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  What are the most stupid JW rule?

  by beroea in

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  what are the most stupid jw rule?.

  what do you consider to be the most stupid rules or tradition of the jw lives?

  im thinking about any kind of rule or regulative that only has one answer to the questions why:.

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  What was the problem with the word bulletin?
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  How to get rid of jehovah's witnesses

  by bboyneko 2 in

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  2. friends

  how to get rid of jehovah witnesses .

  --when you open the door and there's one there saying, "hello, i'm.

  collecting for the jehovah's witnesses...", interrupt them and say,.

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  HAHAAH!

  Loved these! I must admit, though that even when I was a hardcore JW going door to door, I loved these types of jokes. A few (a very few, haha!) of my JW friends and I would frequently share these jokes.

  A fav cartoon of mine is one of Gary Larson's Far Side, with a family pretending to be furniture when JWs come to the door.
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  What are the most stupid JW rule?

  by beroea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what are the most stupid jw rule?.

  what do you consider to be the most stupid rules or tradition of the jw lives?

  im thinking about any kind of rule or regulative that only has one answer to the questions why:.

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  Eyebrow

  trouc,

  I am in New Hampshire...close to both Main and Mass.
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  How I Married A Borg

  by Ray Skyhorse in

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  2. experiences

  ive been posting for about a month now.

  ive finally finished writing about my life.

  its long and complicated.

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  Eyebrow

  Ray,

  When I first started reading your posts I felt that you were being a bit cold to call JWs Borgs. But, I guess that is because I was personally a witness for so long, it kinda of unnerved me.

  However, when I think of it, I can understand while you would use that comparison. They can seem cold like a cyberborg. My own mom, whom is the nicest person on the planet (seriously, she deals with the mental cases and older ladies in the congregation that the elders could care less about) has done a few cold things that are Borgish in nature. She would not attend any baby showers for myself or my sisters when we had kids out of wedlock. While I respect that she was doing it out of her conscience, it still hurt and seemed cold.

  Just an interesting way to express it. thanks for the input.
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  Some good things I got from the JW Experience

  by Eyebrow in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i thought that to be fair, i should probably list some good things that i personally got out of my 20 year jw experience:.

  1. i was taught that if you believe something you should live your life to reflect that; (of course, i was not perfect in this and saw a lot of hypocrsy).

  2. i personally experienced acts of kindness towards my family in many times of need;.

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  I thought that to be fair, I should probably list some good things that I personally got out of my 20 year JW experience:

  1. I was taught that if you believe something you should live your life to reflect that; (of course, I was not perfect in this and saw a lot of hypocrsy)
  2. I personally experienced acts of kindness towards my family in many times of need;
  3. I was taught to respect the elderly and to develop friendships with them;
  4. I was taught how to do research;
  5. I learned about public speaking;

  I did take several good things away from the experience, and now matter how I personally feel about doctrines and shady actions of some witnesses, I hope that all that have been entrenched in any religion has been able to carry something good from it. We can all learn something good from even the experiences that may have been overwhelming harmful to an extent.

  Life is what you make it, JW or exJW.

  yeah, I could list many more negative things...but why bother in this post? My invitation to all out there is to examine their experience and see what they can take out from it that was good. Not all will be able to do this, but it makes it easier for me get on with being a xJW to know that maybe I did learn something about something.
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  Judicial Elder wisdom LOL

  by Shane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i got to go into the star chamber a few years ago, i remember when the elders handling the my case told me and they all seemed to be in agreement with stupid remark: " now bro., i want you to go out and do everything you always wanted to do, and get it out of your system before you come back to us wanting reinstatement!

  i was disgusted, i said: wait just a dam min your all supposed to encourage me not to sin and guide me inn ways of righteousness, instead your telling me to go out and sin?

  i then said: "something's not right here, if there is a god someone will pay one day for mistreating one of his sheep.. question friends has anyone ever had the borg mp's ever say that to you?

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  Ahhhh.....I getcha now.
  Methinks I read and post too much in the wee hours. Maybe if I had read the post during normal hours my brain would have processed it.

  Sorry for being so literal! =) It is my automatic JW response, hahah!
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  falling in love

  by kid B in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok, heres my story.... i am 21 years old, male, and i am not a j.w., but i have hopelessly fallen in love with one.

  unfortuntately, i do not believe what she believes in (i use the word unfortuntately because i wish i could believe, but i cant and it tears me apart).

  i'm sure that this has happened a million times before, and you guys probably hear about it a lot, but i'm finding it very difficult to deal with, since she has also fallen deeply in love with me, but she feels like the only option is to let it go.

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  Eyebrow

  Regarding Stacey's remark,

  Baggage? Yes...hmmm in the Samsonite league! I have been married for a few years now and I still am dealing with the baggage. I am lucky that my husband, although he does not understand all what I still go through with leaving, he takes my word for it and does his best to support me.

  This baggage that many (if not most) of the JW women get stuck with is because they are taught it is natural. If you do not feel guilty about certain things, you ain't being a good christian. My mother lives and breathes "the truth" and is a saintly woman...I don't agree with everything she believes or does, but she is one of the JWs that make them look good. I was raised to believe if you are in the faith you LIVE the faith. So I never really lived the double life that so many talked about. When I finally left it was cold turkey, and very difficult. Yet, I am proud of the fact that I never lead a double life, and do not profess to be a JW today, not even to my family that are still in. Why lie? If this sounds self righteous, I apologize. This is just a personal thing for me...since so many of the JW friends I had as a teenager and adult that were lauded on the platform were screwing around. Once I made the decision to finally leave, I could honestly tell myself it was because I didn't agree with the teachings and hypocrsy...not because I wanted to celebrate holidays or get laid.

  (yes...I did stray when I was a teenager, but stopped going to meetings, was not baptised at that time and NEVER presented my self as a Witness. Those with a double life go to the meetings and act all christian there, and have a totally different face for the "world". )

  Please be careful. Others have mentioned that you are responsible for your own spiritual life. This is so true. There is much more to life than being in love. You have to be true to yourself, or you are not much good to anyone.

  One last bit of mumbo from me: for anyone that is getting involved with an inactive witness...find out just how inactive that person is. Is her/his family witnesses? Is he still going to meetings? Is this person planning on going back? You cannot see the future, but you should be able to get picture of how life will be for you in the future if the person you plan to marry does decide to go back. Don't enter the relationship unawares.

  There is something said for people marrying those who are in the same faith. It can make several things easier. But I wouldn't recommend anyone new to JWs to getting married to one until after they have been baptised for a few YEARS. You never get how everything really is as a newbie.
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  Could you please read this?

  by ethan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may take a while to explain, but if you read through and respond i'd appreciate it.

  i became best friends with a jw about two years ago.

  we were the best of friends.

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  Eyebrow

  Kes,

  There has never been anything from the WTS that allows elders to DF someone just because they married out of the faith. It would be for fornication, etc. I have known a few that have married nonbelievers and were never DFd. I am one of those people. Although I walked away a few months before I met my husband, I never disassociated myself or and was never DFd. And I live near several elders, my family whom are witnesses, etc.

  I do remember that about 10 years ago they announced at a district convention that it probably would happen one day that marrying outside of the faith would be a DF offense. Unless they can prove fornication or another offense, elders cannot just boot you for marrying outside the faith. In the case of a married person getting disfellowshiped for leaving his/her spouse...that is because if there is no evidence of adultery on the part of the spouse you leave, the person is believed to have committed adultery. In other words, if your husband is a mean bastard that beats you, but never cheats on you, and you leave him, you are not supposed to remarry if he never commits fornication. Even if you remarry and did not commit premarital sex with your new spouse, you can be DF for adultery/fornication. There are a lot of divorced devout witnesses that are waiting around for there ex's to get caught fornicating or remarrying so they can get on with their lives. I personally know of one brother that told his ex that he had committed adultery so she be scripturally free to remarry again after the divorce....even though it was a lie. He got DF'd.

  Very sad situation...
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  Paul Berry Found Guilty!!!!!!!!!!

  by ARoarer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  yessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  he was taken away in handcuffs, and dateline got the whole thing.

  watchtower is tarnished.

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  Eyebrow

  All I am is saying is that I believe that one witness was sincere in believing what she was saying about him...not that she was right. I gotta tell you, if anything like that was said about someone that was my friend, I would go right to the wife and ask her if it was true. I do doubt that happened.

  She probably is in denial...true, but my point is that people cannot ever truly know what goes on behind close doors.
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  Seriously: Was this board for active JWs??

  by Eyebrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have rarely found anything written by active jws here.

  it causes me to wonder if this was actually set up by an active jw and got out of hand.

  especially since the site asks us not to stumble our brothers.. ooooo....i have been warned about evil boards like this!!

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  Eyebrow

  MLM=Multi Level Marketing...like Amway, Shaklee, Maleuka, etc...I only mentioned it because I know so many witnesses that have thought that MLM businesses were the way to work for themselves and not to have a secular boss.

  Simon, sorry if I gave you the impression that I felt this was a devious board. It is just that I remember when people starting spending more time on the internet that we were strongly warned at the meetings about staying away from any boards, sites, etc., that were not officially associated with the WTS. I still have to fight off the programmed guilt reflex every time I read anything that is not from the WTS about witnesses.

  It makes me glad that there ARE active witnesses reading and posting. While I chose to fade away, the one thing that has bothered me is when people who have never been witnesses automatically lump all JWs together. There is such a strong warning against reading apostate lits, that I honestly thought before I ever started looking at a board such as this that there would be few, if any active witnesses.

  Thanks for all the replies!