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  Weird things JWs can't own or wear

  by lilbluekitty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  also posted on the yuku forum.. i thought it might be amusing to make a list of things i remember when i was a dub that we couldn't have or own or wear.

  (some of these things vary by where you live, in other places dubs have them, it just depends).

  obviously the list goes on forever, but feel free to add things.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Beards.

  dad: (jw) visitors are coming next weekend, when are you shaving that beard of?

  Me: give me a reason why I can not have a beard.

  dad: why dont you hang around naked while your at it.

  me:
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  Sydney Morning Herald: Economic Climate a Breeding Ground for Cults

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.smh.com.au/national/economic-climate-a-breeding-ground-for-cults-20111101-1mu6i.html.

  economic climate a breeding ground for cultsleesha mckenny religious affairs .

  november 2, 2011 - 12:00am.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Thank you Barbara, I wish smh told me earlier.

  Outline

  http://www.cifs.org.au/CIFSCanberraConfFlyerfinal.pdf
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  Best answer to "What prevents you from getting baptized?"

  by venusinfauxfurs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the nosy elder at the congregation i attend until i can get out very soon (just quickly: born in, was headed towards unbaptized pub but changed my mind about that and baptism) pulled me aside and showed me the scripture about coming across the body of water and asking "what prevents me from getting baptized" and i really want a quick, preferably smart-ass reply the next time he puts me on the spot like that.. .

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  fire away!

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  I always suffered from social anxiety, believed in it but never progressed spiritually, it was a genuine concern of mine at the time, I had spoken to elders to see if there is some way around it to become a non-baptised publisher, there wasn't.

  EDIT: Didn't read the rest of your post, say"my heart tells me I'am not ready" lol
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  Why on earth would WT use a FEMALE lawyer to defend it in Australia case?

  by hamsterbait in

  1. social
  2. current

  how many of us here find the use of a female to conduct the defence unusual?.

  the wt religion is notoriously misogynistic.

  anybody with a penis is preferable to do a non menial job.. why the change here?.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Sorry, whats her name and age?
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  Sitting Still at Meetings has Become an Impossibility

  by venusinfauxfurs in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i know the truth about jw, and still have to go to meetings for family reasons (and because i don't want to leave my friends, either) i get so sick in my chair in the hall.

  i can't pay attention, i can't sit still knowing it's all such a waste of time and a big fat lie.

  i get weird symptoms like: the feeling that i'm going to almost pass out, very sweaty or very cold, and weak legs though i'm sitting down, and the urge to get up and run away.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  I know how meetings are like venusinfauxfurs when you know its all bull, I had to bite my tongue a lot, memorial was the worse.
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  Do not add or do not take away.Rev.22;18,19

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who have added and who has taken away.

  not have to be a genius to understand these words.. god says, "this is the end".

  don,t tamper with it, his.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Copyright laws didn't exist back then
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  Were you Stalked or Chased After Once you Exited the JW's by Elders ?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i tried to fade off the map by moving 30 miles initially in 2004 after i exited in late 2003 .

  the first several years they didn't bother me.

  i ran into a elder from my former congregation in late 2005 in an antique store - he tried telling me i was wrong for stopping attending meetings.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Some of these accounts are just over the top.

  This little incident occured, I guess they wanted to protect the planet from my evil ways.

  Hi,

  I have been reading COC and ISOCF in the train every morning and noticed some funny stuff occurring.

  This witness (I knew because I have seen her before reading jw literature, she probably saw me as well before reading a jw book but we never spoke), she spotted somehow and knew that I was reading apostate books, I was on the far left of the train and she was on the far right, I have good peripheral vision and noticed her having a good look at me ( to advise spiritual policemen) and when I turned my head to the right she would quickly look away, this happened on two occasions.

  After a week or so I was sitting in the same spot and on the far left there was another women who I had never seen before, I didn’t noticed her at all until I heard the noise of camera taking a picture (most likely a mobile making the noise of a camera when taking a picture, which most do), again I turned my head around to the right and she somehow magically fell asleep in an instance, one second she is taking a photo the other she’s asleep ahahah.

  I feel like there’s a spiritual gun turned to my head, little do they know that I’m not even a un-bathtised publisher. I regret taking a book study and I have a funny feeling that my liberal studies are going to back fire on me, my parents being JW’s Im not certain what will happen.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/198595/1/Spiritual-spies
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  WT Funny Slogans

  by fedup in

  1. social
  2. humour

  generations are forever.

  good to the last flip-flop.

  we love to see you cringe.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Millions living are now dead

  Unconditional love conditionaly

  WB&TS..Making the truth our own.

  WB&TS..Generations are what we make it.
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  Melbourne Cup tommorow...any wicked Witnesses placing a bet?? Tips!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  kim kardashian and sarah jessica parker will be here representing the usa.

  is that good???.

  "americain" is the favourite whos last races were 6th -1st - 0 - 1. however it's the favourite and won't payout much.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Luck Melbourne it's a public holiday there, im stuck at work, $10 on 15.
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  My only own regret when I left

  by Joey Jo-Jo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my parents are still witnesses, i read coc, isocf and conceptoc, then decided not to attend meetings.. i told them everything i knew about what was written and this pushed them away from me and further into the "truth", we still talk like a normal family but when a topic merges that i speak about jw's i get shunned, they don't comment.

  i didn't understand why they continued to believe after i mentioned gb voting system, un, and others, i also mentioned about ray franz and what the bible really says, dad asked me why not i just join his (ray's) religion since i know so much.. i knew about hassans books but didn't see them necessary at the time, but i didn't understand why they are acting this way.

  i just finished releasing the bonds, now i understand why they acted the way they did and why they didn't listen, my only regret was not reading this and combating cult mind control earlier.. so we were all brought up in the truth, all my family members are in the truth, during the years they were taught not to think anything negative about the religion - that's how you loose part of your critical thinking skills (remenber how the brothers kept remind of how happy we all are.).

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Cagefighter: They are not killing baby seals or drownning puppies, but they are living and breathing a lie, wasting their life years on fruitless and false preaching and meeting attendance, shunning people and dying by their suicide cards, living with irrational fears (phobias) and promoting conditional love.

  But the key issue is they are not doing these things on purpose, they are genuily misguided, and the problem is not that our concerns can not be voiced but how they should be voiced.