I remember the time when I was 17 years old. My parents retired to Florida and I lived in Massachusetts. I was working at $7/hr. I was living alone and it took everything I had to just pay rent. Food was a luxery, I had the oppertunity to work overtime at the cost of missing the meetings (except for Sundays) and I took it. I was so exhausted from work, I found it hard to wake up on time for the Sunday Talk but, nevertheless I was there. One day my truck broke its clutch. I thought of the people they made examples of in third world countries who have to walk miles to the meetings and cross rivers filed with piranhas to get there. I thought this is my "piranha filled river" and still I was going to make it. I grinded the gears, power shifting my beat up truck, and made it to the meeting. Only to have the elders that very day, tell me that missing the meetings was unexceptable, and I was to be stripped of all my priveleges. I told them my circumstance, and asked for help from the elders. I even gave them the piranha filled river speach. All they said to me after that was, "If you can't afford to live on your own, you should go live with your parents." I was shocked! These people were supposed to be my family. Yet they never gave me help. I later walked to work. An elder stopped by my place and talked with me and asked why I haven't gone to the meetings. I said, the Kingdom Hall is 10 miles away and its 30 degrees out. Luckily my job was about a mile away. He offered to give me a ride but said I had to pay him $5 a day to get there!!!!! I told him to leave, and I never went back to that Kingdum Hall again.
Joshnaz
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Dec. 15th WT - WT Society REALLY Minimizes Earning a Decent Living
by flipper init's ridiculous.
i saw this so much in my 44 years in the jehovah's witness cult.
whether it was elders, pioneers, or other people in the cult criticizing others for working too much at their employment or missing some service or meetings due to employment.
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Are There Certain Posters You Trust Here?
by minimus ini've been on this site for a number of years now.
i don't easily trust just anybody.
having said that, there are a few persons here that know my real identity and i'm comfortable with them.. are there certain posters that you trust here?.
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Mr Flipper is one person that I trust. I spoke with him on the phone for a length of time one day. He's helped me immensely.
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Demonic Possesion of Inaminate Objects
by cantleave inthis is a phenonoma often discussed by jw's.
how unique is this idea to jw's?.
anyone got any good stories on this subject?.
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Funny, I wonder what type of sound a photograh makes when it hits a wall or ceiling. In order for a photo to make a loud enough noise hitting the wall or ceiling to wake me up it would have to be made of rock or something. The picture would have to be traveling faster than the speed of sound to make a sound cutting through the air. hahahaha! Sounds like typical JW story though.
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Demonic Possesion of Inaminate Objects
by cantleave inthis is a phenonoma often discussed by jw's.
how unique is this idea to jw's?.
anyone got any good stories on this subject?.
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From my sister's My Little Pony's, to Smurfs their has always been talk of this. One sister of mine said she recieved a vase that was demonic. Later she said she felt like a demon was choking her and her husband went to go help but his feet stuck to the floor. Apparently I think its all delusional fear instilled in us by the Governing Body. Nobody I know now as a Ex-Jw as ever experienced anything like that even when purposely going into so-called haunted area's. I've done alot of research on this after posting the old smurf ran out of the KH and exploded into flames rumor. Psycologist say that we see things with our mind as well as our eyes. Fear being the most contributing factor being infused in our mind by the GB can cause JW's to see things like these objects of demonic possesion. To simply sum it up. Its not real, but it may be real to the one seeing it. Just as when we dream with our sub conscience mind we see and feel things when we dream. When fears in us are so strong the subconscience mind influences our senses to where it makes us see and feel things that are not real.
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Are Jehovah's Witness men good catches?
by garyneal ini've stated this before on this message board but i was kind of curious about this and wanted to get some feedback from the group.
in particular, the ladies who are either current or former jw's.. about a year or so ago, my wife went with me to a church i was attending at the time.
we then later that morning attended a kh meeting.
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I think my husband is the best man there is. I would only have to agree that ex-JW men are the best. With them you get the family stucture you need with the freedom of living your own life.---------from, JOSH"S WIFE. :)
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what is the best state in the usa to live in / visit?
by highdose inam thinking of doing some globe trotting soon, would like some insider info/ opinions please.
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The best state to visit is the State you were born in. The best state to live in so far for me is Arizona. I've been to alot of place's from Maine to Florida. From Massachusetts to Arizona. From Arizona to California. I like to live in Arizona the best.
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Beginning on JWN
by Thunderinus ini left the jws three years ago after having done extensive research through the internet where fortunately one can find an enormous amount of information regarding every aspect of the jws it's simply amazing how many websites there are exposing their real nature.
though in the end i don't blame so much the rank and file members who are themselves naive and ignorant victims, rather i blame those governing this organisation who are constantly and ruthlessly deceiving and holding captive in a spiritual sense their hapless followers.. i had several issues with them:.
the blood ban goes too much against common sense why would it be wrong to accept blood from someone that willing gives it and without any coercion or harm to himself precisely out of good kindness with the intention to save lives as indeed millions of lives were saved in this way.
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Bravo----we are all behind you!
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Did You Personally Know Any JWs That Were Sexually Molested By Other JWs?
by minimus ini knew of a handful (which is too many) that were molested by a jehovah's witness.
it was not typical in my experience.
what about you???.
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YES!!!!!!!!
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What are you having for dinner tonite?
by Newborn inand do you normally eat more "nice" festive dinner on friday evenings?.
tonight i'm having tacos.
have a great weekend everybody and enjoy your mornings without any early meetings for field service.
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My wife made baked chicken breast and scrambled eggs. I said, "Eggs?" She says, "Yea that's the side dish" I said, "Its supposed to be a vegetable or potatoes or something." She just raised her shoulders and said "Oh well."
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What's the worst you ever experienced while preaching?
by Newborn ini was once threatened with a rifle.
that was scary...but hey...what didn't we suffer for the good news.
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1) I walked up a driveway that was freshly blacktoped and sealed and left footprints all over it. After the lady yelled at me I said, "So you don't want any magazines?" She replied, "GET OUT AND DONT WALK IN MY DRIVE WAY!"
2) I heard of a story where a small dog kept jumping up and down on a dub selling WT's and Awake's. While waiting for a response from knocking on the door the dog kept jumping on this guy. So he rolled up the magazines and swatted the dog. The dog then dropped dead!! So the dub quickly stuffs the dog in his breifcase and then the homeowner opens the door and he gives his presentation and sells the WT and AWAKE. The following week he returns to the house and the homeowner asks him, "Have you seen my dog, the last time I saw it was when you were here." The dub replied "No, I haven't seen it."