Topics Started by DJ_Q

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Do You Allow Others To Shun/Ignore You?
by White Dove in
1. jw
2. friends
i have the type of personality that when people that i love ignore me, i don't allow it.

i'm relentless.

i go after them and make the relationship work, if i want them in my life, that is.
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Do You Feel Better Because You Post On EXJW Boards?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
in reality, is it a good thing, in the long run?

should the purpose of a board to be to give the person needed help and then the person should just move on?.

does being on a discussion board like this mean that you aren't really getting on in your life?.
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Would You Go Back?
by Dune in
1. jw
2. friends
yesterday, my aunt was talking to one of my siblings about how things have been changing in our [ex] congregation for the 'better'.. she mentioned how a new circuit overseer has come in and is shaking things up.

the co appointed a ministerial servant (someone, the po & secretary didn't like and i know would never have voluntarily suggested appointment) and some of the 'brothers' that have had no 'responsibility' ever are being given #4 talks.

she also mentioned that the book study will be cancelled and the meetings are being shortened.. a ministerial servant who had a vendetta against some of the elders wants me to talk to a co and basically tell him i left the congregation [and the religion] because of the incompetence of the elders.. i'm not talking to the co and i'm not 'blaming' anyone.
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Giving talks terrified my hubby-how about you?
by QuestioningEverything in
1. jw
2. friends
me and the hubby were talking about back in the day when we had to give public talks.

i'm a natural chatterbox and not very shy.

my hubby is just the opposite.
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Why Don't Witness Parents Get Angry?
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
there are a great many puzzlements in regard to the meek and servile compliance of witnesses but one area has long interested me.

specifically, why don't more witness parents get angry at the do-nothing watchtower society?

i can recall one somewhat deranged elder's wife who got away with demanding to speak to the assembled body of elders because she was worried that 'all of of our kids are falling out of the truth'.
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Former JW in Houston
by DJ_Q in
1. jw
2. experiences
i sure could use some group therapy, but would settle for drinking a beer over some good conversation.

are there any former, maybe not formers but df's, or just plain doubting jw's who would like to meet some time.

anywhere in houston works for me.. .
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how many wanted to just run away?...disappear?....after....
by oompa in
1. jw
2. friends
....waking up to the real truth about the truth?......when it first really hit me like a shovel in the face.....i actually said to the co i would have to leave my wife and son (not hers)) and he is now 20 (not the co..my son), and i said it because i knew i would now never measure up to the "spiritual head" model.

cause i knew it was all bs...but have not really ran away yet....at least not for more than a week at a time.........doing better actually.......but did you want to at least move or something?

?...........oompa
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If you weren't born in, how did you get in?
by ecuador in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not a jw, but know several, and i am curious as to why adults get involved with the jws.

any one have an answer from personal experience?
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What JW teaching did you find hardest to defend??
by karter in
1. jw
2. experiences
for me it was that god is killing billions of people just to prove a point.

what about you?
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Promiscuous or sexually free?
by brunnhilde in
1. social
2. relationships
so i'm 37 and i've only been with one man, my ex-husband, in my entire life.

i just started a new relationship with a wonderful man but i'm fighting the preprogramming that comes from being a dub for 35 years.

how have other people overcome the inhibitions and issues that come from the ridiculously rigid sexual mindset of the wtbs?