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  Are any of you addicted to your new sexual revolution?

  by Coffee House Girl in

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  now that i am free from my bonds to an organization dictating to me what i can and cannot do (in bed included), i cannot stop.....i feel like an addict on coke or something, i have been with my bf for eight months now, and perhaps it is a combination of the newness of a sexual relationship with the release from my spiritual bonds, but....i feel like a cat in heat 24/7.

  of course my bf is not complaining even though i see he is physically tired parts of the day that i actually leave him alone (to go to work or sleep after hours of lovemaking).

  i wonder if anyone else has gone through similar experience.

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  This might encourage me to hasten my fade. lol.
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  Its driving me mad

  by leo999 in

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  ok , im 9 months into a serious fade , inactive in fm and very spasmodic at meetings .

  mum and bro the elder came by to deliver the mags to me now , and yesterday showed the very interesting article on the tetragramaton .

  i refused to take them and told him to put them on the table .

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  EmptyInside

  I know how you feel, because I'm in the same situation. But, just as another poster pointed out, the less you say the better. And being adults, it's getting quite tiresome to feel we still have to answer to anyone. We can't have it both ways. We either make a clean break and just stop going altogether. Or continue to evade questions and do our obligatory meeting attendance when we can stomach it, and dream of the day we will be free of it all. Or you could go with the usual of being depressed or just trying to figure things out now, and need some time to myself.
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  How Did You Move on to Relationships with non-JWs?

  by daringhart13 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  this is a really fascinating topic for me.....mainly because i'm single lol.

  but what was it like to navigate through the waters of other people while getting into relationships?

  did you wonder what to do about holidays?

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  Well, I'm new at finding relationships outside the org. too. And I really have to be comfortable with someone to really open up about my background. And my situation is more complicated in that I am still active. But, I do have a very close relationship with a non-Witness man and at first I was very nervous about telling him I was a Witness. I thought he would dump me right away. But, it was really refreshing to find someone so nonjudgmental. Of course, I don't think he understands what's all involved. I let him know a little at a time. And explaining to him how the organization works, I realize to myself how crazy it all sounds.
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  Local Needs

  by EmptyInside in

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  this week for the service meeting is a local needs part.

  i just wondered, for those that are fading, what was your congregations local needs for this week?

  and for those who have been out awhile, what were some of the problems uncovered during local needs?.

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  EmptyInside

  Okay, maybe nervous is the wrong word, more like uncomfortable and just a little embarrassed for the person. Because, everyone's already tuned them out. And a lot of times, the comments are way off topic. And we have some in the hall, who share too much personal information in their comments. And I'm just generally restless during the meetings.
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  Local Needs

  by EmptyInside in

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  this week for the service meeting is a local needs part.

  i just wondered, for those that are fading, what was your congregations local needs for this week?

  and for those who have been out awhile, what were some of the problems uncovered during local needs?.

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  EmptyInside

  This week for the Service Meeting is a local needs part. I just wondered, for those that are fading, what was your congregations local needs for this week? And for those who have been out awhile, what were some of the problems uncovered during local needs?

  I guess my hall's long-winded, because we were told to keep our comments,brief, and to the point. I'm actually, grateful, because I get a bit nervous when someone wants to give another public talk during the Watchtower study. That was our local needs. Boring, I know. But, it's a relief when they are boring. At least no one's in trouble for now. Next time, it will be about not starting threads on apostate websites. lol.
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  Dave Allen. Funny Atheist!

  by AK - Jeff in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgasvvqzoa0&feature=player_embedded.

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  I watched him growing up too. He was my favorite comedian.
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  Is Jehovah Telling the Governing Body to Shut Down?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is the governing body haunted by the thought that jehovah is telling them no and shut down?.

  rutherford is reported to have sought cash and rationed coal as a test of jehovah's will.

  knorr reported on getting an unexpected windfall of cash when they sought to buy the towers hotel.. but from where i sit, jehovah seems to have become very ungenerous towards these would-be theocrats, in recent years.. they dumped subscriptions.. they cut literature.. they went to paperbacks.. they cut magazines, by my count, for the third time.. they laid off bethelites.. they sold off brooklyn buildings.. they sold off printing/binding equipment.. so, now their latest 'litmus test' of jehovah's will is to simply dump the magazines in one lump and tell people to only take what they need.

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  My mother is all excited because "the preaching work is winding down." (sigh)
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  How dangers is field service really, has anyone ever heard of someone being hurt or killed while doing some form of witnessing

  by life is to short in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok my other thread was not totally what i was after.

  after thinking it through i was wondering if any of you have ever heard of someone being hurt by a householder in field service.. .

  like i mentioned in my latest thread about the sister who was murdered and then her death was blamed on her.. i know in the hall i grew up in there were many sex offenders living in the area.

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  I did hear of a brother that was shot and killed by his Bible study. The man was strung out on drugs. But, of course, they blamed the brother, because he was counselled not to continue studying with the man unless he was clean for a specified amount of time.
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  Are you a victim of WT manipulation?

  by moshe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i read about it all the time here, i'm staying inside for my jw friends and family, i'll keep my mouth shut, i keep dropping hints trying to convince them they are wrong about the wt.

  their are two sides to manipulation-ie, the manipulator and the victim/enabler.

  one can not viably exist without the other.

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  EmptyInside

  I think right now, I'm my own worst enemy. It's hard getting over the fear of getting out into the world and starting from scratch. Maybe I'm using my friends and family as a crutch,as an excuse. And because I have to be sure, because it wasn't too long ago I still believed I had the truth. Now,I'm still getting over the shock of it all.
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  Some thing for woman to think about

  by is there help out there in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  almost all woman want to get married and have children.

  if you are a faithful jw woman there is a good chance this will never happen.

  70% of jw are woman and 30% are men.

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  EmptyInside

  I can identify a lot with what Broken Promises wrote. But, then reading what Odrade wrote about these women having to get permission for every little thing is taking the headship thing to a whole new level. So,I'm glad I didn't fall into that situation.

  At times the married sisters in the car group would always suggest brothers to me. That was the worst. Because it was either domineering men 20 years older than me or versions of the elephant man. Sorry, I know that wasn't nice. I'm not all about looks, but I have to be somewhat attracted to the man I would have to be spending my life with. Anyway, I kind of resented their suggestions, because one, most really didn't know me. And two , I always thought I could do better than that. Plus, a lot in the organization think that being in the "truth" is the only factor to have a happy marriage, when experience has shown it does not. Okay, rant over. But, this is a very personal topic for me.