If this site isn't as active as it was in the past it could be because that leaving the Organization isn't as big of a deal to the younger generation or those who weren't around in the hard core days as. In the last 10 years the organization is more like "JW Lite" compared to the pre and post 1975 days. Maybe those who leave now aren't as traumatized or as in need of a site like this.
exwhyzee
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Is This Site As Active As It Was In The Past?
by minimus ini'm just curious if jwn is as busy as it was even a year or two ago?
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sometimes it seems this place buzzes and other times, not so much....but maybe it's all in my head..
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Any JWs on here that still believe?
by cognac init would be nice to start a thread with those people to reason things over in the bible.
no name calling, no putting others down, etc.
it would be nice to show this to my husband without him seeing things like, "if you were a real jw, you would not be on here to begin with.
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exwhyzee
I agree. I remember being kind of shocked at first by the language and off color topics made by some of our former JW brothers and sisters on this site. I'm no prude but I did think about how far those who left the organization had "fallen" or the level they had "sunk" to, when they made certain comments or used off color language. I get how angry some are at the organization but I'm still not comfortable with seeing Jehovah's name being mocked. I guess I'm still influenced enough by my JW upbringing that I wouldn't dare to speak disrespectfully about or Jehovah and possibly even the GB.
Someone on here used the term Arm-A-Giddy-Bum instead of saying Armegeddon....I thought that was actually pretty funny. It appealed to the Jr. High sense of humor I still sometimes have.
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A Positive Comment About The Witnesses
by minimus inmy mom is 87, in a few weeks.
she's been ill for many years.
she's been in the hospital in the last week and is now in rehab.
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exwhyzee
Glad your Mom is being looked after by her JW friends.
Lots of churches have great support systems for not only the elderly but day care, summer camp, personal counseling, financial aid, scholarships etc. They don't typically go around bragging that this proves they are the only true religion and that everyone who doesn't become one of the is going to be killed by God.
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Has anybody had JWs call on your home lately?
by Scarred for life ini did today.
the woman brought a small brochure inviting me to the district convention here in gwinnett county, georgia on july 5, 6, and 7th.
the surprising thing to me is that the jws have modernized a little bit.
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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exwhyzee
Very cool apartment...too bad about the power scam, hope they aren't JW's. Theres the Walentas in the real estate article and then there's the Flying Wallendas who are the acrobats who suffered a huge tradgedy back in the 60's when one of their stunts went terribly wrong.
Are the current members of the Flying Wallendas, JW's ? It seems like skydiving and bungee jumping is sort of frowned upon by the Society. Can't imagine how they'd view a JW who teetered on a tight rope across the Grand Canyon.
http://wallendaenterprises.com/
Seattle has it's own version of the Clock Tower Apartment located in the Smith Tower here
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Would you like the
by mouthy inrevelation book?
or you can live forever on a paradise earth???
lol.
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exwhyzee
Haven't any of you want to at the least soap their windows?
Yes but part of me doesn't want them living rent free in my head any longer than they already have.
The other part of me ......well it fantasizes about doing something like making a huge poster of that 1984 Watchtower entitled "1914 The Generation That Will Not Pass Away" Click here and scroll down a few posts to see the magazine I'm talking about.Then post it way up high up on a utility pole outside the Hall where everyone who passes by on the busy street out front, can see the false prophecy most JW's don't even know about let alone want to have plastered up for everyone else to see. Or I'd like to make 100 copies of that magazine and put them on the windshields of every car in the K Hall parking lot during the Sunday meeting.
But alas, there is no "they or them" to blame. It's a nameless faceless organization. When things stop working, former JW's just have to go away and make the best of their situation. No matter what happens or what they do to you or your family, YOU are the problem and everyone you know dissapears. They don't want to know you anymore. It's sort of like when Hitler came for the Jews, everyone that could have potentially helped them, dissapeared for fear they might be included in the problem.
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Gawd, I wish I'd have gotten my teeth fixed.... :(
by Muddy Waters inhere i am, getting old and having my teeth and fillings (literally!
) falling apart now, and barely any dental coverage.
i just feel so sad and pissed off that i didn't do more when i was a jw and actually had coverage at the time.... .
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exwhyzee
I have a family member who is in Bethel and she got braces on her teeth that were done by a Dentist that does Bethelites teeth on a regular basis. The folks at H.Q. don't wait for the New System to care for their teeth.
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My response to any one who asks why I am fading
by Skinnedsheep ini have thought a lot about what to say when i am approached.
it will kill my fade, but oh well.. "after the new light i had to test my faith and i couldn't prove to myself that the slave was limited to the governing body.".
if cornered by an elder...."can you prove to me from the scriptures that matt.
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exwhyzee
You make some really good points especially the part about Charles Russell. You could also tell them that you're not "Fading", it's just that you're a little too "Dim" to understand the New Light. (har har)
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Would you like the
by mouthy inrevelation book?
or you can live forever on a paradise earth???
lol.
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exwhyzee
Dear Grace Undeserved Kindness,
Your post reminds me of the time I went to a random barnyard sale at a rural farm we happened to pass while on a drive out in the country. I saw an "Aid Book" for sale among a lot of other miscellaneous books. I picked it up and inside the front cover was the hand written name of the (deceased) Grandmother of my best friend as a child. Next to her name was the name of the congregation I attended as a youth. Betty Smith, Anytown Congregation. I was shocked at not only the coincidence of finding this book at a barnyard sale in the middle of nowhere and having this name jump out at me unexpectedly, but it also seemed really wrong to see what I had at one time considered one of our "inspired" publications, sitting among a whole lot of trashy novels and the like. I had a sort of reverence for the publications for some reason. It pained me to throw them away. If I did throw some magazines away I'd first tear the covers off so no one would see them disgraced in a garbage dump. (weird huh ?)
After I lost my Dad due to the misinformation found in those publications (blood issue) I had no problem trashing them. I did it with such a vengence and it was so therapeutic. I felt a great sense of releif, much like those individuals you hear about in JW anecdotes feel, when they rid their home of (supposedly) demon possesed items. You were right to rid that shop of that book. Even JW's don't recognize it as containing TRUTH anymore. The Bible hasn't changed but their publications about the Bible certainly have.
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"I won't watch HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" because Neil Patrick Harris is gay"
by OnTheWayOut inthat's what my jw mother said.
folks, there are plenty of reasons not to watch how i met your mother, but a gay actor playing a straight part is not one of them.
i should give her a list of known gay actors and ruin a bunch of movies and t.v.
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exwhyzee
I was standing next to Rosie O'donnel at a urinal shortly after she came out of the closet and she complained that her ratings had plummeted because of this same kind of thinking.
