Posts by exwhyzee

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My Story

by objectivetruth in

i'm 30 years old, and i was raised in the organization, my parents and grandparents are witnesses.. i grew up in a small town, and due to boredom or adhd or rebellion, i never took 2 minutes to look into the religion.. i always went to meetings and field service.

my parents were regular, but never "super-witnesses" so it was always the thing we did (meetings and service) not much more and nothing less.. the congregation, that i grew up in was for the most part friendly and enjoyable.. small towns, are very unique and they cannot be compared to larger city congregations.. i honk that they are a living and breathing organism, depending on the coordinators personality, so goes the personality of the congregation.

thi king back, most of the people in the town that i grew up were good people, just simple hard working & honest people... i really long for the innocence, of the time when this was the truth, and there were no worries.. driving to the conventions at 3 am with my dad and another brother, them slicing meat, me sneaking around the halls of the college, getting into all kinds of things.. conventions were a really special time for me... when i was young me and my friends would run around, messing around, pulling pranks on people, getting into forbidden areas.. running in the hall ways.

exwhyzee

She wasn't Mormon but she was raised Omish! I meet her at a strip Club. As she gave me a Lap Dance, she told me the Sad Stories of Omish shunning, and I related the sad stories of JW Shunning. After dating her for about a month, I invited her to a Meeting.. she agreed.

I'm beginning to think you're making this story up ....let me guess.....this "Amish Stripper" dumped you because you drove her buggy ?? LOL !

She changed into a dress and we went to meeting.

I'll bet the dress had long sleeves since everyone knows the Amish don't beleive in "bearing arms".

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My Story

by objectivetruth in

i'm 30 years old, and i was raised in the organization, my parents and grandparents are witnesses.. i grew up in a small town, and due to boredom or adhd or rebellion, i never took 2 minutes to look into the religion.. i always went to meetings and field service.

my parents were regular, but never "super-witnesses" so it was always the thing we did (meetings and service) not much more and nothing less.. the congregation, that i grew up in was for the most part friendly and enjoyable.. small towns, are very unique and they cannot be compared to larger city congregations.. i honk that they are a living and breathing organism, depending on the coordinators personality, so goes the personality of the congregation.

thi king back, most of the people in the town that i grew up were good people, just simple hard working & honest people... i really long for the innocence, of the time when this was the truth, and there were no worries.. driving to the conventions at 3 am with my dad and another brother, them slicing meat, me sneaking around the halls of the college, getting into all kinds of things.. conventions were a really special time for me... when i was young me and my friends would run around, messing around, pulling pranks on people, getting into forbidden areas.. running in the hall ways.

exwhyzee

Maybe I just mist the InnocenCE of being a child.

Exactly...I think we all do miss it in some form or another. Maybe just to satisfy your curiosity you can attend an assembly where you don't know anyone. You'd really find out what your true feelings are about the experience when you attend an assembly that is free of the influence of friends and family with whom you have emotional ties. It might be like watching a movie in a theater alone where you get so much more out of it because you aren't concerned about anyone elses opinion other than your own.

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My Story

by objectivetruth in

i'm 30 years old, and i was raised in the organization, my parents and grandparents are witnesses.. i grew up in a small town, and due to boredom or adhd or rebellion, i never took 2 minutes to look into the religion.. i always went to meetings and field service.

my parents were regular, but never "super-witnesses" so it was always the thing we did (meetings and service) not much more and nothing less.. the congregation, that i grew up in was for the most part friendly and enjoyable.. small towns, are very unique and they cannot be compared to larger city congregations.. i honk that they are a living and breathing organism, depending on the coordinators personality, so goes the personality of the congregation.

thi king back, most of the people in the town that i grew up were good people, just simple hard working & honest people... i really long for the innocence, of the time when this was the truth, and there were no worries.. driving to the conventions at 3 am with my dad and another brother, them slicing meat, me sneaking around the halls of the college, getting into all kinds of things.. conventions were a really special time for me... when i was young me and my friends would run around, messing around, pulling pranks on people, getting into forbidden areas.. running in the hall ways.

exwhyzee

Thanks for sharing your story objectivetruth. The saying "you can't go home again" comes to mind when reading your recollections of growing up as a JW. No matter what situation a person was in, as a kid, they almost always manage to find something to look back upon, fondly. Even children who grew up in abusive homes and during war time manage to eke out a bit of fun for themselves of find something that makes their existence bearable. The one ordinary little thing that was good in their life, becomes a strong lifelong memory and can often be the very thing that kept them sane.

Sometime we idealize the experiences of our childhood. If you'd have grown up as a Mormon or in a family that (for example) campaigned heavily for the Democratic party or that ran a soup kitchen for the homeles, you would now be looking back fondly on all those nice people you met, the places you went or the experiences you had during that time, rather than on your JW related memories as you do now. The thing to remember is that just because you are able to look back on your past with such fondness, doesn't mean you need to go back there to be happy again, or that it was necessarily the right path for you to continue on, for an entire lifetime.

A lot of us can look back on our highschool days with fondness but towards the end of them, we wanted to move on and even though we have fond memories of those days, we wouldn't want to go back to them. If we were somehow able to, we would soon realize that it's better to hold memories than to relive them. Sometimes it's enough to be thankful we are able to find something good about our past . justas you are able to

Relating these stories can sometimes be quite draining...hopefully you will be able to find the energy to continue with yours. So far....so good.

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Do you think US Dollar will collapse on July 1st?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

if you do not know what i am talking about, google about it.

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exwhyzee

-A six-pack of beer cost $1.49 (1978)
-One movie ticket cost $1 (Chicago, 1978)
-One pound of coffee cost $1.40

-$1 in 1975 = $3.98 today

Interesting....a six pack of beer cost $ 1.49 in 1978 and the average American worker was making about $6.50 per hour. Today the average American makes about $24.00 per hour and a sixpac is aproximately $6.00. which means (if my math is correct) a sixpack of beer costs about .54 cents more now than it did in 1978.

http://www.davemanuel.com/median-household-income.php

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Dressing down for the Cult Cart work

by cantleave in

i have just read on another post that those brothers and sisters manning the cult carts are meant to be fully suited and booted, i have seen the brothers wearing jumpers instead of jackets.

is the dress code monitored?.

exwhyzee

Cult Cart.....good one....I think you just coined a new expression.

I don't think anyone here cares what they are wearing while manning these carts but it is interesting to see when individual JW's go against the express directives from the organization and think for themselves, wearing clothes that are appropriate for their weather conditions regardless of what the dress code is.

I remember when our Kingdom Hall didn't have Air Conditioning yet and one summer evening a lot of the brothers came to meeting wearing just a shirt and tie. For some reason some of the speakers didn't show up so several of the brothers who were wearing only shirt and tie had to volunteer to do the talks but rather go on stage without a jacket, they all shared a jacket somebody in the audience volunteered for use. It was ridiculous to see them taking off and putting on this jacket in front of the stage before and after each part. Some of the smaller Brothers were swimming in the huge jacket. It was all for show and more of a distraction than anything and it showed what lengths people will go to uphold pointless rules even when common sense dictates otherwise.

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I believe I'm the record holder for travel distance to a convention

by joe134cd in

well it was announced the other night that the new convention venue will be about a twenty hour drive away.

in that 20 hours will include at least 3 hour boat ride.

i'm guessing the cost of the boat ride + the cost of fuel would probably be about $us800 - $us 900. that wouldn't include the loss of wages for the 4 days just to get there and return.

exwhyzee

I'm guessing the cost of the boat ride + the cost of fuel would probably be about $US800 - $US 900. That wouldn't include the loss of wages for the 4 days just to get there and return.

Boo Hoo Joe123.....you've got it easy....what about all those poor brothers and sisters we always heard about who had to wade through swamp infested Alligators...I mean Alligator infested swamps in order to attend the nearest convention? LOL !

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Great campagne in Portugal (ex-JW)

by TJ Curioso in

i like to tell you what we've been doing these past few days here in portugal (ex-jw).

we create a brochure and printing, so we can send to the maximum of congregations in portugal.

some individuals were also covered in this campaign.. the title of the pamphlet is: "when will the kingdom arrive?".

exwhyzee

This looks quite authentic and the familiar format is something even an active JW would feel comfortable looking at.

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Is it my imagination...

by dynamiterose77 in

or are the beasts in this photoshop alteration familiar... and very funny.. http://boingboing.net/2014/05/12/hardy-boys-no-199-the-hard.html.

exwhyzee

Maybe as a sideline the Watchtower publishes "other" magazines...you know, to help make ends meet.

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Live Forever on a Paradise Earth

by HeyThere in

sometimes this sounds good...but....forever?

forever in a jw idea of perfection?

does this mean no sports, or detective tv shows, or bad neighborhoods?

exwhyzee

Since we are all former JW's and were programmed by them to beleive they are Gods chosen people, it seems like some of us haven't quite gotten rid of that idea and are still assuming that JW's will even be allowed into the "Paradise" let alone be the ones running it....if it even happens.

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Live Forever on a Paradise Earth

by HeyThere in

sometimes this sounds good...but....forever?

forever in a jw idea of perfection?

does this mean no sports, or detective tv shows, or bad neighborhoods?

exwhyzee

Well....there'll be no more "somebody done somebody wrong...cryin' in your beer songs" to listen to . Every story written will have a happy ending

Might get kinda' old after a few million years.