Gayle

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  Would you EVENTUALLY be happy in a JW dominated new system?

  by JH in

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  many here say that they wouldn't want to live in a world dominated by jw's.

  i understand.. i know that i wasn't always happy under their rules and way of living.

  i don't like going to meetings, especially 5 a week.

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  Gayle

  I "WAS" in a JW totally dominated system - at Bethel. One of my happiest days (while in the organization) was leaving.
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  The End Is Near!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Irish Rose in

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  yikes, the end is near!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

  that's about the only thing i just can not get past.

  i have gotten over many, many of the things i grew up with, except that one.

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  Gayle

  It's ironic to me that '74 I got pregnant and was so happy yet had a lingering thought/fear that the end was coming in '75 or sooner & what if all JWs were imprisoned & I had to have my baby in prison, etc. Now she's married, got her college degree and has had two wonderful sons. Fortunately, I had more children too & motherhood brought me to a lot of reality and re-evaluation. All my children are "free" from the WTS and I am a proud grandma and even more proud that the WTS didn't get my children.
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  Did You Ever Find The "Truth" Was Ever " Exciting"???

  by minimus in

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  after reading the thread by truthseeker regarding the district convention, and realizing that they were trying to tell people, especially young ones, that the "truth" is "exciting", i just had to ask you, did you ever feel that the "truth" was "exciting"?

  i never ever did..

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  Gayle

  I was so excited when I got called to Bethel. Downhill from there.
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  JWdom "limbo"

  by Gayle in

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  i realize how many people are sent to "limbo" of sorts by the wts.

  how many jws quit going, inactive, no meetings for "years," wasn't happy with it but are still "stuck" somewhere in between, not active jws, feeling condemned by the organization yet still don't stretch themselves to "read" anything to investigate why the organization didn't work for them.

  my brother got a call from an inactive jw, who hasn't gone in years & not in the association of anyone anyway, not happy with jwdom.

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  Gayle

  I realize how many people are sent to "Limbo" of sorts by the WTS. How many JWs quit going, inactive, no meetings for "years," wasn't happy with it but are still "stuck" somewhere in between, not active JWs, feeling condemned by the organization yet still don't stretch themselves to "read" anything to investigate why the organization didn't work for them. My brother got a call from an inactive JW, who hasn't gone in years & not in the association of anyone anyway, not happy with JWdom. My brother asked him if he has read anything about JWs other than JW literature and he never thought of that!??? My daughter recently got on "MySpace" and one fellow has been disfellowshiped about 3 yrs, so not socializing anyway & says he's never going back. Sounded like he too has never gotten beyond, stuck. It's so sad, because so many people are stuck for years in between and they are just a "click" away from so much information to set themselves fully "free."
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  Back to the topic - I am in love with a JW

  by LindaLu in

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  i have been dating a very committed jw - he spent some time out of the organisation after a divorce and about a year ago has been granted a fellowship again.

  i absolutely adore him - and what is there not to love!

  he is the most kind, sweet and lovable man i have ever met.

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  Gayle

  And, there's another phenomenon I often saw, when a young man left the JW organization but later got a girlfriend or married, he'd get her totally into the organization, then eventually leave the organization again "and" the girl or wife. Ironic!!
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  6 Years on JWD today

  by blondie in

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  have i stayed too long at the fair.

  there are many names and faces that i don't see much any more.

  my own style of posting has changed due to my limitations.. welcome to the new ones and stop by some of you we are missing if you can.. blondie.

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  Gayle

  Blondie, thank you so much for all your work. Your critical analysis gift is so outstanding. Your concordance reference system of the Watchtower past quotes is so valuable. If there was a way to set up all your information as a concordance system on a cd, I would buy it. Take care of your health.
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  Assembly Headache

  by WTWizard in

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  have you ever noticed that at the end of the a$$emblies, you always seem to have a headache?

  and this is above and beyond the one that you might get during a stressful day at work.

  people seem to get them during the assemblies.

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  Gayle

  It is due to "dehydration" - of water of the "real" truth!
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  You know meeting attendance is bad when...

  by lola28 in

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  four congregations need to merge into two just to get some decent numbers.

  a sister from my old hall called me a few weeks ago to let me know that the congregation was moving to another hall.

  when i asked why they needed to move she said it was due to the fact that meeting attendance had diminished a lot in the past two years.

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  Gayle

  I see your post is from California,,that's exciting!! People say "everything starts in California first" so in this case, I hope it's true,,I hope this trickles through worldwide soon!
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  My first and hopefully last vent on JWD

  by nvrgnbk in

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  i was talking to my trying-to-exit-the-cult fraternal twin brother yesterday about life, the jehovah's witness cult, and our jw parents.. he repeated, calmly and succintly, that he hates our parents.

  i could not argue with him.

  i used to, being a parent myself.

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  Gayle

  I am impressed how you've stopped the insanity that is endorsed by the WT organization of parent's treatment toward their own children., by coming to your realization,,and now your son now knows "unconditional love." He seems to have inherited your wit and humor too. I'm a grandma who praises you, even if your mother doesn't. Take care.
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  My Uncle is still Pioneering at 84 years old and will never see the end!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  my uncle is still an elder and pioneering at the age of 84. he started studying with the witnesses in the early 1960's and was made an elder a couple of years later.

  he has auxilary pioneered for the last 40 years.

  today, he is elderly,fragile,has heart problems,can't hardly walk,and he still continues to auxilary pioneer.

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  Gayle

  People make their choices along the way. I am 60 now and a proud grandma. In my mid 30's, I left the organization, never df'd/da'd, moved some which helped the fading,thankfully, gradually during the same period, my siblings left too which helped. Life should keep challenging us to grow and evaluate things continually. I was raised in the WTS since 9 yrs old, pioneered 5 yrs, Bethel 5 yrs, but becoming a mother and raising children caused me to re-evaluate my childhood and how I wanted my children to enjoy their precious youth, value their education & definitely the goal of college (4 of 5 have already graduated college, the 5th half way done, via 4 yrs in the Marines). If people never grow emotionally/spiritually personally, re-evaluate their life, just "follow" day in, day out, same-o-same-o, then maybe that's their limit. So, I don't have much hope in the old JW folks changing, "cement of the brain happens". It's the youth there that I wish had a chance to grow and have free minds and hopefully some will "peek" out somehow through the Internet and get a chance to personally fulfill their lives,reality.