Posts by highdose

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Why I left the Jehovah's Witnesses

by God_Delusion in

if you haven't done so already, i advise that you watch the below video.. http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/2010/01/why-i-left-jehovahs-witnesses.html.

i know exactly how he feels, as it's the exact same reason i had to break free; well sort of, but not entirely free yet .

also, does anyone know if this lad posts on here?

highdose

your in the same basket as me. Hey we can all be basket cases together!;)

I guess what i mean is, your in good company

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about 2 weeks ago i met a guy online, we chatted on the phone one evening and had a good conversation and aranged to go on a date this friday coming.. since then i have heard almost nothing at all from him!

i think about 2 texts and thats it!

in one of the texts he hints that he would like to see a picture of me "wearing alot less".

highdose

about 2 weeks ago i met a guy online, we chatted on the phone one evening and had a good conversation and aranged to go on a date this friday coming.

Since then i have heard almost nothing at all from him! I think about 2 texts and thats it! In one of the texts he hints that he would like to see a picture of me "wearing alot less". right like thats gonna happen!

ok people...i'm a novice at this dating game, help me out here. What would you do???

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Conventions/Assemblies in England

by ScottyRex in

does anyone remember haysbridge, crystal palace, twickenham, dorking from the 80's/90's.........so many memories there.

the 5p lunch vouchers, the aroma of bacon rolls and hot doughnuts at twickenham, the smell of coffee as 50,000 odd opened their thermos flasks at lunchtime.

walking around endless laps of the perimeter of the stadium at break times, watching the airplanes flying low over twickenham stadium en route to heathrow.. cinema style seats at dorking assembly hall, the baptismal pool built into the stage, flapping my hands in the water and getting told off.

highdose

Cystal Place: i can remember people passing out due to the extreme heat, they always always booked the hottest weekend of the year! Sweat would be pouring off us! And then some A$$ hole of a GB member or some such would give his specail talk and say " isn't it great that we've been blessed with such wonderfull weather brothers and sisters?!"... cue duetifull clapping(!)

Haysbridge: oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Where i was baptised no less. Haysbridge was where i experianced being the lonelyest i have ever been. All the while i was surrounded by my "loving brothers and sisters" who didn't have the time of day for a single parent family and all stuck together. I remember once mentioning this to an elder and he suggested i volunter for the cleaning dep!

I remember that the large corridors all around the main assembly room were always full of dubs on the flimest exhuse to get out. It has now been refurbished of course... Gone is the 80's dark pine and blood red scheme. Now they have light beach wood and light blue instead, complete with a arena style TV above the speakers head with a close up of the speaker filmed on it. SO theres now no exhuse at all for not paying attention there. They also have a marble floor in the corridors and enterance ways, which makes things really fun when it rains!!!!

interestingly enough, Haysbridge always had a massive problem with lack of parking. So many of the dubs refusing to spend a coach jorney in eachothers company!

If you didn't fill all the seats in your car you got a big ticking off at the gate as you pulled up. They particulay liked to pick on the said car if a lowly sister was driving. I know of tons of sisters in single parent familys or divided familys who struggled to get their kids to the assembly... only to get there and be told off by the self righteous brother at the gate!

The reason Haysbridge is not allowed to expand its parking is because for years when they first opened the brothers would drive along the little counrty roads to get there and beep their car horns at each other ( freindly christian encouragement don't ya know). This would start in the early hours and continue untill after 10am and then begin again when they all went home. This would happen every weekend pretty much as Haysbridge services curcits from all over the south of the UK. Needless to say it drove the local neighbours crazy! So much so that when the JW's appiled to extend the car park there was up roar in the local comunnity and it was stopped in its tracks.

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SISTERS ON THE RAMPAGE!!

by highdose in

jw
friends

it was well commented on by the older ones in the borg that the sisters were on the rampage when it came to trying to get themselves married.. it was normal practice for sisters in the same click or age group to visvously stab eachother in the back, exlude them as much as possible from social events and gossip about them as much as possible.

by the time i had left this was such an established practice that it seemed normal.. all this in the hopes that they would be able to bag one of the rare single and sane brothers... at least this is what it was like in my part of the world... what about yours?.

highdose

it was well commented on by the older ones in the borg that the sisters were on the rampage when it came to trying to get themselves married.

It was normal practice for sisters in the same click or age group to visvously stab eachother in the back, exlude them as much as possible from social events and gossip about them as much as possible. By the time i had left this was such an established practice that it seemed normal.

all this in the hopes that they would be able to bag one of the rare single and sane brothers... at least this is what it was like in my part of the world... what about yours?

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How many of you were baptised at a young age?

by lepermessiah in

jw
friends

one thing this site has made me reflect on the baptism practice in jw land.. many of us were raised in the religion, thus you were given the pressure early on to shoot for baptism as a goal.. i remember feeling bad because i waited until the ripe old age of 14 to take the plunge.. looking back, i realize that when i was 14, i didnt even know what my favorite color was, let alone have enough knowledge to make a life altering decision.

yet, growing up in that climate, i would say anyone who waited past their early teens to get baptised was viewed with great suspicion and was likely to be viewed as "bad association".

kids who took the dip at 8-9 years of age were viewed as "wise beyond their years" and the like.. how old were some of you when you were baptised, and what are your feelings on the matter?.

highdose

i was 14 just. I was soooo brain washed that ( and heres a confession) i wanted to be baptised at age 10. But the PO of the cong wouldn't let me because he wanted his daughter ( who was about the same age) to be baptised first.

aged 14 i thought i would be accepted finaly by the congo. But as another poster has already said, i was love bombed while working to it, and was i'd gone under the water, thats it! They didn't want to know, well they had me i guess, no point in trying hard.

17 years later and the unthinkable has happened... i'm out and never going back

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Did you loathe going in field service, if so why?

by HappyGuy in

jw
friends

i always felt like i was not a "spiritual" person because i loathed going in field service.

i'm not even sure why i loathed it.

i am very outgoing and can talk to anyone, anytime, about anything.

highdose

eh up boyo! whats "bobbins"??

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"your just happier now because you don't have to be good any more!"

by highdose in

jw
friends

sorry about the false start.. .

this above phrase was recently said to me by a dub, when i told them that i didn't attend any more and that i felt much better for it.

" i asked " did i have so much agony with low self esteam, self hatred and no confidence while in a religon that is supposed to have gods blessing, and yet when i leave it all those problems dissapear?".

highdose

sorry about the false start.

This above phrase was recently said to me by a dub, when i told them that i didn't attend any more and that i felt much better for it. "why?" i asked " did i have so much agony with low self esteam, self hatred and no confidence while in a religon that is supposed to have gods blessing, and yet when i leave it all those problems dissapear?"

the responce i got was as above... i confess i was gob smacked!

what would you have said back?

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