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Jadeen
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Hello - I´m new here
by Starfish injust wanted to introduce myself.... .
i am a secret fader but since reading this forum i feel i am alot more confident about telling my family/friends that i don t go to the meetings and inactive.. my hubby is also a fader with me...we kind of drifted after my first baby was born.
she is now 11.. it all started with my mom who started studying with my cousin when i was about 15. while she was studying i also started studying (i was about 16).
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The Diary of an Armageddon Survivor
by RAS ini am not sure if anyone ever posted this but i thought it was worth sharing: (can anyone relate?).
the following is not fantasy, this is what we were taught to expect when we were jehovah's witnesses.. michael pendley .
day 1. well, the big a is over and i survived.
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Jadeen
Anyone read Stephen King's Under the Dome? I haven't been able to finish it yet, but really similar to this and Lord of the Flies.
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I would like to hear your experiences with being SHUNNED
by jwfacts ini am going to put together a page of short experiences of how shunning has affected exjws.
you do not have to be disfellowshipped, even if you were shunned after being marked or after fading.
all comments are welcome, such as who shunned you, how long since family have spoken to you, what your situation is, why you are being shunned and how it has made you feel.
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Jadeen
I was never baptised but I have been shunned. This story really sticks in my memory.
I had just gotten engaged to my now-husband (non witness) when we went to a wedding and reception (witness). My family has been friends with both sides of the wedding party for years. They had all met my honey and had no problem with him attending. I was still attending meetings occasionally- maybe two, three times a month.
Also attending was my best friend since grade school. We had been really close until she picked out the guy that she wanted to marry and decided to chase him. She moved about half an hour away, so we didn't hang out as much as in the past. When I introduced her to my honey, she said, "Oh, how nice to meet you", shook his hand, and then literally turned her back on us to talk to someone else.
We stood there awkwardly for about a minute, then went back to our table. I told him some lame excuse for her behavior and he shook his head and said, "No, you just got snubbed."
I sighed and agreed.
That was over eight years ago. She still lives about half an hour away. I haven't talked to or seen her since.
It still hurts that this person that was like a sister to me could throw away our friendship like it was nothing- stray tissue paper tossed out the car window. On the other hand, her behavior made me never want to step inside the Hall again. With a friend like that...
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Aren't You Embarrassed That YOU Ever Believed Any Of The Watchtower Bullsh*t?
by minimus ini do think about that and i realize that i should've gotten out sooner.
( i stayed in longer for various reasons).
but the last few years i knew it was bullsh*t!
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Jadeen
Definitely embarrassed. At least I have the excuse that I was raised in the BS.
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Best romantic comedies...
by changeling ini'm watching "you've got mail" for the zillionth time... it just has to be one the greatest romantic comedies ever made!!!.
what are your favorites?.
(if you dislike rc's try not make ugly comments about them or the people who like them) :).
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Jadeen
While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock and Bill Paxton.
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How often does a Wt song run through your head
by Lady Lee inyesterday i was sitting here and all of a sudden realized i was humming one of those dreadful songs.
i even remembered the words!
<chills>.. so i sat here and started singing other songs out loud, which i normally don't do even though i live alone and don't have to listen to people begging me to stop singing.. so how do you get those songs out of your head?.
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Jadeen
Every time I see the title of this thread, a random Kingdom Melody pops into my head.
Gahhhhh!
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My sucky situation
by brotherdan inhi guys,.
sadly some of them had been in bethel for 5 - 10 years and were still cleaning toilets.. after about 2 years of it i couldn't do it anymore.
i always knew something wasn't quite right with this organization.
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Jadeen
Welcome to the board!
I don't really have any advice for your situation other than to read up! Many others on here have gone through what you are now.
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Did you really pay attention at conventions or assemblies?
by donny ina co-worker of mine whose family (2 daughters, wife) are jw's related a funny story yesterday.
his wife and daughters missed the friday portion of the convention last week in order to attend a wedding of a worldly relative.
at dinner she mentioned to him that she would go to the convention this friday to make up for the one she missed.. he then asked why and she said so she could get the information she missed.
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Jadeen
I would doodle in my notebook or write fan fiction so that it looked like I was paying attention.
The best part about being female at the assemblies was that I could arrange my hair to cover my face, lean against the arm rest, and take a nap!
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My Hovercraft Is Full Of eels
by metatron ini didn't want to keep this vital foreign phrase from you.
in every language, here it is.. http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm.
metatron.
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Jadeen
Bouncy bouncy!
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Doctor who?
by IP_SEC inanyone else looking forward to this besides me?.
i sure hope arrmmaaggeeddoonn doesnt come before this comes out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/scifi.shtml
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Jadeen
I'm a few episodes behind, but I thought it was awesome that they brought back the weeping angels. Freaky!