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  I hate that it gets to me!!

  by Newborn in

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  just back from lunch and met two different former good friends from my congregation (i live in a small town) and they, of course, turned their backs on me... and it makes me feel strange and bad even though they're the ones who should really feel bad.... how can i learn to ignore it??.

  makes me both sad and angry at the same time.

  grrrr.

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  LucyA

  "The best revenge. Is a life well lived"
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  What makes you happy?

  by LucyA in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today i looked back on my old posts and realised almost everything i write of this board is negative.

  so i decided to post an experience i find makes me happy!

  first i should explain that i have a patio at the side of my home which borders a garden.

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  LucyA

  Today I looked back on my old posts and realised almost everything I write of this board is negative. So I decided to post an experience I find makes me happy! First I should explain that I have a patio at the side of my home which borders a garden. It’s really pretty. Sometimes on a Sunday when I have made my Breakfast. I sit out on my patio usually with a book or magazine and look around my garden and feel the most overwhelming sense of just happiness. I thought this morning if I was god this is where I would want my meeting held it was just to nice a day to stay inside.

  So tell me what Stupid little thing makes you Happy?
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  Were You Proud To Be A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a kid, i was.

  whenever i recieved "persecution", i knew i was doing something good for jehovah.. "worldly" people about my being a jw.. were you proud or ashamed as a witness?.

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  LucyA

  Tired would be a more accurate description for me. Tired of hiding one life from my mother and hiding another from my friends!
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  Its so cold!

  by creativhoney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't get warm.

  its 13 degrees today but feels like zero.. the wind has been blowing down the chimney all day without letup and my feet are freezing :(.

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  LucyA

  It's like 100 degrees here at least you can get warm try getting cold> SO HOT> NEED WATER>
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  What "Unwritten Rules" Did Your Congregation Have?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew of a hall that allowed only white shirted speakers on the platform for sunday public talks!

  when a visiting speaker did not wear the official white shirt he was either told that he couldn't give the talk or he could change shirts,as the hall kept a variety of sizes, just in case of an emergency!!!

  i don't make this up.

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  LucyA

  We didn't have the white shirt rule but the rule I hated the most was the brothers had to where the jackets even in summer!! 45 0C in a non air-conditioned hall the Poor brothers looked as though they were going to faint by the end of the meeting.
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  Did you know any kick A$$ sisters?

  by highdose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the type that refused to cowtow to the elders, stood up for themselves etc?

  i did, i was one of them, and like all that i've known, i left..

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  WE had one older sister she was in her 80's or 90's I think she had been JW her entire life basically and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the society. She questioned and corrected the elder frequently and loudly but since everyone loved her the elders couldn't do a damn thing about it. She was also the one who when she found out I was having doubts told me to study not only JW doctrine but others as well. I miss her she was a GREAT lady.
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  Dubs and BORG

  by brainwashed-from-birth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello i am sort of new and have noticed the above two words used to decribe the organization and the people that follow it.

  what exactly do the words stand for?

  are they abbrievations?

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  LucyA

  I don’t Know where Dubs comes from but Borg is from star trek their a group of aliens who go around trying to assimilate everyone into the collective (basically a giant computer) all Borg that don’t work correctly or atempt to go against the collective are purged (destroyed) so it wont screw up the rest. Great metaphor for the JW I think.
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  So i'm in trouble with my mother again! (Just venting)

  by LucyA in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  although we were born-ins three of quit being jw for various reasons the only one still in is my brother (whos devout) he also converted his wife.

  so here it is both my sisters were born two weeks apart and we decided we should all get together and celebrate their birthdays they got presents it was a fun day.

  but here the fun part i get a call from my mother ask why we had "excluded" our brother our response he doesn't celebrate birthdays we were respecting his beliefs and my mother goes into a rant about us not caring for him this is a man who doesn't return our phone calls takes every opportunity to lecture us and show total disregard for our beliefs or feelings.

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  LucyA

  thanks everyone!
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  So i'm in trouble with my mother again! (Just venting)

  by LucyA in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  although we were born-ins three of quit being jw for various reasons the only one still in is my brother (whos devout) he also converted his wife.

  so here it is both my sisters were born two weeks apart and we decided we should all get together and celebrate their birthdays they got presents it was a fun day.

  but here the fun part i get a call from my mother ask why we had "excluded" our brother our response he doesn't celebrate birthdays we were respecting his beliefs and my mother goes into a rant about us not caring for him this is a man who doesn't return our phone calls takes every opportunity to lecture us and show total disregard for our beliefs or feelings.

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  LucyA

  Although we were born-ins three of quit Being JW for various reasons the only one still in is my brother (who’s devout) he also converted his wife. so here it is both my sisters were born two weeks apart and we decided we should all get together and celebrate their birthdays they got presents it was a fun day.

  But here the fun part I get a call from my mother ask why we had "EXCLUDED" our brother our response he doesn't celebrate birthdays we were respecting his beliefs and my mother goes into a rant about us not caring for HIM this is a man who doesn't return our phone calls takes every opportunity to lecture us and show total disregard for our beliefs or feelings.

  So if we invite him where not respecting his beliefs and if we don’t where excluding him! WTF!!!!
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  I think, retrospectively;

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  that it was not losing all my friends that hurt so damned bad.... it was finding out they weren't my friends that hurt so damned bad.. sometimes it still hurts so bad i want to curl fetal.. jeff.

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  LucyA

  I didn't mind missing the people who used to "pretend" to be my friends. So much as my brother he seams angry at me.

  Do what I did volunteer for something planting trees, animal protection society ec I found more real friends in two years than I did in sixteen and they don't dump me if I disagree with them.