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its a new day, its a new life and im feeling good!!
by student1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have finally moved out of my home with pioneering jdub, its been a rollercoaster few days.. hence my delay getting back to jwd... .

i got glassed in town on a night out on saturday!!

(wrong place, wrong time... have stitches but am ok)... i started uni on monday.. exciting stuff!
This joke about jws made me laugh
by student1 in
1. social
2. humour
"the first bloodless surgery was performed this week in which a kid who is a jehovah's witness got a new liver without a blood transfusion.

the parents were so happy, they almost celebrated!

" .
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Your heroes?
by monophonic in
1. jw
2. friends
who are your heroes?.

some of mine:.

knut hamsun (pre-1900).
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I had a guy talk to me about the witnesses in a night club on friday!!
by student1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
what a random turn of events, my jw housemate decided to show me she still liked me this friday.

she took me out for a rocking evening to celebrate my 2-1 result for my degree!.

this was rather nice as i had been getting increasingly jealous at the fuss others were making over her to make up for the horror of her best mate turning apostate!!
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Does this mean anything to you??
by student1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
one day you finally knew.

what you had to do, and began,.

though the voices around you.
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growing emotionally :)
by Missanna in
1. jw
2. experiences
i've been thinking a lot lately about how much i've changed over the last year.

i've only been out of the borg for a year but i've changed so much.

my father called me the other day and told me that he found out that my husband has been going on these xjw boards and wanted to know how i felt about it.
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Did you/ Do you tell prospective mates that you used to be a jw?
by student1 in
1. social
2. relationships
if you do, how long do you get to know them before you do?

also is telling prospective mates about your past just a big no no cos it screams out baggage!

yes lashings of baggage is what this evil religion has left me with!
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After 18months I get called on - Elder confrontation.
by wozadummy in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
firstly i will acknowlege this may be long please bear with me.. not all written here will be exactly in the sequence we discussed things, for we talked for some time at my door.. he was my former book study conductor and i still think he has good qualities that i see lacking in so many elders, but as you will see the wts mindset is like concrete in his mind.. i am writing this not to brag but to emphasise and highlight the disgusting mindset of the wts and it's leaders and members.. here we go - some may know that my wife was molested as a child for some time by her elder father.

when we married some years ago it did not take long for her to open up to me about what happened to her and needless to say we struggled with this, and eventually told the local elders what happened to her as a child.. we only went this path after she tried to get him to confess ,which he did'nt and so we followed what we thought at the time was the theocratic way and went to the elders ,and please note we sincerely wanted him to repent so he could get everlasting life.

he denied all and so followed years of heartache for my wife along with her family tormenting her and eventually abandoning her, even by at least one of her sisters whom my wife also witnessed getting done by the father though not as bad ,and my wife even as a kid tried to protect her younger sisters.. ok there is the usual wts crap "we have no witnesses" even though my wife called out to jehovah to stop him as he did this for years.
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Is this the correct place for an introduction??
by student1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
long time lurker from the uk... making my first post ooh scary...the reason posting now is that i need some advice on talking to my jw family and friends, without their walls coming up!

having read this forum for a good year, you all seem to be expert linguists!

i want to be like an indiana jones type character and slip through the sliding door in to the tomb (my sisters brain!
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cult personality type?
by Mysterious in
1. jw
2. friends
another thing that has been intriguing me lately is the idea that cults can help sway people towards a certain personality type more towards a judging personality for example, or becoming more feeling rather than thinking.

i know my meyers-briggs type changed from istj when i was a jw to intj after i left.

i was curious if anyone else was aware of a similar shift in their actual measurable personality traits..maybe putting on the new personality is literal?