How do you dress a "worldly girl"? I was in a drama in the 80's, a "witness girl" and positively hated the guidelines for how we were to dress. I also made this outfit, a scoop-neck dopplar sleve number with an elastic waist skirt. The Genesis song that contains the words "get me outta here" kept rolling through my mind.
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Has anyone been in one of the dramas while a JW?
by Nowman init probably was one of my few happy moments of being a jw.
my mom, dad, and i were asked to be in the modern day drama, think it was in 1988-1990 (not sure exactly).
i played a worldly girl named "dolly winters" who was considered a bold and brazon girl who eventually studied to become one of jws because of a good example jw that she went to school with.
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Don Imus Fired!
by minimus in....for saying "nappy headed hos".
he's off tv and radio.
personally, he's never been my favorite but i like him more than the reverend al sharpton!
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How come nobody screamed when Mr. Jefferson called white people "honkeys" years ago? It was funny then, but, as comedians go, there will come a day when you carry a shocking comment too far. Nobody is saying what he said is ok, but man, how many times can you apologize for something. If the person you are apologizing to doesn't accept it, it's on them. Whenever someone told me something I knew wasn't true I would just say "no I'm not" and move on with my life. You have to be pretty weak in your sense of self to say "he took our joy away"...it says they value his viewpoint more than their own. Where does censorship end?
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JWs in Unlikely Marriages
by Clam ina few weeks back i had the pleasure in meeting a druid.
chatting away about all things spiritual he informed me that he was married to a jw.
imagine my surprise.
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Then there are the 40-year age difference couples we see up here in the North country due to the lack of a diverse gene pool. It usually involves a girl in her 20's with a man in his 50's or 60's who has either lost his wife or never married. There are also obvious homosexuals who don't know what else to do with themselves so marry someone they can get along with the best they can.
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Sorry everybody, still a baby with the computer and hit the enter by accident. Just have to work on it here... It is about a JW couple who can't have a relationship with their daughter because they were DFed for, believe it or not, "reviling". They had some personal issue with their daughter's in-laws, talked about it, the in-laws brought it up to a judicial committee, and, what-do-you-know, they're out. They now go door to door telling people about the "mind-control cult" JWs are and dispite the "overwhelming love" they once knew in the beginning, that their daughter won't have anything to do with them, with an added comment from her of how they knew the rules of the game before they started. An elder comments about how the daughter could talk to them whenever she wanted, say, for instance, if one of her parents were ill. This, to me makes the Witnesses look terrible. I will try later to get the article up somehow.
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How'd you pick your Avatar and/or Username? (Share a little bio?)
by Open mind ineven though you might think it's painfully obvious, explain why you chose your avatar and/or username.
it could help us faceless "netizens" get to know each other a little better.
open mind.
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The word Numinous can mean "wholly other". After my experience with the witnesses, I told myself I would never again put all my eggs in one basket. I didn't want to fit a label and everything I learned would be put on the back burner with the freedom to look at it again whenever I wanted. Carl Jung used the word to describe feelings during a supernatural experience, a bit of mystery is in the word and it fits my life as it is now.
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Counting Time
by Xena ini don't know about anyone else but this could be the source of major contention between dubs in my halls.
you had those who started their time as soon as you pulled out of the hall parking lot (me), those who counted from the first knock at the door or laundry mat visited, and the die hards who didn't start until they actually spoke to someone(my sister).
my sister and i would go round and round about this, i finally just pretended to start my time when she did just to shut her up.
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I would ask myself: "What elso would/could I be doing now?" If it didn't fit into this category, I counted my time. I felt like a beaten horse if I were to be so exacting, like my time in this life wasn't worth anything. I had already spent 5-7 hours on meetings, plus getting ready for meetings, work, the house...the most exhausting religion in the world now wants me to feel guilty about how I counted my time. Exasperating.
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Happy are those who are shunned!
by Gill inhappy are the shunned, since they will have peace and quiet!!!
truer words were never spoken.. for all of you who understandably miss your family, just think of the troubles those of us have to endure when some of our jw family refuse to shun us and make it their lifes work to 'encourage' your return to the cult with threats of imminent death by their ever loving god!.
my mother!
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My good friend's mother died about a year after I got DFed and I sent a sympathy card with a small note about my life being PEACEFUL. I could imagine that word and the implications of it on someone really, without peace. It's funny that they should think we are "receiving our reward in full" and "only thinking we are happy"--there are more witnesses diagnosed for depression and mental illness than any other religion because when you go to the hall you imagine you are the only one not living up to the standards...right up till the day it hits you that it is all just people.
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Why did they not try to 'Save' me?
by AK - Jeff ini have pondered this question on many occasions.
when i began to have 'doubts' and began to 'question' some doctrine, and particularly the lack of christian love, very little effort was made to 'snatch me out of the fire' as elders are admonished to do.
i have always wondered why we as jw's would spend countless hours trying to start bible studies with 'wordly' people, while at the same time ignoring those who are moving away from dead center of the organization.
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It is amazing to me that someone can be in for 20 years and have what I believed to be 100s of "friends", and have elders too afraid of me to see me face to face. DFed for "causing divisions" as so many knew of how I felt, which, of course, cemented my feelings of having done the right thing by talking with them. I was the consummate witness. I felt I had more love for humanity than God. Now THERE'S a problem. I felt that those who were the cruelest to me were ones who resented me because they felt the same way but didn't have the guts to make the same decision. There are two groups, ones who are sincerely trying to do the right thing, and ones who are extremely religious out of guilt from their lives and feel the need to be self-righteous. Leaving will show the true colors of all those who you believe to be your friends.
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Would you have married a non JW
by JH inwhen you were a good active jw, would you have considered marrying a non jw or was this completely out of the question..
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People need someone who really understands them if they are thinking of marriage. I can understand the problems that can come from having a husband not support you, arguing about raising the kids...but once a person quits the organization they may still feel they need someone who knows how they feel about such a big part of their lives. I have been out since Oct. 2001 and am happy to have that one person who helped take me to where I am now and who has read more on this discussion forum and the subject of witnesses than I have...what a blessing it is, but would I ever marry or have a close relationship with someone who doesn't understand what happened? Eventually.