Good job Steph ! Once went to the Sherbrooke convention, worst weekend of my life EVAR ! Hours of driving to get there from the Laurentians just to abused and humiliated by more 'spiritual' members. Staying in the college dormatories sleeping in a little single bed dreaming about a younger sister that came on to me earlier..
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Watchtower and Awake in the cafeteria of my work place
by StephaneLaliberte insomeone at my workplace, i don't know who, is a jw and has been leaving magazines in the cafeteria.
any suggestion as to what i could do?
i thought of writing up a note stating: "to whoever is bringing these magazine: jw have broken up my family, please don't bring religion to work.
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JW's on my front sidewalk
by OnTheWayOut inso last weekend, the jw's ring the bell and my wife answers.
we live in a heavily spanish neighborhood but don't really speak spanish.
i thought my wife was quite clear that she is a "sister" to them, but maybe the one in charge of the group didn't get the message.
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Great post OTWO !
Had something sort of like this happen to me a few days ago : went to a JW owned restaurant for a take out and told the friend that to be honest with him I had DA'ed, am still Christian and that all the pressure and false expectation were the cause of my mental breakdown a decade ago.
Spoke about 1914 as being end of system and that McMillan author of Faith On The March stood on the Brooklyn bridge waiting to be elevated up. Then outed Rutherford's 1925 false prediction Millions Now Living Will Never Die on him followed by how he was then sure that WW2 was really it, only to die then and there. 1975 and how I have read, heard and even remember hearing as a kid from numerous sources how it all really went down, even though the 'society' says otherwise.
By this time he wasn't speaking too much, but was listening attentively.
Finally I said the generation of 1914 are now all dead and that my greatest sadness was to come to the realization that I'm growing old and will most likely die in this system, but still do believe we are living in the end times. ( he liked that ! ) Also that I was gullible and had obviously been duped.. that we all need to plan for the future regardless of what the society tells him and that I'm in the process of planning my retirement in 10 years or so. Spoke all of it in witness newspeak which is probably why he didn't shut down and kept listening.
Then wished him a nice 'vacation' ( Holiday's ) , shook his hand and left. He seemed happy. Got in my car with the takeout and didn't know if I should cheer or cry..
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Annoying jws
by Jrjw ina 'concerned' jw in my congregation rang me earlier and said she's noticed my daughter sits miserable at the meetings and said she's a right miserable girl in general.
i said she's happy and hyper when she's not at the meetings they're just really boring and she doesn't want to be there.
apparently i'm a bad parent coz she feels that way.
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Jrjw, anyone that's the least bit kind, honest, conscientious and somewhat neurotic are easy pickings for the JW narcissist spiritual bullies, aka police. Things improved for me dramatically when I started putting my foot down and having my boundaries met. Personal space and boundaries are a foreign concept to many JW's. Look it up you'll be amazed. Not saying this is you Jrjw but a decade of someone trying to get the upper hand on you is quite enough. I went through same myself with the overbearing obese 'brother' I studied with. I switched congs. a year and a half later to get away from him only to have another group of fine specimens try the same move on me in the new location. Is just how JW's are trained, always looking for someone to push down on and criticize.
PS : The fat brother is an Elvis fan, so roll over Beethoven !
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So here is my long winded story....
by GTSfromSY inthanks for the warm greetings all.
wow!
i am very moved, really.
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Thing with Jackson's 'presumptuous' statement is that he actually says " I think it would seem presumptuous of us to say that we are the only " and so on. So he gives himself away out with the work seem. I see this fact often glossed over, so technically it's still JW cover your ass speak.
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Chapter 49 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 49. cool aid anyone?.
this was of course great news for my wife.
all the talk in the congregation about who had caused our spit up was now over.
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Thanks for posting Keith good stuff
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The Seven Trumpets
by Jehovah lol inis it still watchtower dogma that the seven trumpets of revelation refer to seven conventions in the 1920s?
would many jws these days even be aware of this?
i find it so amusing that seven little conventions in the distant past, almost a century ago, could be equated with such an iconic biblical passage.
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When we studied this in 2008 I knew then and there what I had long since suspected, I got had !
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Highly unlikely IMO, good point have always questioned that teaching.
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Attractive Sisters: what are you lurkers thinking right now?
by pomo6780 indear lurkers, you won't be disappointed by this topic.
when i was in the org, there was a strict dress code.
no woman was attractive, and when i was a young witness child i was conditioned to believe every woman in the world must be ugly.
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Montreal area sisters, many are model beautiful. Usually snapped up quick by their early twenties and paired up with the best looking males. Then you get the leftovers : divorced, never married or big bossy types. Sad situation really. I could of gotten married a handful of times but the whole 'Spirtitual Routine'™ thing wore me done till there was nothing left to give. Good thing I stayed single in retrospect so I have a cat hehe..
Pomo : Yes for myself being the workaholic metal workshop owner operator being in JW was by far the one time in my life where I got the most exposure to attractive well dressed nice smelling women. The whole experience was bittersweet.
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Talking to women
by Holden Caufield ini recently asking this women out who here has problems with women after being a jw.
i still do.
i will try to talk with with women..
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My self confidence came back after being out of the cult a few years and swearing like a sailor. French Canadian Québecois is great for that calice d'hostie.
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Know any Spiritual Vampires?
by new boy inthe multimillionaire spiritual vampires from california.. i was at brother vampire’s house drinking his cheap wine when his roof was being repaired that day.
i had refereed a young newly married brother who was a roofer to fix brother vampires roof on his million dollar house.
they just had a baby and were as poor as dirt.
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JW friend used to have summer school camps for mountain biking, would basically show kids by example how to disrespect others property by riding on top of it doing stunts, disregard common courtesy and nearly set a wooded area on fire involving the fire marshal to come and intervene before things got out of hand. All denied of course, because entitlement. Yes on using fellow JW's and other 'worldlings' pro-bono. Seems to be a thing with the über JW children's ( born-in ) crowd. Got used myself by Mr. Charisma. Cear as a bell to see once you step back and look at it all going down in a detached manner. Really glad you post Keith your input here is much appreciated by us all.