My reaction is that I am a blessed woman.
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XJWs, do you look forward to and enjoy weekends? As a Dub did you not look forward to weekends?
by miseryloveselders inevery friday at my job, i hear the usual.
"its friday!!
" "i'll be better in three more hours!!
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I hated Tuesday nights, Thursday nights, Saturday mornings and Sunday mornings when I was a JW. I much preferred going to school and my school friends or just being at home.
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Did leaving the WT build greater appreciation for or kill your reading of the Bible?
by lepermessiah ini am really on the fence on this issue right now and would love some opinions.. i find that i dont sit down and read the bible for long periods since becoming inactive, but on the other hand, individual scriptures mean much more to me now.. i will sit down and look up some favorite passages from time to time and feel like its the first time i really "got it" - without the jw goggles on.
i love matthew chapter 23, since i think it describes to a tee the situation in jw congregations.
i think if jesus returned today, he would blast the elders and "leaders" of the borg in a similar fashion (along with most religious leaders) .matthew 24 is actually more interesting to me now, simply because my whole life was waiting for the 1914 generation to end sometime during the reagan era!
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I have greater appreciation for the Bible as a whole. I enjoy Bible study with truly knowledgeable leaders. I still cannot study the book of Daniel or Revelation. Too many JW memories that I don't like stirring up.
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Yes.
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I tried to talk to JW's today and they ran away.
by moshe ini spotted them out in fs on my block as i turned into my driveway, so i waited for them to come around to my side of the street.
they were in a huddle, 2 sisters and 2 brothers- the brothers had a young boy around 6 with them to get sympathy.
i had my 1924 wt book, the way to paradise, in hand and approached them.
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No, you cannot tell what a JW is really thinking. They are programmed to hide their true feelings and thoughts. We only see the robots.
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No, absolutely not. JWs have been the most negative influence on my life. The effects continue today mainly because of extended family. It affected family for me even in my father's family and none of them were JWs. They hated us being JWs so much that it affects relationships even today. There are still so much miscommunication and misunderstanding and confusion. The repercussions have been endless.
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I tried to talk to JW's today and they ran away.
by moshe ini spotted them out in fs on my block as i turned into my driveway, so i waited for them to come around to my side of the street.
they were in a huddle, 2 sisters and 2 brothers- the brothers had a young boy around 6 with them to get sympathy.
i had my 1924 wt book, the way to paradise, in hand and approached them.
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ROFL! Fabulous, moshe! It makes me want to find one of those books on ebay or something and do the exact same thing next time I see a JW.
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Have you hit your 50's? Are you feeling it, or do you still feel young?
by restrangled ini'm curious, because in my 40's i felt like a million dollars.
i am starting to feel it,....i just don't have the stamina of working in the yard all day, coming in making dinner and getting the laundry done at the same time, or working full time.. i see the years in my face when i don't get enough sleep, and no amount of makeup makes a difference.
my eyes seem to always look tired.
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restrangled:
LOL! I haven't even started yet. I just know my 77 year old mother-in-law can run rings around me. She gets up and walks 4 miles EVERY morning.
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What kind of Witness were you?
by EmptyInside inthere always seemed to be some witnesses who seemed to be in it for the social aspect of it.
the ones who planned most of the gatherings and trips.
and the ones who got invited to the parties two states away.
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I don't know exactly how to answer this since I was never a JW as an adult. I will tell you how I would classify the immediate family that I grew up in.
From birth to 10 years old I would call my family borderline hardcore. We were in 2 different congregations during that time. My father was a "Congregational Servant" (back before the elder system). He was the construction chairman for the Kingdom Hall in the first town we lived in. We never missed a meeting. We were regular in field service. We always hosted the Circuit Servant and District Servants in our homes. In both those congregations our family was at the center of all the social activities that went on in the congregation.
We moved to a 3rd city. Things could not have been more different.The leadership in this congregation were all hardcore doctrine and legalistic. There was no socializing although my parents tried. For a number of reasons, my family backed off on our zealousness. I would call it more going through the motions. But my parents never left completely.
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