Whoa! That was a flashback. I loved the illustrations. They really served to drive the points home. Let me be your friend! I will send a request pronto. Yeah, it's a small comfort that your were scared out of your everloving mind as much as I was. What a twisted thing to do to a little kid.
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8My poem on Myspace...
by ZeroKool29 inif you have myspace please go check out my latest blog post, "children of jehovah" <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendid=36883057&blogid=187857759&mytoken=40b6a581-fc76-481e-aa3421882e079f2414959318> here</a>.
i'd appreciate whatever feedback you can offer.
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To be a Nice Apostate or a Mean Apostate.....
by AK - Jeff in..... that is the question.. how do you react - and is it a 'planned reaction', when confronted with jdubs in public?.
i have personally determined that i will not allow people whom i knew for 40 years in some cases to 'shun' me without a cost to the reputation of their religion in the eyes of those who see it.. if i come face to face with a witness who turns the other way or rudely brushes past [as if i am dead], i will point out to all in the area [carefull not to appear the raving lunatic] that this is the way jehovah's witnesses act toward one who has quietly left their faith.
i expect two things will begin to happen as a result.. 1- witnesses will become so paranoid of the possiblility of meeting me and being embarrassed in public, that they will alter their schedules to avoid the places i might be.
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sKally, ok not nuts, just really brave and awesome. a champion of the apostapeoples! I think people in the neighborhood would listen to someone who could look them in the eye and have a dialogue with them. dubs just talk at you and won't directly answer challenging questions. it drives normal people crazy. If you use logic, you have the edge over witness drones.
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Dubville, USA
by parakeet inmany of the jws in my old cong (about 40%) lived in a trailer court, which was in turn owned by a jw.
they seemed to enjoy living together in their little "dubville," surrounded by other jws.
even when i was still a jw, the thought of living there made me recoil.
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Dismembered, did your wife think to call the police or something? That's scary. We had a couple "cult"-a-sacs of duplexes (affordable) with all dub tenants. I think it's part fantasy fulfillment of future paradise when the only reality will be dub neighbors. aaaaah- the humanity! too bad one of the MS dads was a total perv who walked around in boxers with his wee willy poking out around dub-cubs. i always thought it was creepy in those places. somewhere deep inside i think i didn't want the worldly people to disappear because the dubs are so dangerous to kids.
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What's Your Attitude Toward "Religious" People?
by minimus inany stereotypes regarding so-called "religious" persons??
as a rule, i am seeing that many religious people are "nuts"!
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I've gotten less defensive around them and don't always feel the need to let my inner Saul out. I clean teeth for a living and talk to people about everything all day long. In my experience, the people that are religious and have all their questions answered have the least to talk about and are very rigid and haughty and condescending when asked simple questions. Sound familiar? They also are seriously not living in the present moment, their awareness has been held hostage and is transfixed on the things yet to come. However, there are twice as many religious/spiritual people who fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum and you can't put them into one box. They are generally nice people who have chosen religion as their frame of reference for dealing with their reality. I personally just find it boring and unsatisfying.
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To be a Nice Apostate or a Mean Apostate.....
by AK - Jeff in..... that is the question.. how do you react - and is it a 'planned reaction', when confronted with jdubs in public?.
i have personally determined that i will not allow people whom i knew for 40 years in some cases to 'shun' me without a cost to the reputation of their religion in the eyes of those who see it.. if i come face to face with a witness who turns the other way or rudely brushes past [as if i am dead], i will point out to all in the area [carefull not to appear the raving lunatic] that this is the way jehovah's witnesses act toward one who has quietly left their faith.
i expect two things will begin to happen as a result.. 1- witnesses will become so paranoid of the possiblility of meeting me and being embarrassed in public, that they will alter their schedules to avoid the places i might be.
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sKally, You are nuts! I love it! That would been 'the best part of waking up' if I had been on your block. I'm a wus when it comes to seeing Witnesses. It hardly ever happens, but when it does, I just look at them then feel ill and it bugs me for like a day, then I forget about it. But, I feel happy that they are getting their instant karma by staying in that cesspool of haters.
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Elders with STRONG personalities....
by JH inthere is an elder in my congregation that has a very strong personality.
he drove volkswagens and many bought the same make as he did.
we had another elder back then that drove a dodge aries and another elder who had a peugeot garage and he sold so many second hand peugeots to members of the congregation.
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JH - is that an angry ferrett? My dad (elder) helped like 5 guys move up from window washing to lawn care businesses.
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Hi Everyone
by Stezza ini have been reading here for a while but as you may of noticed the assembly games post has flushed me out!
it has been fascinating to read all your experiences and to know that the stuff that i thought was odd, was thought odd by others as well.. two things made me leave:.
1. i found i could not do return visits as i did not want to break up families.
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Good morning Stezza! Well, it's morning here on the US west coast. Apostalish is a universal language! We are your people!
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Would Jehovah recognize you
by darth frosty inhere is another lame a$$ email from a dub (how is it the only use they can think of for the internet is to regurgitate these lame parable's.).
warning have your barf bags ready.. .
this is very thought provoking.
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give me a goddamn break! why are they so retarded? Listening to sadistic stories and getting little stiffies of gratefulness over their imagined superiority. Weirdos. And what exdub ever fantasized about going back to the "flock" for anything? They have nothing that could approach satisfying one of our needs. Well, sometimes, I think about going to my parents when I need a fax machine or to make a long distance call. I guess I better watch out.
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What planted the seed of doubt that lead you to leave or think of leaving?
by NanaR ini've been thinking of this a lot lately.
the following experience ties my first doubt in with my present life.
as a backdrop to this, you should know that i was a 5th generation "raised in the truth" jw through my mother (her great-grandfather got "the truth" from pastor russell).
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There was too many to really pinpoint it. I do remember what made me feel confident to leave. We studied the greatest man book twice in a row, and I really thought Jesus was nice and no one around him really got the message. What stressed him out the most was the Pharisees and then it hit me - my cong was the Pharisees and if Jesus was kicking it in my town, he sure as hell wouldn't come to our congr, to our religion for that matter. I don't feel any particular attachment to Jesus nowadays, but I feel a kinship in that he was a decent person.
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SCARY(actually hilarious) JW Urban Legends (smurf content)
by *jeremiah* indoes anyone have any dub urban legend stories?.
i remember a story running rampant when i was in my pre-teenage years that went a little something like this:.
word on the street was that a young child went to the circuit assembly with his parents.
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I heard something about the John Denver story. He did that because there was a married JW sister who was sending John some naughty pics of herself and she became somewhat of a stalker, and he was so disturbed by her behavior that he didn't want those freaks at his concert. It upset his upstanding morals too much. Imagine that!