on? I'm also trying to recall what marks you could get for your talk. I think it was either "good" or "needs improvement" but people very rarely got anything other than "good"! It's amazing how much I've forgotten! :)
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How many JWs are there worldwide?
by klydia insorry, i'm having a hard time finding this information!
do they still print it on the back of their literature?
thanks for you help :)
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Thanks for the stats, I appreciate it! I know that when I was a JW, I totally lied (ehem, "exaggerated") on my service reports. So I wouldn't believe any of those service numbers. I was baptized at age 16. Older than 9, but still had no idea what I was doing :)
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How many JWs are there worldwide?
by klydia insorry, i'm having a hard time finding this information!
do they still print it on the back of their literature?
thanks for you help :)
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Sorry, I'm having a hard time finding this information! Do they still print it on the back of their literature? Thanks for you help :) - K
