Be sure to check out the meat market...lol. It's always so funny watching the young ones eye each other up! Other than that, I haven't enjoyed a convention since I was a kid. Sad to say, but like most other young ones, I purely looked forward to it for the prospect of a 'marriage mate'. Now those days are long over and this year will be the first one I've missed in a few years. Looking forward to it!
wantstoleave
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Convention
by PYRAMIDSCHEME ini am off to convention tomorrow.
for the first time in my life i don't want to go...but i have to, this sucks..
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Not a big deal to some but a big deal to me!
by Simon Morley in2010:07:01 offically "inactive" - whats next?
- flurry of calls?, co/coboe "we want to encourage you..."?
given the vitrolic nature of my exit i doubt they want to come around.
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wantstoleave
Woot Woot!! Congratulations!
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How many Witnesses would stop going to meetings if..............
by TooBad TooSad inhow many witnesses would stop going to the meetings right now if they were not tied to the.
organization due to family members who are active and are blinded by wt teaching?.
how many husbands, like myself, go to meetings so as not to destroy their marriage?.
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wantstoleave
Hmmm maybe 50%. Like the above poster said, alot like the prospect of living forever, so would stick it out to reap the reward. Then there are those who question and those that don't. Some are happy just to follow blindly, others one foot in, one foot out. My guess would be at least 50%. I know I'd leave in a second if my family would!
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Divorced women in the WTS
by dgp ini am not a witness.
if i have understood correctly, in the wts, a single woman is at a disadvantage.
the wts is male-dominated and a woman can only go up through her father or husband.
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wantstoleave
Speaking from experience, as a young divorced woman who did so in her late 20s, I can tell you now that the thought of marrying another witness scares the crap out of me. After what I endured with my ex, who still maintains he's a witness (thus binding me 'scripturally' to him), I don't ever want to get involved with a witness again. Most have a skew view on the world and marriage in general and I just couldn't bear to be 'the weaker vessel' all over again. So while I would consider dating/remarriage at some point, like others here say, I 'save face' and say I'm content being a single mum because life is hectic enough.
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There's something I don't quite get
by dgp inlet's say you're an active witness (well, you guys were, or are active witnesses) and you look around you.
practically every appliance, invention, whatever, most of the food, all the new discoveries, virtually everything was made by worldlies.
it's been that way for thousands of years.
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wantstoleave
Dgp I've thought the exact same thing! Bothers me no end because it seems like it's double standards. We can benefit from 'the world' yet can't be in it. We can 'use' government agencies because they're there, yet we can't educate ourselves to get to a similar position. It's a bunch of hypocrisy.
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What to Do? What to Do? What to Say?
by whathehadas ini am inactive and trying to fade as some of you know.
since my family in still in, i've been recieving "we me you" cards from the congo i was going to.
i have also recieved a few calls from the congo i move from that's out of the area.
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wantstoleave
Like the others said, perhaps call and leave a message. Do so when you know no one will be home, that way you don't have to get into conversation. Express your sympathies and concern, then leave it at that. I am on the fade too, yet still have deep respect for one elder in particular. He did do his very best to help me over the past couple of years so I know that when I do finally leave, it will hurt him deeply. So I kind of know how you feel in this, that you want to express your condolences to the man, but also don't want to be caught in a trap of questioning.
Call when he's at the meeting or send a card :)
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Just witnessed this...
by MrFreeze ini just witnessed my mother and step father put the end to a friendship my 9 year old sister had with a "worldly" person.
it was heartbreaking.
this is someone she has been friends with for a few years and all of a sudden it's a problem now?
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wantstoleave
I can sympathise with you on this. When my parents became witnesses I was about 3, so dad particularly was very 'zealous' and over the top, as many new ones tend to be. I wasn't allowed 'worldly' friends at all. Only at school. Yet I had no association within the congregation as they were all old folk. By the time my sister came around, my parents had relaxed the rules a little, and as she had no friends in the congregation, they let her keep her worldly school friend. She even got to go to sleep overs etc which was out of the question when I was that age. My sister kept this friend well into her late teens til they went their separate ways. I still feel a little sad over not being able to keep my worldly school friends, as they were nicer than the JW's at the hall!
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My wife's out and we're very happy
by 10p ini feel a bit guilty.
people on this forum were very friendly and helpful to me when i was in the in-between phase between brainwashing and freedom.. i also got a lot of help and advice and sympathy when i was trying to get my wife out.. but when she did leave, i forgot all about you guys, and we got on with our lives, and have never been happier.
honestly, life is soooo damn good now, i worry i might have reached the peak and things will only get worse from here.. we are amazed at how much our children enjoy birthdays and christmas - how healthy, normal and fun these things are.
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wantstoleave
Lovely news!! Can't help but feel a little jealous (lol) in a good way though :)
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Michael Jackson's children going in field service
by Gayle inhttp://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/23/source-michael-jacksons-reclusive-children-spreading-religious-message-door-1313501295/?test=faces#content.
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wantstoleave
I know of many devout witnesses who on their birthday have a get together and drinks. It's widely known, but nothing is done about it because they don't call it a birthday, but it's pretty damn close to one. It's splitting hairs. I say you're either in or you're out, birthday or no birthday.
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Ozzies, Leaving the Cult, on SBS One @ 8:30 tonight
by Black Sheep inyour kids, spouses, etc.. jw or not, should be watching this tonight.. .
cheers.
chris.
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wantstoleave
Darn I missed it!!