Maybe you could try writing? At least you would get it out of your mind (the anger, etc.) and on paper.
Flowerpetal
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What do you think?
by jaguarbass inmy wife of 35 years and i were talking last night.
i was raised a witness.
she became a witness on her own volition at about 13 years old.
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OK, Your Opinion: Are Witnesses Who Practice Their Religion "Bad"?
by minimus inif a jw is an ardent believer, and faithfully practices his or her religion, are they, in your mind, "bad" or "evil", in reality?
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Flowerpetal
No they are not necessarily bad. IMHO, there are secular JWs and spiritual ones. I think I don't have to explain the difference, except that the spiritual ones are actually seeking to have a relationship with God and have a good conscience; believe the things they are practicing will bring blessings from above. I also think these are the ones who end up leaving JWs either by DF, DA, fading or just stopping in their tracts.
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Flowerpetal
Love Rowan Atkinson, especially in Black Adder
ahhhh yes....and Mr. Bean
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WELCOME MARIUSUK!!
by Mariusuk. injust realised after nigh on 100 posts i don't have a welcome thread, i know it is arrogant to do your own but screw it i want a welcome
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Flowerpetal
Welcome Mariusuk! Hope you enjoy being here!
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Flowerpetal
I have had tarot readings twice this year; I buy lottery tickets, I play slot machines, (recognizing my limit), had my chakras balanced thru stones and tibetan singing bowls, experienced some energy work which brought up emotions I didn't know I was harboring.
As far as people are concerned, there were some witnesses I didn't want to associate with and some I did, just like non-witnesses I knew.
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good in jehovah's witnesses
by John Doe ini thought it might be nice to see some positive things mentioned about jw's.
now, i know mentioning these things may be hard given the experiences here, but i've yet to find a group of people who don't have something positive about them.
if there weren't something positive, no one would ever join.
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When my mom was pregnant with me, some JWs gave her flack for getting pregnant "when we're so close to the end." One of the anointed sisters took my mom aside and told her not to let these people upset her, and to be happy about having a child no matter what time period it was.
As a child in the '50's going to this same KH with my mom there were around 7 people who professed to be of the anointed. They were kind and sweet even to a little kid like me, and as a result I have fond memories of them.
In the '60's some of the brothers in another congregation I was in, who were well meaning, would get all us teens together on Saturday nights, and we would study the WT magazine and be free to express ourselves. Apparently this was happening in a lot of congregations throughout the country, Soon after that, orders came down from the society stating that these "gatherings" were unnecessary and the WT should be studied within the family. So a good thing was no more...
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Jigsaw puzzles anyone?
by Lady Lee ini love them.
there was a time when i always had one on a large cardboard that i could push under the sofa when i needed the table.
believe me they helped my sanity during my last few years as a dub.. i had to give them up when i got cats because they thought all those nice little puzzle pieces were cat-sized hockey pucks.
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Flowerpetal
I love jigzone and have been going there for years.
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LIFE IS GOOD!
by Dansk inwhat the heck.
i'm sitting here with idle time.
ok, so what's so great about that?
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Dansk,
I agree; thanks for your inspiration! I have a best friend who borders on being atheist/agnostic. Her and her hubby have lots of religious/spirtual discussions (he was raised by JW parents, but never got baptized). But I think she is on the spiritual side as well. Saw Christopher Hitchens on Real Time With Bill Maher and decided I want to read his book too.
Good luck to your hospital stay.
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My JW Friends Visited My Daughter & Wanna Keep It Quiet From Other JWs
by minimus inmy daughter is at home with her new daughter and an older couple visited them in her home and brought some lovely outfits for the baby.
they stayed for about a half hour and ther company was very much appreciated.
the following day they were at a jw get together along with my mom.
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Flowerpetal
I think the way a person behaves is partly their inherited personality and partly the way they were raised. You have the "A" personality and "B" and maybe variations of those in each group. IMHO, It's got nothing to do with what religion one has embraced. However, the way people act once they have become JWs, enhances their already inherited and programmed behavior.
If a druggie decided to rob a bank, yet realized afterwards how much he screwed up his life, is he a bad person because of his behavior? Was he only a bad person when he carried out the robbery? Can you know FOR SURE whether this person is "bad" or not???
Exactly--there are lots of circumstances in the past which brought this druggie to the point of robbing a bank.
Getting back to JW behavior, I couldn't even call a JW who is in a position of authority bad, except for those who know they are deceptive and full of malice. That is pure evil. The ones who are controlling---who knows? I worked for an acupuncturist once, and she was controlling and she knew it. She would change for a few days, and then go right back to her controlling self. I say she couldn't help herself; there was more to her life than what I saw.
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Killing time during meeting...
by brunnhilde ini used to balance my checkbook sometimes.
another favorite was unsticking the pages of a new bible or folding back the dogears of an old one.
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Flowerpetal
I would doodle in the margins of the WT magazine, make grocery lists, read other passages in the Bible, or lots of times read the context of the scripture the brother would be reading on the platform, applying it the way the society wanted it applied; otherwise unless there was a really good speaker, I would just "zone out". I used to wish I could bring my knitting; but that would have been too distracting.