well, me, I suppose. At least until I got out of the org., when I wised up and started creating a real life. Poor sad pioneer, I was the one standing like a zombie on the corner downtown at the crack of dawn.
Hortensia
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Who is the biggest Loser JW you have known
by Clambake init seems every cong seems to have some guy who is 35 and never had a job or moved out of mom and dads basement.. i knew a guy who just hand out magazines at work so he would get eventually fired and could sleep in till noon everyday.
of course his elder father though he was a real matyr cause he kept losing jobs for jehovah.
i have an electrican friend who apprenticed some jw kid till he got his ticket and he quit him to pioneering.
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JW Literature... Lots of it... what to burn and what to keep?
by ILoveTTATT ini have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.
i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!
(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).
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Hortensia
yeah, check out what things have sold for on ebay -- I got $35 once for a 2-page leaflet.
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What I really hate....
by Perversion of a truth inis that i was born into this cult, taught and believed that i was going to live forever, , that i was never going to have to die.
now i am in my mid 30's realizing that this life is all there is and that after that i am dead forever and i am terrified.
i don't want this to be all there is, , i don't want to just live a few years on this beautiful planet and then become non existent forever!
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Hortensia
You'll relax in a while. You might need some anxiety meds for a bit. It's a hard pill to swallow -- ceasing to exist. It does make life more precious and makes me determined to live it in a worthwhile way. One thing to realize is that you won't know you're dead, at least that made me relax about the whole thing.
Lots of people, including me, seem to have anxiety on leaving the wtbts, for lots of reasons. I know counseling helped me a lot, and so did the anxiety meds. That's way behind me now and I don't worry about it any more. I think you'll get there, too, but you might need some help at first.
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My early exposure to jw's
by marriedtoajw ini havn't posted in months but have still lerked and read other posts, just never have time enough to do much of anything really.
in reading posts for the last few months i began to realize how much i empathize with thoughts expressed here.
i feel the need to clarify my situation because my previous posts don't really convey a complete picture regarding my experience with the jw world.
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Hortensia
tough background -- esp. with no father and schizophrenic mother. Then add JWs to the mix.
I'm glad you can hang out here now and then, see that others feel the way you do and you're not alone.
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I be a walkin......
by out4good3 inacross that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .
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Hortensia
Wonderful!
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sasquatch
by Hortensia inhad a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.
he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.
says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.
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Hortensia
Who knows. No real evidence so far, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is no such animal. I still think it's unlikely. I saw a UFO once, a strange flying object. My husband saw it too. We didn't know what it was, but I didn't immediately assume that meant it was from some other planet. I assumed the military were up to something. It was near a huge air force base.
I saw something strange many years ago way the hell out in Utah at the back of beyond. I found out, much later, it was a stealth bomber being tested out in Utah.
UFO just means unknown -- doesn't mean ET is scanning us.
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A Mansion for the Resurrected, in Kensington
by dynamiterose77 ini was roving around the internet looking for articles about a completely different topic, when i came across this one.. i found it very interesting.. here's a quote.. "in a 1920 book called "millions now living will never die" he'd predicted that biblical leaders like abraham, isaac and jacob would be resurrected in 1925 and become "the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.".
while this didn't occur, rutherford still chose to be prepared for the return of the patriarchs.
he moved into the newly built house in kensington around 1930, calling it beth sarim (house of the princes).
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Hortensia
The neighborhood is called Kensington. It's part of San Diego. I used to live a few blocks from Beth Sarim. It's a nice neighborhood, wouldn't mind visiting there again. Loads of used book stores, antique stores, good Mexican restaurants, good Korean restaurant, good Italian restaurant when I lived there.
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New Job
by LouBelle ini was fortunate to be recommended for a sales position by a former colleague.
the company phoned me and we set up an interview.
i accepted their offer - it is nearly double what i earn at the moment.
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Hortensia
Such good news! I'm very happy for you.
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sasquatch
by Hortensia inhad a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.
he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.
says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.
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Hortensia
I am sure there are more animals out there to be discovered, but it seems to me all the recent discoveries are of small critters. I don't see how something that large could escape detection very well. So, I doubt there's really any yeti or sasquatch. But who knows? I think it's more likely that there may be large unknown creatures in the ocean, since the earth's oceans are so huge.
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What would you say to the world if everyone listened?
by LogCon inif you had 5 minutes to give the world your personal message and everyone listened, what would you say?.
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Hortensia
Stop all the killing. Learn some other way to handle problems.