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  How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

  by Trevanian in

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  most 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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  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most 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...?
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  How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

  by Trevanian in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most 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

  Grace...

  It is my lifes work now to let the WORLD Know how evil it is to get into a cult.

  You're amazing.
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  How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

  by Trevanian in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most 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

  summer, keep your JW mags packed away, there's a good girl!

  Trust your instincts.

  Why are you involved with JWs?
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  How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

  by Trevanian in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most 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

  Amber Rose, love your story.

  So, she asks me what I'm doing for the holidays, and I was like, "Oh. Uh, I don't know." - awkward pause. Then I thought, that sounded retarded so, either explain why you're a retard or just be retarded. So I said, this is my first year celebrating, my family never celebrated because they were JWs. It turned out that her parents used to be JW's too and we had a pretty interesting conversation.

  I guess it makes us somewhat interesting, at the end of the day.

  We've had cult experience. How many people do you know who can say that?
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  How long before you tell people you were once a Jehovah's Witness?

  by Trevanian in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most 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

  PS. Thanks llbh, but ...

  btw the way Hi Trevanian & welcome here

  ... I think today is my one year anniversary on JWD!

  Haven't posted much here in the last year, because I was very active on Thoms.

  RIP Thomschat.
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  Court sentences rape victim

  by Bumble Bee in

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  report: court sentences rape victimfri nov 16, 12:27 am et .

  a saudi court sentenced a woman who had been gang raped to six months in jail and 200 lashes more than doubling her initial penalty for being in the car of a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported thursday.. the decision by the qatif general court came in a case that had sparked rare debate about the kingdom's justice system when it surfaced more than a year ago.. in its decision wednesday, the court also roughly doubled prison sentences for the seven men convicted of raping the 19-year-old woman, the arab news reported on its english-language web site.. according to arab news, the court said the woman's punishment was increased because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.".

  she had initially been sentenced to 90 lashes after being convicting her of violating saudi's rigid laws on segregation of the sexes.. under saudi arabia's interpretation of islamic sharia law, women are not allowed in public in the company of men other than their male relatives.. the initial sentences for the men convicted of the gang rape ranged from 10 months to five years in prison.

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  stillajwexelder, this comment of yours is horrifying:

  and put their women on an other island with all the male prison population of the USA/GB/Canada/Australia and f++k all the islam out of them

  This attitude disgusts me.

  This thread is really about respect for women. Your argument is that if Muslims don't respect women we should f*ck their women?

  Sick, man.
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  Name Things That Jehovah's Witnesses Are NOT

  by minimus in

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  jws are not________________.

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  black-belts in karate

  watching videos on redtube

  doing post-graduate studies

  in the marines

  into tantric sex

  collecting money for charity

  committed vegetarians

  spiritual searchers
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  I will miss him.........

  by AK - Jeff in

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  my cousin - only 65 - and until monday in seemingly good health - took a walk to his little woodshop and did not return on monday.

  two hours later his wife found him.

  aneurysm of the aorta.

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  Bless you, bless his family.

  Remember the good times.

  Look after your health.

  Trevanian
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  "I don't want to die...

  by 5thGeneration in

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  i want to live under different circumstances.".

  that was a line i heard recently that really impacted me.. i think i need to make a firm stand soon but, unfortunately, it will hurt my wife and kids.. ah, the love is just oozing from jehovah's organization.. .

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  No!

  I've read CoC and having been in the truth since birth,

  LOL!!! Why call it "the truth"?

  Stopping using that dishonest cultish mind-controlling expression could be your first step towards breaking free.

  Calling the JW doctrine "the truth" is keeping you shackled, don't you see?