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2014 DC: Fewer, but larger venues in the U.S.
by doinmypart in
1. jw
2. friends
in the u.s. there are fewer venues this year, but they will be held in larger facilities.

as long as i can remember my family travelled no more than 2 hours to attend and in the last few years the dc was local (within a few minutes travel).

this year my family is driving 6 hours to a major u.s. city.
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Are You Embarrassed Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i am not.

everyone makes mistakes..
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The final chapter in the confusedandalone story...
by confusedandalone in
1. jw
2. experiences
this morning i get a frantic call from my sister (who has been baptized 1 year and one month and never attends meetings anymore).

in tears she tells me that this morning my father picked her up in the car and told her that i was am apostate.

that i no longer loved jehovah and that i was going to be disfellowshipped.
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The World is going to end...
by The Quiet One in
1. jw
2. friends
..one day, as will our lives.

any day could be the last day of our existence... with that in mind, how would you want to spend your final hours, if you knew that your life was going to end tomorrow?

what would you like to say on that last day, and to whom?.
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Aspiring EX JW anthem?
by sprintcmp in
1. jw
2. experiences
i think this song was written as a protest to the music industry, but the lyrics are soooo appropriate for leaving the "truth".. see the song performed here www.youtube.com/watch?v=exn0_oapozq.

and the lyrics here ==> http://www.lyricsondemand.com/l/laurynhilllyrics/igetoutlyrics.html.

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todays WT study...the picture...?
by stillin in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i wish i could scan it and get your thoughts.

it was a picture of a happy group of witnesses during a meeting for field service.

there was a. comment from a local high-horse-rider about a brother in the front row in the picture being disobedient.
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I've lurked a long time: JW's produce some of the most paranoid humans
by Unlearn in
1. jw
2. friends
i'll keep this brief for now.. long time lurker (4 years or so).. born-in, elder, used on district level (last talk i gave before i left was the baptisimal talk), and lots of hard time put in...before i finally made the move to split.

it's a long stoy, much like many of yours...but with it's own little interesting twists.

more details in the future, perhaps.. as i said, ive lurked here for a while.. its funny: for a long time i'd only come on late at night.
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Life is so short...how do I get my famiy out? If not, how can I stop worrying about them?
by sprintcmp in
1. jw
2. friends
i was born in, baptized at 12 or 13. auxiliary pioneered one of those aprils when there was the big promo.

i took the act's in high school because every body else was doing it and glory be...i was granted a scholarship and my parents allowed me to go to college.

around the same time, two things happened: 1) an instructor said during a lecture: "question everything, even the things your parents taught you.
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Was there anything different about you that helped you escape the WT?
by Giordano in
1. jw
2. experiences
for me i know it was because i was a reader.. i began reading books at the age of 13, this was in the 1950's.

because there were some serious family problems i had two escapes i could count on reading and associating with my friends at the kingdom hall.. as i devoured steinbeck, hemingway, wolf etc.

my world view expanded....it had to.
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Car Full of JW's while I'm at the Car Wash............
by Terry in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm sort of angry right now.. no, not angry..... i'm shaky.

at least, when i lift my cup of coffee to my lips, sitting here at starbucks, my hand is trembly.. i hate that!.

the power they have to still reach me on some hidden point that hides in the corners of my very being.... .