I have just returned from the workshop which helped me to gain some new insights. The best thing: my wife said she just accompanied me just for me but was very impressed. That was not what she expected (to be very anti-JW and full of hate) and it helped her a lot to understand. I am very happy.
GermanXJW
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I attended Workshop for former cult members! Read!
by GermanXJW inthe first week-end in september i attended an anti cult workhop here in germany.
it was conducted by german psychologist dieter rohmann.
his website can be found at http://www.kulte.de/person.html.
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Do you lie about your age in your profile???
by frankiespeakin inwe all have to be careful about how much information we give out over the net,,it is wise and prudent in some areas,, but what about age???.
now i know many women don't like to admit they are over 29 what do you think is the percentage of correct profiles in reguards to age??.
this is private information and i don't want this to be a prying type of thread just reasonable discussion.
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GermanXJW
If I want to know exactly how old I am, I take a look at my JWD profile. :-)
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2004/2005 "Walk With God" District Convention Program
by johnny_was_good infriday.
9:30 music.
42 and prayer.
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GermanXJW
My guess: they are releasing a new multi-language brochure "Good News for People of All Nations"
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What effect did, being called "Brother or Sister" have on you?
by JH ini remember a month ago, receiving a slip at my door, saying that the memorial is this coming sunday, and it was signed by an elder, saying "your brother" elder so and so.
it was as if he and i were at the same level by writting "your brother".
the first reaction i had, seeing "your brother", acted as if we had a special bond, with a responsibility attached to it.. do you think that being called "brother or sister" is a way of manipulating you, a way of getting more out of you?
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Being raised as a JW I was used to the term. But I did not really grasp the literal meaning, maybe because I am a single child. To me it was just a substitute for Mr. If I was really close to someone we would use our first names.
In German - like in French and some other languages - there are two different forms of 'you' - one for people you know (Du) (they have to offer you) and one for everyone you do not know or who is not a relative and who has not offered you to say 'Du'. As a JW you say "Du" to all fellow JW but if you do not know him you would call him "Brother/Sister Lastname". So it is really to get some personal distance and not for feeling close. -
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My First Move As An Ex-JW
by GermanXJW induring my job career i had to move several times during the last ten years and came across germany.
i must say it was a convenient situation as a jw: you come into a brandnew city, go the hall, they receive the letter from the old congregation and you have ca.
100 new "friends".. .
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Thanks for you reply. I now live near Düsseldorf.
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My First Move As An Ex-JW
by GermanXJW induring my job career i had to move several times during the last ten years and came across germany.
i must say it was a convenient situation as a jw: you come into a brandnew city, go the hall, they receive the letter from the old congregation and you have ca.
100 new "friends".. .
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GermanXJW
During my job career I had to move several times during the last ten years and came across Germany. I must say it was a convenient situation as a JW: you come into a brandnew city, go the hall, they receive the letter from the old congregation and you have ca. 100 new "friends".
I have a new job since December and to move more than 400km away and I have to say now it is much difficulter. I have to work a lot and hardly know anybody. I was lucky that my new employer paid my move - I lost a lot of people who usually gave a hand when I moved ;-) - as I did when someone else was moving.
Me and my wife have joined a gym now - I think we are going to lose some pounds. I am also thinking about starting a Recovery Group as I did in my former city.
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After 20 Years.....I Can't Believe It!
by RAYZORBLADE inno surprise, i don't post here much these days.. but today, i have to.. when i first arrived here back in january 2003, i remember looking at this very section of the board.
personal experiences & reunions.. well.....i got the shock...the absolute shock of a lifetime.
some of you, i'm sure, when you remember folks in your jw past, there are those whom you thought you'd never ever hear from.. last night, i get home from work (4:00 a.m.) and i go on-line, open my e-mail, and i see a name i have not seen since my jw days of 1983/84.. how did i feel?
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GermanXJW
Must be a good feeling. I was thinking about people I would love to see in my inbox. :-(
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I attended Workshop for former cult members! Read!
by GermanXJW inthe first week-end in september i attended an anti cult workhop here in germany.
it was conducted by german psychologist dieter rohmann.
his website can be found at http://www.kulte.de/person.html.
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GermanXJW
The one I will attend is in Pforzheim. There will be another one in Lambrecht(Pfalz) in autumn 2004.
Both are in the more southern Germany, near to Stuttgart/Karlsruhe where http://www.ausstieg.net is located. "Ausstieg e.V." (Exit Inc.) is the name of the Recovery Group that also runs the Ex-JW-board http://www.infolink-forum.de
Find more info about the workshops here: http://www.infolink-net.de/index-seminar.htmOn one of the pictures there you can even find me.
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I attended Workshop for former cult members! Read!
by GermanXJW inthe first week-end in september i attended an anti cult workhop here in germany.
it was conducted by german psychologist dieter rohmann.
his website can be found at http://www.kulte.de/person.html.
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GermanXJW
Dieter Rohmann who is conducting the workshops in Germany is acquainted to Steven Hassan.
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Too Good To Be True Yearbook Experiences
by Nosferatu inallright everyone, do you remember some of the yearbook experiences, or yearbook worthy ones about how a bible study was started?
then you get jws trying to copy the examples, such as pretending to read an awake magazine on a bus, hoping someone will ask, "what are you reading that's so interesting?
" or leaving tracts in chain link fences, hoping someone will pull it out and look at it.. give some of the lame experiences you've heard, you've experienced, or make one up.
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GermanXJW
They sometimes even edit names and countries so that you always hear stories from far away that cannot really check. So, it is common to read an "experience" from Africa in Europe while the same "experience" is printed in an African magazine as an "experience" from Europe. The person has different first names in both stories.