Posts by Altar ego

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The Story of Randall Watters part II - Trouble at Bethel

by Dogpatch in

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my story part 2: trouble at bethel.

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[endif]by my third year at bethel i was really enjoying it and determined to make bethel a life career.

OMG! I am 50 this year! Why am I freaking out? Anger - how do you cope?

by hamsterbait in

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i was told when i hit thirty and was catastrophising, "just wait till you are 40, it just gets better.".

ha!.

i am fifty in a few weeks.

I am 32. I started to realize this COULD be crap at around 25. Accepted it was crap at 29. Now, (without getting into too many details...hum), I am catching up on things I missed during my teen years. And it's GREAT!

It's reading experiences like HB's that motivate me to enjoy life to its FULLEST while I am still good looking, in great shape, attractive....etc., before I hit 60 and realize my life was a waste.

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Just had a yelling match with my JW mom....help

by diana netherton in

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she blames me for everything.

i have a conversation with my sister (non jw) and the result is my fault.. i feel suicidal.

i've never yelled at my mother and told her she was wrong..

Altar ego

Don't do anything stupid Diana. You are not alone in this situation, many here on this board know exactly how you feel.

Your mom's reaction is typical JW reaction....she thinks she's right, and to hell with anybody else's opinion.

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What Stupid Things Were You Counseled For?

by minimus in

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i've always been told that i have a very good personality, that i'm humorous, etc.. one elder called me over and said that i was "smiling too much".

the other elders talked to the elder who counseled me and he came back to say that i should be like i was .

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Altar ego

got counseled by an elder for not wearing a suit jacket while reading at the book study at a haitian brother's hot, smelly, steamy basement. Plus I didn't want my new suit smell like fried bananas....

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ATTENTION ALL LURKING, CURIOUS JW'S, JW TROLLS, AND FORMER JW'S DETERMINED TO SAVE JW'S FROM THEMSELVES

by AllTimeJeff in

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thank you all.. it seems that we former jw's have excellent reasons to be be upset.

between being lied to about how russell and rutherford started this fruity little cult, having to deal with the coverups of pedophiles and other criminals, the mysoginistic treatment of women, being lied to about 1914 and the related date of 607 bce, the ridiculous and ever changing blood doctrine, being lied to about gb involvement in the un, the changed it once and now back again understanding of what a "generation" is, being lied to about when the end of this system was supposed to come, being lied to about 1975, being told not to go to college and instead explore the underrated world of window washing with the outstanding income potential it produces...... *panting* i am sorry, i am out of breath...... my point is this, (and i speak from experience): former jw's are pretty raw.

and thus, easily exploitable on internet boards by trolls.. trolls see this.