Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

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  When I Say----"JEHOVAH'S WITNESS"----What Do You Think Of???

  by minimus in

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  what do you associate that name with??

  what's the first thing that pops in your head?

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  How do you answer this question??

  by LuciousJ in

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  ok, i'm now da'd as many of you already know.

  it's so fresh that my stomach turns everytime the subject comes up about religion.

  however, something that does puzzle me a bit.......is how do you answer people when they ask you the question "what religion are you?

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  feeling blah - angry at the cult...

  by EyesOpened in

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  i 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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  well, we are no longer JW's and look what i got from my father!!!

  by isthisit in

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  isthisit .

  i cant believe that it has come to this, but your hand has been pushed and you had to act, for this i know that we raised you the right way.

  we love you both, and will be in boston with you on your day.

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  Newbies - Now What Do You Think?

  by Nellie in

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  being on this site is a little like having taken the forbidden fruit .

  .. joining the site, is a little like eating of the fruit .

  has your vision changed any?

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  Was you ever an attendent or had an attendent in the family?

  by jayhawk1 in

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  i got to thinking about the conventions and such today.

  here is a guy... always a guy who is in charge of a section of seating.

  his job is to get up every so often and count people.

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  I don't get it

  by lola28 in

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  i need some help in understanding something that's been bothering me for a while, please give me some insight on this.

  i often see posts here where some take shots at elders and witnesses for working as janitors and window washers, and it's always bothered me.

  i mean does it really matter what they do for a living as long as they are making a living honestly?

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  Racism: Lyman Swingle Once Said to Me. . .

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  years ago, when i was 19 and shp (single hot pioneer), living at home of course, waitressing at denny's, just living la vida loca.

  .. swingle stayed in our home for a district ass.

  after the weekend and as he was saying his goodbyes, he grabbed my face and shook me back and forth and with a wide grin on his face said, "you need to come to bethel to meet some of our bethel boys, i'm tired of these colored girls coming to bethel and taking our boys home.

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  Why I write...

  by Jerohobobonadad in

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  hello all, been lurking a few weeks, decided to post..... i am mid 20's, male, unbaptised, 3rd generation, elder family etc.

  a number of years ago, in the name of intellectual honesty, i decided to research religions to make an informed choice before being baptised as a jw.... there was not enough time (and i was too uninterested) to look at other religions seriously, so i figured if jw is the "truth" then it should be able to stand any criticism.. is it just me or is it all a load of old bollocks?!.

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  My Whole Life Seems Like A Fabrication

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  i'm brand new here but have been reading for months.

  my sincere thanks to those who have come before me, shown me that i'm not alone, that i'm not nuts and not a loser.

  i was raised a hoho, pioneered my best years away, i married a nice brother, my dad was an elder, one or of both my parents have been pioneers for 30 years+, we hosted bethel speakers and gb members in our home, my parents have had numerous circuit ass.

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