That was sooo funny - i remember the clapping games and the singing games. my dad was worse with the mouthing of scriptures - he used to say (quite loud) the scripture that the bro was going to use for his point and looked smug when he was right. the nodding REALLY p****d me off before i left - we had some big nodders in our cong
Posts by mia_b
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54Ridiculous teenager counselled at Assembly.
by Duncan inthe ridiculous teenager is me.
this story takes me back to 1969, when i was 15 years old.
we were attending the international assembly at wembley stadium, near london, the only time, i think, that wembley was ever used for an assembly.. if youve ever read any of the stories i posted on jwd over the years, youll know that i was never one of those kids growing up in the truth who always had doubts about it or was unhappy and miserable with the religion, just waiting for the chance to get out.
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Building paradise
by Paralipomenon inokay we're all familiar with the watchtower's hope of a eternal life on a paradise earth.
i know as a witness i never gave it too much thought.
i thought of a park with a nice house and a large yard of nicely groomed grass.
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Crumpet posted someones "diary after armagedon" at one point - they were funny
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personally - my bro , 15
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Relationships With Witnesses or ExJWs----Are They Easy To Deal With??
by minimus inmost of us are either exjws or on the way out.
how are your relationships affected by those that never were witnesses?
if you're married or dating someone that never was a jw, is it difficult?
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Relationship with none jw and never a jw was way easier from my point of view - i got someone who supports me no matter what and doesnt put god in front of me. simon my hubby supports ME all the way, regardless of what anyone else tells him to do!
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Minneapolis/Saint Paul Craigslist Rant And Raves on JW's
by ColdRedRain inhttp://minneapolis.craigslist.org/rnr/.
check it out.
and yes, i'm the same lee from south minneapolis.
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What is the title? there was a whole list and i wasn't about to listen to them all (sorry!)
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PUNISHED by WBTS for obeying conscience.
by yesidid ini have a friend well call michael whose conscience landed him in trouble with hq.. .
he was a district overseer in the pre 75 era but his conscience would not allow him to .
endorse the unscriptural date setting.
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thats a cool story, getting in trouble for no 1975 - my parents always told me that 1975 wasnt ever set in concrete by WTS and that it was people seeing things that weren't there - did the WTS actually print 1975 is the end or not?
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No fair crumpet - nothing happened in cardiff where i was. then again i was sat next to my df bro (15 at the time he was) and guarding him against being talked to!
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OutKasted ;-P
by SpaWn of MeDusa inhello in there ;-p. wow wow wow.... i never knew such a place existed.... unfortunatly i don't have a lot of time to type right now & believe me i'd need days, perhaps even weeks & i'd probably still feel like i wasn't done.... in short... my name is jodie, i'm from australia, i'm about to turn 32 & i am a jehovah's witness outkast... i wasn't kicked out, i left of my own accord when my parents divorced & i was about 14... my father, my younger brother & me - the 3 black sheep !!
my father was disfellowshipped, he was an elder who also happened to have bi polar... the day ( or technically night ) my father was disfellowshipped was the saddest time of my life - it was more like a death or a funeral, something tragic... when my parents divorced i went to live with dad, i was always closer to my father plus when he left he had nothing... he lived on the river bank in the middle of winter for 6 weeks in a tent ( while his good christian jehovah's witness father & sister slept warm in their beds in the same town... ) dad bought a little caravan & he & i lived in it, eventually he bought some land & built a house & my younger brother joined us.... anyway to cut it all short... i've suffered badly from depression - so badly it's almost killed me & my brother also... the crux of our depression is our mother, our sister's, our grandfather, our aunt's & all of our relatives are jehovah's witnesses - most of them live in the same town as us altho they may as well live on the other side of the world.... you know, sitting here thinking about it all - it all makes perfect sense... how can families be torn apart like this, how do they not realise it is wrong & sad & wicked ??.
i've spent more than half my life trying to have any sort of relationship with the rest of my family.... anyway i have to get going.... hasta la vista .
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Welcome (((Jodie)))
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What Have YOU Learned Since Leaving???
by minimus inanything you'd like to share with us??
i learned that i truly was in a cult.
i originally hated that thought.
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i learned to love me and from there i learned i could love someone else.
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Fun at the book study
by Zico ini know what you're thinking.
how can you possibly have fun at the book study?
well, it's easy to have fun with the revelation book, it's so full of forced interpretations and massive holes, you can just rip it apart (subtly, of course) it's also much easier to question things in a smaller group.
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lol