Ginny
Your money or your life is a great book! Actually it was referred to me by a witness when I was in. Good info!
Eyebrow
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what job could you have had?
by sleepy inhi i've just come home from cleaning windows.what an absolutely soul destroying job.. when i think of the things i could have done.. i remmember how my teachers in school used to tell me i would surely go to university and get a good job.i remmember the shock on one teachers face a few years after i left school when i told her i was a window cleaner.. i was also intrested in art and quite good at it.my grandfather who wasn't a witness offered to help me and my brother get good jobs in the art world.. we turned him down.. arrmegeddon was so soon.. anyone else like me ?.
what do you do and what could you have done?
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Eyebrow
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what job could you have had?
by sleepy inhi i've just come home from cleaning windows.what an absolutely soul destroying job.. when i think of the things i could have done.. i remmember how my teachers in school used to tell me i would surely go to university and get a good job.i remmember the shock on one teachers face a few years after i left school when i told her i was a window cleaner.. i was also intrested in art and quite good at it.my grandfather who wasn't a witness offered to help me and my brother get good jobs in the art world.. we turned him down.. arrmegeddon was so soon.. anyone else like me ?.
what do you do and what could you have done?
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Eyebrow
I did think of becoming a toothbrush rebristler for the Goodwill stores.
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what job could you have had?
by sleepy inhi i've just come home from cleaning windows.what an absolutely soul destroying job.. when i think of the things i could have done.. i remmember how my teachers in school used to tell me i would surely go to university and get a good job.i remmember the shock on one teachers face a few years after i left school when i told her i was a window cleaner.. i was also intrested in art and quite good at it.my grandfather who wasn't a witness offered to help me and my brother get good jobs in the art world.. we turned him down.. arrmegeddon was so soon.. anyone else like me ?.
what do you do and what could you have done?
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Eyebrow
Sleepy,
I understand your anger. I did go to college, still have not finished, but I decided when I was a JW that if Jehovah expected me to take care of my son that I needed good training. I probably would not have gone if I did not have my son...who knows?
It is still not too late...take a class here and there and then you will get to where you want to be. My older brother totally rebelled against my mom when he was a teen, and was never baptised. He was never really encouraged to go to college. He eventually got his GED and after partying hard for a few years, he decided at 26 to go to college full time. He has 4 more classes to go and he will have his BA. He is now applying to grad school. I would like to mention that he also has an 11 year old daughter to support and works as well.
Bottomline...once you pick up the pieces, deal with the post traumatic shock of leaving, you need to move on.
I coulda been a contenda!
Let us know how it goes.
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Sister that is not acceptable!
by LovesDubs insomebody mentioned getting flack for having get togethers for studying...the society is so damned scared that there will be some mob mentality if more than their proscribed little groups get together for anything other than their proscribed activities.
paranoia much?
it reminded me.... when i was first coming in, the congregation i was in had a boatload of kids...a ton around 8-10 years old.
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Eyebrow
Tina,
heehee! =)
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When and where baptized
by drahcir yarrum ini thought it might be interesting to see how many here remember where and when they were baptised into the borg.
for some the memory may be too painful, but i'm curious.. me.
it was 1966 in vancouver, bc.
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Eyebrow
Oh..yeah I was 21.
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When and where baptized
by drahcir yarrum ini thought it might be interesting to see how many here remember where and when they were baptised into the borg.
for some the memory may be too painful, but i'm curious.. me.
it was 1966 in vancouver, bc.
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Eyebrow
October 1992, Natick Assembly Hall in Natick, MA!
I still have the towel...my precious "baptismal towel" that I refuse to part with, only because it was part of one of the few serious decision of my life, haahaa...even if it was not the best decision. It is falling apart....probably something a wee bit symbolic about that, eh?
I remember when the assmebly hall down there was fairly new, and it was sooo exciting as a kid to get food tickets and stand in line and get either hot food, or a cold sub. They don't even serve food any more...it is too distracting for the brothers and sisters who volunteer and miss parts of the program. yet, you are discouraged from going to local restaurants to eat...to much worldy association. My mom made me feel guilty about getting a hotdog outside of the Providence Civic Center. But after lugging around a cooler with crappy sandwiches and my little boy, I felt Jehovah would spare his anger if I took him across the street to MickyD's once in a while.
heehee!
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Sister that is not acceptable!
by LovesDubs insomebody mentioned getting flack for having get togethers for studying...the society is so damned scared that there will be some mob mentality if more than their proscribed little groups get together for anything other than their proscribed activities.
paranoia much?
it reminded me.... when i was first coming in, the congregation i was in had a boatload of kids...a ton around 8-10 years old.
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Eyebrow
ACk!!
I loved the few bible character parties we had. If our congregation made a tiff about it I never knew. As far as bible games went...did anyone ever play Scrabble but with bible words?
Also..what about STOOPS manufacturing??? I swear that if you did not buy the metal time slip holders or bookbags from them you really were not spiritual. And they did have bible games and even bible tapse with songs by sisters.
Thank goodness my mom could never afford to get me that square magazine bag ALL the pioneers had!!!! Or the Bible with the Reasoning with the Scriptures bound right in the back! The pioneers were soooo clicky about that kind of stuff.
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Hi Again
by tattoogrl333 inwell the elders do not accept me.
i do not fit the mold and nor will i change too.
they asked for a book for me to see the questions answered for baptisim but they wouldn't give it to me because they have to decide if i can join???
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Eyebrow
Six of Nine.
Methinks that perhaps I misunderstood your post when I first read it.
I was speaking specifically of differnet religions...not necessarily of "Christianity". I agree with you when no group has the right to deny whether you can be a christian or not...just whether you are a member of their sect/group...ie. JW, Baptist...Mormon...etc. I believe this because no matter what ANY religion claims, they are all private groups.How can any group feel special if they cannot exclude someone? heeehee
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Hi Again
by tattoogrl333 inwell the elders do not accept me.
i do not fit the mold and nor will i change too.
they asked for a book for me to see the questions answered for baptisim but they wouldn't give it to me because they have to decide if i can join???
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Eyebrow
My question is how is anyone supposed to make an informed decision about getting baptised as a JW if you cannot see the questions first??
SixofNine,
The whole of different religions (just my opinion) is that different groups have different beliefs and rules. If you do not adhear to the beliefs and behaviours of that religion, then why be a part of it?
Again, I do not believe any more that JWs are they only true religion...in fact I do not think there is any group out there that has the right to claim it.
JWs have always been afraid of people that do not look like they step out of the picture of a watchtower or awake! I do think they take it too far...but then again, I left because I do not believe what I once did.
I do not think it is right to deny anyone the right to read that Organization book BECAUSE it has those questions and pertinent info that anyone seriously interested should get to read about. However, based on my own knowledge of JWs, I can understand that after 2.5 months they do not think you are ready to be baptised. This answer would probably be the same if you dressed and looked like a member of the governing body. Despite what many believe, MOST elders do not encourage people to get baptised after only studying a few months, it isn't good to have people jumping into it so quickly.
When I got baptised, it was understood that you had to cover at least two books...it used to be the Liver Forever book and Truth book...then live forever and ack! I cannot think if the name (a blue book I still have somewhere!) and I think now one of them is KNOWLEDGE THAT LEADS TO EVERLASTING LIFE book....
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Birthday celebrations
by Jools j inreading thru the birthday wishes for both joel (happy birthday btw) and slayer, i was caught up in mrmoe's remark about it being good to feel no guilt anymore.. will tell us when you first ever celebrated a birthday after your jw experience and what it felt like and how did you do it?
did you feel at all guilty or was it paradisical all the way
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Eyebrow
Let's see....I was 27 and my son celebrated his birthday for the first time when he turned 8.
As his birthday came up, I gave him the choice of whether he wanted to celebrate it or not. He told me it felt a bit wierd, but overall very nice.