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Who has bought a lot less frumpy dress clothes?
by mamalove in
1. jw
2. friends
i am amazed at all of the dresses and skirts that i will never wear again.

i was joking the other day i need to have a garage sale and advertise to jw's.

tons of long skirts, and lots of dresses.
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How many ex-bethelites or current are there on this board?
by mamalove in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone ever did a count on those who are comfortable sharing that?

i am just curious, because we know you don't have to be this amazing ball of zeal to make it to bethel (at least some of the ones i have seen), or to be an elder, or ms or any other pious position the jw's have invented-i digress- but i always found it interesting the perspective because i never went there, and sometimes the bethel bro and sis had some interesting stories..
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Feel like I am going to explode
by mamalove in
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2. friends
too much reading this weekend i think..... my blood is boiling between the two books.

the mental part is disturbing me greatly about the truths in brainwashing and cultism, and coc is infuriating me about the whole attitude of the jw org.. i cannot stop thinking of my family who i have not talked to in 6 months.

not a single word....i keep thinking of how and when it would be right and the best way to talk to them.
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Why do JW's downplay older WT articles?
by mamalove in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was looking at brotherdan's thread about the two articles that really point out in the wtbs's own words that we must follow this organization, blah blah, and they are indeed a cult from reading those articles.

it made me think that i would love to show my mom and sister that, but i know the response would be "so what, that is a 40 year old magazine," it was dated 1969, and 1983 was the other article i believe.. are the jw's i know the only ones who poo poo older articles and say that thinking isn't up to date anymore, that new thinking has superceded those new articles?

even though we know that the overall thinking is the same.
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Carolyn Jessop
by mamalove in
1. jw
2. experiences
when she was on oprah some years ago, promoting her book escape, i was mesmerized.

(for those of you who are not familiar, she was a member fo the fundamental mormon sect and broke free).

i went to school and had worked with mormon's in the past, so i was intruigued.
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Was it ever in your heart?
by mamalove in
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2. friends
i don't think it ever was in my heart, that is why i have found it relatively easy to leave and not be scared of the fear belief system.

i feel kind of bad for people here who were so immersed that they still get these weird twinges of armageddon fears, etc.

that has to be difficult to still have that looming feeling.
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Been wondering about the poking Jah in the eye thing
by mamalove in
1. watchtower
2. bible
some other recent posts have made me think of the teachings of the jw's that claim that when the governments are supposed to squash all religion.

this including the holiest of holy, the jw's, and then that will be like poking their jehovah in the eye.

then this was supposed to incense him (poke him in the eye analogy) and cause him to......refresh my memory, was god supposed to stomp on governments and make the jw's the big cheese, or what was the teaching on this??
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My kid gets it
by mamalove in
1. jw
2. experiences
so last night my 6 year old tells me that her dad said to her while tucking her in at night "mama is going to die because she caused the divorce, and grandpa wanted mommy to divorce me all the days of his life.".

(my dad left the lie when i was 5, and i left a year ago... and subsequently am almost through with the divorce and the ex is a bitter, ignorant, crazy tempered jw).

so its all our fault, and i am going to die, makes sense.. last night i called up the ex and told him that he was nothing short of a mental pedophile, that you don't tell your daughter her mother is as good as dead, and he needs to knock it off and he is in violation of our anti-disparagement agreement that the courts have insisted on due to the religious and personal strife between us.
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For those who were partakers
by mamalove in
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2. friends
what made you think you were supposed to drink the wine and eat the bread?

if you left the org, did you still feel like you were going to heaven?.
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Ray Franz books hard to find
by mamalove in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so i guess his books are collectors items!

if anyone has any they would sell me or loan me, please pm me.

thanks!.