Yes I did - every milestone that was coming up in my life (starting high school, getting driver's license, moving out on my own, getting married) was overshadowed with the thought of Armageddon coming at any time and me not being able to experience those things. I remember though when I learned of the generation change in 1995, instead of waking up (DUR!), I still believed it was the truth and I was RELIEVED because I thought it bought me more time. I didnt want armageddon coming. I didn't want to live in a JW paradise even though I believed it at the time.
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Did You Personally Believe "The End" Was Going To Come In Your Lifetime?
by minimus inhonestly, i never believed in the chronology.
"no man knows the day or the hour" was pretty clear to me..
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Crazy JW chaperon Stories
by superman inthe jw's must not trust their members or at least don't have too much faith in them when it comes to being alone around member of the opposite sex.
i can remember one time in particular from when i was a teenager that still makes me laugh today.. when i was younger i used to go out in service on a regular basis during the week when i had summer break.
one time when i met for service there were only two other people that showed up.
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worldly people would be stumbled because the didn't know we were brother and sister
Blondie that made me chuckle because I have heard JWs use that reasoning before. That is so ridiculous. "worldly people" couldn't care less seeing two people of the opposite sex driving around. I think they would be more stumbled seeing one in the front seat and the other in back 'looking like idiots' as somebody posted before.
It's no wonder that many JW kids were married when they were still teenagers.
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Birthdays vs. Baby Showers
by The Missus inin the mind of a jw, why is there such a difference between celebrating someone's birthday from year to year and celebrating the actual day they were born, or celebrating that day a few weeks earlier or later in the form of a baby shower?
when i was a jw and a sister was in the hospital with her new baby we would go up to visit and bring gifts for the baby, in essence, celebrating that baby's birthday.
when i was in i never thought about it, but now i want to know!
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Hi Zid - I am a frequent reader of this site but not a poster since I usually can't think of anything enlightening to add! Not DFd or DAd, just started fading about 6 years ago.
Thanks for that link Blondie - very interesting
Isaac - I like that reasoning, will be using that when this topic comes up with my JW family
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Birthdays vs. Baby Showers
by The Missus inin the mind of a jw, why is there such a difference between celebrating someone's birthday from year to year and celebrating the actual day they were born, or celebrating that day a few weeks earlier or later in the form of a baby shower?
when i was a jw and a sister was in the hospital with her new baby we would go up to visit and bring gifts for the baby, in essence, celebrating that baby's birthday.
when i was in i never thought about it, but now i want to know!
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In the mind of a JW, why is there such a difference between celebrating someone's birthday from year to year and celebrating the actual day they were born, or celebrating that day a few weeks earlier or later in the form of a baby shower? When I was a JW and a sister was in the hospital with her new baby we would go up to visit and bring gifts for the baby, in essence, celebrating that baby's birthday.
When I was in I never thought about it, but now I want to know! If they don't celebrate birthdays, then they should not celebrate birthdays. period.
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Only Jehovah's Witnesses . . . . . The Arrogant Quote Collection
by nicolaou ini ran a search on my wt cd for the phrase "only jehovah's witnesses".
there were dozens of results, these are some of the more .
watchtower.
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Thanks nic! Very interesting to read those all together. I knew those phrases were out there in the literature. When I was a JW, I remember reading phrases like that and feeling very embrarrassed - embarrassed by what other people would think, that weren't JWs, reading stuff like that.
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Wasn't it the BEST when the speaker DIDN'T SHOW for the Public Talk?
by lurk3r inand all we had to do was sit thorugh the watchtower sudy?
it was a jw christmas!.
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I take that back the closest I got to Christmas as a JW was when they cancelled the meeting altogether because of the weather. It doesn't get any better than that!
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Wasn't it the BEST when the speaker DIDN'T SHOW for the Public Talk?
by lurk3r inand all we had to do was sit thorugh the watchtower sudy?
it was a jw christmas!.
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I agree it was the closest I got to Christmas as a JW! But once, the speaker did show up about 1/2 way thru the WT study so he gave his talk after. What a huge letdown
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Special Bible talk entitled: IS THERE A TRUE RELIGION FROM GODS STANDPOINT? - Coming to a Kingdom Hall near you on Sunday, April 26, 2009
by LUKEWARM inthe latest instalment is coming to convince everybody that there is only one channel - one god approved religion!.
so folks, what arguments do you think the wts will use to "prove" that there is a true religion from god's standpoint?.
lukewarm.
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well, thanks for ruining it for us wobble!
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Top 10 Memorial Excuses
by rebel8 ingood excuses.
pinkeye.
(highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.
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Spontaneous dental hydroplosion
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"We missed you at the meeting"
by tresdecu ini have grown to hate this statement with a a passion.
as an ms i vowed never to say it, because it never really sounded caring.
it was just a subtle guilt trip.. anyway...my reason for starting this thread is that a 'bible study' i know, (who i am aquianted with other than him being a b.s.
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One day in FS, an elder said to another elder, 'Let's go by and visit them.
um yah - that's another thing that irritates me. If you are going to get a visit because you were "missed" at the meetings, 99% chance the visit is going to come while the brother/sister is in field service or making shepherding calls. They usually will not take from their free time just to stop by and see how you are doing.