I have read all 13 parts and cannot wait for the next installment! Thanks New Boy. I use to love going on Bethel tours when I was younger, lots of giving "the eye" and getting "the eye". About as much fun as a good little JW girl could have.
Mrs Smith
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My Bethel Experience part 13
by new boy inmost of us went back to bethel, thinking we wanted to make it our life long career......what better place to be right before 1975?.............that dream ended for the vast majority after just few months there, when they found out that something was very wrong.
other wise why would anyone want to leave a spiritual paradice?....
with only 2-5% staying after there 4 year commitment, and a very big percentage leaving before there time was even up.
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My Story: They called the cops on me!
by EnlightenedMind ini found this website a few days ago, and ive stayed up until 3 and 4 a.m. every night since reading the all-too-familiar stories.
i applaud you for sharing your stories and being so open and caring to others who venture onto this site.
i wish id had you 9 years ago when i was dfd.
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Mrs Smith
Thank you for sharing your story. Enjoy reading and learning all about the "truth".
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Crimewatch - LIVE at my flat! & Have you been a victim?
by Crumpet inso this is my 7th night living in my new place.
last night i was getting ready to watch crimewatch on bbc1 when i hear some strange noises out the back.
i take a look - there's two men breaking in to the flat next door but one - breaking the glass and then climbing in.. shortly after whilst i am still wondering if i really saw that - i am making a cup of tea and look out of my kitchen window and see a dubious character in a baseball cap trying car doors then stomping away and then coming back.
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Mrs Smith
Hi Crumpet
I'll try answer all your questions. Have lived in SA since I was 8 years old. Unemployment is very high here and theft seems to be directly related to the lack of employment. Also the govenment is very corupt don't know if heard about our Mr Zuma deputy president in a corruption trail, any way it seems to give the impression that crime does pay here in good old SA. The president is not pro active and denies that crime is a problem. Theft is just one issue, child rape and murders are also in the news daily. Law infocement just cannot keep up with the criminals. There's just not enough police. My hubby and I are seriously thinking of getting out. I keep on hopeing things will get better, but now I'm not sure it will. SA is really beautiful though and even with all it's problems it will be a very sad day if we decide to leave.
Mrs Smith
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Crimewatch - LIVE at my flat! & Have you been a victim?
by Crumpet inso this is my 7th night living in my new place.
last night i was getting ready to watch crimewatch on bbc1 when i hear some strange noises out the back.
i take a look - there's two men breaking in to the flat next door but one - breaking the glass and then climbing in.. shortly after whilst i am still wondering if i really saw that - i am making a cup of tea and look out of my kitchen window and see a dubious character in a baseball cap trying car doors then stomping away and then coming back.
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Mrs Smith
living in South Africa is pretty scary at the moment. Crime is really bad. My company has been broken into 6 times in the last two years. Thieves broke into our house while we were asleep, my son was very traumatised, had to take him for couselling. Both my sister in laws have been hi-jacked at gun point.
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Why Is Everything Always Wrong To A Jehovah's Witness???
by minimus innothing is ok. everything is problematic..... what if you stumble someone???--------.
let's say you want to invite someone over, you gotta worry about someone thinking your favoring this one over another.
you might be accused of having "cliques".
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Mrs Smith
I learnt very early on not tell anyone what I was getting up to. Stupid little things that should no matter like music, friends at school, movies. You just never knew when you'd break those "rules". They teach you to be very secretive, never know when someone will see you doing something wong like listening to a Queen CD or something just as dangerous. Deranged bunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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to join or not
by dontknow ini've had in the past studied a little about the bible with jws but have yet decided to be baptised.. i've just read lavenders' moving letter to her son and her love and well being for him is very obvious.
i do like the bible teachings very much and to this day i'm very interested in the end of the system of things which will very soon come to fruition; i'm a very strong believer, however i must stipulate to all, in retrospect i'm not sinless.
one of the posters says that jw's ask you to do a liitle bible study with them, attend one of their meetings and when you get baptised you have to do exactly what you are instructed or else.
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Mrs Smith
I wish I had the oppertunity to "make sure of all things" before becoming involved with the JWs. I was too young and just followed in my parents foots steps. If it doesn't feel right and there are things you cannot live with then you shouldn't get babtized.
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Starting my story...very long
by Synergy in[the watchtower, july 15, 1961 issue, page 420: .
[the watchtower, july 1, 1963 issue, page 413: .
[the watchtower, july 15, 1974 issue, page 442: .
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Mrs Smith
Thank you for sharing your story.
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Honeymoon Disfellowshippings
by dozy inone of the anomalies of the disfellowshipping process is the common situation when someone who is unscripturally divorced remarries.
in these occasions , the instruction is to always disfellowship the individual , regardless of repentance or attitude - what is referred to as a honeymoon df in elders jargon.
hence you have the (to me) bizarre situation of privately reproving a child molester , rapist or murderer one week and disfellowshipping a newly remarried middle aged sister who has been divorced for 20 years the next week.
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Mrs Smith
A couple I knew were divorced, both claimed that they had not cheated and were still alowed to get remarried. They both claimed that after two years of marriage they never had sex with each other or anyone else so the marriage was not bindng and the elders fell for that one!!!!! It would of been more believe able if they had claimed that they had not had GOOD sex for two years instead of NO sex at all. How do I know the details? My PO father in law told me.
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Calling from Africa
by lost&found inhey guys just wanted to let y'all know that i have noticed most of the emails relate to the states.... where are all those of you df'd etc etc in africa???
or were you all so brainwashed you dont even use the internet.....well we all face the same situations of terrible , judgemental, hypocrytical good for nothing co's elders etc.
i am so glad i dont have to deal with boring meetings that repeat the same old stuff day in day out....except of course when there is "new light".
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Mrs Smith
Hi Lost and Found
See I'm from Sunny SA. Africa's a big place where are you? Would love to hear about your escape from the borg. Tell us more and welcome to the forum.
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What a woman REALLY means!!
by crazyblondeb ini will be very honest and say, "i currently do all of these things"!!
) fine: this is the word women use to end an argument when they are.
right and you need to shut up.. .
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Mrs Smith
Sounds Just like me...and I thought I was special and unique.