Posts by Lucky Calamity

It keeps getting more and more real . . . I may even be able to take home a new laptop! Now that's a serious perquisite, but more than anything, I just can't wait for classes to start and for me to complete my college degree.

I feel so elated about getting back to school, and being able to attend this particular school . . . I hope I do well!

I'm also getting a little anxious about the whole prospect, wondering if I will be able to hack it and such . . . it's exciting and overwhelming.

Anyone else facing the same kind of excitement/anxiety?

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Brag about your garage sale, thrift shop, e-bay bargain finds thread

by FlyingHighNow in

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i love to find bargains.

good quality items/products at very low prices.

my idea about decorating is "looks expensive: costs a dime.

Lucky Calamity

Lady across the street works for a dry cleaning co. and holds yard sales now and then - mostly lots of clothes, but I spied a maroon-colored Asian-style chair that I thought resembled an antique . . . didn't study it until a relative admired it wholeheartedly as something very special . . .

Well, after studying it, I'm pretty convinced that it's quite the antique . . . looks like its fabric and edging is very, very old, but well-preserved. I haven't reserched it yet, but intend to. It's simply gorgeous and I paid 5 bucks for it. I'm sure it's worth a tad more . . .

The sorta' ugly lamp I bought for $5 was marked $12, but that'll be our little secret.

I also bought 4 gorgeous (long) coats at a thrift shop last year for a total of less than $35 . . . won't need any coats for a while!

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Are they really waiting for us to die?

by iknowall558 in

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this is something i've thought about over and over in my mind.

anyone df or da are viewed by active jws as "dead when armageddon comes".

are they waiting for us to die?.

Lucky Calamity

yes, pretty much . . . so they can live with us forever in the "New System," where we will pet lions and lambs and probably everyone will be vegetarians . . . uh huh . . .

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Questioning me as an apostate

by God_Delusion in

i am an active jw.

i was born in the "truth" (i really feel uncomfortable calling it that) and am now married to a witness.. for a year now, i have actually come to see that the gb are just business-psychologists.

anyone who views jehovah's witnesses as a religion and not a cult, really needs to evaluate their way of thinking and they also need to look up the definition of the word "cult".. anyway, my parents recently came over on holiday (they live in another country and are also residents of bethel).

Lucky Calamity

Welcome to the forum. I hope they don't burn you at their Judicial Committee stake, God_Delusion. Good luck and best wishes!

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Finding a new (real life) community

by bluecanary in

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speaking to ex-jws, many of you have joined another form of christianity and no doubt found fellowship in a church.

for those that are no longer christians, have you found another community of people (in person, not online)?.

i am extremely introverted.

Lucky Calamity

I found joining a low-key (non-competitive) hiking group to be helpful . . . I also have a lot of online groups I keep meaning to join in the real world . . . going to school and getting involved in SGA and school-related volunteer opps was great, too.

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Did you find out the hard way the advice - NEVER leave your

by hamsterbait in

never ever leaveyour child alone with a jw?.

i have friends who left their daughter over a weekend with her cousins.

she came back with crying fits, nightmares and general nervousness about the world ending.

Lucky Calamity

It's not a good idea to leave your kids unsupervised with JWs.

They do NOT respect your boundaries, no matter what (or how) you demand . . . and they do and say damaging things . . . they often have little comprehension, in my experience, of how to be child-oriented in any way . . . but that is my experience and observation.

Perhaps others have had better experiences.

Short and long, yes, I learned the hard way, and should have known better, but desperation and wishful thinking lulled me into allowing my JW family to spend too much time alone with my daughter.

Fortunately, I realized the error of my ways. She is a very independent-minded young woman who did not succumb to the grandparents' emotional (and other) blackmail/bribery. Life is challenging enough as it is; who needs that extra baggage?

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Why did you leave the org?

by A-Team in

were you dfed, did you find out some lies about the org?.

what was the last straw?

Lucky Calamity

to get a life.

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Your opinion please

by sspo in

just wondering what all of you experts would do if you were in my shoes and of course i realize we are all different and there is no right answer.. i was a jw for over 3 decades and very active, served mostly as elder for those many years.... won't give you all the details but wife divorced me for being an "apostate" "spiritual endangerment" even though there was.

no ground for scriptural divorce.

i was never df or da.. she's waiting for me to commit adultery and write a letter for her to be given to the elders.

Lucky Calamity

NO. Admitting to adultery when you didn't do it anyway, AND would be treated by the LAW outside the congregation as the defaulting party? NO WAY.

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BREAKING NEWS: WATCHTOWER IS STILL A MEMBER OF UN- SOURCE SAYS.

by Scott77 in

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i have read today this quote from one member on facebook going by the name of ruth eeker.. .

based on her quote, she states that "as well in regards to the un, the society has various name versions registered still in the un.

so they are still not completely out of the supposed beast!".

Lucky Calamity

How Machiavellian will this organization get?

Let's see . . . I smell some "new light" shining up from the cesspool of cult manipulation regarding all this.

The Org and its sheep will just accuse us of apostasy for pointing it out and use some loophole to weasle their way out of getting caught in what we know is a web of hypocrisy.

Maybe someone will change their mind because of this info, but my latest convo with a slightly disenchanted JW tells me it might be a lost cause after all. I hope I'm mistaken, though.

It would be totally awesome if this kind of news would shake a lot of JWs out of their bOrg-induced comas, but I don't hold out much hope for that anymore.