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  For those raised as Witnesses ... What was your personal crossroad?

  by The wanderer in

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  untitled document <!-- .style1 {font-family: verdana} .style3 {font-family: verdana; color: #0000ff; } --> the crossroads in life there will be many times in which an individual.

  will come to a fork in the road or to a crossroad.

  question is?which road will he or she take?.

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  1.) How long did it take you to decide to leave the organization
  once you knew it was no longer the "truth" ?

  I left the org because of how my husband treated me and how the Elders dealt with it - I could just not tollerate it. As I could not live with my husband, leaving him would mean going against Jehovah so I had no choice to leave.

  It took about 10 years for me to realise it was not the truth and another couple of years to realise it is a cult
  
  2.) How much harder of an influence was it to weigh the decisions
  on leaving, realizing you had family and friends in the organization ?

  This is the whole reason it makes leaving so difficult, it was probably the most difficult, heart breaking decision of my life
  
  3.) If you had to do everything all over again would you have done
  things differently or exactly the same ?

  I would never had got baptised, I would have saved every penny so I could have left home at 16 and given myself a better chance. I would not have married JW. If I had the opportunity to do everything again I would do it totally differently, I would have questioned every single thing at every single bible study I would have given them hell and I would have shut my ears at all the meeting to try and prevent the brain washing. Isn't that what experience is all about? Why would you do things the same if you know the outcome?

  Nice questions though
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  Life in the new system... Ask your questions here....

  by JH in

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  will there be any industries, with people working midnight to eight?.

  will money still exist?.

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  will people be resurrected at the place they died? what if their family have moved away - how would they find them?

  would people have to stay in one place? would there be air travel - would people be told where to reside

  what about when people become perfect, would they be able to create perfect machines that don't break down and would there be perfect inventions?

  what about all those resurrected - has anyone done the maths, every single person that died resurrected how many people is that exactly, where would they all go, would they be resurrected in stages and say 70% of JWs made it thru how many of the resurrected will they need to preach to during the 1000 years to get thru them all. I think its about two or three a month but then again havent they got a bit of clearing up to do at the same time?
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  Say hello to my brother

  by solo in

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  i'd like to say hello to my brother, he's going to be lurking here tonight.. i've been encouraging him to find out about the history of jws and he's been on the internet finding out a few things.

  he is as shocked as i was when i found out things about a religion we were brought up in.

  he left a little before me in 1986 i think but unlike me wasn't baptized so his exit was a bit different to mine.. we've been chatting on the fone tonight about how different we might have been if it were not for our upbringing.

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  I'd like to say hello to my brother, he's going to be lurking here tonight.

  I've been encouraging him to find out about the history of JWs and he's been on the internet finding out a few things. He is as shocked as I was when I found out things about a religion we were brought up in. He left a little before me in 1986 I think but unlike me wasn't baptized so his exit was a bit different to mine.

  We've been chatting on the fone tonight about how different we might have been if it were not for our upbringing. We wonder if we would have had different characters and therefore much different lives. The constant moving schools and bullying, lack of education had such a negitive effect on us that we still discuss it at length.

  Anyway, say hi to my brother
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  Almost got caught by mom

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  this time it wasn't coffee liquour.. i sat by her...stupid idea...she asked a question...i laughed uncontrolably...she asked if i was drunk...i sobered up quick unlike mel gibson..."of course not"...she said she will take me to the elders since jehovah does not accept drunkenness.

  cool..i'll take drunkeness over apostasy any idea (edit: day) ... i drink to that!

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  I thought this was another masturbation thread...............

  ha ha, that's what I thought - I wondered if it was a "danger w*nk" as explained on Graham Norton!

  Although my brother did manage to get my Dad drunk when he was visiting him (without controlling mother) he had a jolly good night!

  Elders getting drunk, hell, how about the CO's and DO's with their wives. I used to have them stay with us and they got soooooooooo drunk. But I have to say, they could get up and preach such a good lecture the next morning.

  maybe the drink helped, I don't recall hearing a good lecture at the KH
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  Which biblical names do you find cool?

  by JH in

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  which biblical names do you like, and maybe you'd name your child that way?.

  i like this one: bathsheba.

  oh, here are a few to choose from .

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  biblical names but not really cool, these particularly evil JW parents named their kids Jothum and Jerusha, poor sods they must be in their 20s now - I wonder if they changed their names by deed poll. If you are here you have my sympathy
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  Who else has trouble making friends?

  by new light in

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  haven't posted here in a while, but i"ve been out now almost three years.

  just looking to hear from others who have had trouble making friends due to a childhood of jw antisocialism toward the real world.

  it's really starting to piss me off that i still keep people at a distance and do things to nip any new friendships at the bud when it gets that far.

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  jwfacts I can relate to that completely. I was a fish out of water, I felt a complete fraud because I had no idea what people were talking about, having not had a TV for 10 years and been completely protected from anything and everything. It felt so naughtly to be listening to conversations, even trying to join in - my shyness didn't help. I didn't even swear - I hadn't a clue how to. I had no knowledge of films, movie stars, TV, sex, socialising - I'd never even been tipsy and I was not used to the way people talked and the expressions they used. It was such a shock to the system.

  I was distant which others interpreted as aloof, I was worried about joining in because I didn't want to look a total fool and show myself up. I became defensive and agressive and untrusting of people.

  It took a few years for me to get clued up on things, trust people and be able to join in comfortably without worrying that people could see JW tattooed on my head. I would not mention that cult to anyone, it was my dirty secret and still is to some extent.
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  Can't live with...Can't live without....

  by JWFreak in

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  ok i am just a newbie.

  but when your eyes are opened to lies that you believed you whole life...40 years and more.... it makes you angry, sick to the stomach and empty.

  everyone i know....i mean everyone is a witness....what a mess i am in.. .

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  Everyone I know....I mean everyone is a witness....What a mess I am in..
  
  but isn't just this part of their way of keeping you in, they control who you associate with so that you think twice about leaving because you just do not know anyone else, you have no allies, friends or anyone you can talk to outside the JWs org. Most people need people and shy away from heading out on their own.

  that is exactly the dilema I was faced with, I walked away from my whole family and everyone I knew - but you would be surprised how quickly you make new friends and acquaintences. I have more friends than I have time for now, there are so many genuinly nice "normal" people in the wordly world which is a whole lot better than the fake friends who are forced together in the land of dubs
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  To all you Britts

  by sunshineToo in

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  i keep hearing foods in london are terrible.

  how bad can it be?

  well, i saw a british cooking show, and they were making egg pudding with anchovie.

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  the cats get a liver shake when i drain it.

  that is so hilariously revolting!

  anyone heard of biscuits and gravy? It was on the breakfast buffet at some place in Arizona - what it actually turned out to be was scones (biscuits) and thickened pig fat (gravy) apparently you put the scones into a bowl, pour over the pigs swill and mush it all up together, lovely jubbly - I bet the cats would eat it too!
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  OMG Have you ever taken a keyboard apart to clean it?

  by Lady Lee in

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  i did this years ago and it was so gross i didn't want to do it again.

  and each key came out separately - a real pain when you wanted to put it all back together.

  my good ergonomic keyboard wouldn't put in spaces so typing was a pain.

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  I had to copy a space and add it after every word I typed

  my goodness you have some sort of patience! I think I would have thrown the thing out of the window at that point!

  Once in a while I turn it upside down and give it a few hard raps against the table. I sweep up the crumbs and toss them.

  you mean you don't make a tasty meal out of it all? I too have done this, usually to work keyboards after a string of poeple have used the pc. It can take several minutes of whacking upside down, then side to side then back up the right way then upside down again to get all the food, hair, dead skin, nose picking, etc out. Then a sterile wipe or 20 later it might even be fit to use.
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  To all you Britts

  by sunshineToo in

  1. jw
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  i keep hearing foods in london are terrible.

  how bad can it be?

  well, i saw a british cooking show, and they were making egg pudding with anchovie.

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  I thought it was the illegal immigrants that ate the swans? Don't they take their nets and BBQs to Hyde Park?

  cheese and pickle sarnie for lunch (if you are common it's dinner), very fresh white bread, butter not marg and it has to be branstons and some nice strong crumby cheddar

  indian take out (delivery cos we are lazy) for tea (which if you are posh is dinner) until we can eat no more