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  A question for converts

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was born in i have no experience of this...

  when you were studying do you remember coming up against things you questioned?

  did you ask your study conductor and what responses did you get?

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  LockedChaos

  Born-In here too
  Left in 1980
  
  Us "Older" folks know it was
  next to impossible to get any
  answers.
  
  If the library didn't have it
  If the book stores didn't stock it
  We got nothing
  
  I remember when I was little
  I found a copy of an old comic book
  In the back was an ad for a book
  by Ayn Rand,Objectivist.
  I sent away for it.
  Got it in the mail
  Dad saw me looking at it
  
  You would have thought I was
  Dahmer caught under the house
  with the family cat
  
  Got grounded
  Confiscated all my books, magazines,
  music. Lost it all
  
  But I remembered...........
  Couldn't take that away
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  Consequences of being a JW

  by Regretful_J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been thinking about what its like to be born and raised as a jw and the mistakes that parents make as an almost direct result of this cult.

  for one thing, the children are not allowed to think freely, and if they say or do one little thing their parents disapprove of, they are chastised and basically bullied into abandoning that thought or action.

  another thing is that no matter what you do, and no matter how good your reputation is among friends, teachers, administrators, etc if you don't want to go to meetings, and don't believe in this faith, they do what they can to make you feel lower then dirt for this and will often resort to verbal abuse, and sometimes violence to force you to believe in them and conform.

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  LockedChaos

  All very true
  
  Born-in here
  Always carried guilt
  Never enough
  
  Only freedom was town library
  ....had to do homework....
  Actually it was the only way I could
  learn anything that wasn't WT related
  
  Read everything I could my hands on
  If I tried to have an intelligent
  conversation with JW "Friends" I
  would get that drooling, blank stare
  like I was an adult talking in a Charlie
  Brown cartoon. WaWaWaWaWa
  
  That only worked for a couple of years
  Then I had to use only the bound volumes
  of Watchtower & Awake for research.
  No encyclopedias at home
  
  Made for some interesting papers
  
  I just remembered
  I won a lot of awards in school
  ribbons, plaques, that sort of thing
  Parents never kept them
  All gone forever......Sad
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  The Daily "Makes You Think" Quote

  by sacolton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was discussing the issue of the watchtower society to a mormon.

  without hesitation, he believes jehovah's witnesses are definately brain-washed.. makes you think.

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  LockedChaos

  Pot calling the
  Kettle syndrome
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  August 1980 Kingdom Ministry about Apostasy & Franz resignation

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was sorting some papers tonight and came across a copy of the august 1980 km which announced the "apostasy against the organization" (a letter from the governing body) and has the notification that raymond franz was no longer a member of the governing body and bethel family.

  i remember reading this just as i was making plans to disassociate myself at the same time.

  this copy of the km was in some papers that belonged to my mother-in-law (who passed away several years ago).

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  LockedChaos

  Shame
  One lousy sentence about Ray
  
  Gave more space to the literature "Deal"
  Two 50 cent books for $1
  What a deal
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  Dub rip offs

  by Dismembered in

  1. social
  2. humour

  http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=200880723003.

  the two mentioned in this article are dubs.

  he he he..

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  LockedChaos

  In my best Beavis voice
  
  Heh, Heh
  He said Wacker Generator
  
  O.K.
  Just read the article
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  Japanese Beatles - I've had enough of them!

  by Quirky1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from what i've heard there's more of them because of the warm weather.. http://gazettextra.com/news/2008/jul/21/scoring-victory-over-japanese-beetles/.

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  LockedChaos

  Damn!!
  
  I was just getting to make a
  smart ass comment about Japanese
  cover bands
  
  Late again
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  The most functional english word,.

  by tak in

  1. social
  2. humour

  the most functional english word.

  the most functional english word .

  hope this makes you smile .

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  LockedChaos

  In a number of carefully controlled trials,
  scientists have demonstrated that if we drink
  1 liter of water each day,
  at the end of the year we would have absorbed
  more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces.
  In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
  However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer
  (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to
  go through a purification process of boiling,
  filtering and/or fermenting.
  
  Remember:
  Water = Poop,
  Wine = Health.
  
  Therefore,
  it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
  than to drink water and be full of shit.
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  Why is something, anything, too "far fetched?"

  by feenx in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first off with the contents of this post i am not here to upset anyone, nor am i promoting any singular (or collective) idea, thought or belief.

  there have been some recent posts on the board the last couple days regarding ufo's, government coverups, etc.

  such topics always spark the debate between what can be proved, what hasn't been proved but is "realistic" and what is too "far fetched.

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  LockedChaos

  "My fairytale is better than yours. Your fairytale isn't good enough. It's just stupid."
  
  Good wording
  Matters not what the "group" thinks
  Only matters what the "individual" thinks
  
  We are told in scripture to not believe in anyone who
  acts and does those very things that Jesus did,
  but we are to believe him on his own word and prophecy.
  
  Are we a part of the dream that the dreamer is dreaming?
  
  Will that spaceship one day land to whisk away
  all the faithful slaves/servants.
  
  I remember an "Outerlimits" episode as a youngster.
  Aliens landed and were oh so kind and helpful
  They were taking people away for a better life
  They had a book left to all the great minds
  titled "To Serve Man"
  No one could interpret the writing inside.
  Finally someone did. After much of the population
  had departed. Turns out the great book was a
  COOKBOOK.
  
  That little piece of science fiction really
  got me thinking way back when.
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  New here, but not to being an Ex-JW...

  by amama2six in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just thought i'd briefly introduce myself.

  my name is april, i am a navy wife and mother of six children, will be 30 next month, and have been disfellowshipped for almost 12 years.

  i was also reproved two years prior to that.

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  LockedChaos

  Amama
  Welcome
  
  You have just taken an important step
  You're here!
  
  I've been out 28 years
  Just dealing with it now
  Thought I was over it
  Wasn't
  
  Research has helped
  Forum has helped
  Books by Ray Franz helped - a lot
  
  Opening up has helped
  
  Eyes open
  Keep thinking
  Keep searching
  
  All will be well
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  R. Franz

  by Newborn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear all,.

  i've just read raymond franz interesting, revealing and important book.

  i wonder if anyone of you have met him or talked to him in person?

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  LockedChaos

  Read both
  Corresponded via e-mail
  Warm friendly man
  He and wife have both been ill
  Too bad
  
  Given many of us direction
  we would not have had otherwise