Hilarious. The sad thing is that I can see it happening.
tribalgirl
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Did you as a JW...
by startingover inthink you were above the law when it came to trespassing?
i began thinking about this after reading about danny haszard's pepper spray incident.
(i was too late to see the video btw).
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I never went onto property when it was obvious that they didn't want me there. There were others that would. I guess they wanted to be the one to get through to those "poor misguided people". What idiots.
I also never understood why some witnesses would stick their foot in the door when someone was trying to close it. It would scare the crap out of me when I was at the door with a brother who did that.
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Incense...
by *summer* indo any of you enjoy lighting incense?
if so, what is your favourite scent?
which reminds me...i always light a stick of incense an hour or so before the "girls" show up for study.
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Meditation has saved my life, figuratively speaking. The freedom that comes from just "being" is something that I will never give up. \
Sage is a fantastic herb. I use many others as well, but white sage is at the top of my list for clearing or cleansing.
How can something that is natural be evil? Answer: It can't.
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JWs Do NOT Care About Getting Converts. They Really Don't!
by minimus inif jws really cared about making disciples they would never use outdated ways to get their "lifesaving message" across.
knocking on doors, knowing that most people aren't at home, is simply a waste of time.
driving around from one part of town to the other side in order to stretch your time, while doing return visits is simply a way to not reach people as quickly as possible.
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When I was active in FS it always bothered me to think that I was forcing my (non) belief on someone else. Everyone knows what the JW's believe, if they are interested, they can find a KH on their own.
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Incense...
by *summer* indo any of you enjoy lighting incense?
if so, what is your favourite scent?
which reminds me...i always light a stick of incense an hour or so before the "girls" show up for study.
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I use nag champa on a daily basis during meditation.
Perhaps the herb you are referring to as smelling like pot is Sage. I use that on occasions tha call for cleansing or clearing my space, and it does smell like pot. -
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New here...
by tribalgirl ini joined this forum a couple of days ago and didn't want to just keep lurking, so here goes!.
my family have been jw's since before i was born, i was baptized at 12.i have six sisters, only one who still attends meetings.
my mom and stepdad no longer attend either.. i met and married my so in the congregation that i attended.
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Good to know. Thanks for the replies.
I am really enjoying this forum. It's probably the first contact I have had with people other than my family who understand what happens to you when you leave that organization.
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IS YOUR FEAR LESSENING?
by Dansk inmany here are afraid to come out into the open with their identity because they still have friends and family in.
however, it is noticeable that there are many newbies here and more and more exposes on watchtower.
do you, therefore, feel less intimidated or afraid now?.
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tribalgirl
I have not been assocociated with that orginization for many years, although I still live in the area and see many of the people that I grew up with. I have absolutely no fear of anyone knowing anything. I don't think most of them really want to know why I left. Too many questions that they can't answer.
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How did you break away?
by zennin in7 months ago i came to a foreign country on a working holiday visa for, you know, a 'wonderful experience'- i had plans to pioneer and a kind of determination to use this time to prove to myself, and to jehovah, that i can be loyal to him no matter what.... have i failed?
i don't think so, but even as i type this i think it is too early for me to answer or even ask that question.. all i know is that during the past 7 months i have done more research and more deep thinking and meditation than i have done in my whole life.
i have met wonderful wonderful people- many of them witnesses who have helped me out immensely and shown me a lot of kindness, and many of them non-witnesses- just ordinary people with their own moral foundations and personal philosophies.
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Let me see,
How did I break away? That is a very good question. As far as I can tell, it happened when my clinically depressed SO and I went to the elders begging for help and spiritual support in our time of "weakness" and were basically told to kiss off.
My SO is gender disphoric, meaning he feels like a woman trapped in a man's body. He was suicidally depressed and after struggling over a loaded gun with him the last time (this was many years ago), we decided that we would ask them for help. They told me to leave him and that they would do nothing to help him. We never went back.
Now that is not to say that we were free of the feelings that had been drummed into us for the previous 20 years of our lives, as we were both raised as witnesses. It took me many years to feel free enough to live my own life.
I am very happy to say that we are still together. I could never leave the person that I vowed to love until death because they have a problem that they have no control over. We are happier than we have ever been and are both glad that we left that organization. Needless to say, they never even tried to call on us either to see how we were doing, and strangely enough, after the pressure was off of him spiritually, his depression went away. Interesting, isn't it.
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New here...
by tribalgirl ini joined this forum a couple of days ago and didn't want to just keep lurking, so here goes!.
my family have been jw's since before i was born, i was baptized at 12.i have six sisters, only one who still attends meetings.
my mom and stepdad no longer attend either.. i met and married my so in the congregation that i attended.
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Thank you all for very warm welcome. I do find this a very nice place. I look forward to sharing and learning.
I was wondering if most of the people here are still going to meetings and keeping up "appearances". I no longer live my life that way and do not wish to offend anyone, but I will never go back, I no longer even believe in Christianity. I hope this is okay. I don't want to offend anyone, but I am a practicing occultist. I only bring this up because I understand the feelings of most people who have lived as JW's. I will not talk about it further here unless someone asks me a question, but I think it's only fair that you know, considering the Witnesses view of it. I will say that NO, I am not a Satanist!
Thanks again for the warm welcome and for all the great information on this forum.
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New here...
by tribalgirl ini joined this forum a couple of days ago and didn't want to just keep lurking, so here goes!.
my family have been jw's since before i was born, i was baptized at 12.i have six sisters, only one who still attends meetings.
my mom and stepdad no longer attend either.. i met and married my so in the congregation that i attended.
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Hello to you all,
I joined this forum a couple of days ago and didn't want to just keep lurking, so here goes!
My family have been JW's since before I was born, I was baptized at 12.I have six sisters, only one who still attends meetings. My Mom and Stepdad no longer attend either.
I met and married my SO in the congregation that I attended.
We left the organization together, thankfully, about 17 years ago. I have 2 sons who were not raised in that religion.
It has taken me all this time to feel free from the fear that was pounded into me on a daily basis for the first 2 decades of my life.
It's nice to see that all of the things I saw in my congregation, things that caused me to have doubts, were not just in my mind. I'm sure those things will all come out in further discussions, but they are quite numerous and I could spend days talking about it. I probably will, come to think of it...but that is for another day and another thread. I feel part of the group here already just from what I have read and I look forward to getting to know you all.