Posts by humbled

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Confused?

by nomorepain13 in

i have been going to meetings since i was a child, long story short only recently i've started taking the truth seriously, i am not baptized but just an unbaptized publisher.

truth is i am so lonely in the congregation.

the other young people in the cong don't like me because they dont think i am going to "stay" for long, i've even worked on the ministry with an older brother and asked her am i giving the wrong impression to people?

humbled

To quote one of my children, now 36 years old. "Life is hard--and that's alright. But it should not be miserable."

Do not stay. You do not want a miserable life.

The life you have described can't rise above miserable even if all the WTBTS literature and songs teach you to say otherwise.

You can't rewind, unwind your experience and perceptions of life as a JW. Your desire to serve God will have to contort into a distortion of the gospel to fit into JW life. Don't let yourself get bent that way. Don't marry "in the Truth". Get with a life companion with whom you can share your life honestly.

I don't try to run other people's lives but I want to be clear in this instance: this is spiritual warfare and the WTS will crush your spirit. Leave the religion and find your life.

Maeve

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Head covering for women--how did you feel about this? Men? Women?

by humbled in

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thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.

had to reference 1 cor.

11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.

humbled

Thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study. Had to reference 1 Cor. 11:1-16.

I wonder if this irked any while you were still in?

Does the WT still remind the lady sheep to keep a scarf handy?

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Talked to JW's in Service Today (kinda long...sorry)

by exwhyzee in

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i was in my company vehicle and i spotted some jw's going from door to door.. i circled around the block and pulled over.

when they passed, i rolled down the .

window and asked the pleasant looking middle aged couple as they passed, if they were jehovah's .

humbled

That was great. That is your talking to the couple--but

I am sorry you lost you dad that way.

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I'm not trying to brag, but being an EXJW is awesome!!! Status Update-

by Coffee House Girl in

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hello jwn!

i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.

i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.

humbled

congratulations!

I remember you when...you were coffee-house-girl-before-your-degree!

I love that you set your cap for what you WANTED and got it.

Maeve

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Hello

by GoUnion in

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friends

hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.

humbled

Good to hear from you, GoUnion,

Hello and hang on.

There is a lot of support here---and a lot of rough "weather" at times.

Maeve

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I did it !!!!

by snare&racket in

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7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.

i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.

i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.

humbled

Doctor Snare.

Congratulations!

The peculiar triumph on top of everything else--you had to throw off the weight that easily ensnares: the whole soul-sucking WT Thing . And then start from scratch.

Very, very good. Really proud of you.

Go on, fella. Go on!

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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

humbled

S&R,

A deer instead of a bull (It ran in front of son's truck) we eat in your honor. And a virtual hug from GramMaeve (((SnarlR))).

I'm not up to the discussion, but watching from the sidelines...

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A Better World - Can it be achieved?

by fulltimestudent in

the hope of a better world is what attracted me (and likely many of you other loiterers (grin) on this site) into the mental mindtrap of christian thought.

i guess its understandable, re-reading the words that the author of the matthew gospel that we know as the sermon on the mount, its easy to think, that if jesus ruled the world, everything would be ok.. i'm still interested in a better world.

so have many other thinkers (and revolutionaries).

humbled

FTS,

When living in the home place has nothing left but drudgery then the young do leave in every country. It happens here as someone pointed out above.

A troubling matter for land use is that the traditional use of land by indigenous people may not be documented and the government or corporations can take it over "legally". This of course happened in the U.S. and it is hardly ever even given a thought.

The land never can return to the sons and daughters of those who live on the flanks of hills and rivers.

Money will rule mens lives. Not the earth, the wind, water, and sun.

And we are able as you have mentioned to lift the burdens off each other's backs with simple inventions--but again as you said: there's no money in it.

But, in time, money won't give us the earth,water, and air that we sold away.

We do have to value the ones who have lived close to the earth without title to it--they have some natural entitlement, don't they?

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In Contrast to KKK's - we have: Christianity Broke My Heart

by fulltimestudent in

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friends

a lucid exposition of a man's breaking free:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upwh4d3bxji.

.

humbled

Great, I will make sure my family sees this.

Truth brought me in and eventually took me out of the WBTS.

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A Better World - Can it be achieved?

by fulltimestudent in

the hope of a better world is what attracted me (and likely many of you other loiterers (grin) on this site) into the mental mindtrap of christian thought.

i guess its understandable, re-reading the words that the author of the matthew gospel that we know as the sermon on the mount, its easy to think, that if jesus ruled the world, everything would be ok.. i'm still interested in a better world.

so have many other thinkers (and revolutionaries).

humbled

Just Visiting--

Just because the WT baited their "hooks" with valid human concerns should not innoculate us to the need to address those needs now that we are free to do it--- without waiting for Jah's "Big A" to make things right.

Maeve