I was talking to the only person I consider my friend in the hall, and we were eating at some fast food place and I expressed some of my doubts (I'm still active in good standing) to him. He didn't rat me out, and I think I got him to doubt the JWs too. Anyway, back to your post, it sounds like the cong. you described is what all JW cong. should've been. Too bad that the loving congregations are the exception rather than the norm.
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Blessing and reassurance - sort of ..........
by TheOldHippie insome ten years ago, i was on a business trip in germany and visited a congregation in frankfurt a.m. a very lively one, comments from the audience, small bags with candy being passed along, very friendly people, just the way you would like a congregation to be.
people massed up to greet me after the meeting; then sort of "floating" towards me, the other ones giving room for her, comes a very small, fagile, old woman, and she had this sort of radiance around her, shining - and i am not joking, neither was i stoned, i was just experiencing depressions and generally a hard and tough period of my life - anyway, she comes up to me, quietly bends my head down towards her, kisses my forehead and says, "my son", looks at me with her shining eyes - and disappears in the crowd.
"she is one of the remnant", says the one next in line to greet me.. i felt blessed somehow, as if she had "read me" and then told me that "it's all going to be ok, you are ok, just stick to the course and abide in jesus, and things will turn out just fine".
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Yeah, that's true. I need a place that's a little grimy. Do you CA people meet up every now and then?
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by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
That's the one that's split, right? My dad had a talk there when he was an MS a couple years back. Thousand Oaks/Conejo Valley is nice but I feel out of place with all the green around; I'm too used to L.A., I guess.
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by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Do you like it?
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by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
sirnose: North of LA. I can get to LA in half an hour or so. audesapere: Ventura County? I think the furthest out I've gone there is Oxnard.
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by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Who here is in CA? I'm in southern CA, and that's all I'm willing to reveal for now.
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Thanksgiving just around the corner
by Little Bo Peep ini think most posters here, being exjw's probably celebrate thanksgiving.
even loyal jw's actually do, even though they are careful to tell anyone seeing that big turkey with all the fixins, "we aren't really celebrating thanksgiving, but everyone could get together today".
that is what i remember saying.
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Chameleon
I wasn't born into the "truth," but when my parents stopped the celebrations, Thanksgiving was the holiday I missed the least. Maybe 'cause the turkey was always dry. =p
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-22-06 WT Study (TONGUE)
by blondie in"let each one of you individually so love his wife as he does himself; on the other hand, the wife should have deep respect for her husband.
1) suppose you received a gift-wrapped package with a label that read: "handle with care.
handle with care.
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Chameleon
Good points. Ugh, I'm the reader today. Patience will make my freedom that much sweeter.
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Did you go to your prom?
by free2beme inmy last post doubled up and i ended up seeing it twice, when it should have been once.
so i though i would just edit it and make it into another topic related to high school.
prom!
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Chameleon
No. Why? Not because I was a JW, but, well, I posted my reason on the other thread you made. Plus, the money spent on prom could've bought me a handful of CDs, videogames, a new tv, etc.
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Did you like your High School years?
by free2beme inrecently i got a e-mail on my myspace account from someone i went to high school with.
of all 400 people in my graduating class, i keep in touch with one and it is maybe a e-mail or christmas card once a year.
i was a very shy person in high school, graduated in 1989, a mix between a person wanting to be a witness and someone wanting to have some worldly fun.
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Chameleon
I hated high school, not because I was a JW (No one ever found out I was a dub, and I didn't care to tell them), but because it was boring. I'd listen to my death metal CDs and get people to leave me alone. I don't hate being around people, but I saw through the bs that high school was, so I didn't care to know people that were acting like something they weren't just to fit in with some clique. I graduated three years ago, and at graduation, I felt like "Finally, it's over," rather than, "I'm gonna miss (whoever); these were the best years of my life."