Topics Started by mamamo

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Im New!
by Medina in
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have been a lurker for over a year, and a faded guy for over 2 years.

21 years of age and enjoying the good life!

thanks for all your gents/ladies posts you make, some are funny, some are true, some are sad, i like em!.
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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
by watersprout in
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2. friends
it's my birthday todaaaaayyyyy!!!!.

carrot is making me pancakes and taking me out for lunch!

i love my birthday, cause it's all about meeeeee!!!!!!!!.
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Did you ever find the meetings refreshing?
by highdose in
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i can remember one pompous elder asking me "how can you be depressed after sittiing through such a wonderful meeting?!!".

i only ever felt relief at getting away, what about you?.
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What 'hooked' you... and what made you leave?
by s0rt3d in
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i wasn't born in.

i got hooked in as a teenager.

was going through a tough time, wondered why we exist, why god wasn't doing anything to solve man's problems, if there was a true religion and, hey-presto, a jw classmate showed up with book that not only asked the questions i was asking but answered them too!.
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Shunning - do JW's simply turn a blind eye to the consequences of it?
by jambon1 in
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2. friends
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what are the rewards for not being a witness any longer
by Curtains in
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if the carrot and stick aspect of being jehovahs witnesses upset you how do you reclaim your desire for reward?

i'm assumng that you all agree with me that feeling rewarded is a basic human desire.

how much effort do you think we should put into trying to make our lives rewarding?
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after 40 years I guess I am being shunned
by Giordano in
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2. friends
well thanks to this site i have come to realize i am being shunned........i think.

i find this really funny because my wife and i were never df or da, and we walked out in the late 1960's.

and no one in the family ever shunned us.. without making too much out of it my niece has not invited us to visit and meet our new nephew.
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They talked to me!
by mamamo in
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2. friends
my father's memorial service was tonight at a kh.

i disassociated myself 20 years ago.

i figured no one would talk to me except anyone who wasn't a jw.
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What were you doing 25 years ago today....
by Magwitch in
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2. friends
when the challenger exploded?.

i was dutifully going door to door to door, when a lady came to the door crying about the cahllenger.

she invited me in and i placed a set of magazines.
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Did your wardrobe of clothes change when you left the JW'S
by Hairyhegoat in
1. jw
2. experiences
mine did and i have not put a suit on since escaping the cult.

the mrs has given all but 1 away to the charity shops and i have loads more room in me wardrobe now.

what items of clothing did you get rid of when you got out of the cult ?