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  Crises of Conscience

  by ex-nj-jw in

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  2. experiences

  i just finished the book by ray franz, coc, and for some reason i'm madder than ever at this organization!!!

  i've been out for over 20 years and now i'm even more pissed off!!!!

  why am i so angry at things i already knew although i'm sure i've just repressed them over the years and got on with my life, anyone else have this anger problem after reading this book, or is it just me??.

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  If our son gets baptized....

  by lavendar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  .....will he still be able to come over to our house to visit.......or will the "powers that be" forbid him to do so?

  would we then be considered a "satanic influence" on him......the same people who gave birth to him, lovingly raised him, generously provided for him, nursed him in sickness, sacrified for him, etc.??

  lavendar .

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  You Never Did Enough As A Witness!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing that i will never miss is how you were made to feel inferior----that nothing you did was ever really good enough to satisfy the organization and of course by extension, jehovah god.

  i know of sooooooo many witnesses that are truly depressed because they can never seem to satisfy god or the elders.. people even start getting mysterious illnesses and believe the "demons" are always trying to get at them.

  the mentality is that "everyone hates us because we're jehovah's witnesses".

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  If someone is going to buy you a birthday or christmas gift.....

  by bagpuss in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you prefer them to ask what you would like or to surprise you, and if they did ask for ideas would you be offended?

  the reason i ask is that my mother in law has just told my husband that we may as well go back to how we were when we were witnesses and stop buying them presents as we don't put any thought into it and ask them what they want.

  he is really upset by this comment while i am just plain bloody angry!.

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  Did you REALLY ever have faith in God or was it more in men?

  by avidbiblereader in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  seriously, think about this, when you look back on your faith, was it really in god, or was it the god from the witness perspective and you really did/do equate the witness organization with god, or was it really in men?.

  with so many that have been disillusioned with god since leaving the witnesses, where was your faith really in?.

  respectfully,.

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  Wow backup

  by stillajwexelder in

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  down again

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  Second Impressions: Call me naughty but American boys know what to do!

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well one corona turned into several glasses (bottles) of your finest white zin blush - yummy and later some blue moons.

  whoever paid my bar tab - thankyou!.

  i got back to my hotel room at 8am my time - 2 am texas time.

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  Name Things Witnesses Make Big Deals Over

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever seen a witness get absolutely giddy over placing a measly tract with a neighbor and get up on the platform and tell the "experience" of how the neighbor actually said that he'd read it!

  big deal!!!.

  in our hall, they loved to applaud over the dumbest things!

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  I went to a JW "memorial" (funeral) talk on Saturday

  by cruzanheart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just when i think that i will never set foot in a kingdom hall again, the father of a dear friend of mine died.

  now, this friend and her husband stood firmly by our side during the hubbub surrounding my dad's suicide and the funeral we decided on (no kh, no elders, no half hour infomercial), and she was having problems with her own family, so i decided to go to his funeral talk as support for her.. nothing dramatic happened, really, but it was a good reality check.

  jennie, our 13-year-old daughter, went with me and almost fell asleep from boredom and the fact that the elders were too cheap to turn the ac down to a comfortable temperature on a warm texas saturday afternoon.

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  JWs and the weird way they say Happy Birthday

  by reneeisorym in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.

  25 today.

  it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.

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