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  The most inappropriate remarks from Jehovahs Witnesses

  by jambon1 in

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  i have a few which still either anger me, make me sad or just make me grateful that i am no longer one of them.

  1 - "well, everyone is going to die anyway, so if it at armageddon then ce la vie" 2 - "the disater today at the world trade centre is sad, but exciting" 3 - (an elder) "when armageddon happens, i want to be at a window, watching it all".

  sick, sick, sick!

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  "If it doesn't come from the WTS then I don't need to know it"
  
  comment made by my mother-in-law when I was trying to get her to read a paragraph out of a book on schizophrenia so she could better understand my issues with my son. She lived next door. She lived in fear that my son would kill her in her sleep.
  
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  final words... your epitaph

  by chickpea in

  1. jw
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  epitaphe, from l. epitaphium "funeral oration, eulogy," from gk.

  epitaphion, neut.

  of epitaphos "of a funeral," from epi- "at, over" + taphos "tomb, funeral rites.

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  loved her life, lived in her dreams
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  Help/Advice

  by andrrea in

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  i've been lurking here for a while, reading and learning.. i'm not jw, nor have i ever been.

  recently however, my younger brother (he's 25 years old) began dating a girl (she's 27) who is jw.

  she has succeeded in completely converting him, to the point where any discussion about jw turns into a screaming match.

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  wings

  Welcome! I agree the more you confront him the more he will hear something like "the demons will make your worldly relationships reject you". Sorry.
  
  You would be better to tone it down and not let the relationship become too frayed. If you could learn to speak to him with kind or gentle emotion about what you have learned. That might stick with him. If not now, down the road. Give him space. But if you care, ask questions here or do your own research. Celebrating Holidays would not be one I would pick. Try learning about the WTS involvement in the UN, or the 1914 date, or the shunning doctrine....there are so many.
  
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  do you feel posting on JWD helps or hinders your recovery?

  by burningbridges in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes i wonder if posting on this site helps me "recover" from the trauma that the witnesses put me through, and have no doubt it does at times.

  no where else is there such a support team of individuals who know personally what you've been through and how you feel.

  but at the same time, i often wonder if coming on here causes me to obsess in a way, preventing me from "moving on" with my life.

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  wings

  I think the most helpful resource offered here is to anonymously explore one's doubts, confusion, and questions about the WTS.
  
  JWD offers a pathway to education, information, and resources. Paramount to recovery.
  
  There is no doubt that all the words spoken by those on this board have been taken in as an internal experience by most of us. So therefore, JWD also offers friendships with flesh and blood people, community, diversions, discussions, support, contentions, laughter, and fun.
  
  Discussion board life is new to me, as it is to so many. I would not have stayed here had it not helped. From time to time it gets to be too much, and balance needs to be found.
  
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  I Live For Today - No Longer Fear the Future- After Exiting the Witnesses

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as some know here - i was born in the witnesses .

  raised in it and stayed in for 44 long years !

  i don't believe in armageddon.

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  Yes Mr. Flipper, I feel the same way.
  
  I have much to learn about living life. Being in "survival" mode for so many years has forced me to live for the moment. I am actually trying to bite off larger chunks of time, enough to help me connect to other lives around me. To think in terms of a path. To have a plan. To work towards achieving goals. Etc...
  
  Balance is necessary, but often a missing part of my current existence. I stop and smell the roses all day long. It makes me smile, and that's how I get by.
  
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  commitment vs love....an XJW experience

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what if the jw "blow horn" is more than either can approach.

  call it the "love" killer or the "commitment" ender.

  jwism is a heartless commodity for love.

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  sorry guys....just had a moment.
  
  During the end of my marriage I felt like the WTS was right in the middle of it. Now I'm going through a divorce, and here they are again. Sometimes it just makes me angry. I'm better today....I'll try harder not to let it get to me.
  
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  Top 5 posters you'd like to hang out and have a beer with...

  by tresdecu in

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  i'll start:.

  awakened @ gilead .

  billy the x bethelite.

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  ....someone want to have a beer???? I'm open to suggestions.
  
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  commitment vs love....an XJW experience

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what if the jw "blow horn" is more than either can approach.

  call it the "love" killer or the "commitment" ender.

  jwism is a heartless commodity for love.

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  what if you have both. What if you have one, or the other. What if the JW "blow horn" is more than either can approach. Call it the "love" killer or the "commitment" ender. JWism is a heartless commodity for love. Heartless if you are not in the borg. It offers commitment without intimate understanding. Or it offers love without any real life involvement.
  
  wings (hurting and done with it....done with it!]
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  Learning your not all wise

  by KW13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a witness, among the rank and file your a regular troop but out in the field, your a specialist with knowledge the world doesnt have, your special and all wise.

  its a huge fall from grace when you become an apostate, some of us are still in denial!.

  how long did it take you to see your not all wise?

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  wings

  thinking that I know something always gets me into trouble....but back to the topic....I have never know such a feeling of "I don't know shit" since I came to understand that I was believing in LIES....lies....then the earth crumpled, and I am still trying to find my house. The wandering process is humbling. Not a bad experience really, just hard to understand from the outside. I am misunderstood, but I am not alone in this, and that helps.
  
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  The JW Police need to be ticketed!!!!

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew this would happen.

  i moved into a neighborhood where i knew some former "friends" and now they are patrolling my house and discovering gross sins on my behalf.

  bs, for one, but no need to go there.

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  the "dirt" is stupid....I SMOKE!!! the gossip is worse....smoke pot, hard drugs, etc....have to be BAD to leave the org....BAd to the bone...or crazy. Good thing they don't know about my boyfriends. They are all in Europe.