Posts by chickpea

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We are the ones that are blessed!

by Newborn in

jw
friends

my dear dad who has been out for more than 10y, often says that we, who've left the cult, may be the ones that are truly blessed by god and i like that thought.

chickpea

what a lovely sentiment...

i second what jamiebowers said

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Are YOU Shunned By Jehovah's Witnesses At All?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some witnesses speak to me quite normally/.

others avoid me like the plague.. how are you treated by the witnesses?.

chickpea

the ones to whom i was closest
see me as the walking dead...
10 years of book study hospitality
on our part seems to account for nought

the ones i can barely recall by name
will greet me and insist on awkward
attempts to initiate a conversation....

13

Would you save your life ? or die for your religion?

by LadyxNova in

im non- jehovan witness, i am athiest/christian.

im 15.. i just want to ask why would people die for a belief instead of saving a life.

a life is much more sacred then a religion.. life is everything, it gives you good and bad choices etc.. the blood transfusion, i was reading couple of articles on how jehovahs witness people actually would die for a belief.. it really got me mad.

chickpea

i would do a lot of things to save my life,
or the lives of my family and friends
including taking another....
(former military service member here)

i wouldnt die for any religion
since i adhere to none....

which doesnt preclude that
i may well die because of someone
else's adherence to a relgion....
there is a lot of that going around

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Living With Regret - what do YOU regret about being in the org?

by babygirl30 in

jw
friends

1. getting baptized at 14 and not knowing what the heck i was 'signing' up for.

2. dating worthless, lazy, no work ethic, selfish 'brothers' who were supposedly approved all because they were baptized - but in the end - were a waste of my time and younger years in dating.. 3. subjecting my bf (back in the day) who was a non-jw to the whole jw experience!

i demanded that he study, i demanded that he change his religion in order to be with me, i made him sit with my parents and listened to them berate him (and myself) while they fed him all their haughty beliefs and requirements in order to date their jw daughter.

chickpea

i am with casper

my kids lost what can never
be retrieved.... their childhoods

they have all forgiven me...
i just havent been able to
forgive myself for that... yet

21

Would you go back for the social aspect?

by highdose in

jw
friends

i mean aside from wanting to keep in touch with family who are still in.

would you ever go back just to have the social aspect in your life?

i personaly wouldn't but i'd like to hear from you all about it....

chickpea

i would go back...

after the stroke and the lobotomy

and only after i had turned my brain
to swiss cheese with constant use of meth

then i would go back, no problem

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Was Jesus a hunchback, unibrowed dwarf?

by villabolo in

i recall some time ago reading a book (i forgot the title) that stated that there was an early church tradition about jesus being deformed.

one source described him as being 3 cubits tall-41/2 feet (males at that time and region were on average 5'4"), hunchbacked, long face with a unibrow that made him look terrifying when he looked at you.. i was wondering if any of our scholars, leolaia or narkissos are familiar with this issue and perhaps enlighten us with some references.. villabolo.