LoverOfTruth, what a heartbreaking day it must be for you.
Trevanian
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How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?
by Trevanian inmost of the people i've met since i left don't know that i spent years of my life as a door knocker.. i have very dear friends who don't know.
i've even had lovers who didn't know.
my last partner knew, and found it vaguely amusing.. i guess i find it deeply embarrassing, although over the years it's become easier to mention it.
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of weed
by inkling indo you know of any current witnesses who smoke marijuana, even rarely?.
did you ever smoke weed while you were still a witness?
do you smoke it now?.
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I'm struggling to understand the USA no candy at assemblies thing!?
by jambon1 inas i read it on your posts, it seems that at your assemblies there were candy machines which you were somehow forbiden to use.. am i right?.
it just seems ridiculous to me!
why, oh why could you not get a bit chocolate from a machine?
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Question: Who verifies the Annual Partakers Report?
by Bourne inthis thought just occured to me.
since within the jw community, it is so fragmented so as to keep any one person from having the complete operating picture, what keeps the partakers number around the 8000 mark?
could they not just as easily continue to reduce the number in a moderate way so as to keep the pressure on?
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How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?
by Trevanian inmost of the people i've met since i left don't know that i spent years of my life as a door knocker.. i have very dear friends who don't know.
i've even had lovers who didn't know.
my last partner knew, and found it vaguely amusing.. i guess i find it deeply embarrassing, although over the years it's become easier to mention it.
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Trevanian
No worries llbh, not stupid at all.
Maybe my bad, for being so low profile for the last year. Was lurking, and posting the odd comment about Thomstuff that got instantly deleted.
I think your thread is interesting, because as we leave; our friends inevitably change, as do we, and has been said how 2 explain to new friends who might not understand?
Yes, exactly my point.
How do we explain to new friends? Or do we just not bother?
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MY BROTHER HAS BECOME A CATHOLIC
by badboy inhe is one like his wife.. he converted about a few weeks ago.
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MY BROTHER HAS BECOME A CATHOLIC
by badboy inhe is one like his wife.. he converted about a few weeks ago.
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How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?
by Trevanian inmost of the people i've met since i left don't know that i spent years of my life as a door knocker.. i have very dear friends who don't know.
i've even had lovers who didn't know.
my last partner knew, and found it vaguely amusing.. i guess i find it deeply embarrassing, although over the years it's become easier to mention it.
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Trevanian
Hey purps
LIke Trevanian, I am embarrassed at the whole expericane. So by your stating that, I am assuming you were not born into JWism?
I was pretty much born into it, although I don't have the multi-generational history that makes it more complicated for some people.
Around the time I was two years old, a work colleague of my father started "studying the bible" (haha) with my parents. Soon after that my mother hauled her sister into "the truth" LOL! and as a result, with JW-marriages and much childbirth and so on, I now have a large family network of JWs.
I remain deeply embarrassed by my JW connections. Love my mother to pieces, adore my siblings, like some of my cousins, but find it difficult to talk to new friends about the Jehovah's Witness thing,
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How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?
by Trevanian inmost of the people i've met since i left don't know that i spent years of my life as a door knocker.. i have very dear friends who don't know.
i've even had lovers who didn't know.
my last partner knew, and found it vaguely amusing.. i guess i find it deeply embarrassing, although over the years it's become easier to mention it.
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Trevanian
dogisgod, I think you summed it up nicely here:
They have no frame of reference.
Being from a JW background needs a lot of explaining.
We know what we've been through, especially if we experienced it as kids. But how to explain to someone else? Someone who hasn't been there?
For me, it's pretty much a deal-breaker in a relationship now. If I can't bring myself to describe to a new partner how JWs affected my life, well then we don't really have the intimicy I need in that relationship.
BTW, dogisgod, I'm sure you've heard about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac...?